Diffusal Blade

Upgraded Item | Artifacts

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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.

Base Combat Stats

Combat Stats

+ 2.5 Armor (from attributes)

+ 15 Damage for Agility Heroes

+ 10 Damage for Intelligence Heroes

+ 15 Attack Speed (from attributes)

+ 120 Mana (from attributes)

+ 0.5 Mana Regen (from attributes)

+ 1% Magic Resistance (from attributes)

Attributes

+ 15 Agility

+ 10 Intelligence

Recipe

Abilities

Additional Insights

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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 on your Spirit Bear to do more damage with stats and slow down enemy heroes to stay on top of them.

A core item that improves your damage output and kill threat on the map with Swashbuckle. The mana burn applies on every Swashbuckle tick that connects on an enemy hero. Also lets you slow down enemy heroes to reliably connect with Rolling Thunder and Swashbuckle.

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 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 Bristlebacks mana so he cannot spam Quill Spray for damage or gain Warpath stacks with spells.

Lets you burn through Medusas mana pool with right clicks and burst her down as she has a very small HP pool.

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

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

Reduce the mana of Wraith King so that he is unable to cast his Reincarnation upon death. Forces him to have to buy Aghanim's Shard earlier into the game.

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