Quelling Blade in Dota 2: cost, stats and who
Contents
- 1. Find the item in the shop
- 2. Check whether you have enough gold
- 3. Read the cooldown: 4s
- 4. Read the cast range: 350
- 5. Look at the shop hints
- 6. Make sense of the odd level flag
- 7. Put the item in a convenient slot and check the hotkey
- 8. Decide what to do with the slot afterwards
- What this data doesn’t cover
- In short
Quelling Blade costs 100 gold — the cheapest thing you’ll see in the basic shop, and it’s a one-click buy with no components required. The item’s ID in the official feed is 11.
Below is a step-by-step walkthrough: from finding the item in the shop to reading each of its stats and understanding what to do with them. Each step ends with a sign telling you it’s done.
1. Find the item in the shop
Quelling Blade sits among the basic items — the ones you don’t have to build from components. The price on the card is 100 gold, and that’s the full cost, not a down payment on a first component.
If you’ve just started the game and don’t yet know your way around the shop interface, check your first hour in Dota 2 first — it covers basic navigation.
Done when: you see the item card priced at 100, and the buy button doesn’t show a list of components.
2. Check whether you have enough gold
100 is a threshold you either cross or don’t. There’s no partial state: Dota 2 has no part-payment or “top up later” option for basic items.
Since you’ll have other early expenses too, keep in mind that this 100 gold comes out of your shared pool. What players typically buy at the start is covered separately in the starting items guide.
Done when: the item’s icon in the shop is highlighted as purchasable, not greyed out.
3. Read the cooldown: 4s
The item card has a cooldown field, and it’s set to 4s. The mere presence of this field already tells you something: cooldowns belong to things you activate, not to passive stat bonuses. Quelling Blade is an item you press.
Four seconds is a short cycle. That means the item is built for regular reuse throughout the game, not for a single key moment per fight.
The effect wording you read in the game client is Valve’s own text, and we won’t reproduce it here. Read it directly in game: hover over the icon, and the tooltip will show the description.
Done when: you’ve found the cooldown line on the card and see 4s there.
4. Read the cast range: 350
The second field is cast range, at 350. Together with the cooldown, it completes the picture: the item isn’t just an activation, it’s an activation you aim at something a set distance from your hero. Outside that range, using it won’t work — you’ll need to close the gap first.
Just remember 350 as the item’s working distance. The feed doesn’t give a number to compare it against other Valve items, so we won’t construct one either.
Done when: you understand the item doesn’t work “on its own” at any distance, and you know the number 350.
5. Look at the shop hints
Valve keeps separate utility flags in the item list — they control how an item shows up in recommendations. For Quelling Blade, the official item list gives this picture:
| Flag | Value |
|---|---|
| Recommended for play | yes |
| Flagged as an early-game item | no |
| Flagged as a late-game item | no |
Read literally: Valve considers the item generally worth playing, but hasn’t assigned it to either the early or the late stage. In other words, the recommendation system doesn’t tell you “get this in the first minute” and doesn’t tell you “get this near the end” either.
⚠️ What we’re not claiming: that these flags are advice on whether to buy the item. They’re technical flags in the data, not developer commentary with reasoning attached. There are no win rates, builds, or meta tips in this data, so none will show up here.
Done when: you stop expecting the shop’s recommendation system to tell you timing — because it doesn’t.
6. Make sense of the odd level flag
In the data, Quelling Blade is listed as a neutral item of level 4294967295. That’s not a typo — it’s exactly the number that appears on Valve’s side, in the item card.
What this number means in gameplay terms isn’t explained anywhere in the feed. We won’t interpret it: if you run into it in a third-party tool or database, know that it came from the official source, not from a broken parser.
Done when: you’re no longer trying to find a “level 4294967295 item” in game, and you treat this field as a technical artefact.
7. Put the item in a convenient slot and check the hotkey
An item with an activation has a practical side that’s easy to overlook: you need to be able to press it quickly. Inventory slots each have their own key, and if you haven’t remapped them, the default layout applies.
Drag Quelling Blade into whichever slot you’re sure your fingers will remember. For layout settings, see the guide on controls and accessibility.
Done when: you’ve activated the item by key without hunting for the icon visually, and you’ve watched the 4s cooldown start.
8. Decide what to do with the slot afterwards
Inventory slots are limited, and every item eventually competes with pricier purchases. Quelling Blade cost 100 — the least you’ll have invested in any item all game, so the cost of getting this wrong is minimal.
Deciding when to free up the slot depends on the situation in a given match, and we won’t give universal rules here — our data doesn’t have any. What we do have is the cost itself, which lets you weigh what you’d be giving up.
Done when: you’ve made a conscious call to keep the item or drop it, rather than forgetting about it until the game ends.
What this data doesn’t cover
To be clear about the limits here: the official feed gives you price, ID, cooldown, range, the level flag, and the recommendation flags. It doesn’t give you a list of heroes, timing advice, or statistics. If you come across an “optimal build with Quelling Blade” quoted with percentages somewhere, that’s not Valve’s data, and it needs checking separately.
In short
Quelling Blade costs 100 gold, has a 4s cooldown and a 350 cast range — a cheap item with a targeted activation at close range. The shop marks it as recommended, but doesn’t tie it to either the early or the late game.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Quelling Blade cost?
100 gold, according to Valve's official data feed. That's the same figure you see in the in-game shop.
What does Quelling Blade do?
The description text belongs to Valve, and we don't paraphrase it here. The feed's open data shows the cast stats: a 4s cooldown and 350 range — so it's an item you activate manually on a target at a distance.
Who should buy Quelling Blade?
The shop hint marks the item as recommended for play, but doesn't tag it as either an early-game or a late-game item. Valve's data doesn't name specific heroes, and we won't guess at them.
What's Quelling Blade's item ID?
11. That's the item's number in Valve's official feed, which you can use to look it up in game data.
Why does the data say "neutral item, level 4294967295"?
That's how the field appears in Valve's feed. Valve doesn't explain what the number means in the data itself, so we don't interpret it — we just report it as is.
How long before Quelling Blade can be used again?
The cooldown is 4s.