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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
Abilities
- 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.
- 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.
No Target
Allies
- Interrupts Sven's channeling spells upon cast.
- Only affects allied heroes, including clones, illusions and creep-heroes.
No Target
Self
- 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
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+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
- Increased Great Cleave strength bonus from 2/4/6/8 to 3/6/9/12.
- 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.
Recommended items
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 |
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Adjectives: | Legs ( 2 )
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Audio
History
Equipment
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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".
Gallery
Sven's default weapon, the Outcast Blade