Sven

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Sven 23 + 3 21 + 2 16 + 1.3
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 626 1550 2474 2848 +0 +2.3 +6.5 +10.7 +12.4 Mana 75 267 483 783 879 +0.01 +0.81 +1.72 +2.97 +3.4 Armor 2 5.5 10.17 15.5 17.5 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 41 43 64 66 106 108 148 150 165 167 Attack Rate 0.56/s 0.67/s 0.83/s 1.01/s 1.07/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed 100 (1.8s BAT) Attack Animation 0.4 + 0.3 Projectile Speed Instant Move Speed 290 ( 320) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 24 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal Not Provided

Sven, the Rogue Knight, is a versatile melee strength hero with superior physical power coupled with powerful utility abilities. He can fulfill various roles, but is often played as a semi-carry due to his high utility even without items. He possesses a versatile arsenal, from Warcry, which grants armor that can be used for escaping as well as pushing, to the throwable Storm Hammer that stuns enemies around the targeted unit. With enough items, Sven has the potential to be a strong late-game carry due to his ultimate, which increases his damage, making him hit up to three times as hard, which can then be used in conjunction with his Great Cleave to secure multiple kills with just a few swings of his sword. This immense power granted to him solely by his ultimate makes him one of strongest late-game carries in the game, and arguably the strongest semi-carry of all, as his killing presence remains even if he decides to build more supportive and tanky utility items. A truly frightening enemy to go up against if farmed, strong and versatile, Sven is a solid addition to almost every team composition.

Bio

Sven, the Rogue Knight

▶️ "May my enemies share the fate of the Shattered Helm."

Lore:

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.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities

Storm Hammer

QT

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Magical

Sven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 600

Effect Radius: 255

Damage: 100/175/250/325

Stun Duration: 2

 13 ( 5)

 140

Modifiers [?]

Stunned

Strong

The Rogue Knight's iron gauntlet, taken from the school of his father, strikes his foes to their core.

• The targeting reticule must be centered over an enemy unit.

• Storm Hammer travels at a speed of 1000 and can be disjointed.

• Disjointing it completely nullifies the effects, including the area stun and damage.

• Turning invulnerable or hidden does not prevent it from affecting the area around the target.

• The projectile has 225 radius flying vision. This vision does not last.

• The projectile blocks neutral creep camps.

• Sven's sword emits some particles during the cast time, visible to everyone.

Great Cleave

▶️WC

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Damage
Physical

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

Starting Radius: 150

Distance: 570

End Radius: 300

Cleave Damage: 30%/42%/54%/66%

The Vigil Knights still seek to reclaim the stolen Outcast Blade from Sven, a weapon capable of cutting wide swaths through lesser warriors.

• Cleave damage is reduced by armor type but not by armor value.

• Cleave damage cannot be amplified with spell damage amplification and cannot spell lifesteal.

• Cleave damage is reduced by Damage Block.

• The complete area is shaped like an isosceles trapezoid in front of Sven.

• Fully stacks with other sources of cleaves. Each source of cleave works completely independent.

• Does not cleave upon attacking wards, buildings or allied units. Wards and buildings are unaffected by cleave.

• Despite the visual effect, cleave damage is applied instantly in the whole area.

Warcry

EW

Ability
No Target

Affects
Allies

Sven's Warcry heartens his allies for battle, increasing their movement speed and armor. Lasts {{#show:Sven#Warcry|?value4#}} seconds.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Effect Radius: 900

Move Speed Bonus: 12%

Armor Bonus: 5/10/15/20

Buff Duration: 8

 34/28/22/16

 25

Modifiers [?]

Warcry

Any

Calling a few lines from the Vigil Codex fortifies Sven's obedience to his rogue code. So poetic!

• Interrupts Sven's channeling spells upon cast.

• Fully stacks with other armor and movement speed granting abilities and items.

