What the item does
Active: Soul Rend
Silences a target for 5 seconds. At the end of the silence, an additional 60% of all damage taken during the silence will be dealt to the target as magical damage.
All attacks on the silenced target will deal additional damage equal to 50 if the attacker is a hero, and 25, if the attacker is a creep. Provides True Strike for your attacks and attacks from your controlled units against the silenced target.
Passive: Pierce
Grants each attack a 40% chance to pierce through evasion and deal 60 bonus magical damage.
How I decide
«I buy the upgrade for shared focus, not just its price tag.»
Ruslan UkrainskyiSpeaking through Rodya
- 01 Situation
- The team reaches an important hero but lacks damage in the available window.
- 02 My decision
- I check whether I can keep Soul Rend on the target and whether allies can attack before upgrading Orchid.
- 03 What I avoid
- Pay extra for an upgrade without solving dispels and access to the target.
When I would buy it
After the basic build, when a more expensive single-target focus item is specifically needed.
Components
Components from Valve's recipe. Repeated parts are marked with quantities.
Orchid Malevolence
Oblivion Staff
JavelinWhich heroes I would try it on
Examples based on mechanics. The role, opponents and team plan determine the final choice.
What to compare it with
Similar purposes do not make items interchangeable. I compare effect, price and timing.
Stats and key conditions
- Intelligence
- 25
- Attack speed
- 70
- Mana regeneration
- 4
- Damage
- 20
- Cooldown
- 15 seconds
- Mana cost
- 150
- Cast range
- 900
Game effects and recipes are a snapshot of official data. My guidelines are choices for a task, not a promise of the same build every match. Values for several stages, where present, are separated by ‘/’.
Original Valve item data ↗