Sentry Ward

	Sentry Ward
Summoned Ward
Health 100 +0
This unit has no mana.

Sentry Ward
	A form of plant originally grown in the garden of a fearful king.
Consumables
	80
Recipe

Item

Changelogs

Sentry Ward is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Consumables.

Additional Information[]

Stacks with itself and with Observer Wards in the inventory, there is no stack limit. The sell value adapts based on the number of instances in a stack.
- Wards from multiple players are combined when given by allies.
Killing a Sentry Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.

Ability[]

Plant

▶️

Ability
Target Area

Affects
Enemies

Plants a Sentry Ward, an invisible watcher that grants True Sight, the ability to see invisible enemy units and wards, to any existing allied vision within a radius.
Lasts 7 minutes.

Does not grant ground vision.
Hold Control to give one Sentry Ward to an allied hero.

Cast Range:

500

Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2

Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 8

Duration: 420

1

0

Modifiers []

Provides 150 radius ground vision at its location for 12 seconds.
- Despite the tooltip claiming otherwise, Sentry Ward does in fact grant ground vision, not flying vision.

Cannot be placed inside the fountain area (including a small area in front of the ramp), or in Roshan's pit.
- Cannot be placed on impassable terrain, or spots obscured by trees.

Item is unshareable (Ctrl) with Couriers or with the Spirit Bear.

Neutral creep spawn ranges are shown before placing a ward, allowing camps to be blocked.

The radius of already placed Sentry Wards is shown as well, allowing its caster to see how they overlap.

Treat illusions and creep-heroes as creeps.

Planted Sentry Ward[]

True Sight

Ability
Aura

Affects
Enemies

Adds the ability to see invisible units and wards to any allied vision within the Sentry Ward's range.

Radius: 1000

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

Modifiers []

Grants True Sight within its radius by an aura which affects enemies, it is not obstructed by anything.
- The debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
- As True Sight implies, it doesn't affect enemies with True Sight Immunity.

Alt shows all allied Sentry Wards' True Sight radius with a green ring.

Planted Ward

Ability
Hidden

This unit is permanently invisible and phased.

Attacking Accuracy: 100%

Melee Attack Range Bonus: 150

Ally Deny Health Threshold: 50

Notes

The ability and modifier are not displayed in-game.

Attacks against the affected target have absolute accuracy, which prevents its attacks from being missed (i.e. evasion or blind effects).
- Geminate Attack does not work against Observer Wards.

Melee units have an extra 150 attack range when attacking Observer Wards.

Sentry Wards can always be attacked by their owner, and can only be attacked by other ally heroes if they are within the spawn areas of neutral creeps, regardless of the ward's current health.
- Sentry Wards receive 10 damage from ally heroes when it has over 50 health.

Lore[]

Knowing how to craft a ward is an important skill for artificers of magical goods. Rylai showed great talent at crafting wards, and once considered becoming an artificer.^[1]
Despite this, the flavor text for this item refers to Sentry Wards as plants and states that they were "originally grown in [a] garden." This implies that they are grown as opposed to crafted, directly contradicting the White Sentry's description.