Force Staff

Item

 

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Force Staff B
Allows you to manipulate others, for good or evil.
Cost 2250 (950) Bought From Caster
Active Force Bonus +10 Intelligence +2 Health regeneration Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Force Staff is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Caster.

Additional information

• For strength heroes, it grants 120 mana, 18% mana regen amplification and 0.7% spell damage.
• For agility heroes, it grants 120 mana, 18% mana regen amplification and 0.7% spell damage.
• For intelligence heroes, it grants 150 mana, 22.5% mana regen amplification, 0.88% spell damage and 10 attack damage.

Ability

Force

Play

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Allies

Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing.

Cast Range: 750

Push Distance: 600

Push Duration: 0.5

23

100

Can be cast on self while spell immune.
Cannot be cast on other spell immune units.

Modifiers

Item Forcestaff Active: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Double clicking the item casts it on self.

• Pushes the target at a speed of 1200.

• The target is not disabled during the push, so it still can cast spells or items, attack and turn during the push.

• It also means that it does not cancel channeling spells of the target.
  • However, it interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast, since it is a single target spell. It is not the push itself canceling them.

• Does not push units affected by Black Hole, Chronosphere, Duel, Flaming Lasso, or Kinetic Field.

• Cannot break Pounce leash. When casting on a leashed hero, it does not get pushed beyond the leash's max range.

• Can target any unit, except for wards and buildings. It can also push a Homing Missile.

• Can force units over impassable terrain. Trees within 100 radius around the pushed target get destroyed during the push.

• Can be cast on Roshan but without any effect, since Roshan is immune to forced movement.

• Shares cooldown with Hurricane Pike.

Recommended heroes

• Heroes that require a mobility item will pick up a Force Staff, often in addition to a Blink Dagger.
  • Earth Spirit
  • Invoker
  • Winter Wyvern
  • Jakiro
  • Vengeful Spirit
  • Nyx Assassin
  • Rubick
  • Pudge
  • Ancient Apparition
  • Magnus
  • Clockwerk

• It may also be purchased by heroes intending to build a Hurricane Pike.
  • Outworld Devourer
  • Enchantress
  • Luna
  • Silencer
  • Sniper
  • Drow Ranger

Tips

• This is an overall good and cheap utility item for saving allies and messing up enemy positioning.
• Force can push units over cliffs and through trees, making it a great chasing or escaping item.
• It is also good for countering Heroes that can make impassable barriers, such as Earthshaker, Clockwerk or Nature's Prophet.
• Unlike Blink Dagger, the item is not disabled when receiving damage, allowing for both initiation and escape (but the distance is shorter). And it can be upgraded into an hurricane pike even for melee heroes late game to get extra stats compared to the blink dagger.
• Force Staff is the cheapest item to disable a Linken's Sphere allowing you to use more powerful spells like Hex from a Scythe of Vyse and/or Soul Rend from Bloodthorn.
• When chasing enemies, the Force Staff can be used to chase down enemies easily and disable them although one should use it with extreme caution.

Trivia

• Crystal Maiden's cosmetic item, Force Staff, is based on Force Staff and shares its name.

Gallery

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  Using Force Staff

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