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Version History[]

Version
Description
  • Increased Storm Hammer cooldown from 18/16/14/12 to 21/18/15/12.
  • God's Strength
    • Reduced slow resistance bonus from 30%/35%/40% to 30% on each level.
    • Increased cooldown from 105/100/95 to 110/105/100.
  • Reduced base health from 200 to 120.
  • Storm Hammer
    • Reduced damage from 95/170/245/320 to 80/160/240/320.
    • Reduced stun duration from 1.4/1.6/1.8/2 to 1/1.2/1.4/1.6.
  • Great Cleave
    • Now passively grants 2/4/6/8 strength bonus.
    • Increased cleave damage from 25%/50%/75%/100% to 40%/60%/80%/100%.
  • Warcry
    • Increased duration from 9 to 10.
    • Increased cooldown from 32/28/24/20 to 35/30/25/20.
  • Storm Hammer
    • Increased stun duration from 1.25/1.5/1.75/2 to 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.
    • Reduced mana cost from 110/120/130/140 to 110/115/120/125.
  • Increased Warcry movement speed bonus from 8%/12%/16%/20% to 10%/14%/18%/22%.
  • Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
    • Increased Warcry aura armor bonus from 5 to 7.
  • Reduced base armor from 1 to 0.
  • Increased God's Strength attack damage bonus from 100%/150%/200% to 120%/160%/200%.
  • Increased base movement speed from 315 to 325.
  • Storm Hammer can now be cast on invulnerable units. [?]
  • Warcry
    • No longer grants 12/16/20/24 attack damage.
    • Now grants movement speed bonus to allies as well.
    • Reduced movement speed bonus from 10%/14%/18%/22% to 8%/12%/16%/20%.
    • Reduced mana cost from 60 on each level to 30/40/50/60.
  • Increased Great Cleave distance from 650 to 700.
  • God's Strength
    • No longer grants 10/20/30 strength bonus.
    • Increased attack damage bonus from 80%/120%/160% to 110%/160%/210%.
    • Increased duration from 25 to 40.
  • Reduced Storm Hammer cooldown from 19/17/15/13 to 18/16/14/12.
  • Increased Storm Hammer damage from 80/160/240/320 to 110/180/250/320.
  • Warcry
    • Increased self movement speed bonus from 6%/10%/14%/18% to 10%/14%/18%/22%.
    • Reduced cooldown from 36/32/28/24 to 32/28/24/20.
Old
Warcry
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their movement speed and provides them with an attack damage shield. Buff ends if the shield is consumed.
Cast time: 0
Radius: 700
Movement speed bonus: 5%/10%/15%/20%
Shield capacity: 60/80/100/120
Strength as shield capacity bonus: 100%/150%/200%/250%
Duration: 10
Mana cost: 60
Cooldown: 36/32/28/24
New
Warcry
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and damage. Additionally increases Sven's own movement speed.
Cast time: 0
Radius: 700
Self movement speed bonus: 6%/10%/14%/18%
Armor bonus: 6/9/12/15
Attack damage bonus: 12/16/20/24
Duration: 8
Mana cost: 60
Cooldown: 36/32/28/24
  • Reduced Storm Hammer stun duration from 1.4/1.6/1.8/2 to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.
  • Reduced base attack damage from 43‒45 to 41‒43.
  • Increased Storm Hammer cooldown from 16/15/14/13 to 19/17/15/13.
  • Reduced Warcry shield base capacity from 60/90/120/150 to 60/80/100/120.
  • Reduced Storm Hammer stun duration from 1.7/1.8/1.9/2 to 1.4/1.6/1.8/2.
  • Increased Warcry mana cost from 40 to 60.
  • Reduced Great Cleave cleave damage from 45%/60%/75%/90% to 30%/50%/70%/90%.
  • Warcry
    • Reduced movement speed bonus from 8%/12%/16%/20% to 5%/10%/15%/20%.
    • Reduced shield base capacity from 80/110/140/170 to 60/90/120/150.
