Black King Bar

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Black King Bar is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Armor.

Black King Bar
A powerful staff imbued with the strength of giants.
Armor Cost 4050 (1450) Sell Value 2025 Active Avatar Bonus ? +10 Strength +24 Attack Damage Shareable Disassemble Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• The item's attributes grant the following additional stats:
• 220 health and 1 health regeneration.
• 10 main attack damage to heroes.
• 4.5 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Abilities

Avatar

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Ability

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Affects

Self

Grants bonus magic resistance, debuff immunity, and applies a basic dispel upon cast.

The wielder has pure damage immunity, including from damage reflect sources for the entire duration.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Magic Resistance Bonus: 60%

The ability duration reduces per cast and is bound to the wielder. Rebuying the item does not reset the ability duration.

Duration: 9/8/7/6

95

50

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• The ability has the following properties:
  • Interrupts the wielder's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.

• Grants the following bonuses upon cast:
  • Applies a basic dispel on the wielder.
  • Debuff immunity and pure damage immunity for the entire duration.
  • A 30% model size increase. Does not affect collision size.

• A countdown on the item's icon indicates the remaining duration, visible to everyone.

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Black King Bar: Spell Immune.

• Grants the following bonuses while active:
  • Has 70% magic resistance.
  • Avatar increases the total magic resistance by 0.4% per 10 intelligence points.

Recommended Heroes

• Black King Bar is, more often than not, a necessary item on almost all carries to prevent the enemy from simply shutting down their damage output with disables.
• Initiators can consider a Black King Bar to guarantee a safe initiation against disable-heavy teams. This is especially the case if they can impact the fight with abilities beyond their initiation ability or by providing further damage.
  • Batrider
  • Legion Commander
  • Rubick
  • Slardar
  • Spirit Breaker
• Heroes with strong channeling abilities can use a Black King Bar to prevent the enemy from interrupting them.
  • Crystal Maiden
  • Enigma
  • Sand King
  • Witch Doctor

Trivia

• Within the pro scene, using Black King Bar before using Town Portal Scroll is sometimes refered to as "Nightfalling".
  • This is a reference to the pro-player Nightfall, who is known for using Black King Bar before teleporting, even if it seemed unnecessary.

Gallery

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  Activating Black King Bar

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  Item icon progress

Recent Changes

Main Article: Black King Bar/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35d
(2024-03-21)

• Avatar
  • Avatar cooldown increased from 90 to 95.

7.35c
(2024-02-21)

• Avatar
  • Avatar Magic Resistance increased from 50% to 60%.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Avatar
  • Now grants Debuff Immunity Dispel with 50% magic resistance bonus. [?]
  • The caster is now immune to pure and reflected damage, and only affects abilities that do not pierce debuff immunity.
  • If the ability expires before the debuff duration, the debuff will take effect for the remaining duration.