As someone who has played Dota for several years on and off, played League of Legends for several months and has had access to the Dota 2 invite-only beta, playing the latter brought back a lot of nostalgia and a sense of respect for what both games (Dota & LoL) have to offer. Of course there are similarities between the two - since they are part of the same genre, but this isn't a thread about which is better. This is just a little list to show where the summoner spells came from in Dota (if they did have a similar effect). In most cases, the same effects came from active items in Dota. Enjoy! If I have made a mistake please correct me!
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Exhaust Reduces a target's Attack Damage by 70%, Ability/Item damage by 35% and slows its Movement Speed by 40% for 2.5 seconds (210 second cooldown). Summoner's Wrath - Also reduces target's armor and magic resistance by 10. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 178.5 seconds. |
[CENTER]Diffusal Blade
+ 22/26 Agility
+ 6/10 Intelligence
Feedback (passive)
Purge (active)
Feedback
- Causes your attacks to burn 20 (36 when upgraded) mana and deal bonus physical damage equal to the amount of mana burned
- Orb effect and buff placer
Purge
- Purges a target unit, removing buffs, slowing, and dealing damage if it is a summoned unit
- Deals 99999 damage to summoned units
- Non-hero units will be paused for the first 3 seconds instead of slowed
- Slow lasts 4 seconds, Purge has a 8 second cooldown, and a 600 cast range
Rod of Atos
+ 25 Intelligence
+ 250 Health
Cripple (active, target unit)
- Slows the target's movement speed by 50% for 4 seconds.
Costs 50 mana, has a 20 second cooldown, and a 800 cast range[/CENTER]
* There is actually an ability called Whirling Death (his Q) from one of the newest heroes added a few weeks ago called Rizzrak, that reduces your primary attribute (that reduces your attack damage instantly for 7 seconds).
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Ghost Your Champion ignores unit collision and moves 27% faster for 10 seconds. (210 second cooldown). Summoner's Wrath - Increases movement speed bonus to 35% (8% faster.) Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 178.5 seconds. |
[CENTER]Phase Boots
+ 60 movement speed
+ 24 damage
Phase (active)
- Gives 16% movement speed bonus and lets you move through units
- Using items or abilities cancels Phase
- Lasts 4 seconds, has a 8 second cooldown[/CENTER]
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Heal Restores 140 + (lvl x 25) [165 to 615] Health to your Champion and 50% of that to nearby allies. All targets healed will have a 50% reduction in heal amount from other summoner heal spells for 20 secs. (270 second cooldown). Summoner's Resolve - Increases Health restored by 10%. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 229.5 seconds. |
[CENTER]Mekansm
+ 5 All Attributes
+ 5 armor
Mekansm Aura (passive)
Heal (active)
Mekansm Aura
+ 4 HP regeneration
500 AoE
Restore
- Heals 250 HP and gives +2 armor in 750 AoE
- Armor bonus lasts 25 seconds
- Heal does not affect units that have been healed by any Restore in the last 25 seconds
- Costs 150 mana, and has a 45 second cooldown[/CENTER]
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Revive Instantly revives your Champion at your team's Summoner Platform and increases your champion's maximum health by 200 + (lvl x 20). 600 second cooldown. Summoner's Resolve - Grants a massive speed boost for a short duration. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 459 seconds. |
[CENTER]Aegis of Immortality
Reincarnation (passive)
Reincarnation
- Brings you to life with full health and mana 5 seconds after you die, at the location where you died
- Aegis of the Immortal is removed from your inventory after reincarnating you once
- Aegis of the Immortal is also removed from your inventory when Roshan respawns (10 minutes after he was killed)[/CENTER]
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Smite Deals 420 + (lvl x 25) [445 to 695] true damage to target enemy minion or pet. (75 second cooldown). Summoner's Resolve (Defense) - Grants 10 bonus gold on use. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 63.75 seconds. |
[CENTER]Hand of Midas
+30 attack speed
Transmute (active)
Transmute
- Kills a target non-hero non-ancient unit, giving bonus gold and experience
- Gives 1.5 times the unit's normal experience as additional bonus experience
- Gives 190 reliable gold (you do not get the normal creep bounty)
- Has a 100 second cooldown[/CENTER]
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Surge Empowers your champion, increasing ability power by 10-78 (depending on level) and attack speed by 35% for 12 seconds. (220 second cooldown). Summoner's Wrath - Increases attack speed bonus to 40% and ability power gained by 10%. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 187 seconds. |
[CENTER]Veil of Discord
+ 5 armor
+ 5 HP/sec regeneration
+ 12 Intelligence
Discord (active)
Discord
- Applies a debuff on all enemy units in a 500 AoE, causing them to have reduced magic resistance for a duration.
