Orb of Corrosion – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.39d]
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1050Seepage from the wounds of a warrior deity, sealed in an arcanist's orb following a campaign of vicious slaughter.
It's a miniaturized weapon that brings both venom and damage to spice up your attacks!
Base Combat Stats
Recipe
Abilities
Passive: Corrosion
Your attacks reduce the target's armor by 2, slows their movement by 16% (8% against melee targets), and reduces Health Restoration by 16%. Lasts for 3.0 seconds.
Additional Insights
- Armor reduction does not stack with its components, Desolator, or Stygian Desolator.
- Stacks with <item_skadi></item_skadi><item_assault></item_assault>
- What's even more amazing is that this orb's effect sticks around for a few moments, keeping your enemies feeling the burn even after the initial hit. It's like leaving a lingering sting that makes them think twice about messing with your hero!
Statistics
The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Orb of Corrosion as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.
Itemization Strategy
Now we just dont get that extra damage we also get the extra survivality, same as the heroes who likes to buy orb of venom and blight stone but are also built by some supports for ganks
Heroes with Orb of Corrosion as Core Item
A core item in the laning stage to slow down enemy heroes and do more damage with your right clicks by reducing the armor of your target. Also works well against tanky heroes by reducing their health restoration. The {agility} gain also provides armor and increases the damage you do with the Backstab right clicks.
A core item on your Spirit Bear to dominate the lane with more tankiness and attack speed while slowing enemy heroes to stay on top of them. Works well against lifesteal and high HP regen on enemy heroes to reduce their tankiness. Also provides some DPS to siege enemy towers.
A core item to dominate the lane through right clicks. Helps you build up more Essence Shift stacks and run down enemy heroes for kills while they have reduced health restoration and movement speed. The attack speed bonus also helps with farming later on.
A core item to reduce the armor and movement speed of enemy heroes with your right clicks to stay on top of them for your Curse of Avernus procs. Also works well with your innate to massively reduce the health restoration of tanky enemy heroes. Has great synergy with the Malignant Mist facet to do more damage and movement speed slow through Mist Coil.
A core early game item that increases the damage of your Sleight of Fist that allows you to boot out most heroes out of lane. The slow allows you to stay on top of your targets and chase them down while the healing reduction scales throughout the game.
An upgrade for {orb-of-frost} to dominate the lane with more damage with minus armor through right clicks and stay on top of enemy heroes. Gives you a better chance to activate Jingu Mastery and deal massive damage with Boundless Strike.
An early game pick up that improves your damage output with the minus armor on Swashbuckle and right clicks while slowing down affected enemy heroes and units. Also provides damage and armor through stats.
An early game pick up that lets you slow and stay on top of enemy heroes while increasing your physical damage output on affected heroes. Also provides damage and armor through stats.
Trivia
It's description in Dota 'Seepage from the wounds of a warrior deity, sealed in an arcanist's orb following a campaign of vicious slaughter' is probably referring to a hero that isn't yet released, Yey! More Heroes!
