Bottle

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Bottle is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Consumables.

Bottle
An old bottle that survived the ages, the contents placed inside become enchanted.
Consumables Cost 675 Sell Value 337.5 Stacks 1 MAX / Inventory Slot Active Regenerate Passive ? Store Rune Bonus ? Shareable Partially Usage Alert ? 0 Recipe

Additional Information

• Bottle containing a rune cannot be shared, dropped, or moved into the backpack.
• Bottle is a permanent item, using up all charges does not make it disappear.
• The sell value of the item does not depend on the remaining charges, nor on the stored rune.
• The Tempest Double does not copy this item, despite not being a consumable.

Bottle States

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Contains	Fountain Water (3/2/1/0 Charges)	Amplify Damage Rune	Arcane Rune	Bounty Rune	Haste Rune	Illusion Rune	Invisibility Rune	Regeneration Rune	Shield Rune	Water Rune

Abilities

Regenerate

Regenerate

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Ability

No / Unit

Affects

Self / Allied Heroes

Restores health and replenishes mana for a while, by increasing health and mana regeneration.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  350

Total Heal: 110

Total Mana Restore: 60

Regen Duration: 2.7

Restores all charges while within the Fountain area.

Refill Interval: 1

Restores all charges when respawning on the Ofrenda.

Bottles do not restore charges while in the Fountain area when carried by a Courier.

Power Runes fully replenishes the Bottle as well. Other Runes replenishes it too, but up to a certain extend.

Charge Restore per Power Rune: 3

Charge Restore per Other Rune: 2

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.

The item does not further restore charges after the restore timer starts.

Downtime: 1

1

3

0.5

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• The ability has the following properties:
  • Interrupts the wielder's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • The ability always self-casts upon cast.
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    enables casting Regenerate on an allied hero.
    • Considers clones, illusions, and creep-heroes as heroes.
    • Can be cast on untargetable allied heroes through their hero portrait.

• The Regenerate buff has the following properties:
  • Reapplying the buff refreshes the duration.
  • Dispels upon taking a 0-player-based damage instance (after reductions), regardless of factions.

• The buff does not dispel from the following sources:
  • Self-damage sources.
  • HP Removal sources.

• The item restores its charges in the following conditions:
  • When there is no Rune stored.
  • Within the Rejuvenation Aura area, in 1-second intervals, bound to the game time.
  • When respawning on an Ofrenda.

• The charge restore ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. Restores the charges if the item fulfills the aformentioned conditions.
  2. Dispels the charge restore buff.
  3. The 1-second restore timer starts.

• Considers the following runes as Power Runes:
  • Amplify Damage Rune
  • Arcane Rune
  • Haste Rune
  • Illusion Rune
  • Invisibility Rune
  • Regeneration Rune
  • Shield Rune
  • Wisdom Rune

• Considers the following runes as Non-power Runes:
  • Bounty Rune
  • Water Rune
  • Storing the aformentioned Runes restores charges, unless the Bottle has < current charges.

modifier_bottle_regeneration

Bottle Regeneration: Regenerating x HP and x mana per second.

• The ability goes on cooldown when casting the ability without charges.

Store Rune

Store Rune

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Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

The item can store a Rune to be used later, or can be passively activated after a set duration.

Activating the Rune restores all Bottle charges.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range: 150

Max Rune Stored: 1

Max Store Rune Duration: 90

Couriers can neither activate nor store runes.

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• This ability is not affected by mute sources.

• Has the following properties upon cast:
  • Interrupts the wielder's channeling abilities.
  • Breaks invisibility sources.

• The ability has the following properties:
  • Right-click on a Rune now stores it within the Bottle.
  • Attempting to store another Rune activates the current Rune instead.
  • When the Bottle has a Rune, Regenerate activates the rune, restores the Bottle's charges.

• The passive activation has the following properties:
  • Passively activated upon reaching its max store rune duration, even upon the wielder's death.
  • Neither interrupts the wielder's channeling abilities, nor breaks invisiblity sources, except Illusion Rune.

• ILLUSIONS
  The wielder's illusions neither can utilize this ability, nor benefits from it.

Recommended Heroes

Heroes who play in the mid-lane usually do well with a Bottle, because it allows them to control runes.

Others

Trivia

• Prior to the February 01, 2018 Patch, Bottle's passive ability, Store Rune, did not have an official name. The name was taken from the Dota 2 Wiki and officially implemented into Dota 2.
• In DotA, this item is called Magical Bottle. The reason for why it was changed to Bottle in Dota 2 is unknown.

Gallery

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  Using Bottle

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  In-game model

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  In-game model of an empty bottle

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  Unused bottle state between 2 and 3 charges

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  Unused bottle state beyond 3 charges

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  Item icon progress

Early item icon concepts

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  Full

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  Medium

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  Small

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  Empty

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  Double Damage

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  Haste

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  Illusion

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  Invisibility

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  Regeneration

Recent Changes

Main Article: Bottle/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• No longer replenishes its charges from the Rejuvenation Aura buff, the wielder must now be physically within the fountain area to refill their Bottle.

7.31
(2022-02-23)

• Item now removes the Rejuvenation Aura buff upon replenishing its charges. [?]

7.30e
(2021-10-28)

• Reduced Store Rune max rune store duration from 120 to 90.