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Tuned 17 times33 lines of changes across 17 patches, condensed below to the ones that still matter.
8 buffs and 12 nerfs in total: roughly even.
Cost and recipe
- ▼Recipe cost increased from 650 to 1125. Total Cost decreased from 2625 to 2550changed 8 times across 6 patches, net nerf
Biggest changes
- ▲Dominate now has a 50 mana costadjusted 4 times across 4 patches, net buff
- ◆Bounty reduced from 200 to 100adjusted 2 times across 2 patches, roughly even
- ▼Attack Speed reduced from 10 to 5
- ▼Dominate gold and experience bounty when dominating a creep decreased from 100% to 50%
- ▼Creep damage reduced from +40 to +25
- ▼Minimum health reduced from 1500 to 1000
- ▲Attack Speed Aura increased from 15 to 20
- ▲Cooldown reduced from 60 to 45
- ▼Health regen aura reduced from 5 to 4.25
- ▼Health regen decreased from 8 to 7
- ▼Creep movement speed reduced from 425 to 380 (affects the upgrade as well)
- ▲Minimum HP increased from 1400 to 1500
- ▼Dominated Creep movement speed decreased from 380 to 370
- ▼No longer grants +5 attack speed to the item holder
- ▼No longer provides a damage and regen aura
- ◆Passive bonuses are now +6 Armor, +6 HP Regen and +6 All Stats
- ▲Now grants +4 Armor to the dominated creep
- ◆Dominated creep is now considered a creep-hero
- ◆It cannot be dominated, persuaded or enchanted, and it isn't instantly killed by Hand of Midas, Mirana's Sacred Arrow, etc.
- ◆Stats unchanged
- ▼Dominate can no longer be used if the currently dominated creep took damage from hero-based sources in the last 3s
Most recent change patch 7.40, Dec 2025
- ▼Dominate gold and experience bounty when dominating a creep decreased from 100% to 50%
What it does now
- + 6 All Attributes
- + 6 Armor
- + 6 Health Regeneration
- Dominate Active 45s cooldownTakes control of one neutral, non-ancient target unit and sets its movement speed to 370 and max health to a minimum of 1000. Also provides the unit with +25 base attack damage, +12 health regen, +4 mana regen and +4 armor. Dominated units with a max health of greater than 1000 retain their original max health. Grants the caster 50% of the gold and experience bounty of the dominated creep. Dominated unit's bounty is set to 100 gold and it can no longer be killed by abilities that instantly kill creeps otherwise. The Helm cannot be used for 3 seconds after the dominated creep takes damage from an enemy hero or Roshan.
Built from Helm of Iron Will, Crown plus a 1,125 gold recipe.
Heroes that buy Helm of the Dominator
- LY
Lycanearly game - DS
Dark Seerearly game - CW
Centaur Warrunnerearly game - BE
Beastmasterearly game - IO
Ioearly game
Most bought first, from item purchases in recent professional matches (OpenDota). Public games can differ.