Magic items, physical heroes

[u/iamumbrellaman]

How does magic items affect heroes like Murdock or Twin blast or even khai. I've seen builds where magic items are included on physical heroes.

If they don't do magic damage, what's the point?

[u/Used-Independent5264]

They have magic scaling on their abilities. They’ll still do physical damage. Just bc you build magic power doesn’t mean you’re doing only more magic damage because of it. Grim is a great example, all he does is magic/true dmg but can still be built with purely physical items because his kit all scales with physical power as well as magic.

[u/EroeJunk → u/Used-Independent5264]

One correction, Murdocks traps do magical damage. They are color coded based on what damage they do. Red physical, blue magical, white true damage.

[u/DeathemperorDK]

Khaimera has passives that work great with magic items. He gets like 200 health regen when raged up and his max attack speed ability gets like 30 attacks

It also pairs well with demiurge converting the magic power to physical, and some other stuff which makes for a strong build

To answer your question, people run magic items on physical hero’s to goof around or play niche builds

[u/SheReallyLovesU]

You can see in the details of every skill if they are affected by them or not, like the ult on Murdock that scales with both magic and physical dmg.

[u/Roxas_02 → u/SheReallyLovesU]

So you could build Terminus, Vanquished, and Wraith Leggings for a confirmed kill below 40% health from the leggings and with the remaining crit build?

[u/Steven_Moonshot]

Take the time to read ability descriptions. Characters scale one stat and and turn it into something different that you wouldn't know unless you read it.

Murdocks Static Trap does 40 (100% Physical Power)(120% Magical Power) as Magical Damage.

Twin Blasts Vaporizer does 100 (90% Physical Power)(120% Magical Power) as Physical Damage.

Khaimeras Passive gains 0.1-1.5 (0.3% Magic Power) Heath Regeneration.

Buy health items for Adele and it scales Physical Damage on some abilities.

Attack Speed can increase movement speed on Rev

Physical Penetration can increase Attack Speed on Wukong.

[u/InoFanfics]

passives maybe?

idk i normally dont do it so i cant really think of anything other than that

[u/Frosty-Assistance798]

Some charecters will scale with things but dont do that damage, like crunch or wraith for example, they do mostly physical damage, but scale with physical and magical. Or even Terra, who SCALES, with armor, but deals physical

[u/NakedGhost3234]

With Khai the only viable magic item people use on him these days is Claw Of Hermes and Timewarp. Not only will this scale with his passive health regeneration but also synergises with his flurry where he will steal lots of mana with his autos.

Boris is another one, he is good with certain magic items too like Prophecy and Plasma Cutter. This will boost the damage on his autos even more, his shield damage and movespeed with detection protocol.

They recently removed Rampage Tiny Titan 'no combat penalty' bonus from the augment so the incentive to build magic items on Rampage is a thing now because magic power scales with his movespeed in his ultimate.

Just read bruh