Crimson Guard

Item

 

Changelogs

 

? Crimson Guard
A cuirass originally built to protect against the dreaded Year Beast.
Cost 3625 (950) Sell Value 1812.5 Active Guard Passive ? Damage Block Bonus ? +3 Strength +3 Agility +3 Intelligence +250 Health +6 Armor Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Crimson Guard is an item listed under the main shop under Armor. However, it requires an item from the Secret Shop to be completed.

Additional information

• The item's attributes grants the following additional bonuses:
• 220 health and 1 health regeneration.
• 120 mana, 0.5 mana regeneration and 1% flat base magic resistance.
• 10 attack speed and 1.67 main armor.
• 10 main attack damage to all / / heroes.
• 21 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Abilities

Guard

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Ability
No Target

Affects
Allied Heroes

For 12 seconds, grant nearby allied heroes and buildings a 100% chance to block 60 damage from each incoming attack.

Units may only be affected by Guard once every 45 seconds.

Radius: 1200

Damage Block Chance: 100%

Blocked Damage: 60

Buff Duration: 12

Stack Limit Duration: 45

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Modifiers [?]

Item Crimson Guard Extra

Any

Item Crimson Guard Nostack

Undispellable

• Interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast.

• Affects heroes, illusions and buildings. Affects them even while invulnerable or while hidden. Does not affect creep-heroes.

• Does not affect units that have been affected by Guard in the last 45 seconds.
  • A status buff icon on affected units shows how much time is left for it to be able to get affected again.
  • The stack limit duration equals the cooldown (after all reductions), minus one.
  • The duration is set upon cast and cannot be altered afterwards. Resetting the item's cooldown does not affect the stack limit duration.

• Does not work against wards ( Plague Ward, Mass Serpent Ward, Death Ward, Burning Army).

• Does not reduce physical damage from spells, except from Moon Glaives and The Swarm.

• For more details, see Damage Block.

Damage Block

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

Grants a 50% chance to block 70 damage from incoming attacks on melee heroes, and 35 damage on ranged.

Proc Chance: 50%

Blocked Damage (Melee): 70

Blocked Damage (Ranged): 35

• Does not work against wards ( Plague Ward, Mass Serpent Ward, Death Ward).

• Does not reduce physical damage from spells, except from Moon Glaives and The Swarm.

• Damage Block uses pseudo-random distribution.

• For more details, see Damage Block.

Recommended heroes

Heroes whose default item build includes Crimson Guard as a situational item : Bristleback, Timbersaw, Dark Seer, Elder Titan, Axe, Undying, Underlord.

Tips

• The high damage block of Crimson Guard's active is good against illusions because their low damage is heavily reduced or negated completely.
• Similarly, it is good against small summons such as Undying's zombies, Broodmother's spiderlings, or Nature's Prophet's treants to name a few.
• Crimson Guard is effective against armor reduction as the damage block takes effect before the damage reduction of armor. This means that if incoming damage is actually going to be amplified due to negative armor, a large portion of it can be blocked before it is amplified.
• The damage block and armor reduces a lot the damage returned by an enemy Blade Mail.

Trivia

• The icon for this item is based on the armor worn by Ember Spirit on an old concept artwork.

Gallery

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