Spirit Breaker
Historical Balance Tracker & Intelligence
Balance History
6/22/2026
Charge of Darkness: Mana Cost decreased from 90/100/110/120 to 80/90/100/110
Greater Bash: Aghanim's Scepter creep damage decreased from 25% to 20%
5/6/2026
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
4/7/2026
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
3/27/2026
Greater Bash: Aghanim's Scepter upgrade unit collision radius no longer affected by Area of Effect bonuses
3/24/2026
Removed Herd Mentality innate ability
Empowering Haste: New innate ability. Passive
Empowering Haste: Spirit Breaker gains bonus Movement Speed whenever he stuns an enemy. Effect depends on the unit type: stunning a hero will provide a 8% bonus for 2s, while other units provide 2% for 1s
Empowering Haste: Effects from multiple stuns stack and have independent durations. Bull Rush duration is paused during Charge of Darkness, but it can still gain new stacks. This effect allows Spirit Breaker to go over the max movement speed limit
Charge of Darkness: No longer upgraded with Aghanim's Shard
Greater Bash: Now upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter
Greater Bash: 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
Greater Bash: This effect is applied to Charge of Darkness and Nether Strike as well, since those abilities use Greater Bash
Greater Bash: Creeps take 25% damage of repeated damage
Greater Bash: Bodies of killed units keep flying and pushing enemies
Planar Pocket: Now granted by Aghanim's Shard
Planar Pocket: Cooldown increased from 25s to 30s
Planar Pocket: Self Magic Resistance decreased from 75% to 40%
Planar Pocket: Effect now ends if Spirit Breaker is more than 900 units away from the target
Planar Pocket: Now can be cast without cancelling Charge of Darkness
Talents: Level 15 Talent +45 Damage replaced with +60 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed
Talents: Level 20 Talent -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown replaced with +8%/+2% Empowering Haste Movespeed Bonus
1/22/2026
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
12/23/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.40Net Gain
12/16/2025Charge of Darkness: Stun Duration increased from 1.2/1.5/1.8/2.1s to 1.3/1.6/1.9/2.2s
Charge of Darkness: Aghanim's Shard bonus speed decreased from +100 to +85
Talents: Level 20 Talent Bulldoze barrier decreased from 400 to 375
10/2/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.39dNet Gain
6/12/2026Base Damage increased by 3
Damage at level 1 increased from 59–69 to 62–72
6/24/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
5/29/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.39Net Gain
6/12/2026Planar Pocket: Ability Reworked
Planar Pocket: Now is a unit-targeted ability. 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. Cast Range: 700
Planar Pocket: Io's Tether is the only exception that will ignore this effect
Planar Pocket: Redirected 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
Planar Pocket: If the redirected spell has different interactions for allies and enemies, Spirit Breaker will receive the enemy interaction
Planar Pocket: Cooldown increased from 20s to 25s
Planar Pocket: Mana Cost increased from 75 to 100
Planar Pocket: Duration decreased from 7s to 6s
Planar Pocket: Now dispellable only by Strong Dispel
3/27/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
3/4/2025
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
2/19/2025
Removed Imbalanced Facet
Planar Pocket: Duration increased from 6s to 7s
Talents: Level 20 Talent +17% Greater Bash Chance replaced with -0.3s Greater Bash Cooldown
Talents: Level 25 Talent Greater Bash Damage decreased from +25% to +20%
11/20/2024
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
10/3/2024
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.37cNet Gain
8/28/2024No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.37bNet Gain
8/14/2024No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.37Net Gain
7/31/2024Charge of Darkness: Now gradually ramps up to max movement speed, starting at 25% of the bonus speed
6/25/2024
Charge of Darkness: Mana Cost rescaled from 100 to 90/100/110/120
Nether Strike: Cooldown increased from 70/50/30s to 75/55/35s
6/6/2024
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.36aNet Gain
5/27/2024No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.36Net Gain
5/23/2024Base Attack Range increased from 150 to 170
Charge of Darkness: Now pierces Debuff Immunity by default
Charge of Darkness: Aghanim's Shard now grants +100 Movement Speed Bonus
Greater Bash: No longer deals bonus damage to creeps
Nether Strike: Bonus Damage rescaled from 175/250/325 to 150/250/350
Planar Pocket: Is now granted by Aghanim's Scepter
Planar Pocket: No longer stops working after blocking 1 spell
Talents: Level 25 Talent +200 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed replaced with -4s Charge of Darkness Cooldown
Patch 7.35dNet Gain
3/21/2024No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.35cNet Gain
2/22/2024No hero-specific updates in this patch.
