Shadow Blade

The Shadow Blade is an Item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons.

Recommended heroes

 * Shadow Blade is very useful for Monkey King to gank with 4 charges of Jingu Mastery.


 * Shadow Blade is useful as both an engagement tool and as an escape option for Furion. It allows him to have physical burst and is usable during, allowing you to escape safely as long as the enemy has no True Sight or AoE disables.


 * Dragon Knight can use Shadow Blade as a tool to initiate. One can use, use Shadow Blade, break out of Invisibility with an attack, and then immediately use , disabling the target for a long while and doing a lot of damage.


 * Shadow Fiend can nearly instantly kill an enemy by using Shadow Walk, standing on top of an enemy due to the Phasing effect, and then using . If positioned properly, the enemy will be hit by almost every soul released by your Ultimate for massive Magic Damage. Be careful of s and other True Sight when doing so, however.


 * Due to Tiny's high Attack Damage, breaking out of Invisibility with an attack and then following up with an - combo can one-shot most Heroes early in the game. This combo uses a lot of Mana, so it's best to do this at full Mana early.


 * An easy way to increase the damage of is to simply break Invis with an attack when the ability is off-cooldown. An additional 175 Damage to your Cleave that cannot be reduced by Armor in an AoE allows Kunkka to deal considerably more damage in teamfights.


 * Lina can kill enemies very quickly with the additional Physical Damage from Shadow Walk alongside her high Magic Damage. If an enemy doesn't have detection, one can initiate easily by using undetected.


 * Slark's will give him immense Health Regeneration and Movement Speed as long as he is invisible to the enemy team. Additionally, Shadow Walk gives Slark great burst damage along with a free  stack on his first attack to break Invisibility, which you can then follow up with by using.


 * Shadow blade allows Alchemist to start then go invisible, surprising enemies with heavy burst damage and the full duration stun.
 * He can also activate it while affected by to regain a large amount of health before enemies can reveal him.

Items Synergy

 * : will silence your enemy for 5 seconds.
 * : will slow and do two quick attacks.
 * : reduce the armor and works with the 175 bonus damage. It can also be used to push towers then escape with shadow blade.
 * : will disable your enemy for 3.5 seconds.
 * : gives a chance to bash your enemy from attacking or escaping.
 * : is useful to gank carries and nukers.

Counter items

 * , and : reveals invisible heroes.
 * : return the damages if you are being ganked.
 * : disable your enemy from escaping with his shadow blade.

Trivia

 * In the original DotA, this item was called Lothar's Edge, a reference to Sir Anduin Lothar from the Warcraft universe. It is still commonly referred to as "Lothar" or "Lothar's" by those who have played the original DotA.