Vanguard

Vanguard is an Item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Armor. However, it requires an item from the Secret Shop to be completed. It can also be completed solely with items from the Side Lane Shop.

Recommended heroes

 * Grants a large amount of health and armor, works well with blink.

Tips

 * Effective to block the damages from illusions (excepted from Chaos Knight's ultimate which copy his full damage and can crit) and summoned units.
 * It is especially useful with tanky frontline heroes that need to survive much damage, like Bristleback, Spectre (although their damage reduction weakens the effect), Centaur Warrunner or Axe, with units that overall take amplified damage, like illusions, and against low damage units like Windranger without or Phantom Lancer's illusions, which hit often but not hard, causing many block procs that block attacks entirely or almost entirely. On the other hand, it is less useful for heroes with high armor, like Dragon Knight or Sven.