Poor Man's Shield

Ability

Damage Block Damage Block is a passive ability that gives the wielding unit a chance to block some physical damage from an attack. Contents 1 Mechanics 2 Stacking 3 Sources of Damage Block 4 Version history 5

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

Blocks physical attack damage based on whether the equipped hero is ranged or melee. Poor Man`s Shield will always block attacks from enemy Heroes, but has a 50% chance to block damage from creeps.

Hero Proc Chance: 100%

Non-Hero Proc Chance: 50%

Blocked Damage (Melee): 20

Blocked Damage (Ranged): 10

Notes:

• Does not work against wards This page is about in-game units. For cosmetic pets, see Summoned Unit. Summons are a type of units that are created with spells. Players do not encounter them, unless they play as, with or against ( Plague Ward, Mass Serpent Ward, Death Ward).

• Does not reduce physical damage from spells, except from Moon Glaive and The Swarm.

• Damage Block uses pseudo-random distribution.

• For more details, see Damage Block Damage Block is a passive ability that gives the wielding unit a chance to block some physical damage from an attack. Contents 1 Mechanics 2 Stacking 3 Sources of Damage Block 4 Version history 5 .

• Treats illusions Default buff iconPlay Spawn soundPlay Death sound “ Play A legion sprouts from one! Click to listen— Phantom Lancer ” Illusions (also commonly called illus) are imperfect, weaker copies of heroes, created by spells or items. They as heroes and creep-heroes as creeps.

Strategy

It is an inexpensive, early to mid game item that blocks a small amount of physical hero damage all the time and physical creep damage sometimes. Poor Man`s Shield is built from Stout Shield and 2 Slippers of Agility, all of which can be all purchased from the Home Shop and the Side Shop. It can greatly help some agility heroes tank harass damage in the laning phase, and slightly increase durability in other situations.

Because of its cost and great effect on early game laning, sometimes in competitive games a Poor Man`s Shield is bought as a starting item while a team mate, usually on a support role, pools a regeneration item to the hero with the Shield. A common example hero that this is done on is Broodmother, who will start with a Poor Man`s Shield, a Branch, and one Tango supplied by a team mate.

Info

Item

Changelogs   Item   Changelogs     Contents 1 Version history 2 Update history Version history edit] Version Changes 7.00 Reduced Damage Block non-hero proc chance from 53% to 50%. 6.87 Damage Block now works for

Poor Man`s Shield B
A busted old shield that seems to block more than it should.
Cost 500 Bought From Common Not to be confused with an item s Quality. Rarity is a property of cosmetic items. It is represented in-game by the item s color theme. Rarity is a purely cosmetic property, and has no effect on
Passive Damage Block Bonus +6 Agility   Item   Changelogs     Poor Man s ShieldB A busted old shield that seems to block more than it should. Cost500 Bought FromCommon Passive Damage Block Bonus +6 Agility Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Poor Man`s Shield is an item Play “Singing trio.” It has been suggested that this article or section be split into multiple new articles. Reason given: The shop should get its own page Discussion to support or oppose the split should be purchasable at the Main Shop, under Common Not to be confused with an item s Quality. Rarity is a property of cosmetic items. It is represented in-game by the item s color theme. Rarity is a purely cosmetic property, and has no effect on .

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Additional information

• One Poor Man`s Shield grants a total of 0.86 armor Armor is an attribute shared by all units. Armor is used to determine the amount of damage reduction (or amplification if an armor value is negative) a unit takes from physical damage sources. Higher armor and 6 attack speed The frequency with which units attack is measured in attack speed. A unit s attack speed can be modified by items, agility, abilities, and auras. Contents 1 Base attack time 2 Attack speed representation 3 Attack (and 6 attack damage Attack damage is the amount of damage a unit is dealing with an unmodified basic attack; the base values are different for every hero. The total attack damage of a unit is the sum of to agility Agility is the attribute that grants armor and attack speed. For each point of agility a hero gets: 0.14 (1/7) Armor 1 Attack speed Additionally, agility heroes also get 1 attack damage per agility point. heroes).

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• Poor Man`s Shield is generally used by fragile melee carries who need to withstand heavy harassment in lane.
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General

Poor Man`s Shield (also known as Poor Man`s or simply pms) is an Upgrade item listed in the Common section of the Home Shop.

Ability

Recommended Heroes

Version History

WC3 DotA Version

• Warcraft III DotA - Poor Man`s Shield