Winter Wyvern stats, abilities and strategy
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 52.4%
Pick Rate 5.7%
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 - 165 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
Patch 7.38
- Is now an Intelligence Hero
- Base Damage increased by 15-17
- Base Strength increased from 20 to 22
- Damage at level 1 decreased from 42-47 to 40-47
- Strength gain increased from 2.2 to 2.5
- Agility gain increased from 1.5 to 1.7
- Intelligence gain increased from 2.8 to 3.6
- Damage gain per level decreased from +4.6 to +3.6
- Damage at level 30 decreased by 45-43 (from 203-208 to 158-165)
- Base Attack Speed increased from 90 to 100
- Removed Essence of the Blueheart and Dragon Sight Facets
Facets
Essence of the Blueheart
Winter Wyvern's heals also restore mana.
Dragon Sight
Winter Wyvern gains bonus damage when her attack range is over %attack_range_min%.
Winterproof
Win Rate: 52.3%
Pick Rate: 14.1%
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.
Patch 7.38
- Cold Embrace: Can be cast on buildings. Chosen building isn't healed, but still protected from physical damage. Affected units or buildings gain 60% bonus attack damage after the cocoon thaws. Buff Duration: 6s
- Cold Embrace: If the building is under effect of both Cold Embrace and Glyph of Fortification, the buff duration is paused. Lane creeps don't have this interaction
Recursive
Win Rate: 52.4%
Pick Rate: 85.9%
Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero if the primary target dies.
Patch 7.38b
- Winter's Curse: No longer amplifies physical, magical, and pure damage taken from Winter Wyvern
Patch 7.38
- Winter's Curse: Makes all affected enemies take 125% of physical, magical and pure damage from Winter Wyvern. Whenever the cursed enemy dies, Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero affected by the Curse. The recast has minimum, maximum, and bonus durations equal to 50% of the default spell
Abilities
ABILITY: Passive
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 %three_tooltip% heroes that did not collect the initial bonus.
Patch 7.38
- Now applies to Shrines of Wisdom instead of removed Wisdom Runes
Arctic Burn
DAMAGE TYPE: Magical
PIERCES DEBUFF IMMUNITY: No
PASSIVE: No
BUFF: Yes
DEBUFF [E]: 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 %percent_damage%% of their current health each second.
Enemy units can only receive the Arctic Burn debuff once per cast.
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: 275 / 300 / 325 / 350
HEALTH BURN: 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
BURN DURATION: 5
MOVEMENT SLOW: 16% / 24% / 32% / 40%
MANA PER SECOND:
MOVEMENT SPEED: %
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.
MANA PER SECOND:
MOVEMENT SPEED: %
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +17% Arctic Burn Slow
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
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 [E]: 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 %movespeed_slow_tooltip%%.
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%
DAMAGE: 80 / 160 / 240 / 320
6
105 / 115 / 125 / 135
1150
LEVEL 25 TALENT: Splinter Blast 1.5s Stun
LEVEL 20 TALENT: +100 Splinter Blast Damage
LEVEL 15 TALENT: +400 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%
BONUS ATTACK DAMAGE: %
DAMAGE BUFF DURATION:
24 / 21 / 18 / 15
50 / 60 / 70 / 80
850 / 900 / 950 / 1000
FACET: Winterproof
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.
Aghanim's Shard
When Cold Embrace ends, a Splinter Blast goes off at that location, hitting enemies within %shard_splinter_range% range. Reduces cooldown by %shard_cooldown_reduction% seconds.
LEVEL 10 TALENT: +25 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
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.
CURSE RADIUS: 525
CURSE DAMAGE REDUCTION: 100%
CURSE ATTACK SPEED: 65
CURSE MINIMUM DURATION: 2
CURSE MAXIMUM DURATION: 4 / 5.5 / 7
CURSE BONUS DURATION PER HERO: 2
CURSE BONUS DURATION PER CREEP: 0.5
100 / 90 / 80
150 / 200 / 250
800
FACET: Recursive
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.
LEVEL 25 TALENT: +55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
Patch 7.38b
- Cursed target is no longer immune to physical damage from Winter Wyvern and her controlled units
- Cooldown increased from 85/80/75s to 100/90/80s
Patch 7.38
- Affected units no longer take increased magical and pure damage bonus from Winter Wyvern by default
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 1.5s Stun
+ 4.7 %
+55 Winter's Curse Attack Speed
+100 Splinter Blast Damage
+ 1.6 %
+17% Arctic Burn Slow
+400 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
+ 2.5 %
+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration
+30 Damage
+25 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal
+ 1.5 %
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 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.
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.
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 passive 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.
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.