Clan Altar Of Evil [AoE] and Kevin [Quantum] Presents..

Kevin's guide to, Harness the Strength of a God

Half human, half night elf. Serving the order of the Paladine. Sven is one of the over looked heroes not realizing the power he has to change the tides of a game, being tank or dps, possibly ganker.

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1- Hero Over View

Hero Introduction:

Sven is all about getting pumped up. His skills allow him to deal a lot of area of effect damage to several targets at once. Storm Bolt is a powerful damage spell, which stuns both the target and all surrounding units for several seconds, allowing Sven to catch up and deal with them. His Warcry ability helps, giving Sven and nearby allies a temporary movement speed and armor bonus so they can charge quickly and fearlessly. Sven's foes should be especially fearful of his powerful physical attacks. God's Strength pumps Sven's damage up to very high levels, and Cleave turns every attack into an area of effect strike. Although his gameplay is fairly straightforward, Sven should not be underestimated. The best course of action when faced with a fully pumped Sven is to run.

Backround Story:

A follower of the great God of Order, Paladine, Sven has sworn to uphold the rights of all. Born of a Knight and a Night Elf and ostracized since birth, Sven has lead a solitary existence of meditation and training. He has come out of his wanderings determined to guard the innocent against evil. Armed with his blessed cleaving blade Justice, and harnessing the power to strike down his enemies with the might of God's Strength, Sven's wrath toward the unjust is a sight to behold.

Pros:
-AoE Stun
-Built In Splash Dmg
-Great Damage for a Decent amount of time.
-Can Tank, Gank, and Initiate.
-Saves Lives
-Serves a purpose in Team battles and in teams overall.
-Nice attack animation for getting last hits.

Cons:
-I'll be honest, Sven is one of my favored heroes so this is a hard part.
-Under 300 starting movement which is usually average for heroes like Sven.
-Splash doesn't come quick, due to it not being useful early game as his other skills.
-Low mana pool for a Stun that costs 140 mana.
-His great damage is his weakness, causing him to get piled often in team battles. (We will get back to this problem in the Item section)
-Ultimate amplifies off of Strength only

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2- Skills

Storm Bolt:

Notes:

This skill remains the same Mana cost, and Duration, but the Damage Increases this is a nice skill to work on.

Great Cleave:

Notes:

This is a nice skill, not a skill to really get right away in my opinion, but when it's Svens main time to be in the scene he should have this already. We'll get to the timing of this later on.

Warcry:

Notes:

This isn't one of my favorite skills on sven, but! It is better than the old armor aura he had versions ago it also serves the purpose it's made for but it has a con to it, and a pro.

Pro- It gives allies the boosts of it's abilities.

Con- Sven STOPS in order to cast this, MoM is a nice DPS item on Sven. I'll explain the options of this skill as we go through the guide. You'll know what I'm talking about when the time comes.

God Strength:

Notes:

Nothing much to say about this, but THIS my friend. Oh ho! THIS is what makes you GODLIKE. The name of the skill explains itself, skill this whenever possible it's a priority on this hero.

-=-=-In Order to see the Exact details of these abilities and not just the explanations go here: http://www.playdota.com/heroes/rogue-knight -=-=-

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3- Skill Usage

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Skill Build Point Wise:

1- Storm Bolt
2- Stats
3- Storm Bolt
4- Warcry
5- Storm Bolt
6- God's Strength
7- Storm Bolt - MAXED OUT STORM BOLT
8- Stats
9- Stats/
10- Great Cleave
11- God's Strength
12- Great Cleave
13- Great Cleave
14- Great Cleave - MAXED OUT GREAT CLEAVE
15- Stats
16- God's Strength - MAXED OUT GOD'S STRENGTH
17- Stats
18- Stats
19- Stats
20- Stats
21- Stats/Stats
22- WarCry
23- WarCry
24- WarCry - WARCRY MAXED OUT
25- Stats

Notes:

My reason to max out storm bolt, is because the Damage increases while everything else stays the same, so you need to make the best of this Storm Bolt.

Storm Bolt's Statistics:
Level-Mana Cost-CoolDown-Cast Range-AoE-Duration

1. 140 14 seconds 600 250 2 seconds Deals 100 damage and stuns

2. 140 14 seconds 600 250 2 seconds Deals 175 damage and stuns

3. 140 14 seconds 600 250 2 seconds Deals 250 damage and stuns

4. 140 14 seconds 600 250 2 seconds Deals 325 damage and stuns

Notes

Stats is a nice thing to support the Storm Bolt, early ganking is nice to have a dependant Sven.

Cleave is really decent when you are keeping lanes from getting to towers, bunched up creeps etc. Helps clear them quick and get back to the game and also helps when you are in team battles the cleave is noticeable.

