What the item does
01
Active: Barrier
Gives a magic damage barrier that absorbs 425 damage to all nearby allies. Lasts 8 seconds.
Radius: 1200
02
Passive: Insight Aura
Gives allied units 8% magic resistance.
Radius: 1200
How I decide
«I press Pipe before the shared wave of magical damage.»
Ruslan UkrainskyiSpeaking through Rodya
- 01 Situation
- The team is moving through a narrow approach where the enemy is ready to hit several heroes with magic.
- 02 My decision
- I gather allies within the barrier radius and activate it before significant hits.
- 03 What I avoid
- Give the barrier when the team has already split up, or treat it as an answer to physical attacks.
When I would buy it
For the next teamfight, if magic damage already determines its outcome.
Components
Components from Valve's recipe. Repeated parts are marked with quantities.
Ring of Tarrasque
Cloak
ShawlWhich heroes I would try it on
Examples based on mechanics. The role, opponents and team plan determine the final choice.
What to compare it with
Similar purposes do not make items interchangeable. I compare effect, price and timing.
Stats and key conditions
- Health regeneration
- 14
- Magic resistance
- 20%
- Cooldown
- 60 s
- Mana cost
- 150
- Cast range
- 1200
Valve notes
- Barrier does not affect units that have been affected by Barrier within Pipe of Insight's cooldown.
- Stacks multiplicatively with other sources of magic resistance.
Game effects and recipes are a snapshot of official data. My guidelines are choices for a task, not a promise of the same build every match. Values for several stages, where present, are separated by ‘/’.
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