Juggernaut

Healing Ward
Summoned Ward
Health 1 +0
This unit has no mana.
Notes	Phased

Juggernaut 20 + 2.2 34 + 2.8 14 + 1.4
	+20HP and +0.1HP regeneration/point.
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed/point.; +1 main attack damage/point.
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration/point.
L0	Base Hero Values
L1	⤷ + Base Attributes
L15	⤷ + Attribute Gain
L25	⤷ + 6 levels of Attribute Bonus
L30	⤷ + 7 levels of Attribute Bonus
	All values shown are without talent bonuses.

Hero

Strategy

Yurnero, the Juggernaut, is a melee agility hero whose abilities allow him to sprint into battle and recklessly devastate enemies in an impenetrable flurry of blades.

His abilities grant invulnerability and spell immunity, turning him into an unstoppable force on a hairpin. Juggernaut is strong both offensively and defensively, and deals heavy damage both physical and magical with his Blade Fury and Omnislash ultimate, but he possesses below average strength and intelligence attributes, so he does not have as much health and mana as other heroes and is vulnerable when his abilities are on cooldown. For this reason, although his abilities make him powerful even in the early game, he cannot charge into forces without restraint until farmed and is usually played as a carry.

Bio[]

Yurnero, the Juggernaut

▶️ "By the Visage of Vengeance, which drowned in the Isle of Masks, I will carry on the rites of the Faceless Ones."

Lore:

No one has ever seen the face hidden beneath the mask of Yurnero the Juggernaut. It is only speculation that he even has one. For defying a corrupt lord, Yurnero was exiled from the ancient Isle of Masks--a punishment that saved his life. The isle soon after vanished beneath the waves in a night of vengeful magic. He alone remains to carry on the Isle's long Juggernaut tradition, one of ritual and swordplay. The last practitioner of the art, Yurnero's confidence and courage are the result of endless practice; his inventive bladework proves that he has never stopped challenging himself. Still, his motives are as unreadable as his expression. For a hero who has lost everything twice over, he fights as if victory is a foregone conclusion.

Voice:

David Scully (Responses)

Abilities[]

Blade Fury

▶️

▶️QF

Ability
No Target

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Magical
(

Instant Attack)

Causes a bladestorm of destructive force around Juggernaut, rendering him immune to magic and dealing damage to nearby enemy units.

Cast Animation: +

Radius: 260 (

335)

Damage per Second: 90/115/140/165 (

250/275/300/325)

Duration: 5

Move Speed Bonus: 100

Instant Attack Damage: 75%

Instant Attack Interval: 1

42/34/26/18

120/110/100/90

Increases movement speed during Blade Fury by 100 and attacks a random nearby unit once per second dealing 75% damage.

Modifiers

modifier_juggernaut_blade_fury: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_jugg_caster: Undispellable. Persists death.

Yurnero's renowned katana techniques are feared by warriors and sorcerers alike.

Notes:

Blade Fury cannot be cast during Omnislash and Swiftslash.

Does not interrupt Juggernaut's channeling abilities upon cast.

Applies spell immunity for the duration and a basic dispel upon cast.
- Juggernaut cannot be affected by Ghost Form for its duration. The buff gets removed immediately.

Juggernaut can perform attacks, cast abilities, and use items during Blade Fury.
- However, both Omnislash and Swiftslash are inactive for the duration and cannot be cast.

During Blade Fury, Juggernaut's attacks deal 0 damage, except against wards and buildings.
- Attack modifiers (i.e. Monkey King Bar etc.) still apply their effects and damage on procs.
- Despite the visual effect, critical strike, lifesteal and cleave have no effect, since they are based on the actual damage dealt.

Deals 18/23/28/33 ( 50/55/60/65) damage in 0.2-second intervals, starting 0.2 seconds after cast, resulting in 25 damage instances.
- Can deal up to 450/575/700/825 ( 1250/1375/1500/1625) damage to a single unit (before reductions).

