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 grants the following additional bonuses:
• 220 health and 1 health regeneration.
• 10 main attack damage to heroes.
• 7 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Ability

Bash

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

Grants melee heroes a 25% chance on hit to stun the target for 1.2 seconds and deal 100 bonus physical damage. Bash chance for ranged heroes is 10%.

Melee Proc Chance: 25%

Ranged Proc Chance: 10%

Damage: 100

Stun Duration: 1.2

 2.3

Modifiers [?]

modifier_bashed

Strong

Ability Draft Notes:

Fully stacks with Bash of the Deep, Greater Bash and Time Lock

NOTES

• Does not stack with the bash of other Skull Bashers, nor that of Abyssal Blade.
  • Does not stack with Bash of the Deep, Greater Bash or Time Lock either. If any of these are present, Bash cannot proc.

• For multiple items with the bash ability, only the one that has been continuously the longest in the inventory works.

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

• 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.

• Adds an average of 25 and 10 damage to every attack for melee and ranged heroes respectively.

• Does not work against wards and buildings, but works against allied units.
  • Clones cannot use Bash.

• Bash uses pseudo-random distribution.

Recommended Heroes

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.

Gallery

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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 ).