Shiva's Guard
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5175Said 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
Combat Stats
+ 15 Armor
+ 0.83 Armor (from attributes)
Damage.damageAbilityMagicalAoe
+ 5 Damage for Strength Heroes
+ 5 Damage for Agility Heroes
+ 5 Damage for Intelligence Heroes
+ 5 Attack Speed (from attributes)
+ 110 Health (from attributes)
+ 5 Health Regen
+ 0.45 Health Regen (from attributes)
+ 60 Mana (from attributes)
+ 0.25 Mana Regen (from attributes)
+ 0.5% Magic Resistance (from attributes)
+ 15% Spell Amplification
Attributes
+ 5
+ 5
+ 5
Recipe
Abilities
Active: Arctic Blast
Emits a freezing wave that causes enemies to take 15% more damage from spells for 16.0 seconds, deals 200 magical damage and slows their movement by 40% for 4.0 seconds. Deals 150% damage to illusions.
Radius: 900
Mana: 75
Cooldown: 27
Passive: Freezing Aura
Reduces the attack speed of all enemies by 45 and all heals, regeneration and lifesteal by 25%.
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.
- 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 or non-core item for each role. These statistics are based on our .
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 upgrade from Veil of Discord that slows enemies and increases the magical damage they receive from you.
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 Wild Axes.
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. Look to use it before popping Primal Split to slow enemy heroes and increase your spell damage output.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Also provides tankiness through stats.
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 Double Edge.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with Ion Shell.
A core item to become significantly more tanky with armor and stay on top of enemy heroes by slowing them. Also reduces healing on enemy heroes to make them less tanky.
A core item to become tanky with armor and increase your mana pool to synergize with Refresher for double Doom. Also helps with AoE slow that goes with Scorched Earth.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Also provides tankiness through stats.
A core item that causes enemies to take more magic damage from you. The AOE slow provided by the active also helps in chasing down kills and gives good overall stats.
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 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 spells.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Also provides tankiness through stats.
A core item that improves your tankiness with armor and increases the chances of your Supernova surviving by decreasing attack speed around you. Also reduces the movement speed of enemy heroes to keep them within Supernova AoE.
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 the outgoing damage of all your spells.
A core mid game pick up to become tanky with armor and reduce healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage from Rot.
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 boosts the magic damage output of your entire toolkit.
A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Also increases the damage output of all your spells and 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. Has great synergy with Aghanims Scepter to increase the AoE damage output of Gush.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells. Also provides effective damage and tankiness through stats.
A core item to do more AoE damage in fights and clear creep waves quickly. Also makes you much more tanky with armor. Gets refreshed with Rearm to spam for damage with each usage.
A core item that helps to reduce healing in an AoE around you and become more tanky with armor. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells.
A core item that gives you some much needed armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE spells.
A core item that gives you tankiness with armor and reduces healing in an AoE around you. Also increases the damage output of all your spells and works well against illusions and summons along with your AoE damage spells.
Heroes countered by Shiva's Guard
Helps lower the healing from Abaddon with Mist Coil.
Helps lower the HP regen from Chemical Rage.
Gives you tankiness and AoE damage with Arctic Blast to kill Chaos Knights illusions much quicker.
Gives you tankiness and AoE damage with Arctic Blast to kill Wall of Replica illusions much quicker.
Gives you tankiness to take less damage from Starbreaker and right clicks while reducing Dawnbreakers HP gain from Luminosity.
Gives you tankiness to take less damage from Dazzles spells and right clicks while reducing his healing from Shadow Wave.
Gives you tankiness to take less damage from Exorcism while reducing her HP gain from Spirit Siphon and at the end of Exorcism.
Helps lower the HP regen from Berserkers Blood.
Helps lower the healing and HP regen from Tether and Overcharge.
Helps lower the lifesteal from Feast and Open Wounds.
Gives you tankiness against Marci right clicks as well as lowers the lifesteal from Sidekick.
Gives you tankiness against Meepo right clicks as well as lowers the HP gain from Ransack. Also lets you do AoE damage against all Meepo clones.
Helps lower the HP gain from Jingu Mastery attacks. The Arctic Blast active also provides vision in treelines when Monkey King is perched on a tree.
Helps lower the HP gain from Attribute Shift (Strength Gain).
Gives you tankiness and AoE damage with Arctic Blast to kill Naga Sirens illusions much quicker.
Helps lower the healing from Purification.
Helps lower the healing from Purifying Flames.
Gives you tankiness and AoE damage with Arctic Blast to kill Phantom Lancers illusions much quicker.
To reduce his regen and slows his movement speed as a main source of dealing damage.
Against core Tiny
To reduce healing.
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.