Bane
Skill Level Order Distribution
Talent Build
+20% Enfeeble Cast Range Reduction
+125 Brain Sap Cast Range
+5% Fiend's Grip Max Mana Drain
+13 Enfeeble Damage Per Second
+30 Movement Speed
-3s Nightmare Cooldown
+3s Fiend's Grip Duration
+275 Brain Sap Damage/Heal
Grandmaster Facet Preference
Common Starting Items
Core Items
Talent Win Rates
Boot purchase timing & impact
Arcane Boots51.1% WRBought ~12 min · 29,104
Boots of Speed51.4% WRBought ~6 min · 7,676
Tranquil Boots51.8% WRBought ~14 min · 1,073
Boots of Travel77.4% WRBought ~50 min · 632
Guardian Greaves70.6% WRBought ~42 min · 598
Power Treads37.0% WRBought ~18 min · 73Most Popular Item Path
Top Neutral Items by Tier
How to Play
Nightmare cannot be removed by basic dispels like Eul's or Lotus, so it is a reliable long disable.
Brain Sap always deals full damage ignoring magic resistance, so at level 5 with two points you can solo pressure offlaners.
You can Nightmare an ally right before a Laguna Blade lands, the 1 second invulnerability makes the damage fizzle.
Nightmare does not pierce spell immunity, so remember the enemy carry pops BKB.
Aghanim's Shard makes Brain Sap apply a 1.5 second Nightmare, letting you chain Brain Sap into Nightmare into Fiend's Grip.
Bane controls fight tempo by removing the most important enemy hero, so save Fiend's Grip for the priority target.