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Death is when a unit's health reaches 0. When a unit dies, certain ability effects can be triggered, and certain debuffs can be dispelled.

Reincarnation
Priority Reincarnation > Undying > Aegis

Several abilities and items are able to affect the respawn timer and the respawn location.

Respawning
After the first spawn, a hero is not created again. However, it respawns. After a hero dies, it comes back to life after an amount of time, based on its level. The maximum respawn time is reached on level 25. Only the following units can respawn: Heroes, and.

Upon respawning, the hero gets instantly moved to the fountain area, facing 45° toward the northeast or the southwest, if they belong to the or  faction respectively. The hero's health and mana are replenished. Cooldowns are unaffected and buffs and debuffs are not cleared upon respawning.

The hero also turns invulnerable and untargetable if there is an enemy hero within the base, which lasts until the respawning hero is issued a command, preventing spawn-camping. Commands include any regular unit orders like moving, attacking, and casting abilities, as well as shop interactions like buying and selling items.

The respawn times can be seen in the following table, starting from s and increasing up until level 25, which will be at s.

The buyback penalty is applied on top of the respawn time, unless affected by the aforementioned Reincarnation sources. Furthermore, dying to neutral creeps sets respawn time to a minimum of seconds.

Death Preventing Modifiers
(e.g.,, and ).

Kill Credit Manipulation
Priority order



Buyback
Buyback