Diffusal Blade [7.38c]

Upgraded Item | Armaments

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2500

An enchanted blade that allows the user to cut straight into the enemy's soul.

When your hero wields the Diffusal Blade, they can use its magical powers to purge off buffs from enemies. It's like giving them a spa day, but in reverse sending those annoying positive effects packing. And if that's not cool enough, the blade also slows down enemies, making them feel like they're wading through molasses.

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Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Diffusal Blade as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Carry

Core: 10%

4 out of 42 guides

Carry

Common: 2%

1 out of 42 guides

Carry

Situational: 31%

13 out of 42 guides

Mid

Core: 5%

2 out of 38 guides

Mid

Common: 3%

1 out of 38 guides

Mid

Situational: 8%

3 out of 38 guides

Offlane

Core: 2%

1 out of 44 guides

Offlane

Common: 0%

0 out of 44 guides

Offlane

Situational: 9%

4 out of 44 guides

Support

Core: 2%

1 out of 63 guides

Support

Common: 0%

0 out of 63 guides

Support

Situational: 3%

2 out of 63 guides

Itemization Strategy

Best for Agility carry heroes and some universal heroes too, The stats it give and bang for the value is literally worth buying early on plus it is scalable in the late game

Heroes with Diffusal Blade as Core Item

A core item to burn the mana of enemy heroes with your hero and illusions. Also boosts your damage output through stats and lets you slow down enemy heroes to stay on top of them.

A core item to do more damage with stats and slow down enemy heroes to keep them within Smoke Screen and Tricks of the Trade AoE. The agility significantly boosts your backstab damage with Cloak and Dagger. Also helps burn mana of enemy heroes and renders them unable to escape or fight back with spells.

A core item that makes you a massive kill threat on the map with more damage and control. Also provides stats which are incredible on all your clones.

A core item that lets you slow down enemy heroes and reliably connect with Pounce to lock them down and build Essence Shift stacks with right clicks. Especially useful against Medusa or high strength cores with low mana pool.

Heroes countered by Diffusal Blade

Lets you burn the mana of Anti Mage so he cannot Blink away.

Lets you burn Bristleback's mana so he cannot spam Quill Spray for damage or gain Warpath stacks with spells.

Lets you burn through Medusa's mana pool with right clicks and burst her down as she relies on mana to survive and has a relatively small HP pool.

Lets you burn through Morphling's mana pool with right clicks to reduce his damage output, mobility, and survivability from spells.

Lets you burn through Omniknight's mana pool with right clicks and render him unable to deal damage or buff himself or his team.

Lets you burn through Wraith King's mana pool with right clicks and burst him down without letting him Reincarnate, which makes him spend gold on an early BKB to survive.

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