  • Increased God's Strength cooldown from 80 to 100.
  • Increased strength gain from 3 to 3.5.
  • Increased base movement speed from 295 to 310.
  • Storm Hammer
    • Reduced damage from 100/175/250/325 to 80/160/240/320.
    • Increased cooldown from 13 on each level to 16/15/14/13.
  • Warcry
    • The shield capacity no longer has a self bonus factor of 1.25.
    • Changed
      shield capacity from a fixed 100/200/300/400 to 80/110/140/170 + 100%/150%/200%/250% * CurrentStrength.
  • Increased base movement speed from 290 to 295.
  • Increased Warcry shield capacity self bonus factor from 1 to 1.25.
  • Increased Warcry shield capacity from 100/200/300/400 to 110/220/330/440.
  • Reduced base health regeneration from 1.5 to 0.
  • Reduced base mana regeneration from 0.9 to 0.
  • Great Cleave
    • Cleave damage is now affected by armor value as well. [?]
    • Increased distance from 625 to 650.
    • Increased end radius from 330 to 360.
    • Increased cleave damage from 40%/50%/60%/70% to 45%/60%/75%/90%.
  • Reworked
    Warcry.
Old
Warcry
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their movement speed armor.
Cast time: 0
Radius: 900
Movement speed bonus: 12%
Armor bonus: 5/10/15/20
Duration: 8
Mana cost: 25
Cooldown: 35/30/25/20
New
Warcry
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their movement speed and provides them with an attack damage shield. Buff ends if the shield is consumed.
Cast time: 0
Radius: 700
Movement speed bonus: 8%/12%/16%/20%
Shield capacity: 100/200/300/400
Duration: 10
Mana cost: 40
Cooldown: 36/32/28/24
Notes: The shield blocks damage after all reductions. Only blocks attack damage of all damage type, does not block spell damage (including physical spell damage).
  • Increased Great Cleave cleave damage from 30%/42%/54%/66% to 40%/50%/60%/70%.
  • Reduced Storm Hammer mana cost from 140 on each level to 110/120/130/140.
  • Great Cleave
    • Increased distance from 570 to 625.
    • Increased end radius from 300 to 330.
  • Reduced Storm Hammer stun duration from 2 on each level to 1.7/1.8/1.9/2.
  • Increased Warcry cooldown from 34/28/22/16 to 35/30/25/20
  • Increased Warcry cooldown from 32/26/20/14 to 34/28/22/16.
  • Increased strength gain from 2.7 to 3.
  • Reduced base health regeneration from 0.25 to 0.
  • Increased base mana from 50 to 75.
  • God's Strength
    • Now also grants self 16/28/40 strength bonus. [?]
    • Reduced attack damage bonus from 100%/150%/200% to 80%/120%/160%.
  • Increased base intelligence from 14 to 16.
  • Increased Great Cleave cleave damage from 20%/35%/50%/65% to 30%/42%/54%/66%.
  • Increased Warcry armor bonus from 4/8/12/16 to 5/10/15/20.
  • Increased base armor from -1 to 2.
  • Reduced Warcry cooldown from 36/30/24/18 to 32/26/20/14.
  • Storm Hammer
    • Is now disjointable. When disjointed, none of its effects will apply, including the area effect.
    • Reduced cooldown from 15 to 13.
  • Reduced Great Cleave cleave damage from 25%/40%/55%/70% to 20%/35%/50%/65%.
  • Reduced Warcry duration from 8 to 7.
  • Great Cleave
    • Increased radius from 200 to 300.
    • Rescaled cleave damage from 30%/40%/50%/60% to 25%/40%/55%/70%.
  • Warcry
    • Increased radius from 700 to 900.
    • Increased armor bonus from 3/6/9/12 to 4/8/12/16.
  • Increased God's Strength attack damage bonus from 100%/140%/180% to 100%/150%/200%.
