Daedalus

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Daedalus
A weapon of incredible power that is difficult for even the strongest of warriors to control.
Cost 5330 (1000) Bought From Weapons
Passive Critical Strike Bonus +88 Attack damage Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Daedalus is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons. However, it can only be completed with items from the Secret Shop.

Ability

Critical Strike

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Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Grants each attack a 30% chance to deal 225% damage.

Proc Chance: 30%

Critical Damage: 225%

Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

Notes:

• Increases attack damage by an average of 37.5%.

• 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.

• Does not work against wards, buildings, and allied units.

Recommended heroes

Heroes who may include a Daedalus in their build situationally:

Strength: Sven, Dragon Knight, Kunkka, Magnus. Tiny.

Agility: Arc Warden, Drow Ranger, Sniper, Medusa, Clinkz, Shadow Fiend, Mirana, Morphling, Phantom Lancer, Phantom Assassin, Terrorblade, Weaver, Faceless Void, Viper, Ember Spirit, Riki.

Intelligence: Windranger , Lina .

Trivia

• In the original DotA, this item was called the "Buriza-Do Kyanon", a reference to a weapon (unique ballista) in Diablo II. "Buriza-do Kyanon" is the romaji transliteration of "Blizzard Cannon" when written in Japanese katakana.
• Daedalus is the Latin transcription of the Greek "Daidalos" which means "clever worker" in Ancient Greek and Daedalus is also one of the characters in Ovid's "Metamorphoses" who was a skillful craftsman artisan, and the father of Icarus.

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