Shiva's Guard – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.41b]

Upgraded Item | Armor

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Said to have belonged to a goddess, today it retains much of its former power.

A hero's frosty fortress, a powerful and versatile item that not only fortifies your hero's defenses but also wreaks havoc on enemies in the most chilling way.

Base Combat Stats

+ 0 Health Regeneration

+ 17 Armor

+ 75 Area of Effect

Recipe

Abilities

Active: Arctic Blast

Emits a freezing wave that deals 260 magical damage to enemies and slows their movement by 40% for 4.0 seconds.

Radius: 825

Mana: 75

Cooldown: 27

Passive: Freezing Aura

Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by 45.

Radius: 1200

Additional Insights

The wave extends at a speed of %blast_speed% to a max size of %blast_radius%.
The Arctic Blast follows its caster.
Multiple instances of Freezing Aura do not stack.
AoE bonuses from multiple Chasm Stones or its upgrades do not stack.
Does not interrupt channeling
The beauty of Shiva's Guard lies in its defensive and disruptive nature. It's particularly effective against enemy heroes reliant on mobility or attack speed, offering your hero a way to hinder their movements and significantly reduce their combat effectiveness.

Statistics

The statistics below shows the percentage of hero builds which contain Shiva's Guard as a core, common or situational item for each role. These statistics are based on our hero guides.

Itemization Strategy

Shivas guard is a well balanced item that is received by the community as a both offensive and defensive item usually bought by offlaners and cores who love to initiate this item is perfect in the mid to late game. Centaur, Primal Beast and Doom makes it a wonderful patch for them

Heroes with Shiva's Guard as Core Item

A core item to become massively tanky against physical damage with armor and increase the AoE of Rot. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage from Rot. Has great synergy with {aghanims-scepter} to slow enemy heroes from range with the Arctic Blast active and stay on top of them with Rot.

A core item to gain some much needed armor and increase the AoE of all your spells. Works well against illusions and summons on the enemy team, as well as high physical damage heroes, such as {phantom-assassin}. The Arctic Blast active also helps keep enemy heroes within Static Link range with the movement speed slow.

An upgrade for {veil-of-discord} that gives you tankiness with armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells.

A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Also increases your damage output with all spells other than Tidebringer.

A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and increases the AoE of all your damage spells. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Has great synergy with {aghanims-scepter} to have an even bigger AoE on Gush.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of your spells, including Heartstopper aura. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. The movement speed slow from Arctic Blast also makes it difficult for heroes to get away from you and lets you finish them off with Reaper's Scythe.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of all your spells, including Sonic Wave, the damage and silence on Blink with {aghanims-shard}, and the Scream of Pain proc on Shadow Strike with {aghanims-scepter}. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells.

A core item when playing as a tanky front line hero. Gives you some much needed armor to stand in the middle of fights and increases the AoE of Nethertoxin and Corrosive Skin. The Arctic Blast active also adds another layer of damage and helps keep enemy heroes within your Poison Attack right clicks with the movement speed slow.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of all your spells. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. The movement speed slow from Arctic Blast also makes it difficult for enemy heroes to run away from your Battery Assault.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of all your spells, which makes your Vacuum into Wall of Replica combo even more potent in teamfights. Works well against illusions and summons along with Ion Shell.

An upgrade for {veil-of-discord} to become tanky with armor and slow down enemy heroes with the Arctic Blast active to keep them inside the Degen Aura radius and right click them with Hammer of Purity. Also reduces healing effects in an AoE around you, which works particularly well against tanky heroes.

A core item to become tanky with armor and slow down enemy heroes with the Arctic Blast active as you run at them in the Doom duration. Also increases the AoE of Scorched Earth, spells from neutral creeps, and Doom upgraded with {aghanims-scepter}.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of your spells, which works particularly well for Decay. The Arctic Blast active also provides another instance of damage and slows down enemy heroes to keep running at them in the Flesh Golem duration.

A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and increases the AoE of Hoof Stomp and Double Edge. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells.

A core item that gives you some much needed armor and increases the AoE of all your damage spells. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. The movement speed slow from Arctic Blast also helps keep enemy heroes inside Chakram.

An upgrade for {veil-of-discord} that causes enemies to take more magic damage and reduces healing in an AoE around you, while providing some much needed armor and HP sustain to stand in the middle of fights to do your damage with spells and right clicks.

A core item to tank up with armor against physical damage lineups and increase the AoE of all your damage spells. Use the Arctic Blast active before Diving in to have a massive spread of damage and movement speed slow, making it difficult for enemy heroes to run out of the Supernova AoE.

A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and increases the AoE of all your spells. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. The Arctic Blast active also provides another instance of damage and slows down enemy heroes to Trample over them.

A core item to go with {aghanims-scepter} that provides some much needed armor and lets you fearlessly strum your spells during Amphibian Rhapsody in the middle of teamfights. Also increases the AoE of your damage and buff spells while the Arctic Blast active keeps enemy heroes in range of your AoE damage by slowing them down.

Trivia

Shiva's Guard is based on a character from the Warcraft universe named Jaina Proudmoore, a powerful sorceress. In Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, she had a powerful ability called 'Blizzard', which caused a freezing storm to deal damage and slow enemy units within its radius, a mechanic that resembles Shiva's Guard's Arctic Blast ability.