With Aghanim's Shard, Juggernaut performs instant attacks on random enemies within the area in 1-second intervals, starting 0.2 seconds after cast, resulting in up to 4 attacks.
- These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.
- The instant attack targets are chosen randomly, there are no priorities. The instant attack does not target buildings or wards.
- Unlike the regular attacks that can be performed during Blade Fury, the instant attacks' damage can be defined as ΣAtk × 75%, instead of 0.
- Since the instant attack damage comes from a regular attack, it counts as attack damage and is affected by damage block.

Healing Ward

▶️WG

Ability
Target Area / Aura

Affects
Allies

Summons a Healing Ward which heals all nearby allied units, based on their max health. The Healing Ward moves at 325 movement speed after being summoned. Lasts 25 seconds.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 350

Radius: 500

Max Health as Health Regen Bonus: 2%/3%/4%/5%

Aura Linger Duration: 2.5

Duration: 25

60 (

40)

140

Modifiers

modifier_juggernaut_healing_ward_aura: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_juggernaut_healing_ward_heal: Dispellable with death only.

Of the rituals learned at the Isle of Masks, tending wounds with a bit of voodoo magic has proven to be quite useful.

Notes:

After cast, the ward automatically follows Juggernaut, if no other order is given.

The heal is provided by an aura. The buff lingers for 2.5 seconds.
- The healing auras of multiple Healing Wards do not stack.

Can regenerate up to 55%/82.5%/110%/137.5% of a unit's max health over its full duration.
- Can fully regenerate a unit's health within 50/33.33/25/20 seconds.

Does not affect wards, buildings, invulnerable or hidden units.

Blade Dance

▶️EC

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies

Gives Juggernaut a chance to deal critical damage on each attack.

Proc Chance: 20%/25%/30%/35%

Critical Damage: 180%

Red critical numbers are before illusion and armor reduction.

Modifiers

modifier_juggernaut_blade_dance: Undispellable. Persists death.

The last remnant of his heritage's commitment to bladework, Yurnero ensures that the style is remembered.

Notes:

Increases attack damage by an average of 16%/20%/24%/28%.

A critical strike proc is decided upon attack begin, not upon landing an attack.
- When a critical strike procs, Juggernaut uses a specific crit attack animation, and particle effects appear on his weapon.

The proc chances of multiple crit sources stack.
- If two sources of critical strike proc at the same time, the higher crit multiplier has priority.

Blade Dance uses pseudo-random distribution.

Swiftslash

▶️DW

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Instant Attack

Performs a quick Omnislash.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 550

Duration: 0.8

20

125

Only the very first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash_invulnerability: Dispellable with death only.

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting

Omnislash to be unlocked.

Notes:

Requires Aghanim's Scepter to be unlocked.

Swiftslash cannot be cast during Blade Fury.

Does not require Omnislash to be leveled to be unlocked, once Aghanim's Scepter is acquired.
- However, it relies on Omnislash to work, since it directly uses its values. This means when Omnislash is not learned, Swiftslash does nothing on cast.
- Omnislash notes fully apply.

Swiftslash is distinguished by blue particles, as opposed to the orange particles of Omnislash.

Omnislash

▶️RE

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Instant Attack

Juggernaut leaps towards the target enemy units, and then slashes the target and other nearby enemy units at an increased attack rate. Juggernaut is invulnerable for the duration.

Cast Animation: +

Cast Range: 350

Search Radius: 425

Attack Rate Divisor: 1.5

Attack Damage Bonus: 30/40/50

Attack Speed Bonus: 40

Duration: 3/3.25/3.5 (

4/4.25/4.5)

140

200/275/350

Grants a new ability: Swiftslash.

Only the very first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash: Dispellable with death only.

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash_invulnerability: Dispellable with death only.

‘The fruits of discipline; with practice comes strength.’

Notes:

Turns Juggernaut spell immune, invulnerable, rooted for the whole duration, and applies a basic dispel on cast.

Juggernaut can cast abilities and use items during Omnislash.
- However, Blade Fury is inactive for the duration and cannot be cast.
- During Omnislash, Juggernaut does not need to turn in order to cast targeted abilities or items.

