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Snow Sentinel

universal Hero

by Satou the Deus Musco Dec 24, 2025

Snow Sentinel

Applies a multitude of slows, and punishes enemies for being slowed

Snow Sentinel is a ranged universal hero who applies a multitude of slows and punishes enemies for being afflicted by slows.

In addition to all her abilities applying slows and her innate rooting slowed enemies she's also offers a lot of utility and good single target magic damage. She's strong in both team fights and ganks.

Snow Sentinel is a bit of a one trick pony. Enemies who don't care about being slowed won't be bothered by her. And debuff immunity, status resistance, dispels, and haste effects can really gut her effectiveness. She can partially ignore slow resistance, but she cannot ignore haste effects.

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universal Attribute
ranged Attack
Complexity

Easy to learn

2, 4, 5 Preferred Positions

mid laner, soft support, hard support

Traits

Ganker

Rotates around the map to secure surprise kills.

SUPPORTIVE TRAIT

Global Presence

Affects the game from anywhere.

UTILITY TRAIT

Utility

Provides various support functions.

UTILITY TRAIT
Abilities

Active and passive powers

Shivers

INNATE
passive Ability

Slows applied by Snow Sentinel ignore 20% of enemy slow resistance. Additionally enemies who are afflicted by Snow Sentinel's spells and have had their movement speed slowed below 250 for longer th...

Snow Wings
Snow Wings

Snow Wings

active Ability

Snow Sentinel glides forward with limited control over her movement. Enemy enemies she passes over take a burst of damage and are slowed. This affects a wide area.

mana 100/110/120/130
cooldown 22/19/16/13
Heat Drain Arrow
Heat Drain Arrow

Heat Drain Arrow

active Ability

Shoots a slowing arrow at the targeted enemy. Deals damage equal to Snow Sentinel's attack damage and additional bonus damage based on how strongly the enemy is slowed.

mana 25/30/35/40
cooldown 3
Powdered Snow
Powdered Snow

Powdered Snow

active Ability

Snow Sentinel knocks up a large amount of snow. Enemies in the area are slowed and have their attack speed reduced while allies in the area have increased armor and evasion.

mana 70/80/90/100
cooldown 13/12/11/10
Blizzard
Blizzard

Blizzard

ULTIMATE
active Ability

A powerful blizzard grips the map, globally slowing all movement and attack speed. Enemies who stop moving or attacking will take damage over time.Does not affect enemies in their fountain, does no...

mana 200/250/300
cooldown 160/140/120
Snow Nest
Snow Nest

Snow Nest

active Ability
This ability is Granted by Aghanim's Shard

Snow Sentinel places a frost nest in the targeted tree. At set intervals uncontrollable Snow Owlets will spawn from the tree and will begin patrolling the area. If the Snow Owlet encounters an enem...

cooldown 180
Call Owlets
Call Owlets

Call Owlets

active Ability
This ability is Granted by Aghanim's Shard

Send all Owlets to the targeted location. Can only be used during Blizzard.

cooldown 3
Summons

Conjured allies under command

Snow Owlet

melee · 250 range
1 HITS TO KILL
MP 0 +0.0
450
0-1
-5
0%
Dive bomb
Wind rider

Frost nest

melee · 250 range
4 HITS TO KILL
MP 0 +0.1
250
0-1
-5
0%
Spawn Owlet

HP

MP

LEVEL

1
6
12
18
25
30

BONUS STATS

0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

STRENGTH

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

AGILITY

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

INTELLIGENCE

+PER LEVEL

+ TOTAL GAIN

DPS

+

DAMAGE

SPEED

RANGE

ARMOR

MAGIC RES.

SPEED

TURN RATE

VISION

ABILITIES

THIS IDEA CONTAINS A TOTAL OF 7 ABILITIES

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Snow Sentinel

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innate spell icon

Shivers

Type passive Damage none Target none
Available from the start

Slows applied by Snow Sentinel ignore 20% of enemy slow resistance. Additionally enemies who are afflicted by Snow Sentinel's spells and have had their movement speed slowed below 250 for longer than 3 seconds will be rooted and disarmed. The 3 second counter will only reset once the root has been applied or the target has not been afflicted by a source of slow for more than 5 seconds.

