Shadow Blade

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Shadow Blade is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Weapons.

Shadow Blade
The blade of a fallen king, it allows you to move unseen and strike from the shadows.
Weapons Cost 3250 Sell Value 1625 Active Shadow Walk Bonus ? +25 Attack Damage +35 Attack Speed Shareable 0 Disassemble 0 Usage Alert ? 0 Recipe

Ability

Shadow Walk

Shadow Walk

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Ability

No

Affects

Self

Damage

Attack Damage / Physical

The wielder becomes invisible and gains a movement speed bonus. Grants phase movement while invisible.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Fade Time: 0.3

Move Speed Bonus: 20%

Duration: 17

The attack breaking invisibility deals physical attack damage bonus with the attack.

Attack Damage Bonus: 175

25

75

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Cooldown Sharing

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

• Does not interrupt the wielder's channeling abilities upon cast.

• item_invisibility_edge_windwalk
  • Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.
  • The caster gains phased movement while invisible.
  • Invisibility
    • Picking up, dropping, or selling items does not break the invisibility.
    • During the fade time, casting abilities or items does not break the invisibility.
  • The following orders break the invisibility:
    • After the fade time, upon reaching the cast point of abilities or items.
    • At any time, upon reaching the attack point of an attack, regardless of whether the attack lands or not.
      • For ranged this is upon projectile launch.

• Conditional attack damage
  • Adds physical conditional attack damage to the next attack while invisible:
    • The damage is directly added to the wielder's attack damage, but is not displayed in the HUD.
  • Does not interact with the following mechanics:
    • Critical strike
    • Percentage-based bonus attack damage
  • Interacts with the following mechanics:
    • Lifesteal
    • Cleave and Splash.
    • Damage block
  • Does not affect the following units:
    • Buildings
    • Ward-type units.

modifier_item_invisibility_edge_windwalk

Shadow Walk: Invisible as the wind. Movement speed increased by x% and you can move through units. Attacking to break invisibility will deal 175 bonus damage.

• Most Instant Attacks procs break invisbility except the following sources:
  • Reciprocity
  • Lunar Orbit
  • Moon Glaives
  • Echo Slash
  • Overload
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  • The ability effects are applied as follows:
    1. Both the flat physical bonus attack damage and the wielder's attack instance.
    2. Dispels the item_invisibility_edge_windwalk.

Recommended Heroes

Trivia

• In DotA, this item is named Lothar's Edge, which is a reference to Sir Anduin Lothar, a character from the Warcraft universe.
  • Its active ability, Shadow Walk is based on the Blademaster's Wind Walk.
• Kunkka's cosmetic item, Kunkka's Shadow Blade, is based on Shadow Blade.
• In Deadlock, the Shadow Weave item may be inspired by Shadow Blade, both granting the user invisibility until breaking out of it.

Gallery

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  An invisible hero
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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: Shadow Blade/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• Reduced Shadow Amulet cost from 1000 to 900 (total cost decreases ▼ from 3350 to 3250 ).

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Shadow Blade now requires Claymore ( 1350 ) to build, instead of Broadsword ( 1000 ) (total cost increases ▲ from 3000 to 3350 ).
• Increased attack damage bonus from 20 to 25.

7.35d
(2024-03-21)

• Increased Shadow Walk duration from 14 to 17.