Abilities, roles and builds with an explanation for every purchase.
HERO GAME PLANI farm stacks and turn God’s Strength into a short window of heavy physical damage.
Sven is always eager to charge into a fight. He stuns grouped enemies as he wades into battle, and once he ignites his damage-boosting ultimate, a few swings of his massive sword are often more than enough to slay his foes.
My recommendation is a starting point. We choose another position together with the team and for its needs.
I need protected farm, my item window and damage on important targets.
This is an editorial starting plan based on hero mechanics. It is not presented as a match I have already tested or a popularity ranking.
Here is my initial plan: I do my role's job first, then choose the items the team needs. I adapt the order and expensive purchases to the opponent.
Provide attack speed and switchable attributes for farming and managing my resources.
Speeds up attacks and farming, but needs a safe window: its active mode imposes restrictions on the hero.
Strengthens a melee hero’s short engagement and helps secure the first attacks.
Changes the entry angle and lets me reach a target quickly. Damage taken can prevent its use.
Provides a window for my actions against eligible magical damage and disables. I check effects that pierce the protection.
Daedalus ↗Increases physical attack damage once access to the target and protection are already secured.
Harpoon ↗Helps close the gap to a target and builds on items for close-range combat.
Satanic ↗Helps recover health through attacks during its active window; without access to a target, it is not a guaranteed save.
I do not assign one ‘correct’ minute to every purchase. I look at my gold, the next fight and the problem: am I missing mana, target access, control or protection? If an expensive slot will arrive too late, I get a useful answer earlier.
Original Valve icons and descriptions. Cooldowns and mana are shown by level from the data snapshot; talents and upgrades can change the values.
Sven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units in a small area around the target.
Sven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units in a small area around the target.
Increases cast range and applies a basic dispel on the target. Affects invulnerable units. If alt-cast, it deals an additional 180 damage and Sven travels with the Storm Hammer.
Sven strikes with great force, cleaving all nearby enemy units with his attack.
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed. Lasts 8 seconds.
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed. Lasts 8 seconds.
Increases radius and bonus speed, and creates a barrier that absorbs up to 300 physical damage. Prevents the ability’s effect from being dispelled.
Sven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage and slow resistance for 30 seconds.
These abilities are not necessarily available at the same time. I check the condition beside the name: innate ability, another form or an Aghanim purchase.
Sven gains additional attack damage from Strength.
Sven gains additional attack damage from Strength.
These are fields from the official source. The hero's final values in the client account for attributes and other active mechanics.
Items, slang and real episodes help connect abilities with what happens in a match.
