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Juggernaut #46 20 + 2.2 34 + 2.8 14 + 1.4
Level 0 1 15 25 30 Health 120 560 1220 1968 2254 +0.5 +2.5 +5.58 +8.98 +10.28 Mana 75 243 471 783 891 +0 +0.7 +1.68 +2.98 +3.43 Armor 0 5.67 12.2 18.87 21.53 Magic Resist 25% 26.4% 28.36% 30.96% 31.86% Damage Block 16 (50%) Damage 20 22 54 56 93 95 133 135 149 151 Attack Rate 0.79/s 1.03/s 1.31/s 1.59/s 1.71/s Attack Range 150 (600) Attack Speed ▶️ 110 (1.4s BAT) Attack Animation 0.33 + 0.84 Projectile Speed Instant Move Speed ▶️ 300 ( 330) Turn Rate 0.6 Collision Size 27 Bound Radius 24 Vision Range (G) 1800 ( 800) Gib Type Default Internal npc_dota_hero_juggernaut

Slices through his enemies with precise strikes.
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. Dancing with his Blade, the Juggernaut elevates swordplay to an art form, Swiftly Slashing foes in an unstoppable Blade Fury, striking the most vulnerable spots. With skills honed to such perfection, Yurnero can keep on Slashing and Dashing between opponents while giving them absolutely no chance to retaliate even in the slightest. Their only option to escape this onslaught is to book it as quickly as possible. After eviscerating his foes, Yurnero places his portable mobile Healing Ward that emits meditative energies to revitalize himself and nearby allies.
Roles:	Carry Pusher Escape
Complexity:
Adjectives:	BadTeeth, Bearded, NicePecs Legs ( 2 )

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.

Alias:

Yurnero

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:  0+0

Radius: 260 ( 410)

Damage per Second: 90/115/140/165 ( 120/145/170/195)

Magic Resistance Bonus: 80%

Duration: 5

 Move Speed Bonus: 75

 Instant Attack Damage: 75%

 Instant Attack Interval: 1.4

 42/34/26/18 ( 39/31/23/15)

 120/110/100/90

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Increases movement speed during Blade Fury, and attacks random nearby enemy units with reduced damage.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_juggernaut_blade_fury

Death

modifier_jugg_caster

Undispellable

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

• Blade Fury cannot be cast during Omnislash and Swiftslash, vice versa.
  • However, Juggernaut can perform attacks, cast abilities, and use items during Blade Fury.

• Does not interrupt Juggernaut's channeling abilities upon cast.

• Grants debuff immunity, magic resistance bonus for the duration and applies a basic dispel upon cast.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other magic resistance sources.
    • Increases Juggernaut's magic resistance to 85%.
    • With the magic resistance bonus from this source, every 10 points of intelligence further increases the total magic resistance by 0.2%. [?]

• Blade Fury directly negates Juggernaut's attack damage while active.
  • However, it does not reduce conditional attack damage bonuses (e.g. Pierce or Shadow Walk).
  • Despite the ability's visual effects, this effectively causes critical strike, lifesteal, and cleave to have no effect, since these mechanics rely on attack damage values.
  • Although the reduction values are not displayed in the HUD, it is still considered and directly subtracted from Juggernaut's attack damage.
  • Stacks additively with other total attack damage reduction sources.

• Deals 18/23/28/33 ( 24/29/34/39) spell 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 damage to a single unit (before reductions).

• Does not affect Couriers.

• SHARD
  Increases Juggernaut's movement speed to 375 and performs instant attacks on random enemies within the radius in 1.4-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 and stuns.
  • The instant attack targets are chosen randomly, there are no priorities.
  • The instant attack from the Ability Upgrade is independent of Blade Fury damage negation component, and neither affects buildings nor wards.
  • It is considered as attack damage and is affected by damage block.

• SHARD
  The instant attacks' damage can be defined as
  expr
  (MainAtk + BonusAtk) × 75%.
  • Does not reduce conditional attack damage bonuses.
  • Stacks additively with other total attack damage reduction sources.
  • For ranged heroes, since instant attacks use their regular attack projectiles, conditional attack damage reduction still applies to their attacks, causing each of their instant attacks to deal an instance of 0 damage.
  • Still does not affect Couriers.

• TALENT
  With the damage increasing talent, it can deal up to 600/725/850/975 damage.

