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!](https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/dota2/images/dota_react/items/blight_stone.png)
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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
![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!](https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/dota2/images/dota_react/items/blight_stone.png)
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
.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
Heroes countered by Blight Stone
Lowers the armor of Axe with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and make it difficult for him to tank right clicks for Counter Helix procs.
Lowers the armor of Centaur with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with physical damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Clockwerk with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with physical damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Doom with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with phyiscal damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Earth Spirit with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with phyiscal damage as well as prevent him from diving you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Elder Titan with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with phyiscal damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Eidolons with right clicks and kill them quickly before they can multiply. Also makes it easier to kill Enigma with physical damage.
Lowers the armor of Huskar with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with physical damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
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.
Lowers the armor of Marci with right clicks to reduce her tankiness and burst her down with physical damage as well as prevent her from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Mars with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and burst him down with physical damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Phoenix on right clicks to make him even more squishy and kill him with physical damage.
Lowers the armor of Pudge with right clicks to kill him with physical damage. Also helps you fight him if he dives you under your tower.
Lowers the armor of Sand King with right clicks to reduce his tankiness and kill him with physical damage or prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Tidehunter with right clicks to reduce his tankiness to burst him with physical damage as well as prevent him from running at you as easily.
Lowers the armor of Treant Protector to counter his armor gain from Living Armor and helps win trades in a right click battle.
Lowers the armor of Visage with right clicks to make it easier to eat away the Gravekeeper's Cloak layers and burst him down with physical damage.
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'.