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Guardian Helmet

DefenseFinished item2,500g

Pure-HP tank item with the strongest raw health pool and an excess-damage-to-heal passive.

Stats

HP: +1820; 1820

Each bar is scaled against the highest value of that stat on any item in the game — the faint number at the end of the track is that maximum.

Passives and actives

Unique PassiveRecovery
After 5 seconds out of combat, recover (2.5% Total HP) HP per second.
Unique PassiveDefender
Upon taking more than 500 damage in a single instance, recover 20 (+0.3% Total HP)% HP from the excess damage beyond that amount.

When to build it

Counters heavy single-instance-damage sources (big ultimates, true-damage nukes) since Defender converts 20%+ of any hit over 500 damage into healing. Buy as a pure stat stick when you need the biggest HP number in the build rather than defense percentages.

Build path

Built from

Heroes Guardian Helmet is built against

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Heroes who build Guardian Helmet

25 recommended builds on this site include it.

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