Does Blade Mail really returns damage from all sources or are there some skills whose damage it wont return?

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Does Blade Mail really returns all damage like in its description, or are there any skills whose damage wont be returned?

This is what i want to know:

Will it return:

List of all skills whose damage isn't returned by blade mail, if there are any.

as a side note, returned blademail damage is considered pure damage, which can be blocked by BKB — l I, Apr 30, 2013 at 11:52
@spartacus Erm.. doesn't BKB only give immunity to magic damage? As far as i know pure damage is not considered either physical nor magic and it penetrates both magic resistance/immunity and armor. — MaxBedlam, Apr 30, 2013 at 13:01
nope, pure damage has the property of ignoring armor/resistance but its actually considered magical. Its pretty easy to test in a custom game. — l I, Apr 30, 2013 at 14:35

SinisterMJ · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-07 11:08:27Z

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It does not reflect HP removal abilities, but thats it.

You can find a list of HP removal skills at:

Everything else is being returned as indicated (note that BKB makes you immune to the return damage).

answered May 7, 2013 at 11:08

SinisterMJ

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AFAIK in DotA 1 there was a threshold. you need at least 1 or 2 dmg to trigger blademail and it can only return a max of 7 or 9000 in one instance. Not sure if they fixed this in DotA 2.
– Wandang
May 27, 2013 at 9:43
Note that abilities such as Pugna's Life Drain are ignored by Blademail, even if it doesn't actually change your max life.
– Kroltan
May 20, 2014 at 15:37

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