Spirit Breaker
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Spirit Breaker
28 + 3.3
17 + 1.7
14 + 1.8
| Grants the following bonuses per attribute point: | |
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+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration +1 Main Attack Damage |
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+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed |
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+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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Instant Projectile Speed
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100 (117)
(1.9 BAT) | ||
0.6 + 0.3
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0.6
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Ethereal
Gib Type | ||
2012-01-12
Released | ||
2005-05-04
(v6.07) | ||
Competitive Span
2012-01-19 — Present |
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| Charges down enemies from anywhere on the map. | |
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| From the elemental realm, Barathrum crosses into this world as an amalgamate of bestial forms, selected for the purpose of serving his hidden master. Gifted with unusual haste, the Spirit Breaker's strength increases with speed as he Bulldoze all in his path. Given sight of a distant foe, he Charges Through Darkness, rushing past high valleys and dense woods until he crashes headlong into battle, stunning and Knocking Back enemies with his lantern. Before foes can muster a response, the Spirit Breaker shifts into his native realm and distorts the fabric of Planar Space, before reappearing up close to deliver the Nether Strike that will seal their fates. | |
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| Roles: |  Carry  Initiator  Disabler  Durable  Escape |
| Complexity |   |
| Adjectives | Blue, Bearded, Horns, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio[edit]
I'm the beast of many parts; I part enemies from their lives.▶️Barathrum, the Spirit Breaker
Aliases:
Barathrum, SB
Lore:
Barathrum the Spirit Breaker is a lordly and powerful being, a fierce and elemental intelligence which chose to plane-shift into the world of matter to take part in events with repercussions in the elemental realm that is his home. To that end, he assembled a form that would serve him well, both in our world and out of it. His physical form borrows from the strengths of this world, blending features both bovine and simian--horns, hooves and hands--as outward emblems of his inner qualities of strength, speed and cunning. He wears a ring in his nose, as a reminder that he serves a hidden master, and that this world in which he works is but a shadow of the real one.
Voice:
Facets[edit]
Bull Rush
The bonus movement speed buff now lingers correspondingly to the Charge of Darkness duration and current charge speed. The longer the charge, the longer the linger.
Imbalanced
Nether Strike applies a debuff that causes the striken target to be knocked further by offensive knockback sources.
Innate[edit]
Herd Mentality[edit]
Herd Mentality 
Passive
Affects
Allied Heroes
Applies a buff that grants an experience gain factor on the allied hero in Barathrum's team with the least experience.
Max Allied Hero: 1
Experience Factor: 1.5
Other Bash sources are innately disabled on Spirit Breaker.
Bash sources are 
innately disabled for Spirit Breaker's hero model, even when Greater Bash is not learned.
- Bash sources are not disabled for Spirit Breaker's hero model in this gamemode.
spirit_breaker_herd_mentality (1330)
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Grants the Planar Pocket ability.
Increases self magic resistance and redirecting enemy hero spells in a radius towards him.
Increases self magic resistance and redirecting enemy hero spells in a radius towards him.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Increases the bonus movement speed.
Talents[edit]
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|---|---|---|
| -4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown | 25 | +25% Greater Bash Damage |
+400 Bulldoze  Barrier | 20 | +17% Greater Bash Chance |
| +45 Damage | 15 | -3s Bulldoze Cooldown |
| +4 Armor | 10 | +500 Night Vision |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Abilities[edit]
Charge of Darkness[edit]
Fixes his sight on an enemy unit and starts charging through all objects.
Barathrum starts charging at a lower charge speed, and gradually winds-up to the max charge speed.
Barathrum starts charging at a lower charge speed, and gradually winds-up to the max charge speed.
Cast Animation: 0.1 + 0.5
Min Move Speed Bonus: 68.75/81.25/93.75/106.25 ( 93.75/106.25/118.75/131.25)
93.75/106.25/118.75/131.25) Max Move Speed Bonus: 275/325/375/425 ( 375/425/475/525)
375/425/475/525) Wind-up Time: 1.5
Stun Duration: 1.2/1.5/1.8/2.1
All enemy units passed through and the targeted unit will be hit by a Greater Bash.
