Blight Stone
Basic Item | Equipment
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300An 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
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
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
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'.