Overwhelming Blink

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A horrifying dagger forged in the chaos maw and nigh untouchable by mortal hands.

Allow me to introduce you to the mighty and friendly Overwhelming Blink, the enchanted footwear that turns your hero into a bold and powerful initiator with a heart full of courage!

Base Combat Stats

Combat Stats

+ 25 Damage for Strength Heroes

+ 550 Health (from attributes)

+ 2.25 Health Regen (from attributes)

Attributes

+ 25 Strength

Recipe

Abilities

Active: Overwhelming Blink

Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away.
After teleportation, all enemies in a 800 AoE take damage equal to 100 + 50% of your strength and an additional 100% over time, and have 50% movement speed slow and 50 attack speed slow for 6 seconds.
Overwhelming Blink cannot be used for 3.0 seconds after taking damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.

Cooldown: 15

Additional Insights

Self-casting will cause you to teleport in the direction of your team's fountain.
If you used Overwhelming Blink to teleport to a distance over the maximum range, you'll be teleported 4/5 of the maximum range instead.
This marvelous blink-enhancer significantly increases your hero's blink range, ensuring they can close the gap and initiate combat from a considerable distance. It's perfect for heroes who want to be the daring leaders on the battlefield, surprising foes with a touch of valor.

Statistics

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

Itemization Strategy

An item extensively found in the inventory of initiators and cores with low cooldown it is a great item choice specially in the late game. Puck and Centaur are the heroes that could abuse this most of the time.

Heroes with Overwhelming Blink as Core Item

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Centaur Warrunner

A late game pick up to have more AoE damage and control in teamfights while adding even more damage to Double Edge.

A core item to have more AoE damage and control in teamfights. Makes you much more tanky with HP pool and synergizes well with Shivas Guard to instantly clear creep waves. Gets refreshed with Rearm to spam for damage and slow with each usage.

Heroes countered by Overwhelming Blink

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Naga Siren

Gives you AoE damage and control to slow down and kill Naga Siren as well as her illusions.

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phantom Lancer

Gives you AoE damage and control to slow down and kill Phantom Lancer as well as his illusions.

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Terrorblade

For some AoE damage against illusions

Sounds

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Trivia

It was introduced during the Mistwood update that also introduced Hoodwink.