Diffusal Blade

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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

+ 15 Agility

+ 10 Intelligence

Recipe

Abilities

Active: Inhibit

Targets an enemy, slowing it for 4.0 seconds.

Mana: 25

Cooldown: 15

Passive: Manabreak

Each attack burns 40 mana from the target, and deals 1 physical damage per burned mana.
Burns 8 mana per attack from melee illusions and 8 mana per attack from ranged illusions.

Additional Insights

Does not stack with other diffusal blades.
The Diffusal Blade lets your hero purge away annoying buffs from enemies. It's like having a magical eraser, wiping the slate clean and making those buffs disappear in a puff of sparkles. And if an enemy is trying to make a quick getaway, the blade also slows them down, turning the battlefield into your hero's own magical playground.

Statistics

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

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

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lone Druid

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 makes you a massive kill threat on the map with more damage and control. Also provides stats which are incredible on all your clones.

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phantom Lancer

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

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Anti-Mage

Lets you burn the mana of Anti Mage so he cannot Blink away.

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bristleback

Lets you burn Bristleback's mana so he cannot spam Quill Spray for damage or gain Warpath stacks with spells.

Lets you burn through Medusa's mana pool with right clicks and burst her down as she relies on mana to survive and has a relatively small HP pool.

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Morphling

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

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Omniknight

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

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Wraith King

Lets you burn through Wraith King's mana pool with right clicks and burst him down without letting him Reincarnate, which makes him spend gold on Aghanims Shard to survive.

Trivia

The Diffusal Blade in Dota 2 draws inspiration from a similar item called "Diffusal Orb" in the original Dota (Defense of the Ancients) mod for Warcraft III