Effect Radius: 
300
300 Radius Offset: 20
If the targeted unit dies, the Charge of Darkness homes into a nearest valid target within the radius centered around the previous unit-targeted enemy.
Target Search Radius: 4000
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases the bonus movement speed.
Increases the bonus movement speed.
22/19/16/13 (
18/15/12/9)
18/15/12/9)
90/100/110/120
Barathrum erupts from the darkness with unwieldy force.
Bull Rush
The bonus movement speed buff now lingers correspondingly to the Charge of Darkness duration and current charge speed.
The longer the charge, the longer the linger.
The longer the charge, the longer the linger.
Charge Duration to Max Linger Duration: 5
Min Buff Linger Duration: 0.5
Max Buff Linger Duration: 2.5
Min Buff Linger Duration: 0.5
Max Buff Linger Duration: 2.5
- Upon cast:
Exposes the unit-targeted enemy.- Does not grant
vision when cast on 
neutral creeps. - Does not grant the unit-targeted enemy the 1800-radius caster vision on Barathrum.
While charging:
- Grants Barathrum flat
movement speed bonus and removes the movement speed cap. - Applies
forced movement on Barathum, utilizing his current movement speed as the travel speed.
- EXPR
ForcedMovement = CurrentMS
- Non-targeted ability casts do not interrupt Charge of Darkness.
- Applies Greater Bash of its corresponding level on enemy units within 300 radius while charging.
- Can only affect the same enemy units once per cast.
- The bash radius has a 20-distance offset.
- Hence, it can affect enemy units 280-distance and 320-distance of Barathrum's back and front respectively.
- Does not affect the following units:
Couriers- The unit-targeted enemy.
- Applies Greater Bash of its corresponding level on enemy units within
- Can auto-attack enemy units within
attack range with ◎ Always enabled. - Both the charge indicator and the target
buff are visible ally-only.
- Pinging the buff prints a message indicating the charged enemy unit.
- Pinging the
- Can auto-attack enemy units within
- Grants Barathrum flat
- Applies the following ability effects on the unit-targeted enemy upon arrival:
- A
stun instance that utilizes the modifier_stunned
debuff. - Applies a 0.1-second
special_attackhidden buff that procs an ensured Greater Bash. - Issues an attack order to Barathrum.
Trees within 150-radius centered around Barathrum are destroyed.
- A
- Applies the following ability effects on the unit-targeted enemy upon arrival:
- For situations when two opposing units casts Charge of Darkness and are charging toward each other, the latter Charge of Darkness instance applies all ability effects.
- The ability has the following properties:
- The cooldown starts once the charge ends, or when being interrupted, not upon cast.
- May manually end the charge with the following commands:
- SStop order.
- HHold position order.
- Any targeted order.
Shift-queue orders, except Ppatrol commands.
- The following sources interrupts Charge of Darkness:
Silence sources do not interrupt Charge of Darkness.- For
taunt sources applied:
- Barathum starts attacking the taunting unit upon Charge of Darkness ends.
- Cannot manually cancel the ability.
- The
- The following units are considered valid for the charge target transfer:
Untargetable units.
- The following units are not valid for the charge target transfer:
Invisible units.
- The following components affect
debuff immune units:
-
Spell Block procs on the primary target nullifies the ability cast.
- If already charging, does not affect the stun component.
- If already charging, does not affect the
- Applies Greater Bash of Barathrum's corresponding ability level when acquired.
- Charges only to the primary target.
- Charges to the secondary target upon Spell Block procs on the primary target.