- Amplifies magic damage by 25%
- Lasts 15 seconds, costs 75 mana, has a 30 second cooldown, and an 875 cast range[/CENTER]
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Cleanse Removes all disables and summoner spell debuffs affecting your champion and lowers the duration of incoming disables by 65% for 3 seconds. (210 second cooldown). Summoner's Resolve - Increases duration of disable reduction by 1 second (for a total of 4 seconds). Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 187 seconds. |
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Clarity Restores 160 + (lvl x 30) [190 to 700] Mana to your champion and 50% of that to nearby allies. (180 second cooldown). Summoner's Insight - Increases Mana restored by 20% Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 153 seconds. |
[CENTER]Arcane Boots
+ 65 movement speed
+ 250 Mana
Replenish Mana
- Restores 135 Mana to allies in 600 AoE
- Costs 25 Mana
- Does not work on Meepo clones
- Has a 45 second cooldown[/CENTER]
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Ignite Targets a single champion dealing 50 + (lvl x 20) [70 to 410] true damage over 5 seconds. Also reduces the targets healing and regeneration by 50%. (180 second cooldown). Summoner's Wrath - Increases Ability Power and Attack Damage by 5 while on cooldown. Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 153 seconds. |
[CENTER]Urn of Shadows
+ 50% mana regeneration
+ 6 Strength
Soul Release (active)
- Whenever an enemy hero dies within 1400 AoE, gains 2 charges if it has 0 charges, else gains 1 charge (each death can only charge one of these items, if two or more heroes in the AoE have this item, only one will be charged)
Soul Release
- Can expend one charge to target an allied or enemy hero
- If an ally is targeted, it is healed for 400 HP over 8 seconds (this effect ends if the hero takes damage from a source other than Sentinel, Scourge or neutral creeps)
- If an enemy is targeted, it loses 150 HP over 8 seconds
- Has a 10 second cooldown, and 950 cast range[/CENTER]
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Promote Promotes the nearest allied super minion to an anti-Turret Cannon, healing it, granting bonus stats, and causing it to grant the caster gold for its kills. (180 second cooldown). Summoner's Insight - Increases promoted minion's bonus defensive stats by 15% Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 153 seconds. |
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Clairvoyance Reveals an area of the map for 4 seconds. (70 second cooldown) Summoner's Insight - Increases duration by 2 seconds (for a total of 6 seconds). Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 59.5 seconds. |
Bloodstone
+500 HP
+400 mana
+8 HP/sec regeneration
+200% mana regeneration
Starts with 6 charges.
Bloodpact (passive)
Bloodpact
- Bloodstone gains 1 charge each time an enemy hero dies in 1600 AoE
- Each charge gives 1 Mana regeneration per second
- When the bearer dies, Bloodpact restores 400 + 30 per charge HP to allied units in 1675 range, and Bloodstone loses a third (0.333) of its charges (rounded down)
- While dead, the bearer gains 1800/1800 AoE vision at the location of death, and gains experience in 1000 AoE at that location
- Gold lost on death is reduced by 25 per charge
- Respawn time is reduced by 4 seconds per charge
- Bloodpact only functions for the highest priority Bloodstone in the inventory
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Flash Teleports your Champion to target nearby location under your mouse cursor. (265 second cooldown). Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 250 seconds. Summoner's Insight (Utility) - Reduces cooldown by 15 seconds... with both reducing the cooldown to just 210.25 seconds. |
[CENTER]Blink Dagger
Blink
- Teleports the caster to a nearby location instantly
- 1200 range
- Cannot be used if the carrier was damaged by an enemy player-controlled unit in the last 3 seconds
- Self damage does not disable Blink, but damage from Roshan does
- Costs 75 mana, has an 14 second cooldown
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Teleport (Classic-only) After 4 seconds, teleports your champion to target friendly minion or turret. 3 minute cooldown if cancelled. (300 second cooldown) Mastermind - Decreases the cooldown to 255 seconds. |
The equivalent is a Scroll of Town Portal. Scrolls of Town Portals function to go back to base or out to turrets. Boots of Travel permanently have an in-built effect that also has a 5 second reduction on its cooldown to 60 seconds, instead of 65*.
[CENTER]Scroll of Town Portal
Teleport
- Teleports you to an allied building
- Can be targeted at a point up to 525 range away from the building instead of directly on it, it will teleport you to that spot instead
- If the targeted point is closer than 50 range to the tower, 70 will be used as the distance from the tower instead
- When you use Teleport, the minimap is pinged for your allies at the target location of your teleport, and you are given 200 AoE vision at the target location for the duration of the teleport
- When the teleport finishes, trees are destroyed around the landing spot in a 480x480 square
- The casting time of the teleport is determined by how many allies have targeted a Scroll of Town Portal in a 1100 AoE around your target location in the last 25 seconds
- For each recent allied teleport in the area, time is added to your Teleport's casting time (2 seconds for the first recent allied teleport, 1 second for each additional one), the default casting time is 3 seconds
- Recent allied teleports have no effect if the target is in the fountain area
- Shares cooldown with Boots of Travel
- Costs 75 Mana, and has a 65 second cooldown[/CENTER]
*In addition, Boots of Travel allow you to teleport to both allied buildings and minions!
There are a few more, like Fortify that got removed. Fortify has a 5 minute cooldown in Dota and is called the Glyph of Fortification and makes your buildings invulnerable for 4 seconds. The entire team may access it at any time.