The slash interval equals Juggernaut's current attack rate divided by 1.5.
- This can be defined as $r=\displaystyle {\frac {\sum {AS}}{110\times 1.4\times 1.5}}$
- With the attack speed cap, the minimum and maximum possible slash intervals are 0.087 and 3.03 slashes per second respectively. For each 100 attack speed, the slash interval increases by 0.433.
- The interval is not set on cast. On each slash, the interval updates based on his current attack rate.

Causes Juggernaut to perform instant attacks on enemies he slashes.
- These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally. They do not have True Strike, but completely ignore disarms.

Can neither be cast on nor jump on wards, Couriers and buildings.
- Can jump on invulnerable and ethereal units, however, the instant attacks do not trigger.
- Cannot jump on units in the Fog of War, invisible or hidden units, Undying Zombie and Astral Spirit.

If no valid targets can be found within range and within 0.15 seconds after the previous jump, Omnislash ends prematurely.

On each slash, Juggernaut is positioned at the opposite side of the target from Juggernaut's position, facing the target.
- The slash radius is centered around Juggernaut, not around the current target.

Provides 200 radius flying vision lasting 1 second on each slash around the current target.

Recasting Omnislash while the previous cast is still active cancels the previous cast and starts a new instance.
- This also applies when Swiftslash is cast during Omnislash, the former canceling the latter, and vice versa.

Centers the player's camera perspective on Juggernaut on cast, following his position during Omnislash.

Talents[]

Hero Talents
+1s Omnislash Duration	25	+475 Health
+160 Blade Fury DPS	20	+8 Armor
+20 Attack Speed	15	-20s Healing Ward Cooldown
+75 Blade Fury Radius	10	+5 All Stats

Notes:

The / / all stats talent effectively grants Juggernaut 100 health, 0.5 health regeneration, 0.83 armor, 5 attack speed, 60 mana, 0.25 mana regeneration, and 5 main attack damage.

The armor talent does not benefit illusions.

The health talent increases maximum health capacity, and keeps the current health percentage.

Recent Changes[]

Main Article: Juggernaut/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.30

Increased Blade Fury damage per second from 85/110/135/160 to 90/115/140/165.
Reduced Healing Ward movement speed from 350 to 325.
Talents:

Level 10 left talent changed: +20 movement speed ➜ +75

Blade Fury radius.

7.29

Omnislash
- Now also turns Juggernaut spell immune.
- Reduced attack rate divisor from 1.6 to 1.5.
Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Swiftslash
  - Now also turns Juggernaut spell immune.
  - Reduced cast range from 600 to 550.
  - Increased mana cost from 100 to 125.

7.28a

Aghanim's Scepter upgrade:
- Swiftslash
  - Reduced cast range from 650 to 600.
  - Increased cooldown from 15 to 20.
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Reduced Blade Fury instant attacks damage from 100% to 75%.

Recommended Items[]

Starting items:

Tango provide healing to keep Juggernaut alive in the lane.
Healing Salve can save Juggernaut if used at the last moment.
Enchanted Mango allows Juggernaut to regain mana from early usage of Blade Fury.
Iron Branch increases Juggernaut's survivability and mana pool. Because of Juggernaut's low mana pool, an early Iron Branch gives the possibility of casting both Blade Fury and Omnislash back to back. It can later be upgraded into a Magic Wand.
Slippers of Agility gives Juggernaut additional damage, allowing him to get easier last hits and denies in lane.

Early game:

Boots of Speed give a passive speed boost, offering better escape and catch-up. They can later be built into Phase Boots.
Quelling Blade helps Juggernaut last hit by increasing damage against creeps.
Magic Stick is a useful burst healing/mana item if the enemies in lane cast many spells. It can later be built into a Magic Wand.
Wraith Band gives Juggernaut additional damage and attributes.

