What type of hero is Baba?

Baba is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: easy to learn.

What are Baba's abilities?

Threadsap, Granny Long Legs and Baba's Brew, plus the ultimate Feed The Birds. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.

How much health does Baba have?

Baba starts with 780 health and gains 45 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).

Is Baba good for beginners?

Baba is rated easy to learn. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.

What should I buy first on Baba?

Most Baba players open with Extra Charge, Extra Spirit and Mystic Regeneration. See the full Baba build for mid and late game items.

Baba

Mystic hero · Easy to learn

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Baba starts with 780 health and a gun that deals 85 damage per second. Their abilities are Threadsap, Granny Long Legs and Baba's Brew, with Feed The Birds as the ultimate.

Baba build Compare Baba

Health: 780
Regen: 2.5/s
Move speed: 6.5m/s
Sprint: +1.6m/s
Stamina: 2
Gun DPS: 85

Win rate 53.0% Pick rate 31.5% 829k matches in the last 30 days Counters and synergy

The kit

Baba abilities

Ability 1

Threadsap

Cooldown: 28s
Range: 35m

Weave a scraggly thread that follows your crosshair before bursting along its path, dealing Spirit Damage and stealing enemy Spirit, increased in effectiveness for Baba.

While holding stolen Spirit, Baba deals Spirit Damage with every bullet.

Tech Power Gain: 10 +0.9 per boon
Stolen Spirit Effectiveness: 175%
Spirit Damage Per Bullet: 8 ×0.26
Debuff Duration: 22s
Max Stacks: 45 +2 per boon
Damage: 50

I
+8 Spirit Damage Per Bullet
1 AP
II
-12s Cooldown
+8s Debuff Duration
2 AP
III
+1 Charge
On Hit: Pull enemies 7m
5 AP

Ability 2

Granny Long Legs

Cooldown: 32s
Duration: 10s

Your bench's legs extend, granting Move Speed, higher jumps, Debuff Resistance and Melee Resistance.

Light Melee: Perform a kick that knocks enemies back.
Heavy Melee: Perform a ground pound that applies Knock Up, Slow, and deals Spirit Damage.

Hold Crouch to charge a high jump, release to jump.

Move Speed: +5 m
Debuff Resist: +30%
Melee Resist: +30%
Light Melee Knockback: 10m
Heavy Melee Damage: 75 ×0.6 Spirit
Heavy Melee Movement Slow: 50%
Heavy Melee Slow Duration: 4s

I
+2.5m Move Speed
1 AP
II
-7s Cooldown
2 AP
III
+15% Resists
+50% Melee Lifesteal
5 AP

Ability 3

Baba's Brew

Cooldown: 27s
Range: 12m

Brew a pot of tea that applies a magical effect in an area when thrown, cycling over time between a soothing Combat Barrier, Silence, or scalding burn that deals Spirit DPS and reduces Spirit Resist.

Press ADS to pause or resume brewing.

Barrier: 90 ×0.7 Spirit
Barrier Duration: 8s
Damage Per Second: 12 ×0.15 Spirit
Spirit Resist Reduction: -15
Burn Duration: 8s

I
+3m Radius
1 AP
II
-14s Cooldown
2 AP
III
+33.33% Brew Effectiveness
5 AP

Ultimate

Feed The Birds

Cooldown: 150s
Range: 18m

Cover targets in front of you with bread, adding a stacking Slow .

When the channel ends a flock of pigeons bombard the targets, dealing Spirit Damage and hexing each target into a pigeon, increasing in both damage and duration based on bread count.

Barrage Max Damage: 450 ×1.6 Spirit
Hex Duration: 2.75s
Time To Max Stacks: 3.5s
Max Slow: 32

I
+4m Cast Range
+% Max Slow
1 AP
II
-55s Cooldown
2 AP
III
+ Max Damage
+ Spirit Scaling
+s Max Duration
5 AP

What players buy

Baba build

Full build

The items Baba players pick most often in the early game, and how often they buy each one.

I

Extra Charge 800
Picked in 83% of games
I

Extra Spirit 800
Picked in 40% of games
I

Mystic Regeneration 800
Picked in 33% of games
I

Extra Regen 800
Picked in 29% of games

From recent matches

Teammates and counters

All matchups

Baba wins 53.0% of 829k matches in the last 30 days. Here's who Baba does best with, the heroes Baba struggles against most, and the ones Baba beats most often.

