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Black King Bar

Your hero's impenetrable shield, a mighty and indispensable item that not only bolsters your hero's defenses but also grants them immunity against enemy spells and effects.
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A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants.

Your hero's impenetrable shield, a mighty and indispensable item that not only bolsters your hero's defenses but also grants them immunity against enemy spells and effects.

Base Combat Stats

+ 10 Strength

bonus damage

+ 24 Damage

Recipe

Your hero's impenetrable shield, a mighty and indispensable item that not only bolsters your hero's defenses but also grants them immunity against enemy spells and effects.
Ogre Axe
Mithril Hammer
Black King Bar Recipe

Abilities

Active: Avatar

Applies a basic dispel. Grants 60% Magic resistance and immunity to pure and reflected damage. For the duration of the effect, any negative effect from enemy spells has no effect.
Duration: 9 8 7 6
Dispel Type: Basic Dispel

Mana: 50

Cooldown: 95

Additional Insights

  • Purchasing another Black King Bar will not reset its immunity duration.
  • Abilities that pierce magic immunity will work fully even when Avatar is activated
  • The beauty of the Black King Bar lies in its defensive and game-changing nature. It's particularly effective against teams reliant on magical abilities or crowd control spells, offering your hero a window of invulnerability to initiate fights, escape dangerous situations, or deal massive damage without fear of interruption.

Statistics

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

Itemization Strategy

BKB is for? If you are from SEA you would understand know what i mean from that, hence knowing that bkb is a crucial part of the game (admit it) that should be bought specially if you are the carry. The tricky part tho is that the itemization of this item varies as an outcome could change from a 9 second BKB to a 6 second BKB. Note that it's always good to time the BKB purchase as it has a very long cooldown that would be crucial to have it's high seconds of duration.