Patch 7.35bNet Gain
12/21/2023Charge of Darkness: Phylactery/Khanda now procs on impact rather than on cast
6/12/2026
Bulldoze: Movement Speed bonus decreased from 10/15/20/25% to 8/12/16/20%
Talents: Level 20 Talent +25% Greater Bash Damage replaced with +17% Greater Bash Chance
Talents: Level 20 Talent 200 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed replaced with Bulldoze Grants 400 All Damage Barrier
Talents: Level 25 Talent +20% Greater Bash Chance replaced with +25% Greater Bash Damage
Talents: Level 25 Talent Bulldoze 500 All Damage Barrier replaced with +200 Charge of Darkness Bonus Speed
11/21/2023
Charge of Darkness: Cooldown increased from 21/18/15/12s to 22/19/16/13s
Charge of Darkness: Aghanim's Scepter Cooldown increased from 8s to 9s
Greater Bash: Damage multiplier against creeps decreased from 1.5x to 1.3x
Patch 7.34dNet Gain
10/5/2023Greater Bash: Movement Speed as Damage increased from 20/25/30/35% to 25/30/35/40%
Patch 7.34cNet Gain
9/9/2023Charge of Darkness: Charge Bonus Speed increased from 250/300/350/400 to 275/325/375/425
Charge of Darkness: Fixed movement speed not updating when slows wear off while Spirit Breaker is charging
Nether Strike: Bonus Damage increased from 150/225/300 to 175/250/325
Talents: Level 15 Talent Damage increased from +40 to +45
8/15/2023
No hero-specific updates in this patch.
8/8/2023
Charge of Darkness: Charge Bonus Speed decreased from 325/350/375/400 to 250/300/350/400
Talents: Level 20 Talent Charge of Dark Bonus Speed increased from +175 to +200
Talents: Level 20 Talent +17% Greater Bash Chance replaced with +25% Greater Bash Damage
Talents: Level 25 Talent +25% Greater Bash Damage replaced with +20% Greater Bash Chance
Patch 7.33eNet Gain
7/13/2023No hero-specific updates in this patch.
6/16/2023
Base Armor decreased by 1
Charge of Darkness: Cooldown increased from 17/15/13/11s to 21/18/15/12s
Charge of Darkness: Aghanim's Scepter Cooldown increased from 7s to 8s
Talents: Level 15 Talent Bulldoze Cooldown Reduction decreased from 4s to 3s
Patch 7.33cNet Gain
5/14/2023Strength gain increased from 3.0 to 3.3
Charge of Darkness: Mana Cost decreased from 120 to 100
Charge of Darkness: Can no longer target debuff immune enemies without Aghanim's Scepter
Bulldoze: Status Resistance increased from 35/45/55/65% to 40/50/60/70%
Greater Bash: Cooldown decreased from 1.5s to 1.2s
Greater Bash: Movement Speed as Damage increased from 15/20/25/30% to 20/25/30/35%
Nether Strike: Cooldown decreased from 90/70/50s to 70/50/30s
Patch 7.33bNet Gain
4/26/2023Charge of Darkness: Charge Bonus Speed increased from 300/325/350/375 to 325/350/375/400
Nether Strike: Bonus Damage increased from 125/200/275 to 150/225/300
Talents: Level 20 Talent Greater Bash Chance increased from +13% to +17%
6/13/2026
Charge of Darkness: Stun Duration decreased from 1.5/1.8/2.1/2.4s to 1.2/1.5/1.8/2.1s
Greater Bash: Stun Duration decreased from 0.9/1.2/1.5/1.8s to 0.9/1.1/1.3/1.5s
Planar Pocket: Self Magic Resistance increased from 25% to 75%
Talents: Level 20 Talent Greater Bash Chance increased from +10% to +13%
Talents: Level 25 Talent +800 Health replaced with Bulldoze 500 Damage Barrier