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 2.5 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.47

Cast Range: 350

Radius: 400

Attacks to Destroy: 1 ( 2)

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

Aura Linger Duration: 2.5

Duration: 25

 60 ( 40)

 140/130/120/110

Modifiers [?]

modifier_juggernaut_healing_ward_aura

Death

modifier_juggernaut_healing_ward_heal

Death

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

Healing Ward
Summoned Ward
Health 1 +0 ⤷ 2HP This unit has no mana. Level 0 Duration 2.5 Armor 0 Magic Resistance 0% Status Resistance 0 Move Speed 325 (250) Turn Rate 0.5 Collision Size 18 Bound Radius 8 Vision Range (G) 600 Bounty 75 Experience 75 Notes Phased

• Upon cast, Healing Ward automatically follows Juggernaut 250 distance behind him, if no other order is given.

• The heal is provided by an aura and lingers for 2.5 seconds.
  • The 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.
  • Fully affect Couriers.

• Attacks from all unit types deal 1 damage to the Healing Ward.

Blade Dance

▶️EC

Ability
Passive

Affects
Enemies
( Self)

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

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

Critical Damage: 190%

 Lifesteal: 60%

Break Notes:

The critical strike component is disabled.

The lifesteal component is effectively disabled.

Illusion Notes:

Critical strike values shown are before illusion outgoing damage and armor reduction.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_juggernaut_blade_dance

Undispellable

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

• Increases attack damage by an average of 18%/22.5%/27%/31.5%.

• A critical strike proc is determined during Juggernaut's attack point.
  • When a critical strike procs, Juggernaut uses a specific crit attack animation, and particle effects appear on his weapon.

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

• Does not proc against wards, buildings and allies.

• Blade Dance uses pseudo-random distribution.

• TALENT
  Stacks additively with other lifesteal sources.

Swiftslash

▶️DW

Ability
Target Unit

Affects
Enemies / Self

Damage
Instant Attack

Performs a short Omnislash for 1 seconds.

Cast Animation: 0.3+0.5

Cast Range: 550

Duration: 1

 20

 125

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Only the first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash

Death

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash_invulnerability

Death

Ability Draft Notes:

Requires drafting Omnislash to be unlocked.

• 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 upon 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: 0.3+0.5

Cast Range: 350

Search Radius: 425

Attack Rate Divisor: 1.5

Attack Damage Bonus: 40/45/50

Attack Speed Bonus: 40

Duration: 3/3.25/3.5 ( 4/4.25/4.5)

 120

 200/275/350

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

New Ability

Grants the Swiftslash ability.

Spell Block / Reflection Notes:

Only the first slash of the cast is blocked.

Modifiers [?]

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash

Death

modifier_juggernaut_omnislash_invulnerability

Death

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

• Turns Juggernaut spell immune, invulnerable, unselectable, 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 can be defined as
  expr
  (100 × 1.4) / (ΣAS × 1.5)
  • With the attack speed limits, the min and max possible slash intervals are 0.133 ‒ 4.667 seconds plus a server tick per slash respectively.
  • The interval is not set upon cast. On each slash, the interval updates based on his current attack rate.

• Causes Juggernaut to perform instant attacks on enemies he slashes.
  • Grants flat bonus attack damage while Omnislash or Swiftslash is active.
  • 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, and buildings.
  • Can be cast on Couriers, but not jump on them.
  • Can jump on invulnerable, attack immune and ethereal units. However, the instant attacks do not trigger.
  • Cannot jump on units in the Fog of War, invisible or hidden units and Undying Zombies.

• 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 a 1-second 200 radius flying vision lasting 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 upon cast, following his position during Omnislash.

Talents

Hero Talents
+2 Healing Ward Hits to Kill	25	+1s Omnislash Duration
-3s Blade Fury Cooldown	20	+60% Blade Dance Lifesteal
+30 Movement Speed During Blade Fury	15	-20s Healing Ward Cooldown
+150 Healing Ward Radius	10	+10% Blade Dance Critical Strike

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.35

• Blade Fury
  • CHANGED
    damage interval from a flat 0.2-seconds to
    EXPR
    (100 × CurrentBAT) / (ΣAS × 2).
  • Increased damage per interval from 18/23/28/33 to 35/40/45/50. [?]
• REWORKED
  Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Blade Fury
    • OLD
      • Increases movement speed by 75.
      • Deals 75% instant attack damage in 1.4-second intervals while active. [?]
    • NEW
      • Increases effect radius by 100.
      • Applies a 35% movement speed slow within the radius while active.

• Talents:
• LVL 10

   

  +100 Blade Fury radius ➜ +150 Healing Ward radius.

  LVL 10

   

  +5 all stats ➜ +10% Blade Dance critical strike.

  LVL 15

   

  +100 Blade Fury damage per second ➜ +30 Blade Fury movement speed while active.