God's Strength

▶️RR

Ability
No Target
( Aura)

Affects
Self
( Allied Heroes)

Sven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage for {{#show:#God's Strength|?value5#}} seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Allies Bonus Radius: 0 ( 900)

Self Attack Damage Bonus: 80%/120%/160%

Self Strength Bonus: 12/24/36

Allies Attack Damage Bonus: 0 ( 75%/100%/125%)

Duration: 25

 80

 100/150/200

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

God's Strength grants bonus damage to allies in a {{#show:#God's Strength|?value1 aghs#}} radius.

Modifiers [?]

Gods Strength

Undispellable

Gods Strength Child

Undispellable

With the strength that shattered the Sacred Helm, the Rogue Knight stands unopposed in melee combat.

• Only increases base damage and that given by the primary attribute of Sven. Raw bonus damage is not increased.

• Checks Sven's main attack damage periodically and adapts the attack damage bonus instantly.

• The strength bonus effectively grants Sven health, health regeneration and {{#show:#God's Strength|?value3#}} attack damage.
  • The damage from the strength gets further increased to by the God's Strength damage bonus, since it is attributes-based damage.

• The effect added by Aghanim's Scepter is an aura, which is only active while God's Strength is active.
  • The aura places the Gods Strength Child buff on allied heroes, which lingers for 0.5 seconds.
  • The bonus attack damage is based on the main attack damage of the affected allies, and not on Sven's own attack damage.
  • Just like for Sven, the affected allies' current main attack damage is periodically checked, and the bonuses adapted instantly.
  • The aura treats creep-heroes as heroes, thus it fully affects them.

Talents

Hero Talents
-8s Storm Hammer Cooldown	25	+65 Damage
20% Evasion	20	+30 Attack Speed
+8 All Stats	15	+20 Movement Speed
+225 Mana	10	+6 Strength

Notes:

• Upgrading mana increases maximum mana capacity and keeps the current mana percentage.

• The evasion stacks multiplicatively with other sources of evasion.

• The attack damage is added as bonus attack damage, and therefore does not benefit illusions.

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Equipment

Sven Equipment (expand sets) Sets Armature of the Belligerent Ram Armour of The Iron Drakken Arms of Rising Fury Bite of the Broken Blade Cry of the Battlehawk Cyclopean Marauder Forge of Iron Will Guardian of the Sapphire Flame Hallowed Flame Indomitable Legacy Lord of Northwarden Meranth Dragoon Mono Militis Set Raiment of the Chiseled Guard Relics of the Lost Vigil Rhinoceros Order Sorrows of the Sunken City Stormwrought Arbiter Swordmaster of the Vigil Set The Fiend Cleaver The Flameguard's Armor The Freelancer's Finery Set Watcher on the Northern Shore Weapon Blade of the Dark Ancients Claive of Unyielding Stone Cleaver of Might Demon Claive Furious Rune Grand Blade of the Demigod Luminous Edge Meranth Executioner's Blade Radiant Claive Rhuis Tuning-Fork Ringblade Rogue Omen Ruling Sword Shattered Greatsword Spike of Frostbite Stalwart Sentinel Sven's Revenge Vigil Triumph Weighted Claive Wuldastron the Twin-Blade of Giants Head Commander's Helm of the Flameguard Vigil Odyssey Shoulder Commander's Pauldron of the Flameguard Back Bulwark of the Rogue Knight Commander's Cape of the Flameguard Belt Commander's Skirt of the Flameguard Arms Commander's Gauntlet of the Flameguard Vigil Signet Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Free to Fear

Trivia

• Sven's name is a reference to Sven-Ole Thorsen, a Danish bodybuilder and actor.
  • In an earlier version of DotA, Sven had a fun name called Arnold Schwarzenegger.
• The phrases "▶️ Twas only a flesh wound" and "▶️ It was but a scratch" are references to the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• The phrases "▶️ Blame the host" and "▶️ Bad host" are references to the original Warcraft III DotA gameplay when game stability depended on the quality of internet connection on the host player.
• Storm Hammer was named Storm Bolt in the early beta phases and was renamed into Storm Hammer at one point. It is also its original name in DotA1 and reflected in one of Sven's cast responses in Dota2, where he's referring to it as ▶️ "Storm Bolt".

Gallery

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  Concept art

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  Sven's default weapon, the Outcast Blade

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  Early model of the Outcast Blade

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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