Desolator

Item

 

Changelogs

 

For the neutral item, see Stygian Desolator.

Desolator is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Weapons.

Desolator
A wicked weapon, used in torturing political criminals.
Weapons Cost 3500 Sell Value 1750 Passive ? Corruption Soul Stealer Bonus ? +50 Attack Damage Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• Grants a total of 80 flat bonus attack damage at max charges.
• Fully stacks with the following:
  • Armor Corruption from talents.
  • Orb of Corrosion and Stygian Desolator.

Abilities

Corruption

▶️

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Your attacks reduce the target's armor by 6 for 7 seconds.

Armor Reduction: 6

Duration: 7

Modifiers [?]

modifier_desolator_buff

Any

• Successive attacks with Desolator do not stack the debuff, but refresh the duration instead.

• The attacks first apply the debuff, then their own damage.

• Works against wards, buildings, and allied units.

• Replaces the projectile particle of ranged heroes with a red projectile.

• Does not stack with the armor reduction of Lesser Corruption.
  • If both debuffs are present, Blight Stone's debuff does not reduce armor.

• Visually alters the wielder's attack projectile. All attack projectile has the following visual priorities:
  • Corruption or Greater Corruption ➤ Cold Attack ➤ Marksmanship procs.

Soul Stealer

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

Desolator gains +2 damage every time an enemy hero dies while affected by Corruption, to a maximum of 30.

Max Charges: 30

Charges per Kill: 2

Attack Damage Bonus per Charge: 1

Illusion Notes:

Illusions cannot place the debuff, so they cannot gain stacks either.

Illusions copy the stack count upon creation.

• Gains 2 charges whenever an enemy hero affected by the Corruption debuff dies in any way.
  • Does not gain charges on creep-heroes, illusions, or on the Tempest Double.
  • For clones, if the debuff was placed by the following units, Soul Stealer grants the main hero charges instead:
    • The Tempest Double.
    • Wukong's Command Soldiers

• When having multiple Desolators in the active inventory, only the one acquired first gains charges.

• Grant charges to the last player who refreshed the debuff in case of Soul Stealer debuffs applied by multiple players.
  • Desolator does not need to be in the inventory to gain charges.
  • The number of charges is bound to the item, not the player. Selling and repurchasing the item does not carry over the charges.

• The number of current charges is visible on the item icon.

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Others

• Arc Warden, his Tempest Double clone, and his Manta Style Illusions are able to push buildings much more quickly, as well as enemy heroes with the benefit of Desolator's armor reduction.
• Bounty Hunter sometimes buys a Desolator to land one hard hit on enemies with Jinada, debuffing them in teamfights before retreating.
• Juggernaut sometimes opts for a Desolator to reduce an opponents armor before using Omnislash.
• Mars can use Desolator to reduce the armor of every unit hit by God's Rebuke and increase its damage output.
• Nature's Prophet's low damage benefits from Desolator's armor reduction.
• Tusk hits exceptionally hard with Walrus PUNCH! after Desolator's armor reduction.
• Ursa's damage through Fury Swipes is greatly increased with Desolator's armor reduction.

Generally heroes who already have armor reduction abilities will benefit from the extra armor reduction of Corruption:

• Razor
• Shadow Fiend
• Tidehunter
• Weaver
• Vengeful Spirit

Tips

• Corruption works against buildings, making it a great pushing tool. Split-pushing heroes can benefit a lot from it, allowing them to take towers down much quicker.
• The debuff lasts quite long, so sometimes it is better to get the debuff on multiple enemies, instead of focusing only one target in team fights.

Gallery

• 

  Desolator's attack projectile

Trivia

• This item was named "Stygian Desolator" in DotA, a reference to an item from Anarchy Online. This name is now used by an upgraded version of the Desolator, which drops as a neutral item.

Recent Changes

Main Article: Desolator/Changelogs

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7.34

• Increased Soul Stealer max charges from 20 to 30.

7.31c

• Reduced Soul Stealer max charges from 25 to 20.

7.31

• Reduced attack damage bonus from 55 to 50.
• ADDED
  new Soul Stealer passive ability.

Gains attack damage every time an enemy hero dies while affected by Corruption.

Max charges: 25

Charge per kill: 2

Attack damage bonus per charge: 1

Notes: Works by using item charges. Gains charges whenever a debuff enemy hero dies, no matter how.

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