Stats
Abilities
Bottoms Up
Restores 70 + 3% of the caster's maximum mana over 6 seconds. If the hero is attacked by an enemy hero or Roshan, the effect is lost. Hold Control to use on an allied hero.
Fill Up
Cooldown Speed of Mana Draught is increased by 30% while in water.
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Strategy
Why Pick Up Mana Draught?
Mana Draught is the tier 2 neutral for heroes whose biggest limiter isn't cooldowns—it's mana. It doesn't add power; it gives you a repeatable, free mana top-up over a few seconds, so a caster who's constantly running dry can keep casting without trekking back to the fountain or buying a pile of clarities. On a spell-hungry hero in the early game, when mana is at its tightest, that steady refill is the difference between harassing every single wave and standing around waiting for your bar to crawl back up.
What makes Mana Draught different from a plain regen consumable are two things: it recharges on its own, and it can be handed to a teammate. Hold it to cast it on an ally, and it becomes a shared mana battery—the support tops up the mana-starved mid, or the core fuels the support who's out of gas. It's a flexible little economy tool rather than a one-time drink.
The catch is that the restore is fragile: take a hit from an enemy, and it's gone. That tells you exactly what Mana Draught is—a downtime tool, not a mid-fight one. Its value lives in the quiet moments between fights, not in the middle of a brawl where you're getting focused.
When to Grab Mana Draught?
Mana Draught belongs on mana-hungry casters—the heroes whose impact is gated by their mana pool rather than their spell cooldowns. Two things make it a fit:
Spammy casters and harass-heavy mids: heroes who want to throw spells constantly and are always one nuke away from empty (Storm Spirit, Queen of Pain, Skywrath Mage, Shadow Fiend, Jakiro, Ogre Magi, Warlock, and Rubick). For them, more mana translates directly into more casts, more harass, and more pressure.
Heroes positioned to share it: because it can go on an ally, it's great on whoever's best placed to act as the team's mana source—a support keeping the core topped up or a flexible mid who can fuel whoever's dry.
The composition signal is mana dependence. This is a hero who does more the more mana they have. On a right-click core that casts one spell in a fight, the restore mostly goes to waste—put it where mana actually converts into impact.
The situation's signal is the early game. Mana Draught matters most when mana is tightest, which is early, before levels and items quietly solve your regeneration for you. As the game goes long and your mana problems fix themselves, it becomes a stepping stone you trade up from.
Tips & common mistakes
- Use it in downtime, never mid-fight. The restore cancels the instant an enemy hits you, so top off before a fight or between skirmishes—pressing it while you're being focused on is just throwing it away.
- Think of it as free clarity on a timer. Its job is to keep a mana-starved caster in lane and on the map instead of recalling to refill—spend it to sustain your harass, not to hoard it.
- Don't hold it on a hero that doesn't cast spells. A right-click carry gets almost nothing from a mana refill; give it to the biggest mana sink on the team.
- Remember you can share it. The ally cast makes it a battery—if your core is one spell short of a kill or your support is empty, that top-up is often worth more on them than on you.
- Lean on the water bonus when it's relevant. It recharges faster near water, so heroes who live around the river squeeze a little more out of it—a small edge, not a reason to pick it.
- Treat it as an early stepping stone. It's a tier 1 that carries a caster through the mana-starved phase; don't cling to it once stronger neutrals and your own mana items come online.
Summary
Mana Draught is a caster's fuel tank in the neutral slot—no combat stats, just a free, repeatable mana top-up that keeps a spell-hungry hero casting instead of recalling. Its value is front-loaded to the early game when mana is tightest, and it belongs on the heroes whose impact scales directly with how much mana they have.
Use it in the downtime between fights rather than the middle of one; share it with whoever's dry when it helps more there; and treat it as the early sustain that keeps your casters online until the real mana solutions arrive.
Lore
A refreshing drink best shared with friends.