Barbed Armor

[Phineas]

Barbed Armor (Blade Mail): +22 Damage, +5 Armor, +10 Intelligence. When activated, any damage you take will be returned to enemy units. Lasts 4 seconds. Cooldown: 15 seconds.

Does anyone use this, and if so how? I never see anyone get this item. My guess is that it is useful as a counter against high dps heroes or heroes with lifesteal.

[Vadi]

Saw a logo using it. When activated, they get huge spikes out of their upper body.

[HulkingDemon]

this is very very good on legionnaire you grab a vanguard this then heart and you use taunt then this forcing all to attack you and returning all the damage while spinning

[Mark]

I use it all the time with the legionnaire, nice mana boost and it owns madman.

[Jake]

I use it all the time with the legionnaire, nice mana boost and it owns madman.
Madman with lifesteal wont feel a thing before you are dead.

[Raspyn]

Madman with lifesteal wont feel a thing before you are dead.

Uh, read the tooltip for barbed armor...

Barbed Armor (Blade Mail): +22 Damage, +5 Armor, +10 Intelligence. When activated, any damage you take will be returned to enemy units. Lasts 4 seconds. Cooldown: 15 seconds.

This coupled with taunt = dead madman

[rafaw]

I play a lot with legionnaire and its a realy nice item to use.
Madman its a OP hero, but he its reaaaaly poor in health, if u blink + taunt + barbed armor and u have lego ult ready, he probably will die, just depends on how many spin lego will do.

[MasamuneXero]

This item is how you separate the men from the boys.

Just the other day I was playing against somebody who had me beat, but then I bought this and I won the game.

[Botzu]

I am kinda curious why would you get vanguard if you were planning on going blademail? The whole point of getting blademail is to take a bunch of damage in a short amount of time. It seems counter productive if you get a vanguard reducing incoming damage(and in turn lowering the effectiveness of blademail). Especially if your already calling somebody to begin with giving you 20+ armor. Whats the real point there when people aren't going to be hitting you for any damage during the blademail duration?

[Travakh]

Blademail counters high damage carries and is effective on all tank type heroes. Axe, Zephyr, Armadon are all designed to jump into the fight and draw fire, and a timely blademail combined with a high hp pool lets them kill enemy heroes who aren't paying attention.