  • Increased Great Cleave cleave damage from 20%/30%/40%/50% to 30%/40%/50%/60%.
  • Warcry
    • Reduced cast point from 0.3 to 0.
    • Increased duration from 6 to 8.
  • God's Strength
    • No longer dispellable.
    • Increased attack damage bonus from 100%/125%/150% to 100%/140%/180%.
  • Changed
    Sven hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO. [?]
  • Changed
    Sven hull type from DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO to DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO_SMALL.
  • Increased Warcry radius from 450 to 700.
  • Added
    new Bound Radius mechanic. [?]
    • Sven has the DOTA_HULL_SIZE_HERO hull size. [?]
    • This unit has a 27-radius collision size and a 24-radius bound radius respectively.
  • God's Strength
    • Updated ability effects. [?]
    • Fixed ability duration inconsistencies.
  • Increased Warcry radius from 350 to 450.
  • Reworked
    Storm Bolt.
    • Changed
      ability targeting type from Target Unit to Target Area.
    • No longer can be disjointed.
    • Now affects units within a 250 radius.
    • Increased cast range from 525 to 600.
    • Increased damage from 100/150/200/250 to 100/175/250/325.
    • Increased cooldown from 8 to 14.
  • Increased Great Cleave cleave damage from 10%/20%/30%/40% to 20%/30%/40%/50%.
  • Replaced
    Toughness Aura with Warcry.
Old
Toughness Aura
Sven is here to pump you up! Increases armor of nearby allied units.
Radius: 900
Armor bonus: 2/3/4/5
New
Warcry
With the righteous anger of one wielding justice, Sven lets loose a mighty Warcry, heartening his allies for battle. Sven and nearby allies gain move speed and increased armor.
Move speed bonus: 12%
Armor bonus: 3/6/9/12
Radius: 350
Duration: 6
Mana cost: 25
Cooldown: 36/30/24/18
  • Increased agility gain from 1.6 to 2.
  • Reduced agility gain from 2.2 to 1.6.
  • Reduced Storm Bolt damage from 125/175/250/300 to 100/150/200/250.
  • Increased God's Strength cooldown from 100/90/80 to 120 on each level.
  • God's Strength
    • Rescaled damage bonus from 75%/125%/175% to 100%/125%/150%.
    • Reduced duration from 40 to 30.
    • Reduced cooldown from 120/90/80 to 100/90/80.
    • Reduced mana cost from 150/200/250 to 100/150/200.
  • Reduced Great Cleave cleave damage from 12%/25%/37%/50% to 10%/20%/30%/40%.
  • Reduced attack point from 0.433 to 0.4.
  • Reduced attack backswing from 0.567 to 0.3.
  • Reduced cast point from 0.5 to 0.3.
  • Reduced cast backswing from 1.67 to 0.51.
  • Rescaled Storm Bolt mana cost from 100/120/135/155 to 140 on each level.
  • Reduced God's Strength mana cost from 150/215/275 to 150/200/250.
  • Reduced base strength from 24 to 23.
  • Reduced base agility from 19 to 16.
  • Rescaled base intelligence and gain from 15 + 1.2 to 14 + 1.3.
  • Reduced base attack damage from 34‒39 to 31‒33.
  • Reduced night vision from 1500 to 800.
  • Storm Bolt
    • Increased damage from 100/150/200/275 to 125/175/250/300.
    • Reduced mana cost from 100/120/140/165 to 100/120/135/155.
  • Increased Toughness Aura armor bonus from 1/2/3/4 to 1/2/4/5.
  • Reduced God's Strength mana cost from 250/300/400 to 150/215/275.
  • Increased base health from 100 to 150.
  • Reduced strength gain from 3 to 2.7.
  • Storm Bolt
    • Reduced stun duration from 3 to 2.
    • Increased cast range from 400 to 525.
  • Great Cleave
    • Reduced cleave damage from 20%/40%/60%/80% to 15%/30%/45%/60%.
    • Reduced radius from 150/175/200/200/200 to 150/155/160/165.
