Crimson Guard

Crimson Guard is an item listed under the Base Shop under Armor. However, it requires an item from the Secret Shop to be completed.

Crimson Guard

A cuirass originally built to protect against the dreaded Year Beast.

Armor
Cost		3725 (1050)
Sell Value		1862.5
Active		Guard
Passive	?	Damage Block
Bonus	?	+250 Health +12 Health Regeneration +8 Armor
Shareable		0
Disassemble		0
Usage Alert	?	1
Recipe

Additional Information

This item is shown as a Team Item in the shop window when purchased by an ally.
The proc chances of all sources of Damage Block work independently from each other.
When multiple sources of Damage Block proc on the same attack, only the one with the highest blocked damage value takes effect.

Abilities

Guard

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Allied Heroes / Allied Buildings

Grants nearby allied heroes and buildings a guaranteed chance to block a fixed portion of physical attack damage, plus a portion based on the caster's max health.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Radius:

1200

Proc Chance: 100%

Base Blocked Damage: 75

Max Health as Blocked Damage: 2.2%

Duration: 7

Units may only be affected by Guard once in a while.

Stack Limit Duration: 39

40

75

Damage Block

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants the wielder a chance to block a fixed portion of physical attack damage.

Proc Chance: 60%

Blocked Damage: 75

Ranged wielders block less damage with the same proc chance.

Blocked Damage: 50

Details

Damage Block uses pseudo-random distribution and has the following properties:
- When multiple different sources proc on the same attack, the one with a higher value takes priority. However, multiple sources of the same value stack multiplicatively.
- Does not work against damage from wards sources (e.g. Death Ward etc.).
- Does not reduce physical damage from abilities, except for these abilities.

Recommended Heroes

Heroes whose default item build includes Crimson Guard as a situational item:

Tips

The high damage block of Crimson Guard's active is good against illusions because their low damage is heavily reduced or negated completely.
Similarly, it is good against small summons such as Undying Zombie, Spiderling, Spiderite or Treant to name a few.
Crimson Guard is effective against armor reduction as the damage block takes effect before the damage reduction of armor. This means that if incoming damage is actually going to be amplified due to negative armor, a large portion of it can be blocked before it is amplified.
The damage block and armor reduces a lot the damage returned by an enemy Blade Mail.
Best combined with Pipe of Insight or other sources of barrier.