What players buy
The items bought most in each of Valve’s four game stages
Public matches · each item’s own count
1stMost bought
179 buys
2ndSecond most
105 buys
3rdThird most
104 buys
4thFourth most
100 buys
5thFifth most
93 buysBy GamGem ResearchLast updated 22 Sept 2026
Winter Wyvern
Ranged · Intelligence
- Win rate
- 50.1%
- Pick share
- 0.6%
- Matches
- 297,285
- Patch
- 7.41f
Draft coverage
BringsSupportDisablerNuker
NeedsCarryInitiatorFrontlineTower damageEscape
Recommendation
Pick
- The game is heading for 20–30 min — that is where this hero measures best, at 49.7% over 6,464 matches.
- You are playing around Divine — its strongest medal, 51.9% over 47,696 picks.
Avoid
- Zeus is on their side — this hero wins 30.2% of 43 matches against it.
- Snapfire is on their side — this hero wins 38.8% of 85 matches against it.
- Ogre Magi is on their side — this hero wins 36.5% of 52 matches against it.
179 buys105 buys104 buys100 buys93 buys
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and where each point goes — what most league players on Winter Wyvern took at each level.
QArctic Burn
Winter Wyvern soars upon an arctic wind, granting her unobstructed movement and allowing her to exhale a blistering chill into each attack.
No Target · Instant Cast · Magical damage
WSplinter Blast
Launches a ball of brittle ice toward a unit.
Unit Target · AOE · Magical damage
ECold Embrace
Encases an ally in an icy cocoon, freezing them solid while healing a base amount as well as a percentage of their maximum health each second.
Unit Target
RWinter's Curse
Winter Wyvern dispells then freezes an enemy in place while striking those nearby with a maddening curse which causes them to attack their frozen ally with increased attack speed.
Unit Target · AOEMax Order
QWE
Max Q first, then W, then E. Most took R at 6 / 14.
Level-up Order
- QArctic Burn
- WSplinter Blast
- ECold Embrace
- RWinter's Curse
- TTalent
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QArctic Burn | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WSplinter Blast | W | W | W | W | ||||||||||||
| ECold Embrace | E | E | E | E | ||||||||||||
| RWinter's Curse | R | R | ||||||||||||||
| TTalent | T |
Matchup map
How Winter Wyvern performs against every opponent with 30 or more counted games
72 opponents · public matches40%60%Winter Wyvern'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”.
- I am being jumped
A way out, a way to shrug the debuff, or something to eat the burst. Matched on “dispel”.
- Kill them in one window
Damage that lands now rather than over a minute. Matched on “magical”.
- Stay in lane
Healing, regeneration or lifesteal — not having to walk back. Matched on “healing”.
By medal
- Herald48.6%5,968
- Guardian48.5%20,896
- Crusader49.1%37,835
- Archon49.5%53,714
- Legend50.1%61,377
- Ancient51.2%48,195
- Divine51.9%47,696
One count per medal, not one rate split across them; a medal with no counted matches is left out.
By match length
- 0–20 min49.4%2,591
- 20–30 min49.7%6,464
- 30–40 min48.6%4,747
- 40–50 min48.6%1,985
- 50 min +48.0%859
Bands under 120 matches are absent rather than shown small.
Learning Winter Wyvern
Abilities
Arctic Burn
No Target · Instant Cast · Magical damageWinter Wyvern soars upon an arctic wind, granting her unobstructed movement and allowing her to exhale a blistering chill into each attack. While soaring, her attacks travel further and faster, and slow enemies with a magical freeze that strips them of 4% of their current health each second.
Splinter Blast
Unit Target · AOE · Magical damageLaunches a ball of brittle ice toward a unit. The ice shatters on impact, leaving the primary target completely unaffected, while hurling damaging splinters into nearby enemies in a 500 base radius. Enemies struck by these splinters are slowed by 28%.
Cold Embrace
Unit TargetEncases an ally in an icy cocoon, freezing them solid while healing a base amount as well as a percentage of their maximum health each second. The cocoon blocks all physical damage.
Eldwurm's Edda
Passive · HiddenWinter's Curse
Unit Target · AOEWinter Wyvern dispells then freezes an enemy in place while striking those nearby with a maddening curse which causes them to attack their frozen ally with increased attack speed. The frozen ally and those cursed to attack their ally are immune to all damage from their enemies with the exception of damage from Winter Wyvern or her controlled units.
Base attributes
- Strength
- 22 +2.5
- Agility
- 16 +1.7
- Intelligence
- 26 +3.6
- Move · range
- 285 · 450
Talents
- 4+60 Winter's Curse Attack SpeedSplinter Blast 1s Stun
- 3+15% Arctic Burn Slow+100 Splinter Blast Damage
- 2+3s Arctic Burn Debuff Duration+175 Splinter Blast Shatter Radius
- 1+20 HP/s Cold Embrace Heal+35 Damage
Aghanim’s Scepter
Changes Arctic Burn
Causes Arctic Burn to be a toggle ability, draining mana every second when active. Increases Winter Wyvern's movement speed.
Aghanim’s Shard
Changes Cold Embrace
Reduces cooldown by 4.0 seconds. Allied units gain bonus attack damage when emerging from the icy cocoon.
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.