Sentry Ward

Item

 

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Sentry Ward B
A form of plant originally grown in the garden of a fearful king.
Cost 75 Bought From Consumables
Initial Stock 3 Max Stock 10 Restock Time 90
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 are combined when given by allies.
• Sentry Wards are completely shareable.
• Killing a Sentry Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.

Ability

Sentry Ward
Ward
Level 0 Duration 360 Health 8 Health regeneration 0 Armor 0 Magic resistance 0% Status resistance 0% Collision size 8 Vision range 0 (G) Bounty 0 Experience 0 Model scale 1 Abilities True Sight Invisibility Notes Phased 100% Accuracy

Plant

▶️

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 radius.
Lasts 8 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: 480

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, Battle Fury, and Iron Talon to be instantly destroyed.

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

• The radiuses of already placed Sentry Wards is shown as well, allowing to see how they overlap.

• Illusions and creep-heroes are treated as creeps when attacking the ward, so they take 8 attacks to destroy it, instead of 2 like heroes.

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: 1000

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

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.
  • 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.
• Despite this, the flavor text for this item refers to Sentry Wards as plants and states that they were "originally grown in [a] garden." This implies that they are grown as opposed to crafted, directly contradicting the White Sentry's description.

Gallery

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  In-game model

References

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