Spirit Vessel – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.38c]

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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

+ 1.75 Mana Regeneration

+ 2 Armor

+ 375 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 70%. Deals 25 damage per second.

When used on allies, it provides 40 health regeneration per second.

Lasts 8.0 seconds.

If the unit is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost.

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.
If there are multiple heroes with urn of shadows as component only the closest get's a charge
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, common or situational 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

An upgrade for Urn of Shadows to have more damage against enemy heroes and reduce their healing. Makes you more tanky and provides damage through stats.

An upgrade for Urn of Shadows to proc Cold Snap with damage instances on enemy heroes and snowball off the first kill. Makes you more tanky and provides damage through stats.

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.

Pick up an early Vessel so you have some healing reduction for Bloodseeker, before your cores are able to acquire the more expensive Skadi in Shiva to further reduce his healing.

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 and Bodyguard 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 and HP regen from Death Pulse and Heartstopper Aura 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.