Eul's Scepter of Divinity

Eul’s Scepter of Divinity records fifteen buyer entries across just eleven distinct heroes — four of them buy it at two separate stages. That ratio is the most striking thing on this page. Blink Dagger, with twenty-eight entries, has only two heroes appearing twice; Shiva’s Guard has none at all. Eul’s is bought by a small group, and a third of that group reaches for it more than once.

The buyers are specific. Bounty Hunter and Dark Willow rank it third mid, Mirana and Jakiro fourth, Ring Master and Nyx Assassin fifth. Late it leads for Tusk at first, then Dark Willow, Nyx Assassin, Bounty Hunter and Mirana at second, with Clockwerk at third.

Almost every hero on that list is one that wants to arrive somewhere suddenly or leave somewhere suddenly, and the four repeat buyers — Dark Willow, Bounty Hunter, Mirana and Nyx Assassin — are exactly that type. This is not a wide audience using the item occasionally; it is a narrow audience using it consistently enough to prioritise it twice in the same game.

The components explain part of the narrowness. Staff of Wizardry, Void Stone and Wind Lace at 2,600 gold is a combination of spell damage, mana regeneration and movement speed — three things that are individually useful to a fairly small set of heroes and collectively useful to a smaller one. Unlike Black King Bar, whose parts suit anybody, a hero assembling Eul’s has to want most of what it is made of.

It builds into Wind Waker, so the late-game column again undercounts, in the same way Blink Dagger’s and Force Staff’s do.

The usual limit applies and is worth restating, because a narrow buyer list invites over-reading. Fifteen heroes prioritising an item tells you those fifteen reach for it; it does not tell you the remaining hundred-odd are wrong not to, and nothing in this dataset measures whether any of them won because of it.