Radiance [7.38c]
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4700A divine weapon that causes damage and a bright burning effect that lays waste to nearby enemies.
A radiant beacon, a powerful and impactful item that not only boosts your hero's damage but also emits a radiant aura, influencing battles!
Base Combat Stats
+ 55 Damage
+ 20% Evasion
Recipe
Abilities
Toggle: Burn
When active, scorches enemies for 60 magical damage per second and causes them to miss 15% of their attacks. Deals 150% damage to illusions. Illusions deal 35 magical damage per second.
Radius: 650
Additional Insights
- Does not interrupt channeling when toggling on or offDoes not affect buildings
- Its ability to provide a substantial boost in damage while passively affecting opponents with its aura. It's particularly valuable for heroes aiming to exert continuous pressure on enemy teams or exert map control by influencing team fights and lane pushes.
Statistics
The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Radiance as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.
Itemization Strategy
Early to Mid game is the timing of this item, an alternative to the battle fury and maelstrom this item is perpetually built by cores that loves to farm which expedite your networth a gives you a slight buff on evasion.
Heroes with Radiance as Core Item
Provides 32% evasion. Preferred evasion item as the AOE damage scales with the spell amplification from Bloodrage and allows you to wear down enemies in a AOE during fights to build up movement speed.
A core item to improve your AoE damage along with Death Pulse. Improves your farm efficiency by clearing creep waves and neutrals much faster. Works well in combination with Aghanims Scepter later in the game to do massive AoE damage in teamfights.
A core item that greatly accelerates your farm and boosts your damage output since you have two lives in fights to maximize Radiance damage output.
A core item that works really well on Lifestealer since he is tanky and can survive long in fights. Speeds up your farming speed as well.
A core damage item to improve your farming speed and make efficient use of Greevils Greed. Improves your split push potential later with Manta illusions and makes you tanky with evasion.
A core item that boosts your damage and farming speed. Also lets you proc Cinder Brew every time. The burn effect applies through your earth brewling during Primal Split.
Heroes countered by Radiance
Gives you evasion and AoE damage with the Radiance Burn to kill Chaos Knight and his illusions much quicker.
Gives you evasion to dodge Jingu Mastery attacks as well as prevent Monkey King from using Tree Dance with the Burn damage.
Gives you evasion and AoE damage with the Radiance Burn to kill Naga Siren and her illusions much quicker. Causes her and her Illusions to miss 15% of attacks if she doesn't get some form of True Strike.
Gives you evasion and AoE damage with the Radiance Burn to kill Phantom Lancer and his illusions much quicker.
Gives you evasion to dodge Templar Assassin's right clicks as well as provides instances of damage over time to eat away her Refraction charges.
Trivia
The name 'Radiance' signifies its nature as an item that radiates immense power and light, symbolizing its aura's ability to burn and disrupt enemies. The choice of the name aligns with the item's thematic design of emitting a radiant and damaging aura around the hero.
