Winter Wyvern stats, abilities and strategy [7.41a]
Able to force her enemies to attack their own ally
Winter Wyvern stalks the skies, slowing foes with burning cold as she soars over the battlefield. Should the enemy be foolish enough to gather, she curses them to attack one of their own as she blasts the gathering with icy splinters.
Win Rate 49.8%
Pick Rate 3.8%
Attributes
604 +55.0/lvl
387 +43.2/lvl
22 +2.5/lvl
16 +1.7/lvl
26 +3.6/lvl
Stats
Damage:
42 - 49 + 3.6/level (160 - 167 at level 30)
Range:
450
Armor:
3.7 + 0.3/level (14.2 at level 30)
Movement:
285
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Patch 7.41
- Removed Eldwurm Scholar innate ability
Facets
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
Grants Winter Wyvern the item Eldwurm's Edda, which can be consumed to increase the current and maximum level of a basic ability by one and Winter Wyvern's base intelligence by 25% of its current value at the time of consumption.
Patch 7.41
- New innate ability
- Winter Wyvern starts the game with Eldwurm's Edda item. After 10 minutes it can be consumed, increasing the current and maximum level of a basic ability by one. Also increases Winter Wyvern's Intelligence by 25% of its base value at the time of consumption
- Level 5 values are automatically calculated by applying 50% of the difference in all values between levels 3 and 4, except for the mana cost. Mana cost is kept the same as level 4
Arctic Burn
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF: Yes
Winter Wyvern soars upon an arctic wind, granting her unobstructed movement and allowing her to exhale a blistering chill into each attack. While soaring, her attacks travel further and faster, and slow enemies with a magical freeze that strips them of 4 / 6 / 8 / 10% of their current health each second.
This ability does not affect Roshan.
Reduces Winter Wyvern's attack point to 0.1.
The damage and slow from Arctic Burn can be dispelled.
FLIGHT DURATION: 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
BONUS ATTACK RANGE: 250 / 275 / 300 / 325
HEALTH BURN: 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
BURN DURATION: 3
MOVEMENT SLOW: 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%
26 / 24 / 22 / 20
100
Aghanim's Scepter
Causes Arctic Burn to be a toggle ability, draining mana every second when active. Increases Winter Wyvern's movement speed.
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +15% Arctic Burn Slow
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
Patch 7.41
- No longer has a one debuff per cast restriction on enemy heroes
- Burn Duration decreased from 5s to 3s
- Movement Slow decreased from 16/24/32/40% to 15/20/25/30%
The same organ where some dragons stoke their inner flame is, in Auroth, a crucible of unimaginable cold. From deep within her frosty gullet, an exhalation sends enemies into burning agony.
Splinter Blast
AFFECTS: Unit and area
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
DISPELLABLE: Yes
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF: Yes
Launches a ball of brittle ice toward a unit. The ice shatters on impact, leaving the primary target completely unaffected, while hurling damaging splinters into nearby enemies in a 500 base radius. Enemies struck by these splinters are slowed by 28 / 32 / 36 / 40%.
The primary projectile moves at 1200 movement speed.
The primary projectile cannot be disjointed and cannot be targeted towards Winter Wyvern herself.
SHATTER RADIUS: 500
MOVEMENT SLOW: 28% / 32% / 36% / 40%
SLOW DURATION: 4
DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320
6
105 / 115 / 125 / 135
1150
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Splinter Blast 1s Stun
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +100 Splinter Blast Damage
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +175 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
Produced slowly by specialized vesicles in her frozen gullet, Winter Wyvern blast shards of ice at her enemies.
Cold Embrace
AFFECTS: Unit
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
Encases an ally in an icy cocoon, freezing them solid while healing a base amount as well as a percentage of their maximum health each second. The cocoon blocks all physical damage.
