Hood of Defiance

Item

 

Changelogs

 

Hood of Defiance B
A furred, magic resistant headpiece that is feared by wizards.
Cost 1700 Bought From Armor
Active Barrier Bonus +6.5 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.

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 Visage's total magic resistance to 32.5%, assuming his basic 10% 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 Barrier 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.

• Only blocks magical damage, coming from spells and attacks. Does not block any physical or pure damage.

• Does not share cooldown with Pipe of Insight.

Recommended heroes

Core: Pudge, Centaur Warrunner

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

Tips

• This item can be purchased by a nuker against enemies carrying a Blade Mail.
• The Barrier can be used to keep your Blink Dagger active. It is useful for an initiator against an enemy team with a radiance or to escape if caught in a gank.

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

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