Ursa

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This article is mostly accurate for the latest version of the game (7.37b), in which this hero/item was changed.
It has no changes in the current game version — 7.37e.

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Ursa

#63

25 + 2.4

18 + 2.8

16 + 1.5

Grants the following bonuses per attribute point:
	+22HP and +0.1HP regeneration
	+0.17 armor and 1 attack speed +1 Main Attack Damage
	+12MP and +0.05MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance

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670 +3

267 +0.8

4 Armor (830.8 EHP)

26.6% Magic Resist (912.81 EHP)

42 ‒ 46 ▶️ Damage (44 Avg)

Instant Projectile Speed Melee units have their projectile speed set to 900, if they should ever need it.

150 Attack Range (600)

100 (118) Attack Speed (1.7 BAT) Attacks per Second is defined as ΣAS / BAT / 100

0.3 + 0.3 Animation

310 / 340 ▶️ Move Speed

0.6 Turn Rate This unit takes 0.175s to turn 180°.

27 Collision Size

24 Bound Radius

1800 / 800 Vision Range

Default Gib Type

npc_dota_hero_ursa

2011-12-16 Released

2004-10-15 (v5.75)

Competitive Span 2012-01-12 — Present

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Deals more damage with every hit to the same foe.
The fiercest member of his ursine tribe, Ulfsaar makes it his purpose to seek out the evil fomenting beyond his homeland. The Ursa Warrior leaps and Shakes the Ground, slowing foes as he Overpowers them with relentless attacks. His claws dig in to widen the wound, inflicting greater damage with each successive Fury Swipe. An Enraged ursine is a sight to behold. Ignoring all pain, the Ursa Warrior goes into a righteous frenzy, and bears down on his opponents to maul them beyond recognition.
Roles:	Carry Durable Disabler
Adjectives	Fuzzy, Parent, Nose Legs ( 2 )

Bio

It is my spirit that keeps me safe, and not mere armor.

▶️  Ulfsaar, the Ursa Warrior

Alias:

Ulfsaar

Lore:

Ulfsaar the warrior is the fiercest member of an ursine tribe, protective of his land and his people. During the long winters, while the mothers sleep and nurse their cubs, the males patrol the lands above—as tireless, vigilant defenders of their ancient ways. Hearing dim but growing rumors of a spreading evil, Ulfsaar headed out beyond the boundaries of his wild wooded homeland, intending to track down and destroy the threat at its source, before it could endanger his people. He is a proud creature with a bright strong spirit, utterly trustworthy, a staunch ally and defender.

Voice:

Fred Tatasciore (Responses)

Facets

Grudge Bearer

Grants bonus attack damage correspondingly to the incoming total damage reduced value while Enraged.

Bear Down

Offensive debuffs applied by the Ursine Warrior last longer.

Upgrades

Aghanim's

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:

Enables Ursa to Enrage at his will, even while being disabled.

Reduces cooldown.

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:

Applies stacks of Fury Swipes to all enemy units within the radius.

Talents

+3 Overpower Attacks	25	2 Earthshock Charges
Earthshock Applies 2 Fury Swipes Stacks	20	+400 Earthshock Radius
+20% Enrage Status Resist	15	+7 Fury Swipes Damage
+1.75 Mana Regen	10	+15s Fury Swipes Duration
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes

Innate

Maul

Maul

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Grants bonus attack damage correspondingly to Ulfsaar's current health.

Current Health to Attack Damage Bonus: 1.2%/1.3%/1.4%/1.5%

This ability levels up with Enrage.

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• Grants flat bonus attack damage based on Ursa's current health, values are periodically checked and the bonus values are updated immediately.

• ILLUSIONS
  Bestows the innate ability, but does not benefit from the bonus attack damage.

Bear Down

  Bear Down

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self

Offensive debuffs applied by the Ursine Warrior last longer.

Debuff Duration Factor: 1.14/1.16/1.18/1.2

This ability levels up with Enrage.

Details

• Selecting the facet unlocks this ability.

• 
  • Affects offensive debuff duration applied.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other status resistance sources.

Abilities

Earthshock

Q

E

Earthshock

▶️ ▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Enemy Units / Self

Damage

Spell / Magical / Physical

Ursa leaps forward and slams the earth, causing a powerful shock damaging and slowing all enemy units within the radius.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Radius: 385 ( 785)

Leap Distance: 250

Damage: 75/125/175/225

Move Speed Slow: 22%/28%/34%/40%

Slow Duration: 4

Leap Duration: 0.25

Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Enrages the ursine for a short duration whenever it slams the earth.

Enrage Duration: ( 1.4)

Applies stacks of Fury Swipes to all enemy units within the radius.

Fury Swipe Stacks: ( 2)

( Cooldown)

( 2)

15/13/11/9 ( 0)

95

The very steps of a male ursine shake the ground as well as the resolve of opposing warriors.