- Charges to the secondary target upon
- Requires drafting Greater Bash for its corresponding passive component to work.
modifier_spirit_breaker_charge_of_darkness
Charge of Darkness: Charging!
modifier_spirit_breaker_charge_of_darkness_targetCharge of Darkness Target: Charging this hero!
modifier_spirit_breaker_special_attackHidden modifier
modifier_spirit_breaker_charge_of_darkness_visionHidden modifier
modifier_stunned
Stunned
spirit_breaker_charge_of_darkness (5353)
greater bash math
Bulldoze[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Grants bonus movement speed and status resistance to ram through enemies.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
0 + 0Move Speed Bonus: 8%/12%/16%/20%
Status Resist Bonus: 40%/50%/60%/70%
Duration: 8
Barrier: 
(
400)
( 400) Does not interrupt an ongoing Charge of Darkness upon cast.
22/20/18/16 (
19/17/15/13)
19/17/15/13)30/40/50/60
Barathrum warps the fabric of reality around him, lessening its influence on his physical form.
- The ability has the following properties:
- Interrupts Barathrum's
channeling abilities upon cast. - Recasting the ability refreshes the duration, but does not update the ability values.
- All ability effects are granted by the same buff.
- The all damage barrier talent does not update the current active instance.
- Recasting the ability does not refresh the barrier values as well.
- Interrupts Barathrum's
- Stacks multiplicatively with other status resistance sources.
modifier_spirit_breaker_bulldoze
Bulldoze: Gaining x% movement speed and x% status resistance.
spirit_breaker_bulldoze (7301)
- Grants an all damage barrier upon cast that
absorbs damage instances of all damage type (after all reductions).
- Does not proc on-damage effects until the barrier capacity is depleted.
- Stacks additively with the same damage-type barrier sources, and independently with other damage-type barrier sources.
- The all damage barrier has the lowest priority in the group of damage barrier, its capacity is depleted last when combined with other damage-type barriers.
- When combined with other higher-priority damage-negation sources, the talent does not absorb any damage until the damage-negation sources expire.
- When combined with other higher-priority damage-negation sources, the
Greater Bash[edit]
Has a chance to stun and knockback an enemy unit on an attack that deals a portion of Barathrum's current movement speed as damage.
Proc Chance: 17% (
34%)
34%) Move Speed to Damage: 25%/30%/35%/40% (
50%/55%/60%/65%)
50%/55%/60%/65%) Knock Distance: 143/152/158/162
Knock Duration: 0.5
Stun Duration: 0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5
Damages but does not knockback the Immortal by design.
1.2
The signature strike of Barathrum's ghostly ball and chain.
- Greater Bash uses
pseudo-random distribution.
- Cannot proc on the following units:
Allied units.
Buildings.
Ward-type units.
- Cannot proc on the following units:
- Does not stack with other bash sources.
- The
knockback debuff applies both the knockback and stun duration.
- Trees within 100-radius coming in contact with, centered around the affected enemy unit are destroyed.
- Does not goes into cooldown upon the following source procs:
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Both the knockback and the stun debuff.
- The
magical 
spell damage. - The proc source's ability effect sequence or Barathrum's attack instance.
- Both the
- Disables the proc chance.
- However, it does not prevent other abilities from utilizing Greater Bash.
- Fully stack with other bash sources and Skull Basher-based items.
modifier_spirit_breaker_greater_bash
Hidden modifier
modifier_knockbackGreater Bash: Stunned.
spirit_breaker_greater_bash (5355)
- Has a 50-height with 286/304/316/324- knockback speed upon proc.
- The
upward movement results in a small arc for visual purposes.
- The
- Considers
clones and 
illusions as heroes, 
creep-heroes as creeps.
- math
Planar Pocket[edit]
No / Aura
Affects
Allied Units / Self
Increases self magic resistance and redirecting enemy hero spells in a radius towards him.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0.5
Radius: 900
900 Abilities Redirected:
Magic Resist Bonus: 75%
Duration: 6
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
20
75
Barathrum's unyielding focus forms a pocket of planar convergence from which not even the most powerful arcane energies can escape.
- Acquiring
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks this ability in the fourth ability slot.
