Skull Basher

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Skull Basher is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Weapons.

Skull Basher
A feared weapon in the right hands, this maul's ability to shatter the defenses of its opponents should not be underestimated.
Weapons Cost 2875 (825) Sell Value 1437.5 Passive ? Bash Bonus ? +10 Strength +30 Attack Damage Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• The item's attributes grant the following additional stats:
• 220 health and 1 health regeneration.
• 10 main attack damage to heroes.
• 4.5 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Bash

Bash

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Ability

Passive

Affects

Enemies

Damage

Attack / Physical

Grants the wielder's attacks a chance to stun the target and deal bonus physical damage.

Proc Chance: 25%

Damage: 100

Stun Duration: 1.2

Ranged wielders have a lower proc chance.

Proc Chance: 10%

Multiple instances of Skull Basher-based Bash do not stack.
Does not stack with Bash of the Deep, Greater Bash, and Time Lock. If any of these are present, this ability is inactive.

This ability is inactive on Clones.

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• The bonus damage is considered as a conditional attack damage bonus.
  • Although the attack damage bonus values are not displayed in the HUD, it is still considered and directly added to the wielder's attack damage.
  • The attack damage bonus values are not considered by critical strike and cleave.
  • However, it is considered by lifesteal, and it can be reduced only by flat reductions (e.g. damage block).
  • Since it is considered bonus attack damage, it is not affected by percentage-based attack damage bonuses or reductions.

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

• Bash uses pseudo-random distribution.

modifier_bashed

Bash: Stunned by bash.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Fully stacks with Time Lock, Bash of the Deep and Greater Bash.

• The proccing attack first applies the debuff, then the damage.

• Adds an average of 0.3 and 0.12 damage to every attack for melee and ranged heroes respectively.

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Tips

Average Bash Stats

• Since the Bash is a chance based ability, buying attack speed granting items increases the odds of a bash proccing. However, the effectiveness stops at a certain amount of attack speed due to the cooldown Bash has.
• The Bash goes through spell immunity. When not having other spell immunity piercing spells in the team, a Skull Basher is a great purchase as it can help greatly against heroes with spell immunity, especially those who get a Black King Bar in order to cancel their channeling spell.
• Despite having a much lower chance to proc for ranged heroes, it still has a decent chance. When coupled with high attack speed, a Skull Basher on ranged heroes can be very viable, especially for heroes who have attack speed boosting abilities like Focus Fire.

Trivia

• In the original DotA, this item was called "Cranium Basher", a reference to a unique item in Diablo 2.
  • During the early beta, it did use this name as well, but was then changed to "Skull Crusher", but was then changed to the current name based on community feedback.

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Recent Changes

Main Article: Skull Basher/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.34
(2023-08-08)

• Increased attack damage bonus from 25 to 30.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Reduced Bash duration from 1.5 to 1.2.

7.30e
(2021-10-28)

• Reduced Recipe cost from 900 to 825 (total cost decreases ▼ from 2950 to 2875 ).