Wraith

Dealing weapon damage generates cards of a random suit, which she can then throw. Each thrown card deals damage and applies an effect determined by its suit — extra damage, a resistance strip, a movement speed boost for herself, or a heal.

Purpose: Her resource loop and her flexible utility slot. Shooting builds cards; throwing them converts sustained gunfire into burst, healing, resist shred or chase speed depending on what she draws.

Damage

45 spirit base (about 0.55x spirit scaling); T2 adds +40; a Spade card adds +60 bonus damage

Crowd control

None directly

Mobility

A Club card grants +24% move speed

Defensive

A Heart card heals for around 45 (cut from 60 in the 30 October 2026 update)

How to play against it

• Deny the shooting window and you deny the cards — breaking line of sight before she can land sustained weapon damage starves the entire ability
• The card throw is a visible projectile on a 0.6s cycle; strafing through the throw avoids the Spade burst
• Heart healing was nerfed in the 09-16-2026 patch, so anti-heal (Healbane, Venator's Consecrating Grenade, Vindicta's T1 Crow) now cuts her only self-sustain
• Pressure her before she has banked cards; a Wraith with no cards stored is a 730 HP hero with a gun

Interactions

• The cards are generated by weapon damage, so she must be actively shooting to have resources — a Wraith denied a shooting window is a Wraith with no cards
• Suit is random, which makes the ability inconsistent: you cannot rely on a Heart for the save or a Spade for the kill
• T3 improves every suit and raises the chance of Jokers, which is the upgrade that makes the randomness acceptable
• The 09-16-2026 patch reduced Heart healing and its spirit scaling, and weakened the Diamond resist reductions
• Alt-cast throws the first card without cycling, which matters for landing a Spade the instant she wants burst

After a brief channel, Wraith teleports to a chosen location at range. The channel can be interrupted, and at higher upgrade levels she arrives with a large barrier.

Purpose: Her entry and her exit, but not both at once. The core Wraith decision is whether Project Mind is being spent to reach a backliner or saved to get out afterwards.

Mobility

Teleport up to 25m (T1 adds +15m, so up to 40m) after a 1s interruptible channel

Defensive

T2 grants a 300 barrier for 5s on arrival, scaling with Spirit Power

How to play against it

• Interrupt the channel. It is 1s and interruptible, so a Viscous Puddle Punch, a Warden Binding Word, a Venator Gutshot wall Stun or a Vyper Petrifying Bola at the right moment wastes her whole escape
• Track the cooldown. Before T3 it is 50s, so a Wraith who has used Project Mind to enter has no exit for nearly a minute — collapse from multiple angles
• Strip the 300 T2 barrier with a cheap ability first so your real damage lands on health
• Watch the destination: the teleport has a visible target point, so a team that turns to face it removes the surprise entirely

Interactions

• The channel is interruptible — any Stun, Knockup or Root during the roughly 1s cast cancels the teleport and wastes the 18-50s cooldown
• Cooldown drops from 50s to 18s at T3, which is the upgrade that lets her use it as an entry AND an exit in the same fight
• The T2 300 barrier means the aggressive entry is survivable even into a focused team, which is why she can dive backlines despite 730 HP
• 40m at T1 covers a long distance, including jumping walls and elevation that would take a ground hero much longer

For a short window Wraith's fire rate increases and every bullet carries bonus Spirit Damage.

Purpose: Her damage window. Everything else in her kit exists to create the few seconds in which Full Auto is running and a target cannot leave.

Damage

+2 Spirit Damage per bullet on top of her weapon damage

How to play against it

• Break line of sight for the 5-8s duration. Full Auto does nothing if she has no target, and it is on a 25-45s cooldown
• Pop a defensive active (Metal Skin Metal Skin 3,200 souls Tier 3ArmorInstantCast +24s Cooldown +5s Duration +12% Bullet Resist -20% Dash Distance +20% Gravity Scale , Ethereal Shift Ethereal Shift 6,400 souls Tier 4TechInstantCast +37s Cooldown +4s Duration +5s Buff Duration +30% Spirit Resist +20 Spirit Power , Viscous's Cube) the moment you see her Full Auto animation, not after half the window has elapsed
• She is stationary and committed while shooting — this is the moment to burst her, since she has 730 HP and no defensive layer during the window
• Bullet Resist is the efficient answer; the majority of Full Auto's output is still weapon damage even with the spirit scaling buff

