Diffusal Blade

The Diffusal Blade is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Artifacts.

Recommended heroes

 * With Manabreak from diffusal blade, Gyrocopter can drain a lot of mana from his special attacks, sometimes draining mana from mutiple heroes.
 * On TI9, team OG demostrated this ability together with IO as the winning strategy for Game 4.


 * With Manabreak, Naga Siren and all her s drain a total of 98 mana per attack, assuming all illusions are attacking one hero. The added agility also increases the damage of her illusions.
 * Inhibit is also an effective slow for situations in which is not usable.


 * In conjunction with, and , 14 illusions plus  himself will deal a total of 274 Mana Burn per attack, assuming all illusions are attacking one hero. 306 if  illusions are included.
 * Inhibit complements his and makes it even easier for his illusions to stick to and focus down targets.
 * Burning mana with Manabreak is relatively easy for Phantom Lancer because he has so many illusions available. Even the 0%-damage illusion from burns mana.


 * Inhibit keeps enemies in his longer, and can also be used on enemies caught with  to increase his chasing potential.
 * Inhibit may keep enemies inside 's area of effect, helping to achieve its full damage potential.
 * Manabreak works with each attack, burning mana and dealing heavy damage.
 * lets Riki benefit even more than usual from Diffusal's bonus agility.


 * Manabreak gives Illusions from an additional damage source. It also ensures that, when she ults, the entire enemy team overall will have somewhat less mana available.
 * Inhibit allows Spectre to slow enemies she catches with and keep them isolated for  even longer.
 * The above can also be further exploited with . and  to find an enemy, Inhibit to keep them still, and  illusions to burst them down with Manabreak and  attacks.

Others

 * The bonus attributes and the Manabreak ability make Diffusal Blade a cost-effective damage item on agility carries in general.

Effective against

 * Because Wraith King requires mana to come back with, Manabreak can drain his mana pool before he dies and thus prevent it from ever activating. However, do note that Manabreak can be fully blocked by (a common purchase on Wraith King), and that Wraith King can learn his talent to make Reincarnation cost 0 mana. If you do need to drain his mana faster, consider buying more attack speed items and/or.


 * Manabreak deals more effective Damage against Medusa because it depletes her mana pool directly; the sooner she runs out of mana, the sooner she will be unable to mitigate damage with her.

Tips

 * Illusions use Manabreak at full effectiveness. Most illusions deal reduced damage; for example, Illusion Rune illusions have 35% damage output. However, this reduced damage output does not affect Manabreak abilities. Even an illusion that deals 0% damage will still burn mana on each attack (and deal damage based on the mana burned).


 * Because of the way Manabreak interacts with illusions, Diffusal Blade is most common and most effective on heroes with easy access to them, such as Phantom Lancer.


 * Similarly, this is also why Manta Style and Diffusal Blade are so commonly seen together: after picking up one of the two, the other becomes that much more effective and attractive to buy.


 * The movement slow is an effective way to kite melee characters and can both increase your team's damage output vs them (by preventing them from running away and making it easier to hit them with spells), and reduce their damage output vs your team (by preventing them from getting close enough to hit anything).


 * The movement slow can help your illusions and/or summoned units stick to their attack target.


 * Can pop an enemy.

Items Synergy

 * Items that grant attack speed such as, , , and can help burn mana even quicker and thus (ideally) prevent more enemy spell casts than would be prevented otherwise.


 * illusions make full use of Diffusal's Manabreak ability and can focus-fire the target of Diffusal's active movement slow.

Trivia

 * The Manabreak passive used to be called Feedback and got changed at some point without notification.

Gallery
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