Medivh

Medivh
"Let the games begin."
Basic Info
Title	The Last Guardian
Role	Support
Difficulty	Very Hard
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	June 14, 2016
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1470
Health Regen	3.0625
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.875
Attack Speed	1.11
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	80
Data Page

Medivh, the Last Guardian, is a ranged Support Hero from the Warcraft universe. Under the influence of the demon lord Sargeras, Medivh opened the Dark Portal and unleashed the orcish Horde upon Azeroth. To atone for this sin, he rallied a new generation of heroes to stand against the Burning Legion during the Third War. In the Nexus, Medivh continues to lead his allies to greatness. Now, he takes his place amongst the legends.

Medivh is a Support who can negate burst damage and allow his allies to teleport.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Magus or Magna Medivh was the last Guardian of Tirisfal, an ancient line of protectors bestowed with great powers to do battle with the agents of the Burning Legion. He was corrupted even before birth, and possessed by the spirit of the demonlord Sargeras who used Medivh in his plan to conquer Azeroth. Medivh contacted the orcish warlock, Gul'dan, and together they opened the Dark Portal, which allowed the Burning Legion to begin its destruction of Azeroth. He was slain shortly after by a party led by one of his friends, Lothar.

Shortly before the beginning of the Third War, Medivh returned as a mysterious prophet, manipulating events in order to arrange the formation of a last-ditch alliance between the mortal races on Kalimdor, guiding them to victory at the Battle of Mount Hyjal.

The prophet's name means "keeper of secrets" in Thalassian. He possessed Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian, which is currently wielded by his former apprentice, Khadgar.

Gameplay

Medivh is a ranged Support with an exceptional amount of utility, which makes him one of the most flexible and adaptable Heroes in the game. His Force of Will possesses incredible synergy with Warriors and melee Assassins, in particular, Portal can be used to execute deadly ganks or tricky escape manoeuvres. One of Medivh's greatest strengths is his ability to scout the battlefield with his Raven Form. Doing so gathers valuable information for his team, which allows them to always be one step ahead of their opponents. With all the utility Medivh provides, he also requires a lot of game knowledge and experience to unleash his full potential.

Strengths

• Powerful crowd control abilities
• Exceptional scouting capabilities
• Synergises extremely well with melee Assassins and Bruisers
• Superior utility

Weaknesses

• Relatively low damage output
• High skill curve
• Area of Effect and sustained damage

Abilities

See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Raven Form

Instead of mounting, Medivh can transform into a raven, increasing Movement Speed by 20%. While transformed, Medivh can see and fly over all terrain and is immune to all effects.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Immune to damage, Movement Speed, Untargetable

Sight radius: 7.0

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• Medivh has reduced sight radius during Raven Form.
• Raven Form's Movement Speed bonus is increased to 40% while within and for 5 seconds after leaving the Hall of Storms. This applies even if Medivh casts a max range Portal from the Hall of Storms, takes it, and then Mounts, letting him reach the frontlines significantly faster.
• Medivh cannot be targeted by allied or enemy effects while Mounted, but any effects applied beforehand persist for their duration.
• Using Abilities causes Medivh to leave Raven Form. Medivh cannot leave Raven Form, and thus also not use Abilities, while above unpathable terrain.
• Medivh can pick up and receive Regeneration Globes and use Healing Fountain in Raven Form.
• Medivh can collect Experience Globes while in Raven Form.

Q

Arcane Rift

50 Mana Cooldown: 7 seconds

Launch a rift that deals 170 damage to enemies in its path. If an enemy Hero is hit, reduce its cooldown by 5 seconds and refund 50 Mana.

❢ Quest: Hit 40 enemy Heroes with Arcane Rift without dying.

❢ Reward: Permanently increases the damage dealt by 75 and cooldown reduction for hitting a Hero by 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage / Bonus damage

Scaling: 4.00% (base) / - (quest)

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 10

Hitbox: 2.25 x 1.5

Missile speed: 27

W

Force of Will

60 Mana Cooldown: 9 seconds

Protect an allied Hero from all damage for 1.5 seconds. Upon expiration, Force of Will heals the target 20% of the damage it absorbed.

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Type: Status effect, Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Protected

Cast time: Instant

Range: 13

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• Healing is calculated from the final damage taken, after all damage modifiers.
• Damage from Basic Attacks that miss due to innate Evasion from Protected-status counts toward damage absorbed and healing.

E

Portal

65 Mana Cooldown: 16 seconds

Create a set of portals between you and the target location, allowing allies to teleport between both. The portals last 6 seconds.

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Type: Invulnerable Summon

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: 0.125 + 0.1 seconds

Range:
- Min: 7.0
- Max: 16

Radius: 0.5

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• Allied Heroes have to perform a 0.25 second Waygate Channel to enter the Portal. The channel is interrupted if the target is Stunned, Rooted, Dazed, put in Stasis or killed.
• Active Portals grant vision in 3.0 radius.
• Taking a Portal clears all of the Hero's queued commands.
• If a Hero dies from Area of Effect damage during the Waygate Channel, but it is not otherwise interrupted, the Channel will still complete, which is relevant for Heroes with Special Death States (e.g. Leoric, Uther, Tyrael, Gall if taking Psychotic Break).