Heroes with Black King Bar as Core Item

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Alchemist
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to throw your Unstable Concoction and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Axe
A core item that allows you to Blink in without fear and stay alive with a bigger HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Batrider
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team and get to your Flaming Lasso target without interruption.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Beastmaster
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Primal Roar on a specific enemy hero and follow up with right clicks to burst them down. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bloodseeker
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team to hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bristleback
A unique item that provides debuff immunity against most disables and provides a dispel on cast. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Broodmother
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Insatiable Hunger and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Chaos Knight
A core item that prevents you from getting kited down in fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Clinkz
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to hit freely in fights and use Death Pact to regain some HP when in trouble. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Crystal Maiden
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to maintain Freezing Field channeling. Couples well with Blink Dagger to be able to position your ultimate nicely.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dawnbreaker
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to right click freely in fights and use Solar Guardian without interruption. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Death Prophet
A core item to avoid being disabled in teamfights to maximize your Exorcism usage. Also makes you more tanky and confident when running at enemy heroes and towers.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Doom
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and ensure you get your Doom off in fights. Makes you more tanky and fearless when running at Doomed enemy heroes.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dragon Knight
A core item that prevents you from being kited in fights so you can move and hit freely without being interrupted. Also provides extra tankiness.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Drow Ranger
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Earth Spirit
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to be fearless in the middle of fights and maximize the duration of Magnetize on multiple enemy heroes. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Enigma
A core item that allows you to get the full duration of Black Hole of. Provides debuff immunity against most disables and silences that can be thrown at you to interrupt.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Faceless Void
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and hit freely in Chronosphere. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Nature's Prophet
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Huskar
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Life Break and hit freely in fights with Burning Spear. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Invoker
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get off your spell combo as well as stand your ground and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Kez
A core item that allows you to unleash your potentially massive damage without being disrupted by most abilities in the game. Try chaining it with Raptor Dance to increase the your overall Debuff Immunity duration.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Kunkka
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to use your entire spell combo and right click freely. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Legion Commander
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to survive during Duel. Improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Leshrac
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to survive and deal damage in teamfights. Improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lina
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to survive and deal damage in teamfights with all your spells. Improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Luna
A core item to prevent you from getting disabled in fights so that you will be able to get into fights with Eclipse and hit freely without being stopped.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Magnus
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to land your Reverse Polarity and hit freely. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Marci
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to hit freely during Unleash. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Mars
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to land your spell combo in teamfights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Mirana
Carry: A unique item that provides debuff immunity against most disables and provides a dispel on cast. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Support: BKB allows you to stand your ground in fights and get as many attacks of as possible, while buffed by Solar Flare and Leap in order to make use of their amazing right-click steroids.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Monkey King
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to form the Wukong's Command ring and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Morphling
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Attribute Shift and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Muerta
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Pierce the Veil and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Shadow Fiend
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team for Requiem of Souls channeling and to hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Night Stalker
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Outworld Devourer
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phantom Assassin
A core item that lets you avoid most disables on the enemy team to hit freely in teamfights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Primal Beast
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to maintain your Pulverize channel and not get kited during Trample. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Pudge
A core item that lets you avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to maintain your Dismember channel and not get kited when running at enemy heroes with Rot. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Queen of Pain
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team and get your spells of freely in fights to kill enemy heroes. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Razor
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to maintain your chase with Static Link and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Wraith King
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team giving you a window to dish out as much damage as possible freely. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Slardar
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team to hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Slark
A core item that to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to hit freely in fights. Makes you less reliant on Shadow Dance and Dark Pact to survive in fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Spectre
A situational item that can be bought if there are too many disables and lock downs that prevent you from hitting freely in fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Storm Spirit
A core item that is necessary for you to hit freely and cast spells in fight without getting disabled.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Sven
A core item to avoid most disables on the enemy team to hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Templar Assassin
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get Refraction off and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Terrorblade
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get Sunder as well as Metamorphosis off and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tinker
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team for Rearm channeling and be fearless when attempting kills in the middle of teamfights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tiny
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get off your spell combo and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Troll Warlord
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get Battle Trance off and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tusk
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to lock down enemy heroes and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Undying
A unique item that provides debuff immunity against most disables and provides a dispel on cast. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Ursa
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to get Enrage off and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Venomancer
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use all your spells, spam Plague Wards, and stay in the front line while hitting freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Viper
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use your spells and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Void Spirit
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use your spells and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Weaver
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to hit freely in fights and have more versatility with Time Lapse usage. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Windranger
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team to use Focus Fire and hit freely in fights. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Winter Wyvern
A unique item that provides debuff immunity against most disables and provides a dispel on cast. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Witch Doctor
A core item to avoid most disables and silences on the enemy team for a full duration Death Ward channel. Also improves your right click damage and tankiness through HP pool and magic resistance.

Heroes countered by Black King Bar

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Underlord
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Ancient Apparition
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bane
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Batrider
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bounty Hunter
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Brewmaster
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Centaur Warrunner
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Chaos Knight
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Crystal Maiden
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dark Seer
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dark Willow
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dawnbreaker
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Death Prophet
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Disruptor
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Doom
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Earthshaker
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Earth Spirit
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Elder Titan
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Ember Spirit
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Enchantress
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Grimstroke
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Gyrocopter
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Hoodwink
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Huskar
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Invoker
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Jakiro
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Keeper of the Light
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Kunkka
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Leshrac
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lich
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lina
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lion
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Luna
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Marci
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Mars
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Meepo
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Mirana
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Morphling
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Muerta
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Naga Siren
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Necrophos
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Shadow Fiend
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Nyx Assassin
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Outworld Devourer
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Ogre Magi
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Oracle
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Pangolier
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phantom Lancer
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phoenix
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Primal Beast
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Puck
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Pugna
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Queen of Pain
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Clockwerk
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Ringmaster
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Rubick
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Sand King
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Shadow Demon
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Shadow Shaman
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Timbersaw
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Silencer
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Skywrath Mage
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Snapfire
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Storm Spirit
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Techies
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Terrorblade
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tidehunter
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tinker
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Tiny
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Treant Protector
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Venomancer
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Viper
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Visage
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Void Spirit
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Warlock
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Windranger
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Winter Wyvern
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Witch Doctor
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Zeus

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Trivia

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