Juggernaut

Healing Ward
Ward
Level	0
Duration	25
Health	1
Health regeneration	0
Armor	0
Magic resistance	0%
Status resistance	0%
Movement speed	350
Follow range	250
Turn rate	0.5
Collision size	8
Vision range	600 (G)
Bounty	75
Experience	75
Model scale	1
Notes	Phased

Juggernaut 20 + 2.2 34 + 2.8 14 + 1.4
Movement speed	305
Attack speed	110
Turn rate	0.6
Vision range	1800/800
Attack range	150
Projectile speed	Instant
Attack animation	0.33+0.84
Base attack time	1.4
Damage block	8
Collision size	24
Legs	2
Gib type	Default

Hero

Strategy

Yurnero, the Juggernaut, is a melee agility hero whose abilities allow him to sprint into battle and recklessly devastate enemies in an impenetrable flurry of blades.

His abilities grant invulnerability and spell immunity, turning him into an unstoppable force on a hairpin. Juggernaut is strong both offensively and defensively, and deals heavy damage both physical and magical with his Blade Fury and Omnislash ultimate, but he possesses below average strength and intelligence attributes, so he does not have as much health and mana as other heroes and is vulnerable when his abilities are on cooldown. For this reason, although his abilities make him powerful even in the early game, he cannot charge into forces without restraint until farmed and is usually played as a carry.

Bio[edit]

Yurnero, the Juggernaut

▶️ "By the Visage of Vengeance, which drowned in the Isle of Masks, I will carry on the rites of the Faceless Ones."

Lore:

No one has ever seen the face hidden beneath the mask of Yurnero the Juggernaut. It is only speculation that he even has one. For defying a corrupt lord, Yurnero was exiled from the ancient Isle of Masks--a punishment that saved his life. The isle soon after vanished beneath the waves in a night of vengeful magic. He alone remains to carry on the Isle's long Juggernaut tradition, one of ritual and swordplay. The last practitioner of the art, Yurnero's confidence and courage are the result of endless practice; his inventive bladework proves that he has never stopped challenging himself. Still, his motives are as unreadable as his expression. For a hero who has lost everything twice over, he fights as if victory is a foregone conclusion.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities[edit]

Blade Fury

▶️

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical

Causes a bladestorm of destructive force around Juggernaut, rendering him immune to magic and dealing damage to nearby enemy units.

Cast Animation: +

Radius: 250

Movement Speed Bonus: 0 (

75)

Damage per Second: 85/110/135/160 (

215/240/265/290)

Duration: 5

42/34/26/18

120/110/100/90

Modifiers

Blade Fury: Undispellable.

Yurnero's renowned katana techniques are feared by warriors and sorcerers alike.

Notes:

Does not interrupt Juggernaut's channeling spells upon cast.

Applies spell immunity for the duration and a basic dispel upon cast.

During Blade Fury, Juggernaut cannot be affected by Ghost Scepter. The buff gets removed immediately.

Juggernaut can perform attacks, cast spells, and use items during Blade Fury, however, Omnislash is inactive for the duration and cannot be cast.

During Blade Fury, Juggernaut's attacks deal 0 damage, except against wards and buildings.
- Attack modifiers like Monkey King Bar, Diffusal Blade or Skull Basher still apply their effects and damage on procs.
- This means critical strike and lifesteal have no effect (despite their visual effects), since they are based on the actual damage dealt.
- Cleave has no effect either (despite the visual effect), since Juggernaut's attack damage is 0 upon attacking.

Deals 17/22/27/32 ( 43/48/53/58) damage in 0.2 second intervals, starting 0.2 seconds after cast, resulting in 25 damage instances.

Can deal up to 425/550/675/800 ( 1075/1200/1325/1450) damage to a single unit (before reductions).

Healing Ward

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Ability
Target Area / Aura

Affects
Allies

Summons a Healing Ward which heals all nearby allied units, based on their max health. The Healing Ward moves at 350 movement speed after being summoned. Lasts 25 seconds.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 350

Radius: 500

Max Health as Health Regen Bonus: 2%/3%/4%/5%

Aura Linger Duration: 2.5

Duration: 25

60

140

Modifiers

Healing Ward Heal: Undispellable.

Of the rituals learned at the Isle of Masks, tending wounds with a bit of voodoo magic has proven to be quite useful.

Notes:

After cast, the ward automatically follows Juggernaut, if no other order is given.

The heal is provided by an aura. Its healing buff lingers for 2.5 seconds.

Can regenerate up to 55%/82.5%/110%/137.5% of a unit's max health over its full duration.

Can fully regenerate a unit's health within 50/33.33/25/20 seconds.

The healing auras of multiple Healing Wards do not stack.

Does not affect wards and buildings.

Blade Dance

▶️

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Gives Juggernaut a chance to deal critical damage on each attack.

Proc Chance: 20%/25%/30%/35%

Critical Damage: 180%

Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

The last remnant of his heritage's commitment to bladework, Yurnero ensures that the style is remembered.

