Sentry Ward

Item

 

Changelogs

 

Sentry Ward B
A form of plant originally grown in the garden of a fearful king.
Cost 100 Bought From Consumables
Active Plant Charges 1 Disassemble? No Alert allies? No Recipe

The Sentry Ward is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Consumables.

Additional information

• Stacks with itself and with Observer Wards in the inventory, there is no stack limit. The sell value adapts based on the number of instances in a stack.
  • Wards from multiple players do not combine. Only own wards combine into the stack.
• Sentry Wards are completely shareable.

Ability

Sentry Ward
Ward
Level 0 Duration 240 Health 8 Health regeneration 0 Armor 0 Magic resistance 0% Collision size 8 Vision range 0 • 0 (G) Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model scale 1 Notes Phased 100% Accuracy Abilities: True Sight Invisibility

Plant

Play

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Plants a Sentry Ward, an invisible watcher that grants True Sight, the ability to see invisible enemy units and wards, to any existing allied vision within a 850 radius.
Lasts 4 minutes.

Does not grant ground vision.
Hold Control to give one Sentry Ward to an allied hero.

Cast Range: 500

Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2

Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 8

Duration: 240

1

Notes:

• Provides 150 radius ground vision at its location for 12 seconds.

• Cannot be placed inside the fountain area (including a small area in front of the ramp), or in Roshan's pit.

• It is not possible to give couriers or Spirit Bear a Sentry Ward by holding Control.

• Sentry Wards can be targeted by enemy Tango, Quelling Blade, and Battle Fury to be instantly destroyed.

• Creep spawn ranges are shown before placing a ward, allowing camps to be blocked.

Placed Sentry Ward

True Sight

Ability
Aura

Affects
Enemies

Adds the ability to see invisible units and wards to any allied vision within the Sentry Ward's range.

Radius: 850

Modifiers

Truesight: Undispellable.

Notes:

• The True Sight is provided in its whole area, it is not obstructed by anything.

• The True Sight is provided by an aura which affects enemies. Its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.

• Cannot detect units under the effect of Shadow Dance, Smoke of Deceit and Techies' mines under the effect of an Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Minefield Sign.

• Holding ALT shows all allied sentries' True Sight radius with a green ring.

Invisibility

Ability
Passive

Affects
Self

This unit is permanently invisible.

Fade Time: 0

Notes:

• The ability and modifier are not displayed in-game.

Tips

• The Sentry Ward is recommended when facing heroes who mostly relies on invisibility (Or using invisibility as an escape mechanism), especially Riki and Weaver.
  • While it is great to be placed near towers or shrines, so it can help heroes gank over them.
• Sentry Wards' detection radius is quite large, making them useful for keeping an eye out on invisible heroes in key areas, given one has vision over that area.
• Sentry Wards are commonly used to de-ward enemy wards, as they are able to detect their wards.
  • When dewarding, the ward is best placed so that its true sight reaches multiple common ward spots, so that it is more likely to spot enemy wards.
  • If an enemy ward location is known, the sentry ward is best placed so that the enemy won't find it when they try to de-ward the sentry wards, like between some trees, but still so that their ward is within true sight range.
• Similar to Observer Wards, Sentry Wards can also be used to block neutral creep camps.

Lore

• Knowing how to craft a ward is an important skill for artificers of magical goods. Rylai showed great talent at crafting wards, and once considered becoming an artificer.

Gallery

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