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Winter Wyvern
Winter Wyvern

Patch 7.41f15.09.2026-0.46 (0.46)

Abilities

Arctic Burn

Arctic Burn

  • NERFCooldown increased from 26/24/22/20s to 29/26/23/20s+12%+8%+5%0%
Cold Embrace

Cold Embrace

  • NERFMax HP Heal per second decreased from 2.25/3/3.75/4.5% to 1.5/2.5/3.5/4.5%-33%-17%-7%0%

Patch 7.41d05.06.2026-0.74 (0.74)

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Damage decreased from +35 to +30-14%
  • NERFLevel 20 Talent: Arctic Burn Slow decreased from +15% to +10%-33%

Patch 7.41c06.05.2026-0.70 (0.70)

Abilities

Splinter Blast

Splinter Blast

  • NERFMovement Slow decreased from 28/32/36/40% to 27/30/33/36%-4%-6%-8%-10%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10: Cold Embrace Base Heal per Second decreased from +20 to +15-25%

Patch 7.4124.03.2026-0.33 (10.11)

Abilities

Eldwurm's Edda

Eldwurm Scholar→Eldwurm's Edda

  • NEWNew innate ability.
Passive
When an allied hero picks up a , the 3 heroes that wouldn't benefit from it gain 20% of the experience instead.
Heroes
3
Experience share
20%
→
Passive
Item-based.
Winter Wyvern starts the game with the Eldwurm's Edda item. After 10 minutes it can be consumed, increasing the current and maximum level of one basic ability by 1.
Also increases Winter Wyvern's Intelligence by 25% of its base value at the time of consumption.
Level-5 values are automatically calculated by applying 50% of the difference in all values between levels 3 and 4 (except mana cost — kept the same as level 4).
Consume time
10 min
Ability level bonus
+1
Intelligence bonus
25%
Level difference share
50%
Arctic Burn

Arctic Burn

  • BUFFNo longer has a one debuff per cast restriction on enemy heroes
  • NERFBurn Duration decreased from 5s to 3s-40%
  • NERFMovement Slow decreased from 16/24/32/40% to 15/20/25/30%-6%-17%-22%-25%
Cold Embrace

Cold Embrace

  • REWORKAghanim's Shard reworked: Decreases cooldown by 4s. Allied units gain 60% bonus attack damage for 6s when emerging from the icy cocoon
  • REWORKAghanim's Shard reworked.
When Cold Embrace ends, a Splinter Blast goes off at that location, hitting enemies within 1150 range. Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds.
Splinter Blast range
1150
Cooldown reduction
4s
→
Reduces cooldown by 4 seconds. Allied units gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon.
Bonus attack damage
60%
Damage buff duration
6s
Cooldown reduction
4s
Winter's Curse

Winter's Curse

  • NEWBonus duration per hero can now be applied after the cast if an enemy hero becomes affected?Still can't be longer than the maximum duration
  • BUFFAttack Speed rescaled from 65 to 50/65/80-23%0%+23%
  • BUFFMaximum Duration rescaled from 4/5.5/7s to 6s+50%+9%-14%
  • NERFBonus Duration per hero decreased from 2s to 1.5s-25%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Splinter Blast Shatter Radius decreased from +250 to +175-30%
  • NERFLevel 20 Talent: Arctic Burn Slow decreased from +17% to +15%-12%

Patch 7.40b23.12.2025-0.80 (0.80)

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: HP/s Cold Embrace Heal decreased from +25 to +20-20%
  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Splinter Blast Shatter Radius decreased from +300 to +250-17%
  • NERFLevel 25 Talent: Splinter Blast Stun Duration decreased from +1.25s to +1s-20%

Patch 7.4016.12.2025+0.17 (1.26)

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase damage increased by 1?Now it's 16. Before this patch it was changed in 7.39c (1 year 4 months ago)Damage at level 1 increased from 41–48 to 42–49+7%
  • BUFFBase Attack Range increased from 425 to 450+6%

Abilities

Arctic Burn

Arctic Burn

  • NERFBonus Attack Range decreased from 275/300/325/350 to 250/275/300/325-9%-8%-8%-7%

