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.

Items synergy

 * : gives the highest attack speed per gold, useful to proc the bash.
 * ,, , : those items gives high attack speed too.
 * : gives true strike and mini bashes.

Counter items

 * : disarm an enemy, the passive evasion is also very useful.
 * : will dodge 25% of the attacks. Can be upgraded to a Butterfly for 35% evasion, Halberd for the disarm or Solar Crest to help an ally.
 * : will make your enemy hesitant to attack you.
 * : will reduce the attack speed of your enemy by 45 and increase your armor by 15.
 * : disable your enemy before he hits you.

Trivia

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