  • Removed
    Aghanim's Scepter upgrade for Sven.
    • No longer increases God's Strength duration 60 and cooldown to 130/97/87.
  • Reduced base armor from 2 to 1.
  • Reduced Storm Bolt mana cost from 100/125/150/180 to 100/120/140/165.
  • God's Strength
    • Increased mana cost from 260 on each level to 250/300/400.
    • Rescaled cooldown from 80 on each level to 120/90/80.
  • Increased Storm Bolt mana cost from 85/90/95/100 to 100/125/150/180.
  • Reduced Storm Bolt mana cost from 100 on each level to 85/90/95/100.
  • Added
    a 4th level to all basic abilities
  • Increased base agility and gain from 16 + 1.5 to 19 + 2.2.
  • Reduced base intelligence and gain from 17 + 1.8 to 15 + 1.3.
  • Storm Bolt
    • Rescaled damage from 90/175/250 to 100/150/200/275.
    • Reduced stun duration from 3.5 to 3.
    • Increased mana cost from 85 to 100.
    • Reduced cooldown from 13 to 8.
  • Great Cleave
    • Rescaled radius from 150/175/200 to 150/175/200/200.
    • Rescaled cleave damage from 40%/60%/80% to 20%/40%/60%/80%.
  • Rescaled Toughness Aura armor bonus from 2/4/6 to 1/3/5/7.
  • Increased God's Strength mana cost from 85 to 260.
  • Increased base attack damage from 30‒30 to 34‒34.
  • Reduced base attack time from 2.13 to 1.6.
  • Increased base armor from 2 to 3.
  • Storm Bolt
    • Reduced damage from 100/200/300 to 90/175/250.
    • Rescaled stun duration from 3/3.5/4 to 3.5.
    • Increased mana cost from 75 to 85.
    • Increased cooldown from 9 to 11.
  • God's Strength
    • Increased number of ability levels from 1 to 3.
    • Rescaled bonus damage from 100% to 75%/125%/175%.
    • Increased mana cost from 65 to 85.
    • Increased cooldown from 65 to 80.
  • Increased base agility from 13 to 16.
  • Created

Patch History[]

Patch
Description
  • Typing Rogue Knight in the hero selection now highlights Sven.
  • Reduced versus scale from 0.88 to 0.84.
  • Reduced loadout scale from 0.88 to 0.84.
  • Added
    new Adjectives attributes. [?]
    • Sven has the following values: NicePecs 1, Legs 2 and Nose 1.
  • Updated default hero model.
  • Removed the 150 spread radius from the attack ringing sound.
  • Increased max polygon counts.
  • Increased max polygon counts.
  • Increased maximum polygons/texture widths limits.
    • Increased belt polygons LOD1/2 from 400/300 to 600/400.
    • Increased arms polygons LOD1/2 600/400 to 800/500.
    • Increased legs polygons LOD1/2 450/300 to 1200/900.
  • Fixed Warcry not having a radius on hover.
  • Applied forgotten 7.22f changes.
    • Reduced Storm Hammer stun duration from 1.4/1.6/1.8/2 to 1.25/1.5/1.75/2.
  • Removed the 150 spread radius from the attack impact sound.
  • Now stops traveling along Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter. Storm Hammer projectile if the distance between him and the targets greater than 2200 at any time.
  • Fixed and improved performance for the arm slot.
  • Adjusted Russian voiceover volume.
  • Added Russian voiceover lines.
  • Fixed having 1 more armor than intended.
  • Added rival death-taunts and other miscellaneous lines to flesh out dialog set for Juggernaut and Sven.
  • U
    Added new portrait animation.
  • Updated Sven's voicelines.
    • Removed pop and clicks at end of files.
  • Updated default hero model and sword.
  • Storm Hammer now has 800 vision while it flies that stays at the target for 3.34 seconds where it hits.
  • Temporarily disabled Sven.
  • Temporarily disabled Sven.