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.
Attributes
440 +48.4/lvl
312 +33.6/lvl
20 +2.2/lvl
16 +1.5/lvl
26 +2.8/lvl
Stats
Damage:
-1 - 4 + 1/level (28 - 33 at level 30)
Range:
425
Armor:
1 + 0.3/level (9.7 at level 30)
Movement:
285
Roles
Carry
Escape
Nuker
Initiator
Durable
Disabler
Support
Pusher
Strategy
Make sure to hit each enemy at least once to apply the Arctic Burn debuff.
Avoid Splinter Blasting melee creeps until it reaches level 4 as you will put 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Stats
Win Rate 50.8%
Pick Rate 4.5%
Facets
Essence of the Blueheart
Win Rate: 49.3%
Pick Rate: 55.0%
Winter Wyvern's heals also restore mana.
HEALING CONVERTED TO MANA:
15%
Dragon Sight
Win Rate: 52.6%
Pick Rate: 45.0%
Winter Wyvern gains bonus damage when her attack range is over 400.
DAMAGE PER 10 ATTACK RANGE:
0.25/0.33/0.5/1
Abilities
Arctic Burn
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.
PASSIVE:No
BUFF:yes
DEBUFF:yes
duration:7 / 8 / 9 / 10
attack range bonus:275 / 300 / 325 / 350
percent damage:4 / 6 / 8 / 10
tick rate:0.5
damage duration:5
move slow:16 / 24 / 32 / 40
projectile speed bonus:500
tree destruction radius:175
attack point:0.1
max attacks:5
Aghanim`s Scepter Upgrade
Causes Arctic Burn to be a toggle ability, draining mana every second when active. Removes limit on number of attacks per target. Increases Winter Wyvern's movement speed.
+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
+17% Arctic Burn Slow
26 / 24 / 22 / 20
100
Splinter Blast
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.
AFFECTS:unit area
PASSIVE:No
DISPELLABLE:basic
BUFF:yes
DEBUFF:yes
projectile speed:1200
projectile max time:1
split radius:500
bonus movespeed:-28 / -32 / -36 / -40
movespeed slow tooltip:28 / 32 / 36 / 40
slow duration:4
secondary projectile speed:1000
damage:80 / 160 / 240 / 320
+400 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
+100 Splinter Blast Damage
Splinter Blast 1.5s Stun
6
105 / 115 / 125 / 135
Cold Embrace
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.
AFFECTS:unit
PASSIVE:No
BUFF:yes
duration:4
heal additive:40 / 45 / 50 / 55
heal percentage:2.25 / 3 / 3.75 / 4.5
Aghanim`s Shard Upgrade
When Cold Embrace ends, a Splinter Blast goes off at that location, hitting enemies within 1150 range. Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds.
+25HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
24 / 21 / 18 / 15
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
Winter's Curse
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 magic damage from Winter Wyvern or her controlled units, that is amplified.
AFFECTS:unit area
PASSIVE:No
radius:525
damage reduction:100
damage amplification:30
bonus attack speed:65
duration:2
max duration:4 / 5.5 / 7
bonus duration per hero:2
bonus duration per creep:0.5
+55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
85 / 80 / 75
150 / 200 / 250
Talents
+25HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
+35 Damage
+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
+400 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
+17% Arctic Burn Slow
+100 Splinter Blast Damage
+55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
Splinter Blast 1.5s Stun
Lore
Like many great poets, Auroth just wants time to write, but the Winter Wyvern's life is full of interruptions. The epics of the Eldwurms have a long and colorful history, but some fear that the remaining dragon scholars are not as prolific as they once were, with few lines added to the Eldwurm Eddas since the last age of greatness. Auroth laments: "We forget that there is more to life than triumph and dominion over enemies. We must also live our lives in the pursuit of creative expression." She embarks on research expeditions, collecting books for inspiration. But all this research can be terribly distracting, and she spends less time writing than she should. Although she knows she should be lurking in her lair, adding to the Eddas, she finds herself engaged in epic battles against powerful enemies. She loots castles, raids ancient libraries ... and if she happens to heap glory on herself in the process, she tells herself that it's merely a side effect of her research. The fact is, while her skill and power on the battlefield are legendary, her scholarly travails have thus far hardly been the stuff of literary acclaim. But she is not content to stand as a protagonist of heroic lore. She wishes also to create it.