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Sven 22 + 3.2 21 + 2 16 + 1.3
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 604 1572 2540 2936 +0 +2.2 +6.68 +11.08 +12.88 Mana 75 267 483 783 879 +0 +0.8 +1.71 +2.96 +3.39 Armor 1 4.5 9.17 14.5 16.5 Magic Resist 25% % % % % Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 41 43 63 65 107 109 151 153 169 171 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 ▶️ 325 ( 355) 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 hastens allies and shields them from attacks, 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 in a small area around the target.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Cast Range: 600 ( 1100)

Effect Radius: 255

Damage: 110/180/250/320

Stun Duration: 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 ( 2.25/2.5/2.75/3)

 18/16/14/12 ( 8/6/4/2)

 110/120/130/140

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Increases cast range and transports you along the Storm Hammer, attacking every enemy on impact.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_projectile_vision

Undispellable

modifier_sven_stormbolt_hide

Death

modifier_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.

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

• Storm Hammer first applies the damage ( then the instant attack), then the debuff.
  • If the dispel talent is chosen, the dispel is applied first.

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

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

• Storm Hammer can be cast on invulnerable enemies, but does not affect them.

• When upgraded, Sven is moved along with the projectile.
  • While being moved, Sven is fully disabled, untargetable and invulnerable.
  • If the movement gets interrupted (with e.g. a teleport), Sven is no longer disabled, untargetable and invulnerable.
  • Sven stops moving along with the projectile if the distance between him and the target gets greater than 2200, or when Sven dies.
  • In any of these cases, the instant attack is still performed on the target.
  • If Storm Hammer gets disjointed, Sven stops traveling as well, but in this case, the instant attack is not performed.

• Despite the tooltip, the instant attack is only applied on the primary target.
  • The attack is allowed to trigger attack modifier and on-hit effects normally. It ignores disarms, and does not have True Strike.

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: 700

End Radius: 360

Cleave Damage: 30%/50%/70%/90%

Modifiers [?]

modifier_sven_great_cleave

Undispellable

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 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 allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed. Lasts 8 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0+0

Effect Radius: 700

Movement Speed Bonus: 8%/12%/16%/20%

Armor Bonus: 6/9/12/15

Duration: 8

 32/28/24/20

 30/40/50/60

Modifiers [?]

modifier_sven_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.

• Only affects allied heroes, including clones, illusions and creep-heroes.

God's Strength

▶️▶️RR

Ability
No Target

Affects
Self

Sven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage for 40 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0

Attack Damage Bonus: 110%/160%/210% ( 160%/210%/260%)

Duration: 40

 110

 100/150/200

Modifiers [?]

modifier_sven_gods_strength

Death

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.

Talents

Hero Talents
+1s Storm Hammer Stun Duration	25	+50% God's Strength Damage
+10 Warcry Armor	20	+20% God's Strength Slow Resistance
+25% Great Cleave Damage	15	-15s God's Strength Cooldown
+15 Attack Speed	10	+4s Warcry Duration

Recent Changes

Main Article: Sven/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.35d

7.35b

• Increased Great Cleave strength bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.

7.35

• Increased intelligence gain from 1.3 to 1.5.
• Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
  • Storm Hammer (Aghanim's Scepter) now increases damage by 180.
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Warcry now also passively grants a 3% movement speed bonus.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +3s Warcry duration increased to +4s.

  LVL 20

   

  +8% Warcry movement speed bonus ➜ +20% God's Strength slow resistance bonus.

Gameplay

The Rogue Knight lives by two creeds: Honor, as ordained by his own personal code, and solitude. Using his iron gauntlet, Sven throws out the Storm Hammer to stun multiple foes, then closes in to cut them down with Great Cleave. In the heat of battle, the Rogue Knight calls upon God's Strength, greatly increasing his power as he descends on hapless opponents with his gargantuan blade.
Roles:	Carry Disabler Initiator Durable Nuker
Complexity:
Adjectives:	Legs ( 2 )

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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 is named after Danish bodybuilder and actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.
  • In earlier versions of DotA, Sven had the fun name "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 Dota 2, where he's referring to it as ▶️ "Storm Bolt".
  • Rubick also has the same response when stealing Storm Hammer.

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