Winter Wyvern
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Winter Wyvern
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
| +55HP and +0.25HP regeneration | |
| +0.28 armor and 1.7 attack speed | |
| +43.2MP and +0.18MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance +3.6 Main Attack Damage | |
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700 Projectile Speed
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100 (116)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.25 + 0.8
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0.6
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Ice
Gib Type | ||
2015-02-12
Released | ||
2012-09-29
(6.75) | ||
Competitive Span
2015-04-30 — 2015-12-16 2015-12-20 — Present | ||
Version Control This article has been updated to the latest version (7.40b) and is mostly accurate. |
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| Able to force her enemies to attack their own ally | |
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| Where most dragons originate fire, the Winter Wyvern stores unfathomable cold. Soaring over the treeline, she breathes a blistering chill, causing painful Burning Colds. Gentle with her companions, she encases them in an Icy Cocoon, freezing them solid while healing them in curative magic. Auroth has no time for would-be dragon-slayers. Should the enemy be foolish to gather, her Winter's Curse compels her attackers to turn against one another. As frozen crystals form inside her gullet, she blasts the gathering with Icy Splinters that shatters upon impact of closely packed foes. | |
| Roles: | |
| Adjectives | Blue, Female, Flying, Icy, Wings, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio
[edit]Some breathe fire. I breathe ice.▶️Auroth, the Winter Wyvern
Aliases:
Auroth, WW
Lore:
Like many great poets, Auroth just wants time to write, but the Winter Wyvern's life is full of interruptions. The epics of the Eldwurms have a long and colorful history, but some fear that the remaining dragon scholars are not as prolific as they once were, with few lines added to the Eldwurm Eddas since the last age of greatness. Auroth laments: "We forget that there is more to life than triumph and dominion over enemies. We must also live our lives in the pursuit of creative expression." She embarks on research expeditions, collecting books for inspiration. But all this research can be terribly distracting, and she spends less time writing than she should. Although she knows she should be lurking in her lair, adding to the Eddas, she finds herself engaged in epic battles against powerful enemies. She loots castles, raids ancient libraries... and if she happens to heap glory on herself in the process, she tells herself that it's merely a side effect of her research. The fact is, while her skill and power on the battlefield are legendary, her scholarly travails have thus far hardly been the stuff of literary acclaim. But she is not content to stand as a protagonist of heroic lore. She wishes also to create it.
Voice:
Enables Cold Embrace casting on allied buildings.
Applies physical damage immunity but does not heal buildings. Grants bonus attack damage for a brief duration when the embrace ends.
Applies physical damage immunity but does not heal buildings. Grants bonus attack damage for a brief duration when the embrace ends.
Upgrades
[edit]Talents
[edit]| +1s Splinter Blast Stun | 25 | +60 Winter's Curse Attack Speed |
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| +100 Splinter Blast Damage | 20 | +17% Arctic Burn Slow |
| +250 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius | 15 | +3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration |
| +35 Attack Damage | 10 | +20 Cold Embrace Heal per Second |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All | ||
Eldwurm Scholar
[edit]Passive
Affects
Self
Grants a portion of the Shrine of Wisdom experience to allied heroes that would not benefit from it.
Hero Model
[edit]Passive / Channeling
Affects
Self
Auroth's hero model has the following hidden
innate abilities.
She may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling, excluding passive innate abilities.
She may only perform or utilize the ability's functions upon a successful channeling, excluding passive innate abilities.
Z-axis Ascend: 150
Auroth is considered a ground unit, despite her hero model showing otherwise.
Only Auroth and certain hero models ascend the z-axis and become a flying unit upon Arctic Burn cast.
Details
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innate abilities for more details.
Abilities
[edit]Arctic Burn
[edit]Sets Auroth's attack point to a certain value, and grants herself unobstructed movement and bonus attack range.
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
Set Attack Point: 0.1
Attack Range Bonus: 250/275/300/325
Attack Projectile Speed Bonus: 500
While soaring, Auroth imbues a blistering chill into each attack proportional to the affected enemy unit's current health, and applies a movement speed slow.
Current Health as Damage per Second: 4%/6%/8%/10%
Does not apply the current health as damage component on Roshan.
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Adds a toggle functionality to the ability that drains mana per second while active.
Removes the debuff limit per affected enemy. Grants self movement speed bonus.
Adds a toggle functionality to the ability that drains mana per second while active.
Removes the debuff limit per affected enemy. Grants self movement speed bonus.
The same organ where some dragons stoke their inner flame is, in Auroth, a crucible of unimaginable cold. From deep within her frosty gullet, an exhalation sends enemies into burning agony.
Splinter Blast
[edit]Launches a projectile towards a unit and shatters on impact, leaving the primary target completely unaffected, while hurling damaging splinters to enemy units within the radius and slowing them.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 1.17
Cast Range:
1150
Move Speed Slow: 28%/32%/36%/40%
Slow Duration: 4
Produced slowly by specialized vesicles in her frozen gullet, Winter Wyvern blast shards of ice at her enemies.
