Spirit Breaker
Spirit Breaker

Patch 7.41d05.06.2026-0.29 (0.72)

Abilities

Charge of Darkness

Charge of Darkness

  • BUFFMana Cost decreased from 90/100/110/120 to 80/90/100/110-11%-10%-9%-8%
Greater Bash

Greater Bash

  • NERFAghanim's Scepter creep damage decreased from 25% to 20%-20%

Patch 7.41a27.03.2026-0.24 (0.24)

Abilities

Greater Bash

Greater Bash

  • DELAghanim's Scepter upgrade unit collision radius no longer affected by Area of Effect bonuses

Patch 7.4124.03.2026+0.81 (7.08)

Abilities

Empowering Haste

Herd Mentality→Empowering Haste

  • NEWNew innate ability.
Passive
Provides the hero on Spirit Breaker's team with the least Experience points a buff that increases their Experience gain by 50% until they reach the level of the second-least.
Experience gain bonus
50%
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Passive
Spirit Breaker gains bonus Movement Speed whenever he stuns an enemy. Effect depends on unit type: stunning a hero gives +8% for 2s; other units give +2% for 1s.
Multiple stuns stack with independent durations. Bull Rush duration is paused during Charge of Darkness, but it can still gain new stacks.
Bonus allows Spirit Breaker to go over the max movement speed limit.
Hero stun movement speed
+8%
Hero stun duration
2s
Other unit movement speed
+2%
Other unit duration
1s
Charge of Darkness

Charge of Darkness

  • DELRemoved Aghanim's Shard.
Greater Bash

Greater Bash

  • NEWAghanim's Scepter: Increases knockback by roughly 30%. If a knocked-back enemy collides with another enemy, the second enemy is also bashed, and the original target takes 25% of Spirit Breaker's Greater Bash damage again?This effect is applied to Charge of Darkness and Nether Strike as well, since those abilities use Greater Bash.Creeps take 25% damage of repeated damage.Bodies of killed units keep flying and pushing enemies.
  • NEWAdded Aghanim's Scepter.
Planar Pocket: Grants this ability: Barathrum gains magic resistance and distorts reality around the selected hero, making any unit-targeted spells cast by enemy heroes get redirected towards Spirit Breaker. Can be cast on both allied and enemy heroes, but only spells cast by enemies of Spirit Breaker will be redirected.
Self magic resistance
75%
Duration
6s
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Greater Bash: Increases knockback. If a knocked-back enemy collides with another enemy, the second enemy is bashed (creeps only receive 25% damage), and the original target takes 25% of Greater Bash's damage again.
Knockback distance
193/202/208/212
Creep damage
25%
Planar Pocket

Planar Pocket

  • REWORKNow granted by Aghanim's Shard instead of Aghanim's Scepter
  • BUFFNow can be cast without cancelling Charge of Darkness
  • NERFCooldown increased from 25s to 30s+20%
  • NERFSelf Magic Resistance decreased from 75% to 40%-47%
  • NERFEffect now ends if Spirit Breaker is more than 900 units away from the target
  • NEWAdded Aghanim's Shard.
Charge of Darkness: Increases Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed by 85.
Charge bonus speed
+85
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Planar Pocket: Grants this ability: Barathrum gains magic resistance and distorts reality around the selected hero, making any unit-targeted spells cast by enemy heroes get redirected towards Spirit Breaker. Can be cast on both allied and enemy heroes, but only spells cast by enemies of Spirit Breaker will be redirected.
Self magic resistance
40%
Duration
6s

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 15 Talent: +45 Damage replaced with +60 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed
  • SWAPLevel 20 Talent: -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown replaced with +8%/+2% Empowering Haste Movespeed Bonus

Patch 7.4016.12.2025-0.49 (1.13)

Abilities

Charge of Darkness

Charge of Darkness

  • BUFFStun Duration increased from 1.2/1.5/1.8/2.1s to 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2s+8%+7%+6%+5%
  • NERFAghanim's Shard bonus speed decreased from +100 to +85-15%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 20 Talent: Bulldoze barrier decreased from 400 to 375-6%

Patch 7.39d05.08.2025+0.60 (0.60)

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Damage increased by 3?Now it's 34. Unchanged across all tracked patches (since 7.08) — first recorded changeDamage at level 1 increased from 59–69 to 62–72+10%

Patch 7.3922.05.2025-3.77 (4.57)

Abilities

Planar Pocket

Planar Pocket

  • NERFNow dispellable only by Strong Dispel
  • NERFCooldown increased from 20s to 25s+25%
  • NERFMana Cost increased from 75 to 100+33%
  • NERFDuration decreased from 7s to 6s-14%
  • MISCRedirected spells are not considered as reflected. If Spirit Breaker is under effects such as Lotus Orb's Echo Shell, redirected spells will be reflected back to the enemy caster
  • REWORKIf the redirected spell has different interactions for allies and enemies, Spirit Breaker will receive the enemy interaction
  • REWORKAbility reworked.
Active
Barathrum distorts the fabric of space, increasing his own magic resistance by 75%, and redirecting enemy spells targeted at allied heroes within a 900 radius towards him. Does not trigger if the enemy ability is targeted at Spirit Breaker.
Radius
900
Cast range
900
Mana cost
75
Cooldown
20s
Duration
7s
Magic resistance
+75%
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Active
Unit-targeted.
Barathrum gains 75% magic resistance and distorts reality around the selected hero, making any unit-targeted spells cast by enemy heroes on the target to get redirected towards Spirit Breaker. Can be cast on both allied and enemy heroes, but only spells cast by enemies of Spirit Breaker will be redirected.?Io's Tether is the only exception that will ignore this effect.
Redirected spells are not considered as reflected. If Spirit Breaker is under effects such as , redirected spells will be reflected back to the enemy caster.
If the redirected spell has different interactions for allies and enemies, Spirit Breaker will receive the enemy interaction.?Example: Oracle's Fate's Edict will disarm Spirit Breaker even if the ability was redirected from Oracle's ally
Dispellable only by Strong Dispel.
Radius
900
Cast range
700
Mana cost
100
Cooldown
25s
Duration
6s
Magic resistance
75%

Patch 7.3819.02.2025+0.08 (2.75)

Facets

Bull's Hit

  • NEWNew facet
Passive: Greater Bash
Bash chance increases if you've bashed more than one hero within the last 10s. Each additional hero past the first increases Greater Bash chance by 17%?Bash chance stacks expire independently
Bash window
10s
Bash chance per hero
+17%

Imbalanced

  • DELRemoved?That's also the facet's name, not the description

Abilities

Planar Pocket

Planar Pocket

  • BUFFDuration increased from 6s to 7s+17%

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 20 Talent: +17% Greater Bash Chance replaced with -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown
  • NERFLevel 25 Talent: Greater Bash Damage decreased from +25% to +20%-20%

Patch 7.3731.07.2024-0.29 (1.73)

Facets

Bull Rush

  • NERFLingering bonus movement speed is now determined by Spirit Breaker's current bonus speed, instead of always the max

Abilities

Charge of Darkness

Charge of Darkness

  • NEWNow gradually ramps up to max movement speed, starting at 25% of the bonus speed