Best with

Solomon 51.9% won together, 3.0 pts above expected

Nurse Harrow 56.3% won together, 1.8 pts above expected

Rem 50.5% won together, 1.3 pts above expected

Counters Baba

Rat King Baba wins 45.9%

Paige Baba wins 46.5%

Graves Baba wins 46.6%

Baba counters

Solomon Baba wins 60.3%

Mirage Baba wins 58.3%

Shiv Baba wins 58.3%

From recent matches

Items Baba players buy

Full build

How often Baba players buy each item and how often they win with it, over 829k matches in the last 30 days. Expensive items bought late often show high win rates because the game was already going well.

Item	Bought in	Win rate	Usually bought at
Extra Charge	94.2%	53.1%	4 min
Mystic Regeneration	89.0%	53.7%	5 min
Radiant Regeneration	87.2%	54.2%	12 min
Spirit Strike	78.5%	54.7%	9 min
Spirit Snatch	72.1%	55.6%	21 min
Healing Booster	68.6%	54.8%	12 min
Extra Regen	68.3%	53.8%	4 min
Torment Pulse	60.2%	57.9%	19 min
Rapid Recharge	55.0%	51.0%	24 min
Superior Cooldown	51.7%	57.5%	25 min

Highest win rates (bought in 5% of matches or more)

Spirit Burn 60.5% won · bought in 7.8%
Restorative Locket 59.8% won · bought in 12.8%
Unstoppable 59.6% won · bought in 5.5%
Crushing Fists 59.4% won · bought in 5.3%
Boundless Spirit 59.3% won · bought in 40.4%
Escalating Exposure 59.3% won · bought in 29.1%

Gun

Bunko-Night Special

DPS: 85; While firing
Sustained DPS: 55; Including reloads
Bullet damage: 8.8; × 3 pellets
Fire rate: 3.23/s
Magazine: 15; Empties in 4.65s
Reload: 2.5s

Damage over distance

Full damage to 15m Drops to 10% by 42m

Headshots deal ×1.65 damage. Bullets travel at 178 m/s.

Initiate to Eternus

Baba win rate by rank

How often Baba wins at each rank (by the average rank of the match) over the last 30 days. The middle line is 50%.

Initiate 51.9% · 11k
Seeker 52.6% · 23k
Acolyte 52.5% · 21k
Sentinel 53.3% · 18k
Mystic 52.7% · 16k
Ritualist 52.3% · 15k
Emissary 52.1% · 15k
Oracle 52.0% · 17k
Phantom 52.9% · 17k
Ascendant 53.9% · 7,234
Eternus 55.0% · 3,647

What Baba says

Baba voice lines

All 1,730

Baba has 1,730 voice lines, from kill lines to 39 conversations with other heroes. Here are a few:

There ain't no city like New York When picked
Oh I suppose I can't sit in Central Park forever When picked
That should knock 'em down a peg Ending someone's streak
Gotcha! Using Threadsap

Every Baba voice line

Every boon

Growth per level

Collecting souls levels you up. Each level from 2 onward is a boon, and every boon permanently adds:

Health: +45
Bullet damage: +0.41
Melee damage: +0.7
Spirit power: +1.1

Quick answers

Baba questions

What type of hero is Baba?: Baba is a mystic. Ability-focused heroes whose damage and control scale with spirit power. Complexity: easy to learn.
What are Baba's abilities?: Threadsap, Granny Long Legs and Baba's Brew, plus the ultimate Feed The Birds. Each one has three upgrades that cost 1, 2 and 5 ability points.
How much health does Baba have?: Baba starts with 780 health and gains 45 more with every boon (each level from 2 onward).
Is Baba good for beginners?: Baba is rated easy to learn. If you're new, Graves, Haze and Infernus are easier places to start.
What should I buy first on Baba?: Most Baba players open with Extra Charge, Extra Spirit and Mystic Regeneration. See the full Baba build for mid and late game items.

Case history

Baba lore

There are a few things most denizens of The Cursed Apple hope to experience at some point in their lives.

See a Broadway show.

Ice Skate at Rockefeller Center during Christmas season.

Get yelled at by the Central Park Pigeon Lady.

Because Baba is more than just an old woman that feeds spirit pigeons in the park... she's an institution. A force of nature woven into the very lore of New York City. Is it true that she's sat at the same bench every day for the past 50 years, rain or shine? Maybe. Is she REALLY the leader of The Soho Coven? Who's to say. One thing's for sure though... she's a New Yorker. And she's not going to sit back and watch a bunch of tourists tear apart Manhattan in pursuit of power.