Echo Sabre

The Echo Sabre is an Item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Artifacts.

Additional information

 * One Echo Sabre grants a total of health,  health regeneration,  attack speed,  mana,  (+%) mana regeneration, % spell damage and  ( to  strength and  intelligence heroes) attack damage.

Recommended heroes

 * The extra attack increases chance to proc.
 * However, the instant extra attack somewhat wastes 's increased attack speed.
 * debuffs a target with the Echo Sabre's brief slow regardless of the item being on cooldown or not (it is still possible to have 2 units simultaneously affected by the Echo Sabre slow in this way, one with Stifling Dagger and another one with her normal attack).


 * Echo Sabre allows Slark to gank with ease, locking down targets and quickly gaining a double stat conversion through.


 * Combined with the extra attacks from, Echo Sabre can quickly bring down an opponent during a.


 * Echo Sabre allows Riki's backstab bonus to hit twice before targets have time to turn around.


 * A well farmed Sven can deal massive damage with a crit item and, sometimes killing enemies in one hit. Echo Sabre makes that even more likely.


 * Echo Sabre allows Ursa to burst down enemies by quickly building up his Fury Swipes.
 * However, the instant extra attack somewhat wastes Overpower's increased attack speed.

Others

 * can use Echo Sabre to hit twice while an enemy is ed, increasing his burst damage. It also solves his mana issues, as well as improving his ability to push with Aghanim's Scepter equipped.
 * Melee heroes with passive disables work well with Echo Sabre, giving them greater chance to lock down enemies by compounding the effects.
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 * Note: Greater Bash and Entangling Claws still possess cooldowns after proccing, so it is impossible to get a second proc with Echo Sabre.
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 * Melee heroes with passive crit generally work well with Echo Sabre, giving them a greater chance to proc crits.
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 * He can also hit twice after, although the bonus damage is only applied to the first hit.

Tips

 * Echo Sabre's ability is effectively a passive 1-hit-only Overpower. This makes it a great item on heroes whose passive abilities rely on attack speed to be effective, similar to how Ursa's Fury Swipes relies on the attack speed of Overpower.
 * The attack speed from the passive proc lasts until a second attack is done. This makes it possible to "store" the massive attack speed bonus for a planned strike on an enemy. One just has to attack a creep to proc the passive ability and immediately cancel the second attack. The stored attack speed can come very handy when ganking enemies which have strong attack speed slows like with her  or '.