Mid game:

Phase Boots provide increased movement speed so Juggernaut can keep enemies in range of Blade Fury.
Magic Wand is good for burst health and mana while providing bonus attributes compared to the Magic Stick.
Diffusal Blade provides cost-effective attack damage bonus in Manabreak, while increasing Juggernaut's agility and intelligence. Its active, Inhibit, allows Juggernaut to slow down enemies.
Manta Style can remove silences and help with split push. When coupled with Diffusal Blade, you can get some nice boost to damage output.
Mask of Madness grants lifesteal and a cheap attack speed boost to improve Juggernaut's farming efficiency. The active can also be used during Omnislash for more slashes.

Late game:

Butterfly gives an enormous boost to his damage, attack speed, and armor, as well as having the ability to evade physical attacks. It greatly increasing the physical damage Juggernaut can take, while Blade Fury protects against the magical damage. The increased attack speed also allows Blade Dance to occur more often.
Abyssal Blade grants bash chance, which Juggernaut welcomes with low base attack time and decent agility, as well as active stun to lock down targets in the late game.
Black King Bar is helpful when the enemy team has more magical damage than Blade Fury can protect. Unlike Blade Fury, the Black King Bar also allows Juggernaut to attack while active, and has a maximum duration of 9 seconds.

Situational items:

Drum of Endurance allows Juggernaut to run faster and push much earlier than other carries.
Blink Dagger is useful as an escape item or initiation as Juggernaut's Omnislash requires a fairly close range.
Monkey King Bar allows Juggernaut to attack enemies with evasion during Omnislash.
Sange and Yasha is a fair pick on Juggernaut, since he does not have any gap-closing abilities. This item provides a good strength, agility, movement and attack speed bonus, which helps chase better.
Desolator reduces the target's armor, increasing the damage from Juggernaut's attacks and Omnislash. It can also be effective for pushing since this effect works on towers.
Battle Fury provides cleave to boost Juggernaut's farming and pushing, as well as making Omnislash much more lethal to grouped enemies.
Eye of Skadi grants attributes and a slow on attacks, keeping targets within Juggernaut's attack range and Blade Fury's radius.
Mjollnir is a natural upgrade to Maelstrom, and gives a large attack speed buff for more lightning procs and Omnislash attacks.
Nullifier can Dispel certain troublesome items like Ghost Scepter and Eul’s Scepter of Divinity, and Juggernaut's high attack speed complements the slow effect.
Satanic has status resistance, strength, attack damage, and active lifesteal that mesh well with Juggernaut's high attack speed, vastly enhancing his survivability in teamfights.
Aghanim's Scepter unlocks Swiftslash, letting Juggernaut delete lone enemies without committing Omnislash.

Gameplay[]


Roles:	Carry Pusher Escape
Complexity:	★☆☆
Playstyle:	What laid under the Juggernaut's mask, none could say. The last of his kind, Yurnero carries alone the martial traditions of his native isle, now sunken forever beneath the waves. The Juggernaut elevates swordplay to an art form, cutting down foes in the unstoppable cyclone of Blade Fury, and striking at every vulnerability with Blade Dance. Should his party sustain injury, he is quick to replenishes their vitality with a portable Healing Ward. A paragon of discipline, Yurnero waits patiently for the opportune moment to execute his most fearsome technique. Dashing between foes with imperceptible swiftness, the Juggernaut's Omnislash eviscerates his opponents long before any can mount a defense.

Strategy & Tips

Counters &
Matchups

Audio[]

Responses

Sounds

History[]

Lore

Old Abilities

Changelogs

Equipment[]

Trivia[]

Juggernaut's backstory and appearance bear many similarities to that of the Seguleh people in the "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series of books by Steven Erikson.
Juggernaut's ultimate, Omnislash, is inspired by and named after the signature move of Cloud Strife from the game Final Fantasy VII.^[1]
The rare line ▶️ "Screw it, I'm going to five blades!" is a reference to an article from The Onion about the increasing number of blades put into razors.^[2]
The line ▶️ "And then... there were none..." may be a reference to the Agatha Christie book by the same name.
The line ▶️ "I'm the Juggernaut, Lich!" is a play on the quote "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch.", taken from a YouTube parody featuring re-dubbed scenes from X-Men: The Animated Series.