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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!
Upgraded Item | Support

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Forged by a god to entrap the soul of another.

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

bonus mana regen

+ 1.75 Mana Regeneration

+ 2 Armor

bonus health

+ 375 Health

Recipe

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!
Urn of Shadows
Vitality Booster
Spirit Vessel 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 60%. Deals 25 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 or the user dies. Only the closest Spirit Vessel to the dying hero will gain a charge.

Cooldown: 10

Additional Insights

  • Does not trigger spell block or spell reflect.
  • 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

Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Brewmaster
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Earth Spirit
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Invoker
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Keeper of the Light
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Phoenix
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Weaver
A powerful early to mid game item against heavy healing lineups to reduce their HP regen and tankiness. Also makes you significantly more tanky and improves the HP sustain of your team after fights.

Heroes countered by Spirit Vessel

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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Bristleback
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Broodmother
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Centaur Warrunner
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Chen
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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dazzle
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Death Prophet
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Doom
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Dragon Knight
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Enchantress
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Faceless Void
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Huskar
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Kunkka
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Leshrac
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Lone Druid
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Luna
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Marci
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Meepo
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Monkey King
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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Necrophos
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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Pudge
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Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Wraith King
Rectangular image of Dota 2 hero Templar Assassin
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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.
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