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 52.0%
Pick Rate 6.0%
Attributes
604 +55.0/lvl
387 +43.2/lvl
22 +2.5/lvl
16 +1.7/lvl
26 +3.6/lvl
Stats
Damage:
40 - 47 + 3.6/level (158.4 - 165.4 at level 30)
Range:
425
Armor:
3.7 + 0.3/level (14.2 at level 30)
Movement:
285
Roles
Carry
Durable
Nuker
Pusher
Support
Escape
Disabler
Initiator
Facets
Essence of the Blueheart
Essence of the Blueheart
Dragon Sight
Dragon Sight
Winterproof
Win Rate: 52.3%
Pick Rate: 13.5%
Cold Embrace can be cast on buildings. Does not heal buildings. Allied units and buildings gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon.
Cold Embrace
Cold Embrace can be cast on buildings. Does not heal buildings. Allied units and buildings gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon. Duration is paused if the building is protected by both Glyph of Fortification and Cold Embrace.
BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE: =60%
DAMAGE BUFF DURATION: =6.0
Recursive
Win Rate: 52.0%
Pick Rate: 86.5%
Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero if the primary target dies. Cursed enemies take {s:bonus_damage_amplification_tooltip}% physical, magical, and pure damage from Winter Wyvern.
Winter's Curse
Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero if the primary target dies. When recast, minimum, maximum, and bonus durations are =50.0% as long. Cannot transfer to illusions. Cursed enemies take %damage_amplification_tooltip% physical, magical, and pure damage from Winter Wyvern.
Abilities
When a Shrine of Wisdom grants experience to allies, Winter Wyvern shares the knowledge with her entire team, granting 20% of the experience to each of the 3 heroes that did not collect the initial bonus.
PATCH 7.38
Now applies to Shrines of Wisdom instead of removed Wisdom Runes
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.
BURN DURATION: 5
MOVEMENT SLOW: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40%
MANA PER SECOND: 20
MOVEMENT SPEED: 25%
26 / 24 / 22 / 20
100
Aghanim's Scepter
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
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%.
SHATTER RADIUS: 500
DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320
6
105 / 115 / 125 / 135
1150
- +400 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
- +100 Splinter Blast Damage
- Splinter Blast 1.5s Stun
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.
DURATION: 4
BASE HEAL PER SECOND: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55
24 / 21 / 18 / 15
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
850 / 900 / 950 / 1000
Aghanim's Shard
When Cold Embrace ends, a Splinter Blast goes off at that location, hitting enemies within 1150 range. Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds.
- +25 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
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.
CURSE RADIUS: 525
CURSE DAMAGE REDUCTION: 100%
CURSE ATTACK SPEED: 65
CURSE MINIMUM DURATION: 2
CURSE BONUS DURATION PER HERO: 2
CURSE BONUS DURATION PER CREEP: 0.5
100 / 90 / 80
150 / 200 / 250
800
- +55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
Talents
Splinter Blast 1.5s Stun
+ 6.1 %
+55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
+100 Splinter Blast Damage
+ 0.5 %
+17% Arctic Burn Slow
+400 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
+ 1.2 %
+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
+30 Damage
+25 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
+ 1.1 %
Win Rate
Pick Rate
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.
Aghanim's 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.
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.
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.