Spirit Breaker stats, abilities and strategy
Charges down enemies from anywhere on the map
Highly mobile and always aggressive, Spirit Breaker charges across the map to bring the fight to his enemies. With each bash of his heavy lantern, he knocks his foes senseless. His enemies may run, but with the help of a few wards, they cannot hide.
Win Rate 50.5%
Pick Rate 10.7%
Attributes
736 +72.6/lvl
243 +21.6/lvl
28 +3.3/lvl
17 +1.7/lvl
14 +1.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
59 - 69 + 3.3/level (168 - 178 at level 30)
Range:
170
Armor:
3.8 + 0.3/level (14.4 at level 30)
Movement:
295
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Bull Rush
Win Rate: 51.0%
Pick Rate: 80.7%
Charge of Darkness bonus movement speed lingers after charge ends.
Bull's Hit
Win Rate: 48.2%
Pick Rate: 19.3%
Greater Bash chance is increased if you've bashed more than one hero recently.
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
The hero on your team whose level is lower than anybody else's on your team gains 50% more experience.
Charge of Darkness
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on an enemy unit and starts charging through all objects, starting at 25% of the bonus speed and reaching his max speed after %windup_time%s.
All enemy units passed through and the targeted unit will be hit by a Greater Bash. If the targeted unit dies, Spirit Breaker will change his target to the nearest enemy unit to that location.
Spirit Breaker passes through trees, cliffs, and units.
The charge indicator is visible only to allies.
Spirit Breaker gains shared vision of the target.
CHARGE BONUS SPEED: 275 / 325 / 375 / 425
STUN DURATION: 1.2 / 1.5 / 1.8 / 2.1
MIN LINGER TIME: 0
MAX LINGER TIME: 0
CHARGE FOR MAX LINGER: 0
22 / 19 / 16 / 13
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
FACET: Bull Rush
Charge of Darkness bonus movement speed lingers after charge ends.
Aghanim's Shard
Increases Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed by %bonus_movement_speed%.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: -4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown
Barathrum erupts from the darkness with unwieldy force.
Bulldoze
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Spirit Breaker gains movement speed and status resistance to ram through enemies. Can be used while charging.
MOVEMENT SPEED: 8% / 12% / 16% / 20%
STATUS RESISTANCE: 40% / 50% / 60% / 70%
DURATION: 8
22 / 20 / 18 / 16
30 / 40 / 50 / 60
LEVEL 20 TALENT: Bulldoze 400 All Damage Barrier
Barathrum warps the fabric of reality around him, lessening its influence on his physical form.
Greater Bash
ABILITY: Passive
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: Breakable
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
Gives a chance to stun and knockback an enemy unit on an attack. Deals a percentage of movement speed as damage.
Does not stack with Skull Basher.
Break disables the passive percent Chance to Bash. Does not disable Greater Bash application from Charge of Darkness or Nether Strike.
CHANCE TO BASH: 17%
MOVEMENT SPEED AS DAMAGE: 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%
STUN DURATION: 0.9 / 1.1 / 1.3 / 1.5
KNOCKBACK DURATION: 0.5
1.2
FACET: Bull's Hit
Greater Bash chance is increased if you've bashed more than one hero within the last 10s. Each additional hero past the first increases Greater Bash chance by 17%.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +20% Greater Bash Damage
LEVEL 20 TALENT: -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown
The signature strike of Barathrum's ghostly ball and chain.
Nether Strike
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Spirit Breaker slips into the nether realm, reappearing next to his hapless victim. Upon reappearing, a Greater Bash of the current level occurs and deals bonus damage. Knocks back for double the normal distance.
Spirit Breaker appears behind the target to deliver the bash.
BONUS DAMAGE: 150 / 250 / 350
KNOCKBACK AMPLIFICATION: %
KNOCKBACK AMPLIFICATION DURATION:
75 / 55 / 35
125 / 150 / 175
700
FACET: Imbalanced
Enemy targets hit by Nether Strike will be moved further by allied knockback effects.
Barathrum temporarily returns to the realm from where he came, bringing with him the retribution of both worlds.
Planar Pocket
Scepter grants new ability
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Strong Dispels Only
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: Yes
Barathrum gains magic resistance and distorts reality around the selected hero, making any unit-targeted spells cast by enemy heroes get redirected towards Spirit Breaker. Can be cast on both allied and enemy heroes, but only spells cast by enemies of Spirit Breaker will be redirected.
DURATION: 6
SELF MAGIC RESISTANCE: 75%
25
100
700
Patch 7.39
- Ability Reworked
- Now is a unit-targeted ability. Barathrum gains 75% magic resistance and distorts reality around the selected hero, making any unit-targeted spells cast by enemy heroes on the target to get redirected towards Spirit Breaker. Can be cast on both allied and enemy heroes, but only spells cast by enemies of Spirit Breaker will be redirected. Cast Range: 700
- Io's Tether is the only exception that will ignore this effect
- Redirected spells are not considered as reflected. If Spirit Breaker is under effects such as Lotus Orb's Echo Shell, redirected spells will be reflected back to the enemy caster
- If the redirected spell has different interactions for allies and enemies, Spirit Breaker will receive the enemy interaction
- Cooldown increased from 20s to 25s
- Mana Cost increased from 75 to 100
- Duration decreased from 7s to 6s
- Now dispellable only by Strong Dispel
Barathrum's unyielding focus forms a pocket of planar convergence from which not even the most powerful arcane energies can escape.
Talents
-4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown
+ 0.7 %
+20% Greater Bash Damage
Bulldoze 400 All Damage Barrier
+ 1.4 %
-0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown
+45 Damage
-3s Bulldoze Cooldown
+ 0.3 %
+4 Armor
+500 Night Vision
+ 0.7 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
In order to pressure opponents on the lane, bring creep equilibrium closer to your tower. You should consider dragging creeps from behind the enemy tower or pulling to achieve this.
Consider charging the furthest target in a line to bash all the opponents heroes on the way.
Movement speed items are amazing for Spirit Breaker as they amplify the Greater Bash damage.
Pop Bulldoze and other movement speed increasing items like Phase Boots or Shadow Blade before Charge lands.
Use Charge of Darkness to provide vision over an opponent so he can't juke your allies.
Charge of Darkness allows you to focus on the backliners and supports. Focus on those in the fights.
Take your time to farm {shadow-blade} as it provides even more burst and almost guarantees Charge completion.
When not much is happening, push out the side lanes by Charging through all the creeps.
{aghanims-shard} is a must in the mid game as it increases the Charge speed to do more damage and improve your initiation.
Counter Strategy
Charge of Darkness provides vision over you. Hiding in trees won't help once you're charged.
Avoid wasting disables on Spirit Breaker buffed by Bulldoze.
Spirit Breaker roams a lot. Keep track of his movements and have a teleport ready.
Spells and items that provide instant disable are great at stopping Charge of Darkness.
Linken's Sphere is great against Charge of Darkness.
Lore
Barathrum the Spirit Breaker is a lordly and powerful being, a fierce and elemental intelligence which chose to plane-shift into the world of matter to take part in events with repercussions in the elemental realm that is his home. To that end, he assembled a form that would serve him well, both in our world and out of it. His physical form borrows from the strengths of this world, blending features both bovine and simian--horns, hooves and hands--as outward emblems of his inner qualities of strength, speed and cunning. He wears a ring in his nose, as a reminder that he serves a hidden master, and that this world in which he works is but a shadow of the real one.