Notes:

Increases attack damage by an average of 16%/20%/24%/28%.

The proc chances of multiple crit sources stack.
- If two sources of critical strike proc at the same time, the higher multiplier has priority.

Blade Dance uses pseudo-random distribution.

The sound and particles play upon start of the attack, not when the attack lands.

Omnislash

▶️

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Instant Attack

Juggernaut leaps towards the target enemy units, and then slashes the target and other nearby enemy units at an increased attack rate. Juggernaut is invulnerable for the duration.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 350

Slash Radius: 425

Attack Rate Divisor: 1.7

Attack Damage Bonus: 30/40/50

Duration: 3/3.25/3.5 (

4/4.25/4.5)

140

200/275/350

Grants a new ability: Swift Slash. Performs a quick Omnislash.

Only the very first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers

Omnislash: Undispellable.

Omnislash Invulnerability: Undispellable.

‘The fruits of discipline; with practice comes strength.’

Notes:

Turns Juggernaut invulnerable and rooted for the whole duration, and applies a basic dispel on cast.

The slash interval equals Juggernaut's current attack rate, divided by 1.7.
- This means the maximum possible interval for Omnislash is 4.12 and the minimum is 0.12, considering minimum and maximum possible attack speeds.
- The interval is not set on cast. On each slash, the interval updates based on his current attack rate.

Causes Juggernaut to perform instant attacks on enemies he slashes.
- These instant attacks are allowed to trigger attack modifiers normally.
- The instant attacks ignore disarms, but do not have True Strike.

Can neither target nor jump on wards, couriers and buildings. Cannot target, but can jump on ancient creeps.

Can jump on invulnerable units, however, since Juggernaut attacks the targets, invulnerable (and ethereal) targets take no damage.

Cannot jump on units in the Fog of War, invisible or hidden units, Tombstone Zombies and on Astral Spirits.

If no valid targets are in range, Omnislash ends prematurely.

On each slash, Juggernaut is positioned at the opposite side of the target from Juggernaut's position, facing the target.
- The slash radius is centered around Juggernaut, not around the current target.

Juggernaut can cast spells and use items during Omnislash. However, Blade Fury is inactive for the duration and cannot be cast.
- During Omnislash, Juggernaut does not need to turn in order to cast targeted spells or items.

Provides 200 radius flying vision lasting 1 second on each slash around the current target.

Recasting Omnislash while the previous cast is still active refreshes the duration.

Centers the player's camera perspective on Juggernaut on cast, following his position during Omnislash.

Swift Slash

▶️

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Instant Attack

Performs a quick Omnislash.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 650

Slash Radius: 425

Attack Rate Divisor: 1.7

Attack Damage Bonus: 30/40/50

Duration: 0.8

15

100

Only the very first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers

Omnislash: Undispellable.

Omnislash Invulnerability: Undispellable.

Notes:

Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.
Does not require Omnislash to be leveled to be unlocked, once Aghanim's Scepter is acquired.
- However, if cast while Juggernaut has not leveled Omnislash, the spell will do nothing, wasting the mana and cooldown.
All notes for Omnislash apply.

Talents[edit]

Hero Talents
+1s Omnislash Duration	25	+600 Health
+130 Blade Fury DPS	20	+10 Armor
+25 Attack Speed	15	+75 Blade Fury Movement Speed
+25 Movement Speed	10	+6 All Stats

Notes:

The all stats talent effectively grants Juggernaut 120 health, 0.6 health regen, 0.48% magic resistance, 0.96 armor, 6 attack speed, 0.3% movement speed, 72 mana, 0.3 mana regen, 0.42% spell damage and 6 attack damage.

The armor talent does not benefit illusions.

The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes[edit]

Main Article: Juggernaut/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.25

Reworked Aghanim's Scepter. Grants Swift Slash.

Swift Slash

Performs a quick Omnislash.

Cast Range: 650.

Slash Radius: 425.

Attack Rate Divisor: 1.7.

Attack Damage Bonus: 30/40/50.

Duration: 0.8

Cooldown: 15.

Mana cost: 100.

7.24

Increased base attack damage from 12‒16 to 16-20.
Increased base movement speed from 300 to 305.

7.23c

Increased base attack speed from 100 to 110.
Level 15 left talent: Increased attack speed bonus from 20 to 25.

Recommended items[edit]

Starting items:

Tango provide sustain to keep Juggernaut alive in the lane.
Healing Salve restores health to trade hits in lane.
Enchanted Mango allows Juggernaut to regain mana from early usage of Blade Fury.
Iron Branch increases Juggernaut's survivability and mana pool. Because of Juggernaut's low mana pool, an early Iron Branch gives the possibility of casting both Blade Fury and Omnislash back to back. It can later be upgraded into a Magic Wand.