DURATION: 4
BASE HEAL PER SECOND: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55
MAX HP HEAL PER SECOND: 2.25% / 3% / 3.75% / 4.5%
24 / 21 / 18 / 15
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
850 / 900 / 950 / 1000
Aghanim's Shard
Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds. Allied units gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +20 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
Patch 7.41
- Aghanim's Shard reworked
- Decreases cooldown by 4s. Allied units gain 60% bonus attack damage for 6s when emerging from the icy cocoon
From winter's heart comes a cold, healing embrace. The ice slows the blood and allows the spell to better work its curative magic.
Winter's Curse
AFFECTS: Unit and area
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: Yes
PASSIVE: No
Winter Wyvern dispells then freezes an enemy in place while striking those nearby with a maddening curse which causes them to attack their frozen ally with increased attack speed. The frozen ally and those cursed to attack their ally are immune to all damage from their enemies with the exception of damage from Winter Wyvern or her controlled units.
If the target dies to its allies, Winter Wyvern will receive credit for the kill.
Will only pierce the spell immunity of the primary target, not the target's surrounding allies.
RADIUS: 525
DAMAGE REDUCTION: 100%
ATTACK SPEED: 50 / 65 / 80
MINIMUM DURATION: 2
MAXIMUM DURATION: 6
BONUS DURATION PER HERO: 1.5
BONUS DURATION PER CREEP: 0.5
100 / 90 / 80
150 / 200 / 250
800
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +60 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
Patch 7.41
- Attack Speed rescaled from 65 to 50/65/80
- Maximum Duration rescaled from 4/5.5/7s to 6s
- Bonus Duration per hero decreased from 2s to 1.5s
- Bonus duration per hero can now be applied after the cast if an enemy hero becomes affected
The oldest of the bookwurm's spells, this curse lends truth to the old saw: sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my enemy still.
Talents
Splinter Blast 1s Stun
+ 1.1%
+60 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
+100 Splinter Blast Damage
+15% Arctic Burn Slow
+ 4.4%
+175 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
+ 6.4%
+35 Damage
+ 1.6%
+20 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
Win Rate
Pick Rate
Patch 7.41
- Level 15 Talent Splinter Blast Shatter Radius decreased from +250 to +175
- Level 20 Talent Arctic Burn Slow decreased from +17% to +15%
Strategy
Make sure to hit each enemy at least once to apply the Arctic Burn debuff.
Avoid targeting melee creeps with Splinter Blast until it reaches level 4 as you will put the ranged creep in deny range.
Be careful when using Cold Embrace as a save. Often it is better to use your slows or Winter's Curse.
It is good to play close to trees or cliffs in dangerous spots on the map, so you can use them to escape with Arctic Burn.
Avoid showing yourself early in fights. Stay hidden and play around your Winter's Curse and Cold Embrace. Use Arctic burn to reposition.
Use Winters Curse carefully in the middle of fights as you might waste a lot of your ally's damage and cooldowns.
{aghanims-scepter} is crucial for right-click build. Make sure you take time to farm it.
Having timely {blink-dagger} will allow you to seize a moment and land multi-hero Winter's Curses.
Fight around good vision so you can position well and land multi-hero Winter's Curses.
Consider split pushing with Splinter Blast from the tree line. It is going to be your intuitive decision whether to right click the wave or just blast it. Use Arctic Burn across trees and hills to get away from danger.
Make sure you use your innate ability Eldwurm Scholar. It will provide a lot of experience to your teammates.
Try to pull creeps rather than trading when your Arctic Burn is on cooldown because your right click damage is very low.
Counter Strategy
Winter Wyvern is bad at trading when Arctic Burn is down.
Cold Embrace prevents all physical damage.
Focus Winter Wyvern in fights as she provides saves and disables for her team. Try to find her.
Avoid clumping up and fighting in choke spots against Winter's Curse.
{black-king-bar} prevents you from hitting a Cursed unit, but you can still get Cursed yourself.
Status resistance items shorten the duration of Winter's Curse.