Cold Embrace
[edit]Unit
Affects
Units
Encases the affected allied unit in a cocoon, healing it while preventing all physical damage instances.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0.63
Cast Range:
850/900/950/1000
Max Health as Heal per Second Bonus: 2.25%/3%/3.75%/4.5%
Duration: 4
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
When the embrace ends, a Splinter Blast of its corresponding level is released on the affected ally's location, hitting all enemy units within the radius.
Reduces cooldown.
When the embrace ends, a Splinter Blast of its corresponding level is released on the affected ally's location, hitting all enemy units within the radius.
Reduces cooldown.
From winter's heart comes a cold, healing embrace. The ice slows the blood and allows the spell to better work its curative magic.
Winter's Curse
[edit]Unit
Affects
Enemy Units
Dispels and stuns an enemy unit in place.
Enemy units within the radius are striken with a maddening curse that causes them to attack their frozen ally with increased attack speed.
Enemy units within the radius are striken with a maddening curse that causes them to attack their frozen ally with increased attack speed.
Cast Animation: 0.3 + 1.37
Cast Range:
700/750/800
Base Duration: 2
Duration Increase per Taunt Enemy Hero: 2
Max Duration: 4/5.5/7
Has a less effective duration increase per enemy creep.
Duration Increase per Taunt Enemy Creep: 0.5
The frozen unit and those cursed to attack their ally are immune to all damage instances from their enemies, except from Auroth and her controlled units.
Additionally, the curse amplifies all of Auroth's and her player-controlled units' magical and pure damage instances.
Disables the taunted units' Buyback while the debuff is active.
The oldest of the bookwurm's spells, this curse lends truth to the old saw: sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my enemy still.
Recent Matches
[edit]Main Article: Winter Wyvern/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7, 2026 - 22:00 IST | Tier 3 | APAC Predator League 2026 | 0 : 1 | ||||||
| January 7, 2026 - 16:15 IST | Tier 3 | APAC Predator League 2026 | 1 : 0 | ||||||
| January 5, 2026 - 18:20 CET | Qualifier | WEU OQ1 DreamLeague S28 | 0 : 1 | ||||||
| December 27, 2025 - 20:10 MSK | Tier 4 | STORM CUP Season 1 - Playoffs | 1 : 0 | ||||||
| December 27, 2025 - 15:25 MSK | Tier 4 | STORM CUP Season 1 - Group B | 0 : 1 |
Recent Changes
[edit]Description

Talents:
- LVL 10 +25 Cold Embrace heal per second reduced to +20.
- LVL 15 +300 Splinter Blast shatter radius reduced to +250.
- LVL 25 +1.25s Splinter Blast stun reduced to +1s.
- Increased base attack damage from 15-22 to 16-23.
- Increased base attack range from 425 to 450.
- Reduced Arctic Burn attack range bonus from 275/300/325/350 to 250/275/300/325.

Talents:
- LVL 25 +55 Winter's Curse attack speed increased to +60.
- Increased base attack damage from 14-21 to 15-22.
Dota Plus Progress
[edit]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.
| Winter Wyvern's Relics | Voice Lines | |
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Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
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Master |
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Grandmaster |
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Equipment
[edit]Trivia
[edit]- Winter Wyvern was teased in day 2 of the Forseer's Contract update page. Her smoke silhouette is visible next to Phantom Assassin.
- After being teased in the update that ported Oracle to Dota 2, she ended up being the next hero to be ported over from DotA.
- Winter Wyvern made her first official Dota 2 appearance in the New Bloom trailer "The Coming of the Year Beast" which was showcased for 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 Dota 2 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 10 February 2015 on the official Dota 2 blog. In the comic, she is depicted as an "artistic" dragon with interests in books who does not follow the traditional behavior of dragons razing cities to the ground.
- Winter Wyvern's ally response towards Axe, ▶️ "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."[1]
- Winter Wyvern's select response ▶️ "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."[2]
- Her rivalry line towards Dragon Knight ▶️ "I knew Slyrak, Dragon Knight. You're no Slyrak." is a reference to Lloyd Bentsen's political quip "... I knew Jack Kennedy... Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy".[3]
- When the Winter Wyvern's abilities were showcased in The International 2016, Winter's Curse was cast on a Naga Siren, which caused her teammates, Gyrocopter, Ancient Apparition, Earthshaker and Storm Spirit, to kill her. This is in reference to how Aui_2000, who played Naga Siren during Game 4 in the finals of the previous International against CDEC, was subsequently kicked out of the team.
- In Deadlock, Viscous's The Cube ability may be inspired by Winter Wyvern's Cold Embrace, both encasing the ally, disabling and healing them and increasing their resistances while active.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Winter Wyvern uses the model of the Fromst Wyrms, a large ranged flying Undead unit.
Gallery
[edit]- Bone Harvest sprite - alive
- Unused Cold Embrace icon, possibly for a scrapped cosmetic item