Lotus Orb
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3850The 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
Combat Stats
+ 10 Armor
+ 6.5 Health Regen
+ 250 Mana
+ 4 Mana Regen
Recipe
Abilities
Active: Echo Shell
Applies a shield to the target unit for 6 seconds which re-casts most targeted spells back to their caster.
The shielded unit will still take damage from the spell.
Range: 900
Dispel Type: Basic Dispel
Mana: 175
Cooldown: 15
Additional Insights
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 or non-core 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 and makes you tanky with armor.
Heroes countered by Lotus Orb
Lets you reflect all four single target Bane spells. Particularly useful against Fiends Grip to cancel it instantly.
Lets you reflect and instantly cancel Flaming Lasso. Also gives you a dispel against Sticky Napalm.
Lets you reflect Rupture and make it difficult for Bloodseeker to run you down. Also provides a dispel for the Blood Rite silence.
Gives you a dispel against Track and reflect Shuriken Toss to do more damage to him.
Lets you reflect Chaos Bolt and not let Chaos Knight follow up on his stun with his burst damage.
Lets you dispel Bramble Maze and Cursed Crown before it triggers. Also lets you reflect Cursed Crown back on Dark Willow.
Lets you dispel Silence. Also lets you reflect Spirit Siphon back on Death Prophet.
Lets you reflect Doom and turn the tables on him in a fight.
Gives you a dispel against the Geomagnetic Grip silence and Magnetize.
Lets you reflect Soulbind and Phantoms Embrace back on Grimstroke. Can also be used to dispel the slow from Stroke of Faith.
Lets you reflect Homing Missile back on Gyrocopter when it is about to connect. Also lets you dispel the movement slow from Call Down.
Lets you reflect Omnislash back onto Juggernaut and render it completely ineffective.
Gives you a dispel against Solar Bind and Blinding Light. Also lets you reflect Solar Bind back onto Keeper of the Light to reduce his mobility.
Lets you reflect all of Lich's high damage spells. Particularly useful to cast Chain Frost back onto Lich and possibly do massive damage in fights.
Lets you reflect all four single target Lion spells and disrupt his initiation. Can possibly let you kill Lion by reflecting Finger of Death.
Allows you to dispel Corrosive Haze from yourself or teammates. Also reflects it back to Slardar if he casts it on the target.
To reflect Sven's Storm Hammer back at him.
Dispels Reflection and nullifies health swap of Sunder
To dispel Fatal Bonds and Shadow Word
Also reflects Arc Lightning if Zeus attacks with Aghanim Shard
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.
