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Crimson Guard
Crimson Guard icon
A cuirass originally built to protect against the dreaded Year Beast.
Cost 2725 Gold (600)
Sell Value Full price refunded within 10s. 1362.5 Gold
Active Guard
Passive ? Damage Block
Bonus ? +2 Strength
+2 Agility
+2 Intelligence
+250 Health
+5 Armor
Shareable No
Disassemble No
Usage Alert ? No
Recipe
Crimson Guard (2725)
Components3
Vanguard (1700)
Buckler (425)
Recipe (600)

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

Additional information

Abilities

Guard
Ability
No Target
For {{#show:#Guard|?value5#}} seconds, grant nearby allied heroes and buildings +{{#show:#Guard|?value4#}} armor, and a {{#show:#Guard|?value2#}} chance to block {{#show:#Guard|?value3#}} damage from each incoming attack.

Units may only be affected by Guard once every {{#show:#Guard|?value6#}} seconds.
Radius: 900
Damage Block Chance: 100%
Blocked Damage: 60
Armor Bonus: 2
Buff Duration: 12
Stack Limit Duration: 46
Cooldown symbol
 46
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
Item Crimson Guard Extra
Item Crimson Guard Nostack
Undispellable

  • Interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast.
  • Does not affect heroes that have been affected by Guard in the last {{#show:#Guard|?value6#}} seconds.
    • A status buff icon on affected units shows how much time is left for it to be able to get affected again.
  • Guard bonus armor does not stack with the armor gained from Mekansm icon Mekansm and Buckler icon Buckler active abilities.


Damage Block
Can be used by illusions. Pierces spell immunity.
Ability
Passive
Affects
Self
Grants a {{#show:#Damage Block|?value1#}} chance to block {{#show:#Damage Block|?value2#}} damage from incoming attacks on melee heroes, and {{#show:#Damage Block|?value3#}} damage on ranged.
Proc Chance: 50%
Blocked Damage (Melee): 70
Blocked Damage (Ranged): 35


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 icon Blade Mail.

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