7.34e

• Increased Omnislash attack damage bonus from 30/40/50 to 40/45/50.

7.34

• Talents:
• LVL 15

   

  +1s Blade Fury duration ➜ +100 Blade Fury damage per second.

  LVL 20

   

  +150 Blade Fury damage per second ➜ -3s Blade Fury cooldown.

  LVL 20

   

  +50% lifesteal on Blade Dance proc increased to +60%. [?]

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.

• Maelstrom speeds up Juggernaut's farming with Chain Lightning procs and grants attack speed to synergize with Blade Fury and Omnislash.

• Diffusal Blade provides cost-effective attack damage bonuses from Manabreak and bonus Agility. Its active, Inhibit, allows Juggernaut to slow down enemies, making up for his lack of a gap-closing ability.

• Manta Style can remove silences and help with split push. When coupled with Diffusal Blade, you can get some nice boost to damage output.

Late game:

• Disperser builds from Diffusal Blade and allows Juggernaut to more easily pin down fleeing enemies while granting a large damage boost with its Agility bonus.

• 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:

• 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, but is very risky to use against enemies without Omnislash.

• 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.

• 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 while massively boosting attack damage.

• 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.

• 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.

• Revenant's Brooch allows Omnislash to hit ethereal units when toggled on, making it useful against enemies with multiple Ghost Scepters or other ways to turn ethereal.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Relics	Voice Lines
Blade Fury Damage Ward Heals of Heroes <25% Health Blade Dance Crits Omnislash Kills Crit Damage Spells Disjointed With Manta Last Hits Teleports Leading To Kills Kills During Black King Bar Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Towers Destroyed Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Ha ha ha ha ha! ▶️ Oh, that's nice.
	Silver	▶️ Mmm, looking good. ▶️ You will be forever alone.
	Gold	▶️ It's all falling into place. ▶️ I'll be back to finish this later.
	Platinum	▶️ There's a fine line between bravery and stupidity.
	Master	▶️ Mmm, snazzy.
	Grandmaster	▶️ How many blades am I holding up?

Equipment

Juggernaut Equipment (expand sets) Sets Argent Decimator Armor of the Unyielding Mask Arms of the Gwimyeon Warrior Set Aspects of Beast and Man Set Balance of the Bladekeeper Bladesrunner Dashing Swordsman Frostwatch Warmonger Gifts of the Vanished Isle Set Isle of Dragons Jagged Honor Lineage of the Stormlords Of Ebony and Ivory Set Pilgrimage of the Bladeform Aesthete Provocation of Ruin Sinister Shadow The Boar God's Honor Set The Dauntless Set The Exiled Ronin Set The Path of Odocoeleus Thousand Faces Set Traveler on the High Plains Set Wandering Demon of the Plains Set Weapon Blade of Cleaving Swiftness Blade of Endless Power Blade of the Jade Serpent Blade of the New Year Crimson Edge of the Lost Order Cursed Crescent Dragon Sword Edge of the Lost Order Elegant Stroke Fireborn Odachi Golden Edge of the Lost Order Grand Claive of the Unshamed Kantusa the Script Sword Relic Blade of the Kuur-Ishiminari Serrakura Head Ancient Mask of Intimidation Aspect Mask of Fulminant Rage Carved Grin of the Trickster Izoku Mask of the Many-Sighted Back Battle Banner of the Masked Healing Ward Fortune's Tout Golden Fortune's Tout Healing Fount of the Lost Isles Healing Ward of the Kuur-Ishiminari Taunt Taunt: For Death and Honor Taunt: Sharp Blade Kinetic Gems Kinetic: Bladekeeper's Blade Dance Kinetic: Bladekeeper's Bladefury Kinetic: Bladekeeper's Omnislash Kinetic: Fireborn Assault

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".

• ▶️ "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.

• ▶️ "And then... there were none..." may be a reference to the Agatha Christie book by the same name.

• ▶️ "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".

• Juggernaut's Warcraft3 model design is influenced by various oriental cultures, with Japamala beads on his neck, carrying a flag and wielding a Samurai-like blade.
  • The flag cosmetics for his back loadout slot is called Sashimono (指物, 差物, 挿物) poles. These poles were attached to the backs of the armor (Dō 胴)) by special fittings. The Sashimono were worn both by foot soldiers as well as by the elite samurai and members of the shogunate. Like many heraldic displays, it served several functions in battle.
  • The Provocation of Ruin set is a homage to his Warcraft3 design.

Gallery

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  Splash artwork

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  Item concept table

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  Envisioning Juggernaut Loading Screen concept art

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  Juggernaut cartoon art

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  Juggernaut illustration