Shiva's Guard

Upgraded Item | Armor

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5175

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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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 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. 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, 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 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 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.

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 boosts the magic damage output of your entire toolkit.

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 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 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

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