Chen stats, abilities and strategy [7.41a]
Converts creeps to his cause, building an army
Converting the creatures of the forest to his cause, Chen leads his makeshift armies to aid his team in battle. He assaults enemies with beasts while sending friends to safety. Then, when things seem darkest, he heals his allies wherever they may be.
Win Rate 47.9%
Pick Rate 0.7%
Attributes
626 +44.0/lvl
303 +38.4/lvl
23 +2.0/lvl
15 +2.1/lvl
19 +3.2/lvl
Stats
Damage:
48 - 58 + 3.2/level (154 - 164 at level 30)
Range:
650
Armor:
1.5 + 0.4/level (14.0 at level 30)
Movement:
305
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.41
- Removed Summon Convert innate ability
Facets
Wolf Convert
Summon Convert calls forth either a Giant Wolf or Alpha Wolf.
Abilities
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
Whenever Chen respawns, he is joined by a Zealot, a melee warrior creep with the ability to sacrifice itself to heal or deal damage to an enemy. The Zealot receives Holy Persuasion's benefits and scales up with other lane melee creeps as game time increases and gains extra base damage. The Zealot respawns next to Chen after 60s.
Zealot may be activated to teleport a unit under your control to Chen after a 6 second delay. If Chen is targeted, it will teleport all units you control. Taking damage from enemy heroes or their units will cancel the teleport.
10
50
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +25% Zealot Health/Damage
Patch 7.41
- New innate ability, has both passive and active components. Improves with game's time
- When Chen respawns, he is joined in battle by a Zealot, a melee creep warrior with the Martyrdom ability which allows him to sacrifice himself to deal damage or heal an ally. Zealot has the same stats as the current melee creeps on his team, including super or mega form, but has 125 attack range, base damage increased by 2 per Chen's level, base health regen increased from 0.5 to 2.5, and doesn't have Runty attack type. Zealot respawns after 60s dead
- Martyrdom ability: 500 range unit-targeted ability on the Zealot creep, targeting either an enemy or ally unit. When cast, the creep sacrifices itself, firing a projectile at 1000 speed at the target unit, dealing damage if it's an enemy or healing if it's an ally. Damage is 25 + 20% of the Zealot's health at the moment of the cast, and healing is 50% of these values
- This ability can be cast on a controlled unit to teleport it to Chen after a 6 second delay. Self-targeting will teleport all controlled units. Mana Cost: 50. Cooldown: 10s
- Mechanics moved from Divine Favor without any changes
Penitence
AFFECTS: Unit
DAMAGE TYPE: Pure
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
DEBUFF: Yes
Damages enemy unit, forces it to move slower and lets allies attack it more quickly.
DURATION: 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
MOVEMENT SLOW: 12% / 18% / 24% / 30%
BONUS ATTACK SPEED: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
DAMAGE: 50 / 100 / 150 / 200
20 / 17 / 14 / 11
80 / 90 / 100 / 110
800
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +15% Penitence Slow
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +75 Penitence Damage
Patch 7.41a
- Damage increased from 50/75/100/125 to 50/100/150/200
Although Chen's brand of animal enthrallment isn't quite strong enough to control the minds of enemy heroes, it still tests their resolve in combat.
Holy Persuasion
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF: Yes
Chen takes control of an enemy or neutral creep and receives a percentage of its bounty. Its maximum health is set to 400. Converted creeps will have increased movement speed and bonus damage. Chen may globally target his own creep if it has not taken damage in the last 3 seconds to unsummon it.
Persuading a new creep above max unit count causes the oldest persuaded creep to die.
Can target Ancient creeps when Chen has Aghanim's Shard.
The health of creeps already under Chen's control does not update to the new level upon leveling Holy Persuasion further.
Fully restores the creep's mana upon converting.
