The Solar Crest is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Magical. However, it requires an item from the Secret Shop to be completed.

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Additional information [ edit ]

• For strength heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 0.8% magic resistance, 9.6 armor, 10 attack speed, 0.5% movement speed, 120 mana, 2 mana regen, 0.7% spell damage and 10 attack damage.
• For agility heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 0.8% magic resistance, 9.6 armor, 10 attack speed, 0.5% movement speed, 120 mana, 2 mana regen, 0.7% spell damage and 10 attack damage.
• For intelligence heroes, it grants 200 health, 1 health regen, 0.8% magic resistance, 9.6 armor, 10 attack speed, 0.5% movement speed, 120 mana, 2 mana regen, 0.7% spell damage and 10 attack damage.
• Movement speed bonuses from multiple Solar Crests fully stack.
• Stacks with all other movement speed bonuses.
• Solar Crest does not inherit the passive armor reduction from Blight Stone .

Ability [ edit ]

When cast on an ally, grants them 8 armor, 80 attack speed, and 10% movement speed. When cast on an enemy, removes 8 armor, 80 attack speed, and 10% movement speed.

Removes the armor from the caster when used.

Cannot target spell immune enemies.

• Cannot be cast on self.

• Shares cooldown with Medallion of Courage .

• The effect on self and the modifier on the target are independent from each other. Dispelling the target does not remove the effect on the caster.

• Unlike Medallion, Solar Crest does not place a debuff on the caster. Instead, its effects are directly bound to its cooldown.
  • Its duration is always 7 seconds on the target, while the duration on self can vary when the cooldown gets manipulated.
  • This means when the cooldown is reduced, the reduction effects on self are briefer. The reduction effects on self also disappear immediately when the cooldown is refreshed.
  • This also means that the effects on self are applied when using Medallion of Courage, since they share a cooldown.

• The armor reduction on self fully stacks. When having multiple Solar Crests, each of them reduce armor when on cooldown.

• The target buff and target debuff fully stack with each other. The effects on self also stack with the target debuff.
  • When a unit is targeted by an allied and an enemy Solar Crest, the modifiers effectively cancel each other out.
  • When opposing heroes cast it on each other, they effectively have -16 armor, -10% movement speed, and -80 attack speed.
  • Multiple target debuffs or target buffs do not stack, but refresh their durations.
  • The target buff, target debuff and self-debuff fully stack with those applied by Medallion of Courage.

• Can be cast on any unit, except on wards and buildings.

Recommended heroes [ edit ]

• The armor reduction on self can be an advantage for Abaddon thanks to Borrowed Time , which allows him to heal more from physical damage he takes.
• Targeted allies can make more use of the attack speed bonus, since Abaddon can dispel stuns, slows, and most disarms with his Aphotic Shield

• All of Alchemist’s abilities deal physical damage, making Solar Crest a decent damage boost.
• Thanks to Alchemist’s farming speed, an early Solar Crest can be very effective, since most heroes already have low armor early on.

• Arc Warden does not have to worry much about the armor reduction on self upon cast, since Magnetic Field negates most physical damage anyway.
• Arc Warden is a natural split pusher with his Tempest Double . It can spam the ability on one of the Necronomicon summons, or on a siege creep if present, to push even faster.
• Since the Tempest Double is an expiring summon anyway, the negative effect on self upon cast is much less tragic.

• Solar Crest conventially prov >Viscous Nasal Goo , Bristleback can deal a hefty blow to an enemy’s armor, and slow them for even more, allowing him to stack up his quills more easily.
• Bristleback almost exclusively deals physical damage, making the armor reduction on a target even more effective.
• Bristleback’s tankiness granted by his passive ability allows him to more or less ignore the armor reduction on self upon cast.

• Combined with Bad Juju , Dazzle can deal a hefty blow to an enemy’s armor and allowing him to spam abilities more easily.

• The armor reduction on self is bound to the item’s cooldown, so when Multicast , Ogre Magi can have multiple enemies debuffed while only having his armor reduced once.

• Combined with Gush , T >

• Combined with Wave of Terror , Vengeful Spirit can reduce a lot of armor on one target.

Others [ edit ]

Heroes who mainly want Solar Crest to increase their physical burst damage