Interactions

• The 09-16-2026 patch increased its Spirit Damage per bullet scaling from 0.03 to 0.045, a direct buff to spirit-heavy Wraith builds
• T3's unlimited ammo removes the reload interruption, which turns the window from a burst into a sustained deletion of one target
• The natural sequence is Telekinesis to lock a target, then Full Auto, then Card Trick throws — the cards are generated by the Full Auto damage itself
• It has no defensive component at all, so activating it commits her to standing and shooting
• Cooldown falls from 45s to 25s at T1

Lifts one enemy hero into the air, holding them helpless for a couple of seconds, then slams them toward a location Wraith chooses. The slam deals damage and leaves the victim slowed and unable to use stamina or movement-based effects for a short time afterwards.

Purpose: Her pick tool. It removes one hero from a fight entirely for over two seconds and then repositions them — usually into her own team — with a follow-up window in which they still cannot escape.

Damage

100 spirit base (about 1.0x spirit scaling); T1 adds +100

Crowd control

Stunned during the 1.25s channel, then the target is airborne and unable to act for roughly 2.25s; after the slam they take a -32% move slow for 2.25s (T3 adds +1.5s) and cannot use Stamina or movement-based items and abilities

Mobility

None for Wraith — she channels for 1.25s while aiming the throw

Defensive

Removing a diver from the fight for over two seconds is a strong peel

How to play against it

• It is single-target and 10m range at base, so simply standing spread out and beyond 10m of Wraith denies it entirely
• Once lifted you cannot act, but your team can: the counterplay belongs to your allies, who should focus Wraith during the 1.25s channel to break it
• Cast Unstoppable before the lift, or carry slow resist or Debuff Reducer for the slow after the slam (Telekinesis is her ultimate, so Dispel Magic cannot purge it), because the movement lockout is what actually kills you, not the 100-200 damage
• A Viscous Cube on the target absorbs the slam damage outright, and Yamato's Shadow Transformation Shadow Transformation 5s Duration160s Cooldown Yamato transforms with an initial invincible window, refreshes her ability cooldowns, and for the duration casts them much faster while immune to negative status effects and heavily… Damage No direct damage; the power is in refreshed abilities cast 60% faster Mobility T2 adds +4 m/s move speed during the transformation, on top of her already… Defensive Initial invincibility during the 1.5s transformation channel, immunity to… 1 +7 weapon damage 2 +4 m/s move speed and -30s cooldown (160s base) 5 +3s duration (5s base up to 8s) and +30% bullet resist and +30% spirit resist status immunity ignores the disable
• 150s cooldown at base (105s at T2) — a Wraith who has used Telekinesis has no lockdown for the rest of that fight

Interactions

• The critical detail for matchups: the post-slam debuff blocks Stamina and movement-based abilities and items, so the victim cannot dash, Flight Flight 13s Duration42s Cooldown Vindicta lifts off and flies freely for an extended duration. Damage +10 spirit damage per bullet while airborne (T3 adds +10 more with improved… Mobility 13s of free flight on a 42s cooldown; Defensive Being airborne dodges most ground-targeted abilities and puts her out of… 1 +50% base ammo capacity during Flight 2 +10s duration (13s base up to 23s) 5 hero kills refresh Flight's duration; , Flying Slash Flying Slash 23m Range36s Cooldown Throws a grappling hook at an enemy and pulls herself to them, landing a light melee hit and leaving them significantly slowed on arrival. Crowd Control -40% movement slow for 2.5s on the target Damage 66 melee damage Mobility Pulls her to the target from 23m base (T3 adds +8m, up to 31m) 1 -18s cooldown (36s base down to 18s) 2 gain +35 Spirit Power for 6s 5 alt-cast to grapple allies, +8m cast range, and +1 charge or slide out of the follow-up
• 10m cast range base and 13m throw range (T3 adds +6m to both), so she must be relatively close to land it
• Cooldown falls from 150s to 105s at T2
• Wraith is channelling during the lift and can aim the throw, but she is not free to reposition — she is a stationary 730 HP target for that moment
• The standard combo is Project Mind in, Telekinesis the carry, then Full Auto on the slammed target while they cannot move