Hood of Defiance

Item

Changelogs

Hood of Defiance B L
A furred, magic resistant headpiece that is feared by wizards.
Cost 1725 Bought From Armor
Active Barrier Bonus +8 Health regeneration +25% Magic resistance Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Hood of Defiance is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Armor. It can also be completed solely with items from the Side Lane Shop.

Additional information

• Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
• Increases most heroes' total magic resistance to 43.75%, assuming basic 25% magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.
• Increases Meepo's and Visage's total magic resistance to 51.25% and 32.5% respectively, assuming their basic magic resistance and no other sources of magic resistance.

Ability

Barrier

Play

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Creates a spell shield that absorbs up to 325 magical damage. Lasts 12 seconds.

Magical Damage Absorbed: 325

Duration: 12

60

75

Modifiers

Item Hood Of Defiance Barrier: Undispellable.

Notes:

• Interrupts the user's channeling spells upon cast.

• Blocks damage before any reductions, except when spell immune, during which it does not block any magical damage.

• Recasting the ability refreshes the buff and resets the barrier's absorb capacity.

• Does not stack with other magical damage barriers.
  • If multiple sources of barriers are active on a unit, all of them lose capacity from the same absorbed damage instance.

• Does not share cooldown with Pipe of Insight.

• Only blocks magical damage, not spell damage of other types.

Recommended heroes

Core: Pudge, Centaur Warrunner

Situational: Every hero that has Pipe of Insight as default situational item.

Trivia

• Prior to the July 14, 2017 Patch, Hood of Defiance's active ability, Barrier, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.

Gallery

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  Affected by Barrier