Blink Dagger

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• Changelogs

Blink Dagger is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Miscellaneous.

Blink Dagger
The fabled dagger used by the fastest assassin ever to walk the lands.
Miscellaneous Cost 2250 Sell Value 1125 Active Blink Bonus ? Shareable Usage Alert ? Recipe

Abilities

Blink

Blink

▶️ ▶️

Ability

Point

Affects

Self

Instantly teleports the wielder to the targeted point.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range: Global

Max Blink Distance: 1200

When targeting a point beyond the max distance, teleports the caster towards the targeted direction, but for a reduced distance.

Clamped Blink Distance: 960

Taking more than 0 damage from any other player or Roshan (after reductions and not flagged as HP Removal) puts the item on a fixed cooldown. Cannot be reset with cooldown reset sources.

Downtime: 3

15

0

Details

Cooldown Sharing

The items listed above share their cooldowns;
Casting one of them puts them all on cooldown.

• Blink utilizes the teleport mechanic, and has the following properties:
  • When targeting a point within 1200 distance, teleports directly onto the targeted point.
  • When targeting a point beyond 1200 distance, teleports 960 distance towards the targeted point instead.
  • When targeting a point between 960 and 1200, an extra sound effect is played, indicating a long-ranged blink.
  • Incoming projectiles are disjointed upon teleporting.

• Doubletap targets a point in front of the team's Fountain, using the same behavior as a regular cast.
  • This means it may blink the full distance or the clamped distance, depending on whether the Fountain is within range or not.
  • Locations of the fountains, relative to the center of the map:
  • Radiant Fountain: -7456 / -6938
  • Dire Fountain: 7408 / 6848

Trivia

• This item is based on Kelen's Dagger of Escape from Warcraft 3.
  • In DotA, the item was originally named Kelen's Dagger of Escape. Kelen is a rouge from World of Warcraft.
  • Later on, it was shortened to just Kelen's Dagger, because most plays used it aggressively, rather than to escape.
  • In Dota 2, it was renamed to Blink Dagger, to avoid copyright issues with "Blizzard Entertainment".
• Riki and Lion are the only heroes who are missing responses for acquiring a Blink Dagger.
• Axe's cosmetic item, Little Blink Dagger, is based on Blink Dagger.

Gallery

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  Using Blink Dagger

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  The trail left after Blink

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  Icon when Planetfall in its first style is equipped

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  Icon when Planetfall in its second style is equipped

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  Item icon progress

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  Early item icon concept

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  Early item icon concept

Recent Changes

Main Article: Blink Dagger/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.37d
(2024-10-01)

• U Blink
  • The item mute component now has precedence over all damage manipulation sources (e.g. Mana Shield ).

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• CHANGED Blink from applying a 3-second damage downtime to a 3-second item mute duration.

7.28
(2020-12-17)

• Now builds into the following items:
  • Arcane Blink
  • Overwhelming Blink
  • Swift Blink