Overview
Cold Front is a Tier 2 Spirit item that releases an expanding ice blast to damage and slow nearby enemies. It is ideal for heroes who need area-of-effect crowd control to initiate fights or peel for themselves.
Stats
- Cost: 1600 Souls
- Tier: 2 (Spirit)
- +6% Spirit Resist
Active
Release an expanding ice blast that deals Spirit Damage and Slows targets it hits.
- Cooldown: 25s
- Damage: 95
- Movement Slow: 60%
- Duration: 4s
- Start Radius: 2m
- End Radius: 12m
- Vertical Hitbox: 3.5m
- Spread Duration: 0.6s
Spirit Scaling
- Damage: 95 + 0.465 * Spirit Power
When to Buy
- Purchase in the mid-game to gain a powerful area-of-effect slow that can disrupt multiple enemies in team fights.
- Effective against high-mobility heroes, as the 60% movement slow makes them much easier to target and kill.
- Good for heroes who need additional self-peel when being dove by enemy assassins or bruisers.
- Provides a useful defensive layer with Spirit Resist when facing teams with high ability damage.
Synergies
- Abrams: The slow ensures enemies cannot easily kite him, allowing him to land his devastating melee attacks.
- Kelvin: Stacks with his natural slows to completely lock down enemy movement within his frost zones.
- Seven: Helps keep enemies trapped inside his Storm Cloud ultimate for maximum damage output.