Spirit Breaker — Dota 2 hero guide

Spirit Breaker is a melee Strength hero played as Carry, Initiator, Disabler, Durable, Escape.

Abilities

• Charge of Darkness: Spirit Breaker fixes his sight on an enemy unit and starts charging through all objects, starting at 25% of the bonus speed and reaching his max speed after 1.5s. All enemy units passed through and the targeted unit will be hit by a Greater Bash. If the targeted unit dies, Spirit Breaker will change his target to the nearest enemy unit to that location.
• Bulldoze: Spirit Breaker gains movement speed and status resistance to ram through enemies. Can be used while charging.
• Greater Bash: Gives a chance to stun and knockback an enemy unit on an attack. Deals a percentage of movement speed as damage.
• Planar Pocket: 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.
• Empowering Haste: Spirit Breaker gains bonus Movement Speed for a duration whenever he stuns an enemy. Effects from multiple stuns stack and have independent durations. Duration pauses during Charge of Darkness.
• Nether Strike: Spirit Breaker slips into the nether realm, reappearing next to his hapless victim. Upon reappearing, a Greater Bash of the current level occurs and deals bonus damage. Knocks back for double the normal distance.

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.

Hardest counters

Heroes with the best public-match win rate against Spirit Breaker: Io, Treant Protector, Omniknight, Bane, Keeper of the Light. See the full counter list.