MAX UNITS: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
CREEP MAX LEVEL: 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
HEALTH MINIMUM: 400
PERCENTAGE OF BOUNTY: 25% / 50% / 75% / 100%
MOVE SPEED BONUS: 5 / 10 / 20 / 30
BONUS DAMAGE: 0% / 6% / 12% / 18%
15
110 / 130 / 150 / 170
600
Aghanim's Shard
Allows Holy Persuasion to target Ancient creeps. Can control up to 1/2/3 Ancient creeps based on Hand of God's level. Additionally levels up some abilities of creeps by 1 level.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +1300 Holy Persuasion Minimum Health
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +12% Holy Persuasion Damage
Patch 7.41
- Zealots receive the benefits from Holy Persuasion
- Now may be cast on existing persuaded creeps that have not been damaged in the last 3 seconds to unsummon them
- Unsummoning a unit has a global cast range, costs no mana and sets ability to a 3s cooldown
- Now increases all of creature's outgoing damage by 0/6/12/18% instead of only increasing attack damage by 4/8/12/16
Although they may not be knights, Chen incorporates beasts into the Fold in the same way he himself was converted.
Divine Favor
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
Passively provides an aura that grants increased health regeneration. Can be cast on allies to provide them with bonus armor and increasing the healing and health regeneration they receive. If cast on Chen, all units controlled by Chen receive the buff.
REGEN PER SEC: 1.5 / 3 / 4.5 / 6
DURATION: 6
ARMOR: 5 / 10 / 15 / 20
HEAL AMPLIFICATION: 5% / 10% / 15% / 20%
20 / 18 / 16 / 14
75
1200
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Divine Favor Heal Amplification
Patch 7.41
- Self-casting no longer teleports Chen's creeps to him
Chen's zeal is infectious, blessing his allies with vitality and compelling them to his side.
Hand of God
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
Heals all allied heroes on the map as well as all units under Chen's control. A large heal is applied at first and a slow heal over time is applied for 10 seconds afterwards.
Can heal invulnerable and hidden/banished allies.
INITIAL HEAL: 200 / 300 / 400
HEAL PER SECOND: 20 / 30 / 40
150 / 130 / 110
200 / 300 / 400
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Hand of God Fully Heals Chen and His Creeps
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Hand of God applies a Strong Dispel
Using the mental link with his thralls, Chen calls down restoration and well-being to those who share his fanaticism.
Talents
Hand of God Fully Heals Chen and His Creeps
Hand of God applies a Strong Dispel
+ 7.3%
+1300 Holy Persuasion Minimum Health
+15% Divine Favor Heal Amplification
+ 2.3%
+15% Penitence Slow
+ 0.2%
+12% Holy Persuasion Damage
+25% Zealot Health/Damage
+75 Penitence Damage
+ 0.3%
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.41a
- Level 15 Talent Penitence Slow increased from +14% to +15%
Patch 7.41
- Level 10 Talent +150 Convert Attack Speed replaced with +25% Zealot Health/Damage
- Level 15 Talent +14 Holy Persuasion Damage replaced with +12% Holy Persuasion Damage
Strategy
Bring a {sentry-ward} or two to the lane to unblock the camps. Chen's laning impact is directly related to summon usage.
If you find Harpy Stormcrafter, you will have massive kill potential with the slow from Penitence.
Aside from using summons to harass on the lane, you can gank with them, stack camps, control runes, block camps and even snipe couriers.
Keep an eye on the map and save your teammates in trouble by using Hand of God.
You want to group up early with your team and make use of your summons and auras to play aggressively.
When not much is happening on the map, you can split push lanes with your summons.
Look to farm and play greedy once you have level 3 Holy Persuasion. An early timing on {mekansm} into {solar-crest} lets you snowball the game.
You can choose a Convert facet to cover the weakness or enforce the strength of your team, such as stun lock, damage, or laning.
Counter Strategy
Block off small and big pull camps either with a {sentry-ward} or with your hero's body.
Chen lineups tend to power spike in early to mid game. Don't buy greedy items.
Look to gank Chen as you will kill his army as well.
Items that reduce healing are good against Chen.
Chen lineups are good at taking early 
Roshan. Place {observer-ward} around the Roshpit to scout.
Be aware of Chen applying strong dispel with Hand of God if he has the level 25 talent.