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Winter Wyvern build & guide (7.41)

Able to force her enemies to attack their own ally

Winter Wyvern Hard Support build

Divine – Immortal · 51.4% win rate · 13,879 matches · Tier A · Sep 11 – Sep 17

Skill order

Skill priority Arctic Burn › Splinter Blast › Cold Embrace

Winter's Curse at 6, 12 and 18

  1. Level 1: Arctic Burn
  2. Level 2: Cold Embrace
  3. Level 3: Arctic Burn
  4. Level 4: Splinter Blast
  5. Level 5: Arctic Burn
  6. Level 6: Winter's Curse
  7. Level 7: Arctic Burn
  8. Level 8: Arctic Burn
  9. Level 9: Splinter Blast
  10. Level 10: Splinter Blast
  11. Level 11: Splinter Blast
  12. Level 12: Winter's Curse
  13. Level 13: Splinter Blast
  14. Level 14: Cold Embrace
  15. Level 15: Cold Embrace
  16. Level 16: Cold Embrace
  17. Level 18: Winter's Curse
  18. Level 20: Level 10 talent (talent)
  19. Level 25: +175 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius (talent)

Items

Starting items

  • Tango 100% pick · 51.6% win rate
  • Blood Grenade 93% pick · 51.9% win rate
  • Iron Branch 80% pick · 52.0% win rate
  • Sentry Ward 69% pick · 52.6% win rate
  • Magic Stick 66% pick · 51.5% win rate
  • Faerie Fire 53% pick · 52.9% win rate

Boots

  • Arcane Boots 12 min · 73% pick · 52.4% win rate
  • Power Treads 15 min · 13% pick · 56.4% win rate
  • Guardian Greaves 38 min · 5% pick · 68.6% win rate

Late game

  • Blink Dagger 7/10 games
  • Magic Wand 5/10 games
  • Glimmer Cape 5/10 games
  • Force Staff 3/10 games

Talents

  • Level 25: Splinter Blast 1s Stun 75% pick · 50.0% win rate or +60 Winter's Curse Attack Speed 25% pick · 50.0% win rate
  • Level 20: +100 Splinter Blast Damage 75% pick · 62.0% win rate or +15% Arctic Burn Slow 25% pick · 66.7% win rate
  • Level 15: +175 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius 65% pick · 57.3% win rate or +3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration 35% pick · 62.1% win rate
  • Level 10: +20 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal 52.2% win rate or +35 Damage – win rate

Matchups

Strong against

  • Terrorblade +11.9% advantage · 64.1% win rate · 237 games
  • Enigma +11.6% advantage · 56.9% win rate · 204 games
  • Marci +10.1% advantage · 59.4% win rate · 192 games
  • Riki +7.2% advantage · 56.7% win rate · 180 games
  • Razor +6.5% advantage · 57.2% win rate · 271 games
  • Vengeful Spirit +6.4% advantage · 56.9% win rate · 397 games

Weak against

  • Queen of Pain -7.1% advantage · 47.2% win rate · 447 games
  • Abaddon -6.8% advantage · 42.4% win rate · 132 games
  • Phoenix -5.6% advantage · 43.9% win rate · 392 games
  • Tinker -5.5% advantage · 45.9% win rate · 259 games
  • Faceless Void -5.1% advantage · 48.4% win rate · 273 games
  • Luna -4.7% advantage · 45.5% win rate · 898 games

Builds from 7,086 parsed games

Winter Wyvern counters & matchups

  • Strength: 22 +2.5
  • Agility: 16 +1.7
  • Intelligence: 26 +3.6
  • Damage: 42–49
  • Armor: 3.6666667
  • Move speed: 285
  • Attack range: 450

Winter Wyvern abilities

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.

Aghanim's Scepter: Causes Arctic Burn to be a toggle ability, draining mana every second when active. Increases Winter Wyvern's movement speed.

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 27/30/33/36%.

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.

Aghanim's Shard: Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds. Allied units gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon.

Eldwurm's Edda

Grants Winter Wyvern the item Eldwurm's Edda, which can be consumed to increase the current and maximum level of a basic ability by one and Winter Wyvern's base intelligence by 25% of its current value at the time of consumption.

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 damage from Winter Wyvern or her controlled units. Enemy heroes which enter the cursed area after the cast add to the duration of the curse.

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.