Echo Sabre

The Echo Sabre is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Artifacts.

Recommended heroes

 * Provides Chaos Knight with good attributes boost for illusions.
 * Some extra mana regeneration lets cast or  more often.
 * The slow from synergizes well with  and let Chaos Knight try to chase down a hero without needing to use the mana-intensive.


 * Combined with the extra attacks from, Echo Sabre can quickly bring down an opponent during a.


 * Fast strikes with does burst damage, and also provides Lifestealer with a means of quick health recovery.


 * A good item for semi-carry Magnus, as he has large physical damage potential with his talents.
 * Typically, this build forgoes the usual and thus Echo Sabre fills the necessity for some mana regeneration.


 * Allows Monkey King to quickly build up stacks.
 * During his ultimate, clones will apply the slow on every hit.


 * Echo Sabre allows 's backstab damage to hit twice before targets have time to turn around.


 * Echo Sabre's extra hit helps apply quicker.
 * Echo Sabre's mana regeneration helps with Slardar's low mana pool, and lets him use more often.


 * Echo Sabre allows Slark to gank with ease, locking down targets and quickly gaining a double stat conversion through.
 * Furthermore, the slow from the double attack facilitates a successful leash.


 * Echo Sabre gives Spirit Breaker a better chance of triggering, and boosts his slow attack speed.


 * A well farmed Sven can deal massive damage with a crit item and, sometimes killing enemies in one hit. Echo Sabre makes that even more likely. Even without a crit item, a double attack from Sven with God's Strength active deals crippling damage to enemies.


 * Tiny can use Echo Sabre to hit twice while an enemy is ed, increasing his burst damage especially with . It also solves his mana issues, as well as improving his ability to push with equipped.


 * Echo Sabre gives Wraith King a better chance of landing a crit with, and boosts his slow attack speed.

Others

 * Echo Sabre allows to burst down enemies by quickly building up his  stacks.
 * However, the instant extra attack somewhat wastes 's increased attack speed.
 * Melee heroes with passive disables work well with Echo Sabre, giving them a greater chance to lock down enemies by compounding the effects.
 * with his.
 * with his.
 * with his (still goes on cooldown after a successful proc).
 * 's with its  (still goes on cooldown after a successful proc).
 * with his ensnare from.
 * Melee heroes with passive crit abilities generally work well with Echo Sabre, giving them a greater chance to proc crits.
 * with his.
 * with his.
 * with his.

Tips

 * The best items in combination to increase your damage are those who grant critical hit and armor reduction. A is also good to get a chance to bash from the two quick attacks.
 * You can combine the echo sabre with a and 's active to instantly restore your HP.
 * Echo Sabre's ability is effectively a passive 1-hit-only . This makes it a great item on heroes whose passive abilities rely on attack speed to be effective, similar to how Ursa's relies on the attack speed of Overpower.
 * The attack speed from the passive proc lasts until a second attack is done. This makes it possible to "store" the massive attack speed bonus for a planned strike on an enemy. One just has to attack a creep to proc the passive ability and immediately cancel the second attack. The stored attack speed can come very handy when ganking enemies which have strong attack speed slows like with her  or 's.

Lore
Inai is familiar with the Echo Sabre, having held it once before.

Trivia

 * Prior to the July 14, 2017 Patch, Echo Sabre's passive ability, Echo Strike, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.