Shiva's Guard – Dota 2 Guide, Stats & Hero Matchups [Patch 7.38c]

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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.

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Additional Insights

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.

Offlane

Core: 23%

10 out of 44 guides

Offlane

Common: 16%

7 out of 44 guides

Offlane

Situational: 32%

14 out of 44 guides

Mid

Core: 8%

3 out of 37 guides

Mid

Common: 8%

3 out of 37 guides

Mid

Situational: 38%

14 out of 37 guides

Support

Core: 8%

5 out of 63 guides

Support

Common: 2%

1 out of 63 guides

Support

Situational: 16%

10 out of 63 guides

Carry

Core: 0%

0 out of 43 guides

Carry

Common: 0%

0 out of 43 guides

Carry

Situational: 2%

1 out of 43 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

An upgrade for Veil of Discord 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 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. Has great synergy with Aghanims Scepter to increase the AoE damage output of Gush.

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 some much needed 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 is your all around strong item that enables your hero to farm quickly, slow opponents and deter lifesteal and regeneration from high HP targets. Works good against Illusions.

A core item to gain some much needed armor to stand in the middle of fights and dish out increased damage with your spells and Poison Attack right clicks. Also reduces the tankiness of enemy heroes around you by reducing their HP regen and lifesteal.

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 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 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 that causes enemies to take more magic damage, reduces healing, as well as providing you with ample sustain and armor in order to prolong your pressence in fights and prevent getting bursted.

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.

An upgrade for Veil of Discord 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 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.

Heroes countered by Shiva's Guard

Provides armor and helps lower the healing from Abaddon with Mist Coil.

Provides armor and helps lower the HP regen from Chemical Rage.

Everything about this item counters Bloodseeker. Reduces his healing, makes him attack slower, slows him with the active so he can be kited or chased down and amplifies any ability damage so he can be bursted down.

Shivas lets you reduce the attack speed of Bristle by a fair bit, and also most importantly his healing, regeneration and lifesteal by 25%.

Gives you tankiness and AoE damage with Arctic Blast to kill Chaos Knight and his 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 Dawnbreaker's right clicks and Starbreaker while reducing her HP gain from Luminosity.

Gives you tankiness to take less damage from Dazzle's spells and right clicks while reducing his healing from Shadow Wave and sustain items.

Gives you tankiness to take less damage from Exorcism while reducing Death Prophet's healing from Spirit Siphon and at the end of Exorcism.

Provides armor and helps lower the HP regen from Berserker's Blood.

Helps lower the healing and HP regen from Tether and Overcharge.

Provides armor and helps lower the lifesteal from Feast and Open Wounds.

Gives you tankiness against Marci's right clicks as well as lowers the lifesteal from Sidekick.

Gives you tankiness against right clicks from Meepo and his clones as well as lowers the HP gain from Ransack. Also lets you do AoE damage against all Meepo clones.

Provides armor and helps lower the lifesteal from Jingu Mastery attacks. The Arctic Blast active also provides vision in treelines when Monkey King is perched on a tree.

Provides armor and helps lower the HP gain from Attribute Shift (Strength Gain).

Amazing item against Naga as everything it provides counter her kit directly. The minus attack speed reduces her damage output, the minus regeneration interferes with her Heart and the active can be used to burst or kite her and her illusions.

Helps lower the healing and HP regen from Death Pulse and Heartstopper Aura.

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 Lancer and his illusions much quicker.

Helps lower Primal Beast's HP regen to reduce his tankiness as well as slow him down with Arctic Blast to keep him off you and your team during Trample.

Provides tankiness with armor and lets you reduce Sven's attack speed and movement speed with the Arctic Blast active.

Provides tankiness with armor and lets you reduce Tiny's attack speed and movement speed with the Arctic Blast active.

Provides armor and helps lower the lifesteal from Vampiric Spirit.

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