Spirit Vessel
Your hero's mystical healer, a potent and versatile item that not only amplifies your hero's offensive capabilities but also offers a supportive role by weakening enemy healing and regeneration!
Base Combat Stats
+ 1.75 Mana Regeneration
+ 6 All Attributes
+ 2 Armor
+ 125 Health
Recipe
Abilities
Active: Soul Release
When used against enemies, it reduces health by 4% of current health per second, and reduces HP regeneration, healing, lifesteal and spell lifesteal by 45%. Deals 35 damage per second.
When used on allies, it provides 40 health regeneration per second.
Lasts 8.0 seconds.
Gains charges every time an enemy hero dies within 1400 units. Only the closest Spirit Vessel to the dying hero will gain a charge.
Cooldown: 7
Additional Insights
The beauty of the Spirit Vessel lies in its dual role, empowering your hero while countering enemy sustain. It's particularly effective against foes relying on healing effects, making them more vulnerable by reducing their ability to regenerate health.
Statistics
The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Spirit Vessel as a core or non-core item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.
Itemization Strategy
A handy item that is specializing on whether you want to heal or stop regeneration from your foes. The Spirit Vessel is a hot commodity when it comes to heroes that loves to gank or set the tempo, A few examples are Earth Spirit, Mirana and Witch Doctor.
Heroes with Spirit Vessel as Core Item
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A core item to reduce the HP regen and tankiness of enemy heroes and kill them with your spells. Also makes you more tanky and survivable in fights.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A core item for Offlane to ssignificantly improve your kill threat and presence around the map with every assist and kill you get.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you tanky and provides effective damage through stats for universal heroes.
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Heroes countered by Spirit Vessel
Helps significantly lower the HP regen from Chemical Rage with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Axe with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Helps significantly lower Bristlebacks HP regen with Soul Release charges. Particularly useful against Bloodstone.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal from Insatiable Hunger with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Centaur with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Helps significantly lower Chen's healing from his ultimate with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP gain from Luminosity and reduce her healing through Solar Guardian with Soul Release charges.
Helps lower the healing from Dazzle through Shadow Wave and sustain items.
Helps significantly lower the healing from Spirit Siphon and at the end of Exorcism.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Doom with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen from Dragon Blood with Soul Release charges.
Helps lower the healing from Enchantress with Natures Attendants.
Helps significantly lower the HP gain from Time Walk with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen from Berserker's Blood with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the healing and HP regen from Tether and Overcharge with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Kunkka with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Helps significantly lower the spell lifesteal from Bloodstone usage with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal on Lone Druid from Spirit Link with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal on Luna from Mask of Madness or Satanic with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal from Sidekick with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP gain from Ransack with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal from Jingu Mastery attacks with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP gain from Attribute Shift (Strength Gain) with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the healing from Purification with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the healing from Purifying Flames with Soul Release charges. Look to apply Spirit Vessel near the end of False Promise.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Pudge with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Significantly reduces HP regen and gives you multiple instances of damage over time to eat away Templar Assassin's Refraction charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen from Reactive Armor stacks with Soul Release charges.
Helps significantly lower the HP regen on Underlord with Soul Release charges and make it easier to burst him down.
Gives you multiple instances of damage over time to help eat away the Gravekeeper's Cloak layers. Helps significantly lower the HP regen from Stone Form on Visage once he has Aghanims Shard.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal from Vampiric Spirit with Soul Release charges.
Trivia
The Spirit Vessel became a popular choice among support heroes due to its ability to hinder enemy sustain, particularly effective against heroes with high healing abilities or those reliant on regeneration effects.