Helm of the Dominator

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Helm of the Dominator B
The powerful headpiece of a dead necromancer.
Cost 2025 Bought From Artifacts
Active Dominate Passive Dominator Aura Bonus +2 Strength +2 Agility +2 Intelligence +10 Attack speed Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Helm of the Dominator is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Artifacts.

Additional information

• One Helm of the Dominator grants a total of 40 health, 10.12 health regeneration, 0.29 armor, 27 attack speed, 22 mana, 0.08 mana regeneration, 0.14% spell damage and 2 attack damage.

Abilities

Dominate

Play

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemy Units

Takes control of one neutral, non-ancient target unit and sets its movement speed to 425 and max health to a minimum of 1500.

Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1500 retain their original max health. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 125 gold.

Cast Range: 700

Max Units: 1

Minimum Base Health: 1500

Set Movement Speed: 425

Set Gold Bounty: 125

60

Modifiers

Dominated: Undispellable.

Item Helm Of The Dominator Bonushealth: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Dominating a creep while already having one dominated causes the previous dominated creep to die.

• The number of max allowed units is bound to the player. Buying a new Helm of the Dominator does not allow dominating an additional unit.
  • This also goes for the Tempest Double's copied Helm of the Dominator.
  • When an enemy steals the dominated creep (e.g. Enchant), dominating a new creep does not cause the previous one to die.
  • When the item gets sold or destroyed, the dominated creep dies.
  • The death is not credited to anyone so that no one gets experience from it.

• Sets the target's movement speed to 425, regardless of its default movement speed.

• Sets the target's gold bounty to 125, regardless of its default bounty.
  • The target's default gold bounty is not granted upon killing it, only the set value is. Its experience bounty is unchanged.

• If the creep's maximum health is below 1500, its health is set to that value.

• If its health is below the minimum base health, it gets fully healed as well. If it is equal or above, then it does not get healed.

• Does not restore the creep's mana.

• Cannot dominate ancient creeps, Necronomicon summons and creep-heroes.

Dominator Aura

Ability
Aura

Affects
Allies

Increases nearby allies' attack speed by 15 and health regen by 10.

Radius: 900

Attack Speed Bonus: 15

Health Regeneration Bonus: 10

Illusions do not benefit from the health regeneration bonus.

Modifiers

Helm Of The Dominator Aura: Undispellable.

Notes:

• The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Does not stack with multiple instances of Dominator Aura.

• Fully stacks with other sources of attack speed and health regeneration bonuses.

• Regenerates up to 600 health in one minute.

• Does not affect wards, buildings and invulnerable units.

Recommended heroes

Chen

• Helm gives one more creep to Chen and health regen, that is very important for early game pushes.

Lycan

• Howl increases damage of every single creep, increasing pushing power.

Drow Ranger

• Certain neutral creeps, such as the Alpha Wolf, can be useful if Dominated and made to follow Drow Ranger.

Luna

• Allows to give a creep to provide aura for Luna. Stats, hp and attack speed are also important for pushing and surviving.

Clinkz

• Gives a huge amount of health (750/1050/1350) and attack (75/105/135) when using Death pact.

Tips

• Dominated creeps can be used to remotely stack an ancient camp. Some creeps have abilities that are very useful, such as Dark Troll Summoner and Ogre Frostmage.
• You can dominate the Alpha Wolf for the helpful damage aura and have it follow your carry.
• A dominated creep can be used as a scout that can be placed inside Roshan's pit. Just be sure not to place it too close to Roshan, so he does not attack it.
• Dominate always sets the creep's base movement speed to 425. The only units which have more than 425 movement speed are Lycan Wolves at level 3 or higher. This means dominating one of them actually reduces their base speed down to 425. Besides these, all other dominatable creeps have lower movement speed than 425.