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 25 Talent: Winter's Curse Attack Speed increased from +55 to +60+9%

Patch 7.39c24.06.2025+0.20 (0.20)

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Damage increased by 1?Now it's 15. Before this patch it was changed in 7.38 (1 year 8 months ago)Damage at level 1 increased from 40-47 to 41-48+7%

Patch 7.3922.05.2025-0.42 (0.94)

Talents

  • BUFFLevel 10 Talent: Damage increased from +30 to +35+17%
  • NERFLevel 15 Talent: Splinter Blast Shatter Radius decreased from +400 to +300-25%
  • NERFLevel 25 Talent: Splinter Blast Stun Duration decreased from 1.5s to 1.25s-17%

Patch 7.38b06.03.2025+0.58 (2.64)

Facets

Recursive

  • DELNo longer amplifies physical, magical, and pure damage taken from Winter Wyvern

Abilities

Winter's Curse

Winter's Curse

  • BUFFCursed target is no longer immune to physical damage from Winter Wyvern and her controlled units
  • NERFCooldown increased from 85/80/75s to 100/90/80s+18%+12%+7%

Patch 7.3819.02.2025+0.94 (9.96)

GENERAL

  • REWORKMain attribute changed from Universal → Intelligence
  • NERFStarting damage decreased from 42–47 to 40–47-2%
  • NERFDamage gain per level decreased from 4.6 to 3.6?Base damage -1–4 → 14–21Damage at level 30: 203–208 → 158–165 (-21%), with all 7 Attribute Bonus levels, as Valve counts it-22%
  • BUFFBase Damage increased by 15-17?Now it's 14. Before this patch it was changed in 7.36 (2 years 5 months ago)Damage spread increased from 5 to 7+1500%
  • BUFFBase Strength increased from 20 to 22+10%
  • BUFFStrength gain increased from 2.2 to 2.5+14%
  • BUFFAgility gain increased from 1.5 to 1.7+13%
  • BUFFIntelligence gain increased from 2.8 to 3.6+29%
  • BUFFBase Attack Speed increased from 90 to 100+11%
  • NERFDamage at level 1 decreased from 42-47 to 40-47-2%
  • NERFDamage gain per level decreased from +4.6 to +3.6-22%
  • NERFDamage at level 30 decreased by 45-43 (from 203-208 to 158-165)-21%

Facets

Essence of the Blueheart, Dragon Sight

  • DELRemoved

Winterproof

  • NEWNew facet
Active: Cold Embrace
Can be cast on buildings. Chosen building isn't healed, but still protected from physical damage. Affected units or buildings gain 60% bonus attack damage after the cocoon thaws. Buff Duration: 6s
If the building is under effect of both Cold Embrace and Glyph of Fortification, the buff duration is paused. Lane creeps don't have this interaction
Bonus attack damage
60%
Buff duration
6s

Recursive

  • NEWNew facet
Active: Winter's Curse
Makes all affected enemies take 125% of physical, magical and pure damage from Winter Wyvern. Whenever the cursed enemy dies, Winter's Curse is recast on the lowest health enemy hero affected by the Curse. The recast has minimum, maximum, and bonus durations equal to 50% of the default spell?Can't be recast on illusions. Amount of recasts is unlimited. Durations are not affected by the amount of recasts and are always equal to 50% of the default Winter's Curse
Damage amp
125%
Recast duration
50%

Abilities

Eldwurm Scholar

Eldwurm Scholar

  • MISCNow applies to Shrines of Wisdom instead of removed Wisdom Runes?Effect and mechanics are not changed
Winter's Curse

Winter's Curse

  • DELAffected units no longer take increased magical and pure damage bonus from Winter Wyvern by default

Patch 7.37d02.10.2024+0.69 (0.69)

Facets

Essence of the Blueheart

  • BUFFHealing Converted to Mana increased from 20% to 24%+20%

Patch 7.37c28.08.2024+1.09 (1.09)

Facets

Essence of the Blueheart

  • BUFFHealing Converted to Mana increased from 15% to 20%+33%

Patch 7.37b14.08.2024-0.21 (0.21)

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Damage decreased from +35 to +30-14%