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Blight Stone

Your hero's tiny treasure of strategic might, a little stone that packs a punch and helps your hero and their teammates take down enemies more efficiently!
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An unnerving stone unearthed beneath the Fields of Endless Carnage.

Your hero's tiny treasure of strategic might, a little stone that packs a punch and helps your hero and their teammates take down enemies more efficiently!

Recipe

Desolator
Your hero's tiny treasure of strategic might, a little stone that packs a punch and helps your hero and their teammates take down enemies more efficiently!

Abilities

Passive: Lesser Corruption

Your attacks reduce the target's armor by 2 for 8.0 seconds.

Additional Insights

  • Does not stack with its upgrades.
  • What makes the Blight Stone extra awesome is that this armor reduction effect lingers for a few seconds, giving your hero and nearby allies the advantage in battles. It's like leaving a mark of vulnerability on the enemies, making them more susceptible to attacks from your whole team!

Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Blight Stone as a core or non-core item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Itemization Strategy

Allmost all i mean almost all cores who would love to get an early desolator for stacking damage on it would have the blight stone as their starting if not so should be your priority come first courier delivery!

Heroes with Blight Stone as Core Item

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lone Druid
A core item you can keep on your Spirit Bear or hero to improve right click damage by reducing the armor of enemy heroes. You can put it on your hero later on when running out of slots on the Spirit Bear.

Heroes countered by Blight Stone

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Abaddon
Lowers the armor of Abaddon and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Alchemist
Lowers the armor of Alchemist and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Axe
Lowers the armor of Axe with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and prevent him from running at you as easily.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Beastmaster
Lowers the armor of Beastmaster and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Brewmaster
Lowers the armor of Brewmaster and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Centaur Warrunner
Lowers the armor of Centaur with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and prevent him from running at you as easily.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Clockwerk
Lowers the armor of Clockwerk with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and prevent him from running at you as easily.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Doom
Lowers the armor of Doom with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and prevent him from running at you as easily.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Earth Spirit
Lowers the armor of Earth Spirit and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Elder Titan
Lowers the armor of Elder Titan and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Enigma
Lowers the armor of Eidolons with right clicks and kill them quickly before they can multiply.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Huskar
Lowers the armor of Huskar and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Kunkka
Lowers the armor of Kunkka and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lycan
Lowers the armor of Lycan and helps win trades in a right click battle. Also lets you bring down Wolves much quicker with physical damage.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Marci
Lowers the armor of Marci and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Mars
Lowers the armor of Mars and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phoenix
Lowers the armor of Phoenix on right clicks to make him even more squishy and kill him with physical damage.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Pudge
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Sand King
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tidehunter
Tide has very low armor early which you can exploit as a weakness
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tiny
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Treant Protector
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Visage
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Weaver
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Winter Wyvern
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Zeus

Trivia

The Blight Stone was introduced as a new item in the 6.87 patch of Dota 2. However, what's intriguing is that its functionality and design were inspired by a similar item in the original Dota mod for Warcraft III called 'Desolator Recipe'.