Winter Wyvern

Auroth the Winter Wyvern is a ranged intelligence hero who is most often played as a lane support. However, she can be played as a ganker or in the middle lane. Arctic Burn confers increased attack range, as well as adding strong slow and a large amount of damage over time to her attacks. This skill can be used as an initiation tool as a result of the slow and health burn. Splinter Blast is a unique nuke that, when cast on an enemy, does not affect that enemy but deals damage to and slows all of the enemies around it. Cold Embrace heals an ally a massive amount over its duration, as well as making the affected target immune to physical damage. However, the unit is stunned for the duration. Lastly, Winter Wyvern's ultimate, Winter's Curse, stuns an enemy and forces its allies to attack them. This is a powerful tool against farmed carries, who can be made to kill their allied heroes.

Equipment

 * Winter Wyvern currently has no equipment.

Tips

 * Winter Wyvern has an extremely high cast range for all of her spells, use this to your advantage when in a team fight or gank and try to stay back and provide support for your team. This in combination with mobility items such as blink and force staff can give players an extreme advantage.
 * A powerful healing combination is to cast with Oracle's  and  on a target ally/self. The result will give full physical and magical damage immunity as well as healing for 64 + 6% per second at maximum level for 4 seconds and 44 health per second for 5 seconds thereafter. Total heal is equal to 476 + 24%. Using this combination on an ally effected by  will result in a heal of 952 + 48% causing a hero with 2000 maximum health to heal 1912 health at the end of 9 seconds. Extremely useful if your carry is nuked or to save an ally from any form of damage.
 * In a teamfight it is vital to use on an important hero in order to keep him/her locked down and unable to do anything.  Good examples are carries and anyone with a powerful disable.
 * Do not be afraid to use as only a single-target stun. It is still a powerful disable skill disregarding the ability to make your enemies attack each other.
 * Another trick is to cast it on anyone standing next to the enemy carry, as the carry will then be attacking his ally essentially causing him to briefly fight for you.
 * Many passive abilities do not work against allied units, so do not expect an enemy Phantom Assassin to critical strike one of her ally who is affected by.
 * A short summary of the most common effects which do not trigger on allies: Most attack modifiers (critical strike, cleave and all active attack modifiers),, , and
 * Short summary of effects which do react on allies: All damage blocks, all sources of damage negation and reduction,, , , ,
 * Note though that in case of spells like or, the reflected damage or passive quill sprays do not hit allies, but enemies still. The only exception is Centaur's Return, which damages allies.
 * All bashes excluding Spirit Breaker's and Slardar's  works on allies. Examples:, ,
 * Some item attack modifiers also work against allies. Examples:, ,

Trivia

 * Winter Wyvern made her first official Dota 2 appearance in the New Bloom trailer "The Coming of the Year Beast" which was showcased the first time after the finals of the Dota 2 Asia Championship 2015 on the 9th of February 2015. The trailer video was later posted on the official Dota2 blog as part 1 of the New Bloom event.
 * Her next official appearance was in the comic "The new neighbors", which was posted on the 10th of February 2015 on the official Dota2 blog. In the comic, she is depicted as an "artistic" dragon with interests in books who doesn't follow the traditional behavior of dragons razing cities to the ground.
 * Much like, who is also voiced by Merle Dandridge, the gender of Winter Wyvern was changed from male to female with the transition from DotA to Dota 2.
 * In DotA, Winter Wyvern makes use the model of the Warcraft 3 version of a frost wyrm, a well known undead dragon type from the Warcraft universe.
 * Winter Wyvern's response when meeting as an ally, Winwyv ally 19.mp3 "In this world, nothing is certain but ice and axes" is a nod to a quote by Benjamin Franklin, which states: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
 * Winter Wyvern's response, Winwyv rare 02.mp3 "Winter is coming. Winter Wyvern that is." is a reference to Game of Thrones, specifically the motto of the House of Stark: "Winter is coming."
 * One of Winter Wyvern's responses upon killing Dragon Knight is a reference to Michael Dukakis's political quip "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".