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• 
  • Interrupts Ursa's channeling abilities upon cast.
  • 
    • Grants all ability effects upon cast.
    • Applies a non-disabling upward movement, and leaps at 1000-speed, over 0.25 seconds.
    • Leaps 250-distance forward and 83-distance upward.
      • The leap duration varies corresponding to the terrain.
      • Can leap over other units and impassable terrain.
    • During Leap, Ursa can attack, use item abilities, cast abilities.

• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  • 
    1. The Earthshock debuff.
    2. The magical spell damage within the radius.
    3. The Fury Swipes debuff of its corresponding level upon impact.
  • SHARD NOTES
    Applies all Enrage components upon cast, except the strong dispel.
    • 
      • Reapplying the buff refreshes the current Enrage duration.

• When interrupted, Earthshock prematurely applies the landing effects at the affected target's current location.

• 
  • Reapplying the debuff refreshes its duration.

• WHILE ROOTED
  Ursa does not leap when affected by root sources.
  • Getting rooted while already leaping cancels the leap.

• ABILITY DRAFT
  Requires drafting the following abilities for its corresponding component to work:
  • Enrage
  • Fury Swipes

modifier_ursa_earthshock_move

Hidden modifier

modifier_ursa_earthshock

Earthshock: Slowed by x%

• Directly uses the following abilities values, it does nothing if the following abilities is not learned upon cast:
  • Enrage
  • Fury Swipes

• TALENT NOTES
  Acquiring the charges talent immediately grants 1 extra charge.

Overpower

W

V

Overpower

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Using his skill in combat, Ursa gains increased attack speed and slow resistance for a number of subsequent attacks.

Cast Animation: 0.3 + 0

Attack Speed Bonus: 400

Max Attack Charges: 3/4/5/6 ( 6/7/8/9)

Slow Resist Bonus: 10%/20%/30%/40%

Duration: 20

12/11/10/9

45/50/55/60

For a behemoth of his size, Ursa is deceptively nimble.

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• Grants the following bonuses:
  • Flat attack speed bonus.
    • A buff charge is used upon Ursa's attack point.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other slow resistance sources.

• 
  • Reapplying the buff refreshes both the duration and the number of attack charges.

modifier_ursa_overpower

Overpower: Attacking with greatly increased speed!

Fury Swipes

E

W

Fury Swipes

Ability

Passive

Affects

Self / Enemy Units

Damage

Physical

Consecutive attacks to the same enemy deals more damage. If the same target is not attacked after a period of time, the bonus damage is lost.

Max Stacks:

Attack Damage Bonus per Stack: 13/21/29/37 ( 20/28/36/44)

Debuff Duration: 8/12/16/20 ( 23/27/31/35)

Fury Swipes is less effective on Roshan.

Debuff Duration: 10

In nature, the wounded rarely survive the attacks of hungry predators.

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  • Each successful attack reapplies the debuff or increases the stack value on the attacked enemy unit, refreshes its duration, and update the ability values of the whole stack.
  • 
    • The ability effects are applied as follows per attack:
      1. Adds 1 debuff stack of the corresponding ability values.
      2. Applies bonus conditional attack damage based on the stack count.
  • Hence, the bonus conditional attack damage is applied with the first attack.

• 
  • Fury Swipes is a bonus conditional attack damage source and has the following properties:
    • The bonus attack damage per stack values are directly added to Ursa's attack damage in the combat log and not displayed on the HUD.
  • Does not interact with the following sources:
    • Ally units.
    • Buildings
    • Ward-type units.
    • Percentage-based bonus attack damage sources.
  • Interacts with the following sources:
    • 
      • Lifesteal sources.
      • Cleave sources.
    • 
      • Damage block sources.

• BREAK
  Does not increase the stack count.
  • Existing stacks still grants bonus conditional attack damage.

• ABILITY DRAFT

modifier_ursa_fury_swipes

Hidden modifier

modifier_ursa_enrage

Enrage: Taking x% less damage.

modifier_ursa_fury_swipes_damage_increase

Fury Swipes: Taking an extra x damage from Ursa's attacks

Enrage

R

R

Enrage

▶️

Ability

No

Affects

Self

Goes into a frenzy, removing all exisiting debuffs while providing damage reduction and status resistance.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Damage Reduction: 80%

Status Resist Bonus: 50% ( 70%)

Duration: 4/4.5/5

Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Enables Ursa to Enrage at his will, even while being disabled.

Reduces cooldown.

70/50/30 ( 30/24/18)

Ulfsaar succumbs to his ancient spirit, becoming the most ferocious creature on the battlefield.

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Grudge Bearer

Grants bonus attack damage correspondingly to the incoming total damage reduced value while Enraged.

