Urn of Shadows

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• Changelogs

Urn of Shadows is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Support.

Urn of Shadows
Contains the ashes of powerful demons.
Support Cost 825 (320) Sell Value 412.5 Active Soul Release Bonus ? +2 Strength +2 Agility +2 Intelligence +1.25 Mana Regeneration +2 Armor Shareable 0 Disassemble 0 Usage Alert ? 0 Recipe

Additional Information

• This item is shown as a Team Item in the shop window when purchased by an ally.
  • If a Spirit Vessel was purchased as well, Spirit Vessel's icon takes priority.

• The item's attributes grant the following additional stats:
• 44 health and 0.2 health regeneration.
• 24 mana, 0.1 mana regeneration and 0.2% flat base magic resistance.
• 2 attack speed and 0.33 main armor.
• 2 main attack damage to all / / heroes.
• 2.7 main attack damage to universal heroes.

Ability

Soul Release

Soul Release

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Ability

Unit

Affects

Allied heroes

Damage

Magical

When cast on an ally, consumes a charge to grant the target allied hero bonus health regeneration for a while.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  750

Health Regen Bonus: 30

Duration: 8

Taking more than 0 damage from any other player (after reductions and not flagged as HP Removal) dispels the buff.

Taking more than 0 damage from Roshan (after reductions) dispels the buff.

When cast on an enemy, consumes a charge to deal damage over time to the target for a while.

Damage per second: 25

Duration: 8

Has no recharge time. Cooldown resetting effects do not restore charges.
Instead, gains charges whenever an enemy hero dies within range. Gains more charges when at 0 charges.
also gains charges when the wielder dies while at 0 charges.

Radius: 1500

Initial Charge Gain per Enemy Death: 2

Following Charge Gain per Enemy Death: 1

Initial Charge Gain per Own Death: 1

When upgraded to Spirit Vessel, all the current charges are carried over.

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Cooldown Sharing

The items listed above share their cooldowns;
Casting one of them puts them all on cooldown.

• Cast behaviors:
  • ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.
  • Does not interrupt the wielder's channeling abilities.
  • The caster does not require to face the target ino order to cast it on them
  • Can only be cast on heroes, including illusions and creep-heroes.

• Charges
  • Gains charge for each enemy hero that dies within the radius.
  • If the item is at 0 charges, it gains charges at once, otherwise, it gains charge.
  • Does not gain charges from Illusions, Clones, or Creep-Heroes.
  • Does not gain a charge if the enemy hero has Reincarnation.
  • Has to be within the main inventory to gain charges.

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  • Successive casts on the same target do not stack but refresh the duration instead.
  • Urn of Shadows' modifiers get both overridden by Spirit Vessel's and Essence Distiller's modifiers.
  • Casting Urn of Shadows on a unit that is already affected by Spirit Vessel puts the item on cooldown.
    • Neither its modifiers are placed, nor are the Spirit Vessel modifiers refreshed.
    • Urn of Shadows does not lose a charge when doing so.

• Urn of Shadows has the following properties for how they gain charges:
  • With multiple copies within the inventory:
    • The one in the higher inventory slot gains charges.
    • The top left inventory slot has the highest priority, the bottom right one the lowest.
    • The item must be in the main inventory to gain charges.
    • If the player has a Spirit Vessel or Essence Distiller as well, they will take priority.
  • With multiple copies within the team:
    • Every player in the team can gain charges from the same enemy death.

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Soul Release: Regenerating x HP per second.

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Soul Release: Taking x damage per second.

• Can regenerate up to 240 health on target allies.

• Can deal up to 200 damage to target enemies (before reductions).

• Not affected by debuff duration manipulation.

Recommended Heroes

Others

Support heroes can use Urn of Shadows from the backline, and will also benefit from the extra health given by strength.

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Recent Changes

Main Article: Urn of Shadows/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.40b
(2025-12-23)

• Soul Release
  • If the same player has multiple Urns of Shadows, only one of them gains charges now.
  • No longer gains charges if the same player also has a Spirit Vessel .
  • Allies with copies of this item can still gain their charges independently.

7.40
(2025-12-15)

• Reduced mana regen bonus from 1.4 to 1.25.
• Soul Release
  • Multiple Urns of Shadows are now able to gain a charge from the same hero death.
  • This includes all Urns owned by allies, as well multiple copies owned by the same player.
  • A nearby Spirit Vessel does not prevent the Urns from gaining their charges.
  • Increased charge gain radius from 1400 to 1500.

7.39
(2025-05-21)

• REWORKED recipe and stats.

 OLD    Urn of Shadows  Recipe:  Sage's Mask ( 175 ),  Ring of Protection ( 175 ),  Fluffy Hat ( 250 ),  Recipe ( 280 ) 

Total cost: 880 Health bonus: 125 Mana regeneration bonus: 1.4 Armor bonus: 2

 NEW    Urn of Shadows  Recipe:  Sage's Mask ( 175 ),  Ring of Protection ( 175 ),  Circlet ( 155 ),  Recipe ( 320 ) 

Total cost: 825 Strength bonus: 2 Agility bonus: 2 Intelligence bonus: 2 Mana regeneration bonus: 1.4 Armor bonus: 2