What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
140 buys
2ndSecond most
139 buys
3rdThird most
76 buys
4thFourth most
64 buys
5thFifth most
64 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Sven
Melee · Strength
- Win rate
- 50.8%
- Pick share
- 0.8%
- Matches
- 391,647
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsCarryDisablerInitiatorDurableNuker
NeedsSupportTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 30–40 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 52.5% over 4,808 matches.
- You are playing around Divine — its strongest medal, 51.7% over 41,540 picks.
Avoid
- Earthshaker is on their side — this hero wins 34.5% of 87 matches against it.
- Lion is on their side — this hero wins 38.4% of 125 matches against it.
- Lycan is on their side — this hero wins 29.5% of 44 matches against it.
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Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Sven took at each level.
QStorm Hammer
Sven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units in a small area around the target.
Unit Target · AOE · Magical damage
WGreat Cleave
Sven strikes with great force, cleaving all nearby enemy units with his attack.
Passive
EWarcry
Sven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed.
No Target · Instant Cast
RGod's Strength
Sven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage and slow resistance for 30 seconds.
No TargetMax Order
WQE
Max W first, then Q, then E. Most took R at 6 / 13.
Level-up Order
- QStorm Hammer
- WGreat Cleave
- EWarcry
- RGod's Strength
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QStorm Hammer | Q | Q | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
| WGreat Cleave | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| EWarcry | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| RGod's Strength | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T | T |
Matchup map
How Sven performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
100 opponents · public matches40%60%Sven's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard
If this happens, use this
- They are running away
Something that holds them still, or closes the gap yourself. Matched on “slow”, “stun”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.
By medal
- Herald49.7%10,739
- Guardian50.3%34,464
- Crusader50.3%55,986
- Archon50.5%75,276
- Legend50.8%79,131
- Ancient51.0%56,059
- Divine51.7%41,540
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min44.2%3,093
- 20–30 min49.4%8,277
- 30–40 min52.5%4,808
- 40–50 min49.8%1,832
- 50 min +50.0%756
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Sven
Abilities
Storm Hammer
Unit Target · AOE · Magical damageSven unleashes his magical gauntlet that deals damage and stuns enemy units in a small area around the target.
Great Cleave
PassiveSven strikes with great force, cleaving all nearby enemy units with his attack.
Warcry
No Target · Instant CastSven's Warcry heartens his allied heroes for battle, increasing their armor and movement speed. Lasts 8 seconds.
God's Strength
No TargetSven channels his rogue strength, granting bonus damage and slow resistance for 30 seconds.
Wrath of God
Passive · HiddenSven gains additional attack damage from Strength.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 24 +3.5
- Agility
- 18 +2.2
- Intelligence
- 16 +1.5
- Move · range
- 325 · 150
Talents
- 4God's Strength DamageStorm Hammer Stun Duration
- 3Storm Hammer Cooldown and Mana CostWarcry Armor
- 2God's Strength CooldownGreat Cleave Damage
- 1Warcry DurationGod's Strength Slow Resistance
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Storm Hammer
Increases cast range and applies a basic dispel on the target. Affects invulnerable units. If alt-cast, it deals an additional 180 damage and Sven travels with the Storm Hammer.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Warcry
Increases radius and bonus movement speed. Warcry is now undispellable and provides a %base_barrier_amount% physical damage barrier.
Sources
- Kit, talents and upgrades · mechanicalread 22 Sept 2026
Ability names, icons, behaviour, damage type and text, plus the Aghanim’s Scepter and Shard descriptions — as the game itself ships them. Nothing here was counted over matches.
- Win rate by medal · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The same hero at each of Valve’s eight medals, over 4,610,063 public matches. Each medal carries its own sample, because the eight buckets are nothing like the same size.
- Matchups and match length · counted, on a narrower windowread 16 Sept 2026
Win rate against each opponent and across five match-length bands. This channel reports far fewer games than the medal figures above: the median hero pairing is 51 matches and the largest on the whole roster is 707. Rows under 30 games are absent rather than shown small, and the ones that remain are ORDERED by a figure shrunk toward even by its own sample — the rate you see is the real one, the ranking is the careful one.
- What players build · countedread 15 Sept 2026
The five most common items in each of Valve’s four game stages, with each row’s own pick count.
- Skill order · counted, in league matchesread 3 Oct 2026
Where skill points go, read off every player's own learning order in premium and professional league matches on patches 7.41 and 7.40. Each level shows the ability most players took there and the share that did — a column only a third agree on is printed as a third, not as the rule. Heroes under 30 counted games show no path.
- Situation index · derived, and checkableread 22 Sept 2026
Each situation is a phrase match against Valve’s own ability text, and every row shows the phrases that matched. No win rate is attached, because nobody counts one per situation.
Mechanics are the ones Valve publishes for patch 7.41f. GamGem is not affiliated with or endorsed by Valve Corporation.