Bloodthorn

Item

Changelogs

Bloodthorn B
A reviled blade that bites deeper with each wriggle of its victim's final throes.
Cost 7195 (1000) Bought From Weapons
Active Soul Rend Passive Critical Strike Bonus +25 Intelligence +30 Attack speed +150% Mana regeneration +60 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

Bloodthorn is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons.

Additional information

• One Bloodthorn grants a total of 30 attack speed, 275 mana, 1 (+150%) mana regeneration, 1.79% spell damage and 60 (85 to intelligence heroes) attack damage.

Abilities

Soul Rend

Play

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Silences a target for 5 seconds. At the end of the silence, an additional 30% of all damage taken during the silence will be dealt to the target as magic damage.

All attacks on the silenced target will have True Strike and 100% chance to crit for 40% more damage.

Cast Range: 900

Damage Amplification: 30%

Critical Proc Chance: 100%

Critical Damage: 140%

Duration: 5

18

100

Effect persists and attempts to deal damage when expiring while spell immune if debuff was placed before spell immunity and when not dispelled.

Modifiers

Bloodthorn Debuff: Dispellable with any dispel.

Notes:

• Does not directly amplify damage as it is dealt, but rather saves all damage values and deals 30% of it 5 seconds after cast.
  • This means that the damage can be avoided by becoming spell immune or invulnerable/hidden at the end of the duration.

• The damage is applied as soon as the debuff expires. Dispelling the debuff, however, skips the damage entirely.
  • Recasting Soul Rend on the same target refreshes the duration.
  • Doing this delays the damage further, and gives more time to deal damage to the target.
  • The damage is credited to the last caster of Soul Rend on the target.

• Only considers magical, physical and pure damage (after all reductions). Other sources of health loss are ignored.

• Applies Accuracy on the target, causing all attacks done against it to not miss to evasion or blind effects.

• The critical strike is only applied to attacks launched on a debuffed enemy. Previously launched attack projectiles are unaffected.
  • In reverse, this also means that projectiles launched during the debuff still crit even when landing after it already expired.

• Together with the passive Critical Strike, increases attack damage against debuffed targets by an average of 47%.

• Shares cooldown with Orchid Malevolence.

Critical Strike

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Grants a 20% chance for attacks to inflict 75% more damage.

Proc Chance: 20%

Critical Damage: 175%

Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

Notes:

• Increases attack damage by an average of 15%.

• The proc chances of multiple crit sources stack.
  • If two sources of critical strike proc at the same time, the higher multiplier has priority.

• Critical Strike uses pseudo-random distribution.

Recommended heroes

Clinkz

• Bloodthorn deals heavy damage when combined with Searing Arrows. As such, Daedalus may be ignored as using Bloodthorn provides more DPS. Daedalus has a chance to crit while Bloodthorn guarantees crits when it has been used to silence the enemy.

Windranger

• When combined with Bloodthorn, using Focus Fire against enemy heroes will trigger a rapid succession of crits.

Nature's Prophet

• Bloodthorn's crit is a decent replacement or supplement to Nature's Prophet's other popular late game damage items.

Queen of Pain

• Bloodthorn provides a convenient upgrade to Queen of Pain's late game damage output, which falls off over time.

Storm Spirit

• A natural upgrade from Orchid Malevolence, a core item on Storm Spirit.
• The damage increase from its passive and active abilities make Storm Spirit much more effective at quickly killing tanky enemies in the late game, bolstering his largely-static damage output.

Sven

• Bloodthorn's bonuses help offset Sven's limited mana pool, and the passive and Soul Rend crits are devastating in combination with God's Strength.
• Soul Rend can shut down enemies with disables, escape abilities, or evasion, letting Sven strike them down unimpeded.

Weaver

• Bloodthorn is a viable alternative to a Daedalus on Weaver for shutting down troublesome enemies like Phantom Assassin and Tinker, but is situational due to its lower crit damage and damage bonuses.

Tips

• Build the orchid first, it will provide good damage, mana regen and a powerful silence that enemies wont be able to purge early game.
• Bloodthorn's active accuracy counters evasion from any source, such as Butterfly or Blur, as well as blind effects from any source, like Laser or Blinding Light.
• Generally, Bloodthorn is a worthy upgrade for any hero that purchases an Orchid Malevolence or a Crystalys. It is arguably better than Daedalus because it guarantees crits of 140% damage with True Strike for your team, silences, chances to deal crits of 175% damage, and a 30% magical damage aftermath while Daedalus grants only chances to deal crits of damage.
  • Some would prefer to go for a Scythe of Vyse or to buy it in combination because many items can remove the debuff and the enemy can still run away or use a Blade Mail during the effect.
• On average, attack damage is increased by 47% when the debuff is applied (due to both the debuff and the passive critical strike of the item). This will be further amplified by 30% as magic damage at the end of the debuff duration.
• Remember that Bloodthorn's active gives guaranteed crits along with a silence. Targets may still be able to escape with Shadow Blade or Blink Dagger before you could damage them.
• The ensured crits from Soul Rend work for all attacks done to the target. This includes attacks from wards, towers, fountains and even allies of the target.
  • Casting it on a tower diving enemy makes them take much more damage from the tower.
  • It is great when combined with Winter's Curse, because Soul Rend causes them to crit their cursed ally as mentioned.
  • Instant attacks like Geminate Attack and Side Gunner can crit as long as they allow the carriage of attack modifiers. This prevents Split Shot and Flak Cannon from critting.
• Soul Rend does not allow crits from secondary spell projectiles or spell dummy units.
  • Death Ward crits on primary targets, but Aghanim's Scepter bounces don't.
  • Moon Glaive crits on primary targets, but secondary bounces don't.
  • Psi Blades do not crit on secondary targets.
  • The Swarm does not crit.
• You don't need to attack too much and chase or dive if you think the bonus 30 % damage at the end of the effect will be enough to kill the target.

Items synergy

• Scythe of Vyse: will disable your enemy from purging Soul Rend or using blade mail and give a lot of right click damage to intelligence heroes (130 from both items).
• Diffusal Blade: gives a lot of damage per gold to agility heroes, the active apply one of the most powerful movement slow in the game.
• Mask of Madness: gives the highest DPS per gold, you will regen a lot more from lifesteal, the silence will protect you from being disabled and nuked.
• Desolator: the armor reduction will amplify the guaranteed crit of your entire team.
• Assault Cuirass: will increase the attack speed of your team and reduce the armor of all enemies.
• Necronomicon: will do critical hits and have true strike. The movement speed aura and True Sight are useful to chase your enemy.

Counter items

• Blade Mail: will return critical strikes on enemies.
• Manta Style, Eul's Scepter of Divinity and Guardian Greaves: purge Soul Rend when used.
  • Linken's Sphere: blocks Soul Rend, but some spells can be used to remove the Linken. Later in the game cheaps items like Force Staff can be used to trigger the Linken.
• Black King Bar: purge Soul Rend and make you immune but Soul Rend has a low cooldown so prefer using it during team fight.
• Shadow Blade: use it to escape from a gank.

Trivia

• Prior to the July 14, 2017 Patch, Bloodthorn's active ability, Soul Rend, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.

Gallery

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  Affected by Bloodthorn

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  Damage at the end of Soul Rend