Damage Reduction to Attack Damage Bonus Factor: 0.05
Buff Linger Duration: 5

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• The ability effects are applied as follows:
  1. Interrupts Ursa's channeling abilities upon cast.
  2. The Enrage buff.
  3. The strong dispel.

• 
  • Recasting the ability refreshes the buff duration.
  • Grants Ursa a generic incoming damage reduction buff that reduces all damage types, except from HP Removal sources.
    • Stacks addtively with other generic incoming damage manipulation sources.
  • Stacks multiplicatively with other status resistance sources.
    • TALENT NOTES
      The status resistance increasing talent does not update the current buff until the current instance ends.

• SCEPTER NOTES
  Enrage can now be cast while being disabled, except the following disable sources:
  • While Ursa cannot act.
  • Hex sources.
  • Silence sources.

• Ursa can no longer shift-queue this ability upon acquiring the ability upgrade.

• FACET NOTES
  Grudge Bearer grants flat bonus attack damage correspondingly to the incoming damage reduced value, and is defined as:
  • EXPR
    BonusAtkDmg = 0.8 × IncomingDamage × 0.05
  • Values are periodically checked and the bonus values are updated immediately.

modifier_ursa_enrage

Enrage: Taking x% less damage.

• Enrage increases Ursa's model size by 20%, and has no impact on its collision size.

Recent Matches

Main Article: Ursa/Matches

Date	Tier		Tournament	Picks		Score		vs. Picks
Jan 25, 2025 - 17:00 CET	Tier 3		EPL Season 23			1 : 0
Jan 23, 2025 - 16:00 CET	Tier 3		CCT Series 6			1 : 0
Jan 23, 2025 - 15:00 SGT	Tier 3		AsiaPro League 2			0 : 1
Jan 22, 2025 - 18:30 CET	Tier 3		CCT Series 6			0 : 1
Jan 21, 2025 - 17:25 CET	Tier 3		EPL Season 23			0 : 1

Recent Changes

Main Articles: Changelogs, Old Abilities and Hero Lore

Version

Description

7.37b
(2024-08-14)

• Maul
  • Reduced current health as attack damage bonus from 1.5% on each level to 1.2%/1.3%/1.4%/1.5%.
  • This component levels up with Enrage .
• Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
  • Reduced Earthshock Enrage duration from 1.5 to 1.4.

• Talents:  

  LVL 15   Earthshock applies 2 stacks of Fury Swipes  ➜  +7 Fury Swipes damage per stack.  

  LVL 20  +10 Fury Swipes damage per stack ➜   Earthshock applies 2 stacks of Fury Swipes .

7.37
(2024-07-31)

• Bear Down
  • Increased debuff duration factor from 1.2 on each level to 1.14/1.16/1.18/1.2.
  • This component levels up with Enrage .

7.36c
(2024-06-24)

• Talents:  

  LVL 10  +20s Fury Swipes stack duration reduced to +15s.

Dota Plus Progress

Main Article: Hero Challenges

Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.

Ursa's Relics	Voice Lines
Earthshocked Enemies Killed Multi-Hero Earthshocks Quick Fury Swipes Kills Kills While Enraged Life Stolen Physical Damage Aegises Claimed Kill During Black King Bar Blinks Leading To Kills Bashed Enemies Triple Kills Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills	Bronze	▶️ Hah! Hah! Hah-hah-hah! ▶️ Is it spring already?
	Silver	▶️ A loss so small, the world will hardly notice. ▶️ A poor defense.
	Gold	▶️ Fuzzy Wuzzy! ▶️ How is it you heard not my warnings?
	Platinum	▶️ Sweet as honey.
	Master	▶️ Mtlap tlap, not bad! Sllleup tlap tlap tlap.
	Grandmaster	▶️ For the cubs!

Trivia

• In DotA, Ulfsaar's alternate name was "Fuzzy Wuzzy". This is referenced in one of his spawning lines, where he calls himself ▶️ "Fuzzy Wuzzy". He does not use his actual name, Ulfsaar, in any of his responses. Lone Druid is the only one who calls him Ulfsaar.

• In Latin, the word "ursa" means bear. In Portuguese, however, it specifically refers to a female bear. Despite this, Ulfsaar is clearly depicted as male both in his bio (where it is referred to as a "he") and in his in-game dialogue.

• When killing Batrider, he makes reference to the 1940's Anti forest fire mascot "Smokey the Bear".

• Fury Swipes may also be a reference to the Pokémon move of the same name. The move involves the target being hit multiple times, much like Ursa's skills allow him to.

• His death response ▶️ "I join hh-hh the wild spirits" is a reference to the death responses from "Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim"

Gallery

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  Model

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  Splash artwork

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  Ability icon progress

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  Hero icon progress

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  Bone Harvest sprite - alive

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  Bone Harvest sprite - dead