T3 Healbane Upgrade (Melee anti-heal): Banestrike

[Rosgath]

Every playstyle currently has a way to apply Anti-heal, except melee builds. I thought that this seemed like an awful gap and decided that, since a lot of people seem to want an upgrade to Healbane, a melee anti-heal item seemed like the right way to go for such an upgrade.

So here it is:



I will be clear that the Immunity to stuns is exclusive to stun effects. It's mostly there to help with landing an extra Heavy melee without fear of getting parried, but it does have some niche bonuses like granting immunity to things like Abram's Charge or Crushing Fists' 6 stack stun effect, or even Knockdown. It's a VERY brief window (less than half the duration of Unstoppable) so I think it's OK. It may need to be shortened, but I wanted it to be long enough that someone who buys it could actually respond in time to getting it and use it to force a Heavy Melee if they wanted to.

 

[Rosgath]

I considered Another version that will help it stand out a bit more from other sources of Anti-heal. This version makes it much stronger Anti-heal, but it takes some time to build up. It loses the melee specific benefit when an enemy hero dies, but it gains more anti-heal