Healbane
vitality · Tier 2 · 1,600 souls passive VerifiedWhat it does
Your spirit damage applies healing reduction to the target, and you get a large heal if a hero dies under the effect.
Numbers: 35% Healing Reduction for 8s; 275 heal on hero kill under the effect; +7 Spirit Power
Buy it when
The cheapest and most common anti-heal buy — take it the moment an enemy's lifesteal or a support's healing is out-pacing your damage.
Skip it when
Requires you to deal spirit damage; a pure gun hero with no spirit sources should take Toxic Bullets or Inhibitor instead.
Gotchas
The mechanics people most often get wrong about this item.
- Only applies through spirit damage, not plain bullet damage
- Stacks with other healing-reduction sources
Problems it answers
- Healing and lifesteal — “They keep healing back everything I do to them.”
Heroes that make this worth a slot
Heroes whose kit creates the problems Healbane answers. This is derived from kit properties, not from measured build results.