Daedalus

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

Daedalus

A weapon of incredible power that is difficult for even the strongest of warriors to control.

Ability[edit]

Critical Strike

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

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

Proc Chance: 30%

Critical Damage: 225%

Critical strike values shown are before illusion outgoing damage and armor reduction.

NOTES

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

Heroes who may include a Daedalus in their build situationally:

Strength Heroes:

Agility Heroes:

Universal Heroes:

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.

Abaddon's response to killing Phoenix "That Phoenix flew too close to the mist." is a reference to the Greek myth of Icarus and Daedalus where Icarus flew to close the sun and crashed to the sea when his wax wings melted.