Root can only be applied once per enemy every 30 seconds.

Slow resistance ignored 20%
Root duration 2
Upgrades with Level 20
Ignores 30% slow resistance
No matter how warmly you dress the bite of the cold always pierces through.
Casting
Leash/Root Can be casted when the caster is leashed or rooted -
Interruption Goes on cooldown even if cast was interrupted -
Blocking
Linken's Sphere Is blocked by Linken's Sphere -
Pierces Spell Immunity Pierces spell immunity No
Targeting
Disjoint Can be disjointed, causing it to miss its target -
Illusions Illusion units can be targeted -
Dispel
Dispellable Can be dispelled Soft
Applies Dispel Applies dispel to the target -
Effects
Break The ability is breakable No
Barrier Applies protective barrier to the target/s -
Debuff Immunity Grants debuff immunity to target/s -

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SUMMONS

This idea has 2 summoned units

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Snow Owlet

Melee
Summoned by 'Snow Nest'

This summon has no description added.

Abilities (2)
Dive bomb

Dive bomb

Ice Owlet dive bombs the targeted enemy. Dealing magical damage, ministunning, and greatly slowing them. The Ice Owlet is destroyed in the process.

Wind rider

Wind rider

Ice Owlets gain bonus movement speed during a blizzard.

Stats
Vitality
Base Mana
Total Mana
MP Regen
Attack Damage
Base
Total
DPS
Attack Speed
BAT
Base IAS
Range
Defense
Base Armor
Base Magic Res
Mobility
Move Speed
Turn Rate

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HERO´S MODIFIERS

MODIFIERS THAT ALTER THE GAMEPLAY OF THE HERO

Cold Death

Cold Death

All damage Snow Sentinel deals is increased by 20% against enemies who have less than 250 movement speed.

Photokeratitis

Photokeratitis

All enemies, including wards and towers, have reduced vision range during Blizzard.

Upgrades Blizzard
Reduces enemy vision with 30%
Snow Cover

Snow Cover

When Powdered snow is cast, all allies in the area disjoint enemy projectiles and spells.

Upgrades Powdered Snow
Disjoints enemy projectiles for allies in the area.

AGHANIM'S SCEPTER

Greatly improves turn rate and increases glide time. Enemies may now be passed over multiple times, reapplying the damage and slow.

Upgrades Snow Wings
Increases maximum glide duration by 4 seconds, improves turn rate to 0.4, and enemies can be hit by Snow Wings multiple times.

AGHANIM'S SHARD

Grants the Frost Nest and Call Owlets abilities.

Grants Snow Nest
Grants Call Owlets

Talent Tree

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25

-5 Seconds cooldown

No notes

Upgrades Snow Wings

1.4x increased effects

Increases slow, attack speed slow, armor, and evasion with 40%

Upgrades Powdered Snow
20

+2 Damage per slow percentage

No notes

Upgrades Heat Drain Arrow

Ignores 30% slow resistance

No notes

Upgrades Shivers
15

+100 Damage

No notes

Upgrades Snow Wings

+40 Attack speed slow

No notes

Upgrades Blizzard
10

+0.3 Seconds slow duration

No notes

Upgrades Heat Drain Arrow

+1 second duration

No notes

Upgrades Powdered Snow

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IDEA DESCRIPTION

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Description

Snow Sentinel is a ranged universal hero who applies a multitude of slows and punishes enemies for being afflicted by slows.

In addition to all her abilities applying slows and her innate rooting slowed enemies she's also offers a lot of utility and good single target magic damage. She's strong in both team fights and ganks.

Snow Sentinel is a bit of a one trick pony. Enemies who don't care about being slowed won't be bothered by her. And debuff immunity, status resistance, dispels, and haste effects can really gut her effectiveness. She can partially ignore slow resistance, but she cannot ignore haste effects.

LORE & HISTORY

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Lore & Flavor

Snow Sentinel guards the Northern Forest.

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