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 50.4%
Pick Rate 11.8%
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 (168.7 - 178.7 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: 50.7%
Pick Rate: 92.8%
Charge of Darkness bonus movement speed lingers after charge ends.
Charge of Darkness
Charge of Darkness bonus movement speed lingers after charge ends.
MIN LINGER TIME: 0.5
MAX LINGER TIME: 2.5
CHARGE FOR MAX LINGER: 5
Imbalanced
Win Rate: 46.6%
Pick Rate: 7.2%
Enemy targets hit by Nether Strike will be moved further by allied forced movement effects.
Nether Strike
Enemy targets hit by Nether Strike will be moved further by allied knockback effects.
KNOCKBACK AMPLIFICATION: 100%
KNOCKBACK AMPLIFICATION DURATION: 6
Abilities
The hero on your team whose level is lower than anybody else's on your team gains 50% more experience.
Charge of Darkness
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 1.5s.
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.
CHARGE BONUS SPEED: 275 / 325 / 375 / 425
22 / 19 / 16 / 13
90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Aghanim's Shard
Increases Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed by undefined.
- -4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown
Bulldoze
Spirit Breaker gains movement speed and status resistance to ram through enemies. Can be used while charging.
DURATION: 8
22 / 20 / 18 / 16
30 / 40 / 50 / 60
- Bulldoze 400 All Damage Barrier
Greater Bash
Gives a chance to stun and knockback an enemy unit on an attack. Deals a percentage of movement speed as damage.
CHANCE TO BASH: 17%
MOVEMENT SPEED AS DAMAGE: 25% / 30% / 35% / 40%
KNOCKBACK DURATION: 0.5
1.2
- +17% Greater Bash Chance
- +25% Greater Bash Damage
Nether Strike
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.
BONUS DAMAGE: 150 / 250 / 350
75 / 55 / 35
125 / 150 / 175
700
Planar Pocket
Barathrum distorts the fabric of planar space, increasing his own magic resistance and redirecting enemy hero spells in a radius towards him.
RADIUS: 900
DURATION: 6
SELF MAGIC RESISTANCE: 75%
20
75
900
Talents
-4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown
+25% Greater Bash Damage
+ 0.8 %
Bulldoze 400 All Damage Barrier
+ 0.2 %
+17% Greater Bash Chance
+45 Damage
+ 0.3 %
-3s Bulldoze Cooldown
+4 Armor
+500 Night Vision
+ 1.8 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Strategy
In order to pressure opponents on the lane, bring creep equilibrium closer to your tower.
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 sidelines.
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.