Blink Dagger

Blink Dagger L
The fabled dagger used by the fastest assassin ever to walk the lands.
Cost 2150		Bought From Arcane
Active	Blink
Disassemble?	No
Alert allies?	No
Recipe

The Blink Dagger is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Arcane, and at the Side Lane Shop.

Additional Information

The Blink Dagger cannot be held by Pudge or Vengeful Spirit. If it could be, they would be able to blink to an enclosed area and then bring an enemy to them, leaving their foe potentially trapped. However, they can still do this with Force Staff, though it clears trees and thus prevents trapping enemies inside of them.

Ability

Blink Play Ability Affects Target Point Self Teleport to a target point up to 1200 units away. If damage is taken from an enemy hero, Blink Dagger cannot be used for 3 seconds. 12 75

Notes: Taking damage from Roshan and player-controlled units will also disable Blink for 3 seconds. Self-damage does not disable Blink. Double clicking will blink the player in the direction of their Fountain. Blink Dagger can be used to disjoint spell projectiles, such as Alchemist's Unstable Concoction, but some abilities such as Sven's Storm Hammer and Windrunner's Shackle Shot can not be disjointed. Trying to blink outside of the maximum range will cause it to blink 4/5 of the max distance (960 Units).

Recommended heroes

• Heroes whose default item build includes Blink Dagger as a core item:  Axe, Batrider, Brewmaster, Centaur Warrunner, Crystal Maiden, Earthshaker, Enigma, Lina, Magnus, Puck, Sand King, Shadow Fiend, Shadow Shaman, Templar Assassin, Tidehunter … further results.
• Heroes whose default item build includes Blink Dagger as a situational item:  Bane, Beastmaster, Gyrocopter, Invoker, Jakiro, Legion Commander, Leshrac, Lifestealer, Lion, Meepo, Slardar, Sven, Tinker, Treant Protector, Venomancer.

Trivia

• In the original DotA, this item was called Kelen's Dagger, in reference to a Warcraft III item, Kelen's Dagger of Escape.

Balance changelog

6.78

• Cooldown decreased from 14 to 12.