Sven build & guide

Cleaves down enemies with his incredible strength

Sven is always eager to charge into a fight. He stuns grouped enemies as he wades into battle, and once he ignites his damage-boosting ultimate, a few swings of his massive sword are often more than enough to slay his foes.

Strength: 24 +3.5
Agility: 18 +2.2
Intelligence: 16 +1.5
Damage: 61–63
Armor: 3
Move speed: 325
Attack range: 150

Sven abilities

Storm Hammer

Sven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units in a small area around the target.

Aghanim's Scepter: Increases cast range and applies a basic dispel on the target. Affects invulnerable units. If alt-cast, it deals an additional 180 damage and Sven travels with the Storm Hammer.

Great Cleave

Sven strikes with great force, cleaving all nearby enemy units with his attack.

Warcry

Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed. Lasts 8 seconds.

Aghanim's Shard: Increases radius and bonus movement speed. Warcry is now undispellable and provides a 300 physical damage barrier.

God's Strength

Sven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage and slow resistance for 30 seconds.

Wrath of God

Sven gains additional attack damage from Strength.

Biography

Sven is the bastard son of a Vigil Knight, born of a Pallid Meranth, raised in the Shadeshore Ruins. With his father executed for violating the Vigil Codex, and his mother shunned by her wild race, Sven believes that honor is to be found in no social order, but only in himself. After tending his mother through a lingering death, he offered himself as a novice to the Vigil Knights, never revealing his identity. For thirteen years he studied in his father's school, mastering the rigid code that declared his existence an abomination. Then, on the day that should have been his In-Swearing, he seized the Outcast Blade, shattered the Sacred Helm, and burned the Codex in the Vigil's Holy Flame. He strode from Vigil Keep, forever solitary, following his private code to the last strict rune. Still a knight, yes...but a Rogue Knight. He answers only to himself.

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