Item sharing

As a rule, items in Dota 2 cannot be shared with other Heroes. The purchasing Hero is considered the owner of the item and only they can use, sell, or upgrade it. However, since consumables cannot be upgraded into other items and only grant temporary effects, almost all consumables can be freely used by all other Heroes. This is important, since it means that support Heroes can purchase s or other consumables on a Courier and other Heroes can place them.

Other permanent but inexpensive items that grant regenerative abilities are considered partially shareable. This means that other heroes can pick them up and benefit from the effect of the item, but cannot sell or upgrade the item. is also partially shareable because of its unique mechanic.

Finally, certain items have disabled abilities when placed on the, to prevent abuse.

Partially shareable items
Bottles containing runes cannot be shared. Otherwise they are completely shareable.

Items disabled on couriers

 * Like allies, only sharable items work for the courier. This means not-sharable items are muted on them. The following sharable items are disabled:


 * Couriers are also unable to pick up the and dropped s.
 * is not muted, but requires mana, so the courier cannot cast it.
 * ,, ,  and  are fully usable by the courier.