- Has the following properties while active:
- Creates an
aura that affects all allied heroes within the radius except Barathrum.
- Does not redirect unit-targeted abilities targeting Barathrum.
- The unit-targeted ability is blocked, then redirected utilizing
Spell Reflection to Barathrum. - Abilities redirected can still be affected by other Spell Reflection sources (e.g. Soulbind).
- Creates an
- Only redirect abilities cast by heroes.
- Treat ability casts from illusions as heroes, creep-heroes as creeps.
- Treat ability casts from
- The following mechanics uniquely applies to Planar Pocket:
Spell Block has the following priorities:
- Counterspell
- Echo Shield
- Planar Pocket, Transfer Spellblock and Spellblock.
- Does not block the following abilities:
- Whip
- Psychic Push
- Urn of Shadows-based item abilities.
- Ion Shell
- Infest and its ability upgrade.
- Toss
- Snowball
- Has the same proc precedence as Linken's Sphere-based Spell Block sources, if the unit-targeted ability redirect to Spirit Breaker, all sources proc at the same time.
- Spell Reflection has the following priorities:
- Counterspell
- Echo Shell
- Echo Shield
- Planar Pocket
- Does not reflect the following abilities:
- Urn of Shadows-based item abilities.
- Ion Shell
- Soulbind
- Morph
- Spell Steal
- Spectral Dagger-based abilities.
- Acquiring Aghanim's Scepter while drafting Nether Strike unlocks this ability.
modifier_spirit_breaker_planar_pocketSpirit Breaker has increased magic resistance and will redirect one targeted enemy spell towards himself instead of an ally.
modifier_spirit_breaker_planar_pocket_auraHidden Modifier
spirit_breaker_planar_pocket (987)
- Grants the following bonuses while active:
- Has a
magic resistance of 81.25%. - Planar Pocket increases the total magic resistance by 0.25% per 10
intelligence points.
- Has a
Nether Strike[edit]
Spirit Breaker slips into the nether realm, reappearing next to his hapless victim and striking it.
Cast Animation: 1 + 0
Cast Range: 
700
700 Cast Range Buffer: 500
Damage: 150/250/350
Upon reappearing, a Greater Bash of its corresponding level occurs, while knocking back his victim for double the normal distance.
This ability component levels up with Greater Bash.
This ability component levels up with Greater Bash.
Knock Distance: 286/304/316/324
Knock Duration: 0.5
75/55/35
125/150/175
Barathrum temporarily returns to the realm from where he came, bringing with him the retribution of both worlds.
Imbalanced
Nether Strike applies a debuff that causes the striken target to be knocked further by offensive knockback sources.
This ability component levels up with Greater Bash.
This ability component levels up with Greater Bash.
Knockback Amp: 2
Debuff Duration: 6
Debuff Duration: 6
Upon reappearing, a Greater Bash of its corresponding level occurs, while knocking back his victim to a greater distance with the selected facet.
Knock Distance: 572/608/632/648
Knock Duration: 0.5
Knock Duration: 0.5
-
- Applies a
nether_strike_visiondebuff on the affected enemy upon the cast point, and has the following properties:- The debuff is removed once the ability cast is either executed or canceled.
- Exposes and grants
True Sight over the affected unit.
- The ability has the following properties:
- Has a 500-cast range buffer.
- The unit-targeted enemy has to move to
> 1200-distancefrom Barathrum during the ability's cast point to be considered out of range.
- The unit-targeted enemy has to move to
- After the cast point, Nether Strike
teleports Barathrum to the opposite side of the target, 54 range away from it.
- Neither disjoint projectiles upon cast and upon teleport.
- Neither disjoint projectiles upon cast and upon
-
- Applies a 0.1-second
special_attackhidden buff that procs an ensured Greater Bash of its corresponding level. - Has a
2Greater Bash knockback distance factor. - When an enemy unit is perfectly aligned with Barathrum and the unit-targeted enemy, it is not knocked aside.
