Skull Basher

The Skull Basher is an Item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons.

Additional information

 * When held by, , or , Bash cannot proc.
 * One Skull Basher grants a total of health,  health regeneration and  ( to  strength heroes) attack damage.

Tips

 * Since the Bash is a chance based ability, buying attack speed granting items (and true strike if needed) increases the odds of a bash proccing. However, the effectiveness stops at a certain amount of attack speed due to the cooldown the bash has.
 * For attack speed the if the most cost effective.
 * 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 channel 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 with her, or  with her high amount of agility from.

Trivia

 * In the original DotA, this item was called "Cranium Basher", a reference to a unique item in Diablo 2.