Early game:

Boots of Speed give a passive speed boost, offering better escape and catch-up. They can later be built into Phase Boots.
Quelling Blade helps Juggernaut last hit by increasing damage against creeps.
Magic Stick is a useful burst healing/mana item if the enemies in lane cast many spells. It can later be built into a Magic Wand.
Wraith Band gives Juggernaut additional damage and attributes.

Mid game:

Phase Boots provide increased movement speed so Juggernaut can keep enemies in range of Blade Fury.
Magic Wand is good for burst health and mana while providing bonus attributes compared to the Magic Stick.
Drum of Endurance allows Juggernaut to run faster and push much earlier than other carries.
Maelstrom will allow Juggernaut to farm very fast along with give him some Omnislash damage potential with the lightning procs.
Yasha is just about required on Juggernaut. Having the bonus agility and damage is useful but the extra movement speed makes this item very important to catch up with enemies. Regardless what you build it into, it is an all around solid choice.
Diffusal Blade provides cost-effective attack damage bonus in Manabreak, while increasing Juggernaut's agility and intelligence. Its active, Inhibit, allows Juggernaut to slow down enemies.
Mask of Madness grants lifesteal and a cheap attack speed boost to improve Juggernaut's farming efficiency. The active can also be used during Omnislash for more slashes.

Late game:

Butterfly gives an enormous boost to his damage, attack speed, and armor, as well as having the ability to evade physical attacks. It greatly increasing the physical damage Juggernaut can take, while Blade Fury protects against the magical damage. The increased attack speed also allows Blade Dance to occur more often.
Abyssal Blade grants bash chance, which Juggernaut welcomes with low base attack time and decent agility, as well as active stun to lock down targets in the late game.
Black King Bar is helpful when the enemy team has more magical damage than Blade Fury can protect. Unlike Blade Fury, the Black King Bar also allows Juggernaut to attack while active, and has a maximum duration of 10 seconds.
Mjollnir is a natural upgrade to Maelstrom, and gives a large attack speed buff for more lightning procs and Omnislash attacks.
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks Swift Slash, letting Juggernaut delete lone enemies without committing Omnislash.

Situational items:

Power Treads can be a replacement for Phase Boots. If you are planning on farming the majority of the game and not fighting, it may be a better choice.
Manta Style can remove silences and help with split push. When coupled with Diffusal Blade, you can get some nice boost to damage output.
Blink Dagger is useful as an escape item or initiation as Omnislash requires a fairly close range.
Monkey King Bar allows Juggernaut to attack enemies with evasion during Omnislash.
Sange and Yasha is a fair pick on Juggernaut, since he does not have any gap-closing abilities. This item provides a good strength, agility, movement and attack speed bonus, which helps chase better.
Battle Fury provides cleave to boost Juggernaut's farming and pushing, as well as making Omnislash much more lethal to grouped enemies.
Eye of Skadi grants attributes and a slow on attacks, keeping targets within Juggernaut's attack range and Blade Fury's radius.
Satanic has status resistance, strength, attack damage, and active lifesteal that mesh well with Juggernaut's high attack speed, vastly enhancing his survivability in teamfights.
Nullifier can Mute certain troublesome items like Ghost Scepter and Black King Bar, and Juggernaut's high attack speed complements the slow effect.

Gameplay[edit]


Roles:	Carry Pusher Escape
Complexity:	★☆☆
Playstyle:	What laid under the Juggernaut's mask, none could say. The last of his kind, Yurnero carries alone the martial traditions of his native isle, now sunken forever beneath the waves. The Juggernaut elevates swordplay to an art form, cutting down foes in the unstoppable cyclone of Blade Fury, and striking at every vulnerability with Blade Dance. Should his party sustain injury, he is quick to replenishes their vitality with a portable Healing Ward. A paragon of discipline, Yurnero waits patiently for the opportune moment to execute his most fearsome technique. Dashing between foes with imperceptible swiftness, the Juggernaut's Omnislash eviscerates his opponents long before any can mount a defense.

Strategy & Tips

Counters &
Matchups

Audio[edit]

Responses

Sounds

History[edit]

Lore

Old Abilities

Changelogs

Equipment[edit]

Trivia[edit]

Juggernaut's backstory and appearance bear many similarities to that of the Seguleh people in the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series of books by Steven Erikson.
Juggernaut's ultimate, Omnislash, is inspired by and named after the signature move of Cloud Strife from the game Final Fantasy VII.^[1]
The rare line ▶️ "Screw it, I'm going to five blades!" is a reference to an article from The Onion about the increasing number of blades put into razors.^[2]
The line ▶️ "My blade is swifter." is a reference to the Heroes of Newerth hero Swiftblade, the game's own equivalent of Juggernaut.^[3]
The line ▶️ "And then... there were none..." may be a reference to the Agatha Christie book by the same name.
The line ▶️ "I'm the Juggernaut, Lich!" is a play on the quote "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch.", taken from a YouTube parody featuring re-dubbed scenes from X-Men: The Animated Series.