Storm Bolt:

Storm Bolt, is a good stun. It does nearly the same as some other heroes stuns but this has an AoE. This means you have to make the best of an AoE spell (AoE = Area Of Effect meaning the stun doesn't strike single target but a specific Area.) When you launch Svens Storm Bolt it will fly in the air and chase the target down if he runs or even TP's! So once you launch it remember to just commence whatever your team has planned out. Usually you'll try to catch two heroes in the stun.

Great Cleave:

Great Cleave as I stated earlier, it's a good spell for farming when you need it. But it doesn't require rushing plus it won't give you the huge 50 splash on the first point, so level it as the game goes use it to clear creep pushed lanes where the creeps are bunched up, carry a TP then TP back with your team and proceed as you were doing. Also even then! The cleave will come in handy as you get in team battles you might kill a guy you aren't even targeting with the splash.

WarCry:

WarCry is not one of my favorite Sven skills, but it does serve a purpose like chasing, or if you are trying to be support you stop when you cast it and your ally possibly another carry hero or someone who needs the kill can make use of your help and catch up to the chase and kill the target. When I play Sven I use it more of a support skill than a self usage skill. Afterall it does effect the whole team for a reason.

God's Strength:

This, is basically your pillars holding up everything. Your other skills will synergize with this pretty well. A common mistake made with this is being casted TOO SOON! 30 seconds does seem like alot, but you have to think you might have to chase etc so I'd try and cast this more with a Storm bolt initiation, meaning you cast the God's Strength when you are Ready to initiate, not when you are heading to initiate. Storm bolt while god strengthed and do work.

4- Item Choices

Starting Items:

Branches for stats, Stick for Stability, Tangoes for lower constant heals and a Salve for Emergency.

Mid Game Items:

The branches and Wand will turn into a Magic Stick. Treads will be made for early game support of your ultimate, Bottle comes in handy for keeping up on the map you can roam and initiate alot get farmed off kills avoid going to town etc, TP Scroll for Emergency is nice to have.

End Game Items:

Magic Stick, Bottle, MoM, Treads, BkB. By this point the games at prime. Armlet as luxury if you can make it make it just don't forget to turn it off and on when the time comes.

"Other" Items:

Basically Items you can get if you're really dominating the game, Heart is more of a Luxury/Other item than just being classified as Other.
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5- Photo Explanation

Storm Bolt:

This is Storm Bolts AoE ( Area of Effect) the middle part is used to target and anything in the area of the target will be stunned aswell.

Storm Bolt Abuse:

Red: The Red range is Storm Bolts range, that is how far you can launch it at most.

Blue: The Blue range is the reccomended range, this gives you the chance to catch up if they run into Red range and still hit them. If you also manage to Launch your Storm Bolt at Blue range, it will follow if they keep running, so don't! Stop cast animation thinking it won't fly at them sometimes that 2 Second stun is a value in chase.

Notes:

Abuse of the AoE and chase power this Skill has, AoE is always helpful in team battles/clashes. This is also nice for chasing it lets you have time to catch up and save allies with it's range.

Ganking:

When Sven is on Sentinel, it's nice to put him in the Bottom lane or Top. When Sven is on the Scourge he is nice to put on Top or Bottom. Sentinel bottom is Defensive ganking, top is Offensive. For Scourge side, Bottom is offensive, and Top is Defensive.

Note: Ganking always has a offensive purpose ;p

Sentinel Defensive Example:

Red: Red is the Scourge pushing into the bottom tower.

Blue: The Blue bottom one is your Ally, the Light Blue with an Inner Dark Blue circle on the left would be Sven. Sven in this case if possible would cast Ultimate then Mask of Madness run in with the stun and have about 5 seconds to use mask of madness which is two hits when you would land one or maybe none. Your ally comes in after your stun if it's a nice combo your ally will have a stun and cast it right after yours it would be a combo and guaranteed kill most of the time. Especially early game (Level 3 or so).

Notes: In ganks, you would usually try to pull things like this or something along these lines, communication and timeing is a great thing with your ally.

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6- Friends and Foes

Compatible Allies:

1. Lina
2. Vengeful Spirit
3. Lion
4. Crystal Maiden
5. Rhasta
6. Bat Rider
7. Ancient Apparition
8. See where I am going here?.. STUN STUN STUN!

Worst Enemies:

1. Medusa
2. OmniKnight
3. Dazzle
4. Blade Mail (Item)
5. Ancient Apparition
6. Invis heroes
7. Basically things that slow you down, block off your stun, over power you (Purge).

By following this whole guide you can achieve game breaking moments as you can see from me in AduhAwas' video.

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7- Credits

Photos / Art Work:

Kunkka
Me
Google
Cropping ( Me )

Influence:

Clan AoE
Aduh_Awas
DemonicTrashCan
Other Players (Thank you for the time you've taken to read my guide aswell)

Other Clan Altar of Evil Guides:

Aduh_Awas's Guide to Earth Shaker:

http://www.playdota.com/guides/welco...orld-of-ownage

DemonicTrashCan's Guide to Huskar:

http://www.playdota.com/guides/dtcs-guide-to-huskar

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