Lotus Orb – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.40b]

Upgraded Item | Armor

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The jewel at its center still reflects a pale image of its creator.

Your hero's reflective shield—a powerful and protective item that not only defends your hero but also rebounds enemy spells.

Base Combat Stats

+ 10 Armor

+ 6.5 Health Regeneration

+ 4.0 Mana Regeneration

+ 250 Mana

Recipe

Abilities

Active: Echo Shell

Applies a shield to the target unit for 5 seconds which re-casts most targeted spells back to their caster.

The shielded unit will still take damage from the spell.

Dispel Type: Basic Dispel

Mana: 175

Cooldown: 15

Additional Insights

Targeted abilities from neutral items do not trigger Echo Shell.
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So, envision the Lotus Orb as your hero's shimmering safeguard, a friendly item that shields, reflects spells, and allows your hero to turn adversity into an enchanting advantage

Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Lotus Orb as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Itemization Strategy

A mid to late game item, this item is higly contested when a scenario arise where one hero has to front no matter what or give him extra dispel that gives him freedom to worry less. Heroes that build this item varies from offlaners or supports that goes to the route of using utilites.

Heroes with Lotus Orb as Core Item

A powerful defensive tool to reflect single target spells. Also provides a dispel on cast to remove {spirit-vessel} and makes you tanky with armor.

A core item as a follow up to shard that lets you apply the item on yourself and an ally at the same time with every cast. Provides some much needed armor, gives you a dispel, and lets you reflect targeted spells back to enemy heroes.

Trivia

Reverse Polarity (Magnus), Black Hole (Enigma), and Ravage (Tidehunter). These potent area ofeffect crowd control ultimates, when targeted at a hero equipped with Lotus Orb, can be deflected back, causing chaos among the enemy team.