- Applies a 0.1-second
- Has a 500-cast range buffer.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- The Greater Bash instance.
- Nether Strike's magical spell damage.
- Barathrum passively issues an attack order on the affected target, regardless of the auto-attack settings.
- Affects the following units:
- The Spell Block source procs upon cast and nullifies the ability cast.
- Fully exposes the affected unit during the cast point.
- Fully
- Applies Greater Bash when the caster with the Spell Reflection source has the ability.
- Applies Greater Bash of Barathrum's corresponding ability level when acquired.
- Affects only the secondary target, when cast on the primary target.
- Requires drafting Greater Bash for its corresponding passive component to work.
modifier_spirit_breaker_special_attackHidden modifier
modifier_spirit_breaker_nether_strikeNether Strike: Invulnerable
modifier_spirit_breaker_nether_strike_visionHidden modifier
spirit_breaker_nether_strike (5356)
- Nether Strike does not interrupt channeling abilities upon cast by default.
- Directly uses Greater Bash's ability values, it does not apply the knockback if Greater Bash is not learned upon cast.
- Directly uses Greater Bash's ability values, it does not apply the
- The
nether_strike modifier applies an effect delay after the ability's cast point.
- Grants a 0-second spell immune duration, and effectively does nothing.
- Grants a 0-second
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Spirit Breaker/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 07, 2024 - 15:00 SGT | Qualifier |   | FISSURE PLAY SEA OQ1 |      |  | 0 : 1 | |      |
| Nov 24, 2024 - 17:40 MSK | Showmatch |  | BB Streamers Battle 8 |   |  | 1 : 0 |  |      |
| Nov 21, 2024 - 21:40 MSK | Showmatch | | BB Streamers Battle 8 |    |  | 0 : 1 |  |    |
| Nov 21, 2024 - 19:00 MSK | Showmatch | | BB Streamers Battle 8 |     | | 1 : 0 |  |    |
| Nov 20, 2024 - 20:00 MSK | Showmatch | | BB Streamers Battle 8 |    | | 1 : 0 |  |     |
The International[edit]
- Spirit Breaker has won the following final matches in The International of the following years:
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Charge of Darkness
- Now gradually ramps up from 0.25 * ChargeSpeedBonus to the max charge speed bonus.
- Has a 1.5-second wind-up time.
- CHANGED Bull Rush linger speed from max speed value to current speed value .
- Rescaled Charge of Darkness mana cost from 100 on each level to 90/100/110/120.
- Increased Nether Strike cooldown from 70/50/30 to 75/55/35.
- Reduced Bull Rush Charge of Darkness max fade out linger duration from 3 to 2.5
- CHANGED the Imbalanced Nether Strike debuff from affecting forced movement sources to affecting knockback sources .
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
| Spirit Breaker's Relics | Voice Lines | |
|---|---|---|
 Bronze |
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 Silver |
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 Gold |
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 Platinum |
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 Master |
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 Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Weapon | |
| Head | |
| Taunt | |
Trivia[edit]
- Barathrum's fun names are Roadrunner and Space-Cow, the latter of which is referenced by Earth Spirit's ally line: ▶️ "You aren't half bad, for a space cow." The line about the Spirit Breaker being a "Space-Cow" Is likely a reference to File:Astral Trekker icon.png Astral Trekker, one of the famously imbalanced DotA heroes, whose model was reworked into the original Spirit Breaker model.
- His name was temporarily renamed to
Team Spirit Breakerin October 30, 2023 Patch to commemorate Team Spirit's TI 2023 victory.
- His name was temporarily renamed to
- "Barathrum" means "underworld" in Latin.
- His response ▶️ "Rampage" might be a reference to who used to be his equivalent in Heroes of Newerth" (most of the HoN hero abilities changed since the port)
- Charge of Darkness' indicator is the astrological sign of Taurus, the Bull.
Gallery[edit]
Splash artwork
Concept art
Game model
Ability icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead