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Poly Bomb

75 Mana Cooldown: 40 seconds

Polymorph an enemy Hero for 2 seconds, Silencing them and making them unable to attack. On expiration, Poly Bomb spreads to other nearby enemy Heroes.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Area of Effect, Polymorph

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range: 7.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

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• Poly Bomb can spread to the same target multiple times, but it cannot spread to enemies that were already carrying it.
• Polymorph counts as a Silence effect. Effects that interact with Silences also interact with Poly Bomb.

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Ley Line Seal

75 Mana Cooldown: 80 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, unleash a wave of energy that places enemy Heroes in Time Stop for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Time Stop

Cast time: 0.5 (ch) + 0 seconds

Range: 14.5

Hitbox: 4.0 x 2.9

Missile speed: 9.0

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• Interrupting the Ability during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.

Z

Raven Form (Activate)

Cooldown: 4 seconds

Transform into a raven, increasing Movement Speed by 20%. While Transformed, Medivh can see and fly over terrain and is immune to all effects.

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Targeting: No target

Properties: Weak Channel (stationary), Special Mount

Cast time: 1.5 (ch) + 0 seconds

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• Raven Form can be reactivated after 1 second to exit it manually.

Talents

1

Winds of Celerity

Increases Raven Form's Movement Speed bonus by 50%.

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• Increases Raven Form's Movement Speed bonus to 30%.

Raven's Intellect

Raven Form increases Medivh's Mana and Health Regeneration by 75%.

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Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Portal Mastery

Active: Medivh can manually place both Portal locations and it no longer breaks Raven Form.

Activate Medivh's Trait to cancel an unliked Portal.

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Type: Active

Targeting: Point target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 16

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• Portals must be placed 7.5 units from each other. Medivh can't place a Portal past its maximum range.
• Using the Basic Ability to cast the first portal still places the second at Medivh's location.
• The second portal can be cast at the desired location using either Basic or Active Ability key, but casting with the Active has no cast time. Additionally, the first portal marker remains indefinitely, and Medivh can place the second portal globally so long as it is within the max range of the first indicator.

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Mage Armor

The first time an Ally uses a Portal, they gain 30 Armor for 4 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 30%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with itself nor other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Raven Familiar

A Raven Familiar joins allies each time they use a Portal. The Raven will dive at the ally's next Basic Attack against a Hero within 5 seconds, dealing 114 damage and Slowing them by 30% for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Slow

Missile speed: 25

Dust of Appearance

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Active: Activate to greatly increase sight range for 5 seconds and reveal enemy Heroes in the area for 8 seconds. Does not cancel Raven Form.

Passive: Increase Medivh's sight range while in Raven Form by 25%.

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Type: Vision / Status effect

Affects: Self / Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Revealed

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 18

Passive bonus vision: 1.75

7

Mystic Assault

If Arcane Rift hits an enemy Hero, Medivh's next Basic Attack within 6 seconds deals 50% more damage and heals for 50% of the damage dealt.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

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• Can only trigger once per cast.
• Does not stack with itself.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Medivh's Basic Attack damage.

Arcane Explosion

When Force of Will expires, it deals 80 damage to nearby enemies, plus 50% of the damage it prevented, up to 315 additional damage.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00% (base & cap)

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

Force of Magic

Preventing at least 268 damage with a single cast of Force of Will grants 30% Spell Power for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00% (threshold)

Affects: Self

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• Can only trigger once per cast.
• Only grants increased Spell Damage, as opposed to Spell Power.

10

Poly Bomb

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Polymorph an enemy Hero for 2 seconds, Silencing them and making them unable to attack. On expiration, Poly Bomb spreads to other nearby enemy Heroes.

Ley Line Seal

Cooldown: 80 seconds
After 0.5 seconds, unleash a wave of energy that places enemy Heroes in Time Stop for 3 seconds.

13

Circle of Protection

Force of Will also applies to allies near the target, but its cooldown is increased by 2 seconds.

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Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Each barrier benefits from talents affecting Force of Will and has its own damage counter.

Enduring Will

Preventing at least 268 damage with Force of Will reduces its cooldown to 4 seconds.

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Scaling: 4.00% (threshold)

Reabsorption

Increase the amount of healing from Force of Will to 70% of the damage it absorbed.

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• If an Ultimate Evolution Clone of Medivh, or another Medivh (e.g. in ARAM) casts Force of Will on another Medivh, the target Medivh inherits the Force of Will healing percentage possessed by the source Medivh (that is, according to whether or not they have this Talent, which answer is always no for an Ultimate Evolution Clone).

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Arcane Charge

When Arcane Rift damages an enemy Hero, the next Arcane Rift deals 15% more damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Can only trigger once per cast.
• Does not stack with itself.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Arcane Rift's damage.

Temporal Flux

Basic Attacks reduce Medivh's Heroic Ability cooldown by 3%. Each enemy Hero hit by Arcane Rift reduces Medivh's Heroic Ability cooldown by 9%.

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Properties: Attack Modifier, Cooldown reduction

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• Basic Attacks grant cooldown reduction even if they miss due to Medivh being Blinded or the target Evading.

Stable Portal

Decrease Portal cooldown by 25% and increase Portal duration by 50%.

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Cooldown reduction: 4 seconds

Bonus duration: 3 seconds

20

Glyph of Poly Bomb

Poly Bomb explodes 1 second sooner and the spread radius is increased by 25%.

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Bonus radius: 0.875

Medivh Cheats!

Increase the duration of the Time Stop by 33% and gain the ability to redirect the wave once while it's active.

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Bonus duration: 1 second

Guardian of Tirisfal

Minions and Catapults hit by Arcane Rift are instantly killed.

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Type: Instant kill

Affects: Enemy Minions & Catapults

Arcane Brilliance

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to instantly restore 200 Mana to all nearby allied Heroes and grant them 15% Spell Power for 10 seconds.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier, Offensive damage modifier, Mana restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Spell Power

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 8.0

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• Spell Power from Arcane Brilliance stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers affecting the target Hero.

Dust of Disappearance

Cooldown: 10 seconds
Active: Stealth an allied Hero for 40 seconds, making them Unrevealable for the first 0.5 seconds. Remaining stationary for at least 1.5 seconds while Stealthed grants Invisible.

Stores up to 2 charges.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stealth

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Range: 9.0

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• There is no cooldown between charges.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Medivh Guide

Medivh Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Medivh Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Medivh Skins
The Last Guardian
Backstory: Under the demon lord Sargeras's influence, Medivh opened the Dark Portal and unleashed the Horde upon Azeroth. To atone for this sin, he rallied a new generation of heroes to stand against the Burning Legion. Now, he takes this place amongst legends.
750 / 10,000 The Last Guardian	Free Fire	Free Nature	120 / 75 Arcane	120 / 75 Dark
Knight Owl
Backstory: The Prophets of Kharazania foresaw the Eternal Empire's invasion, but their warning came too late. Medivh, the last Knight Owl, has sworn to prevent the Earth from suffering a similar fate.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Citrine	350 / 400 Amethyst	350 / 400 Emerald
Magus
Backstory: For ages, Atiesh has been passed down from one Guardian of Tirisfal to the next. With the power of the Nexus, Medivh has attuned himself to the staff like none before him.
120 / 75	120 / 75 The White	120 / 75 The Black	120 / 75 The Green

Portraits

Medivh Portraits
Carbot Medivh120 / 75	Hearthstone Medivh75 / 40	Knight Owl Medivh75 / 40	Medivh Hero	Medivh Mastery	Stylized Medivh75 / 40

Sprays

Medivh Sprays
Carbot Medivh120 / 75

Emojis

Medivh Pack 1			Medivh Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Medivh Happy	:medivhhappy: :medhappy:		Medivh Angry	:medivhangry: :medangry:
	Medivh ROFL	:medivhlol: :medivhrofl: :medlol: :medrofl:		Medivh Cool	:medivhcool: :medcool:
	Medivh Sad	:medivhsad: :medsad:		Medivh Embarrassed	:medivhoops: :medivhembarrassed: :medoops: :medembarrassed:
	Medivh Silly	:medivhsilly: :medsilly:		Medivh in Love	:medivhlove: :medivhinlove: :medlove: :medinlove:
	Medivh Speechless	:medivhmeh: :medivhspeechless: :medmeh: :medspeechless:		Medivh Surprised	:medivhwow: :medivhsurprised: :medwow: :medsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Medivh/Quotes

Trivia

• Medivh first appeared in Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (November 1994).
  • His book debut was seven years later, in The Last Guardian (December 2001).
• Medivh is voiced by Michael Bell in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Heroes of the Storm, and World of Warcraft: Legion, and by singer/songwriter Cam Clarke in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and Hearthstone.
• Medivh was originally designed to be a support hero, with a healing over time effect and the ability to throw people into tornados. The developers changed his kit because he felt more like a druid than a mage.
• One of Medivh's gag quotes references Deckard Cain, a scholar and lorekeeper from the Diablo series.
• Medivh's Knight Owl skin may have been inspired by the Nite Owl character from Watchmen (September 1986).
• Medivh's staff, Atiesh, is what allows him to transform into a raven.

Gallery

General

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  Medivh's artwork

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  Medivh's artwork

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  Medivh and Sonya Remastered

Abilities

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  Q: Arcane Rift

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  W: Force of Will

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  E: Portal

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  R1: Poly Bomb

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  R2: Ley Line Seal

External links

• In Development: Chromie, Medivh, and more!
• Medivh Hero Week
• Medivh - Heroes of the Storm
• Medivh - Wowpedia
• Medivh Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Medivh Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm