Ursa
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Ursa
25 + 2.4
18 + 2.8
16 + 1.5
| Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
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+52.8HP and +0.24HP regeneration |
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+0.47 armor and 2.8 attack speed +2.8 Main Attack Damage |
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+18MP and +0.075MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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Instant Projectile Speed
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100 (118)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.3 + 0.3
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| Roles: |  Carry  Durable  Disabler |
| Adjectives | Fuzzy, Parent, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Bio[edit]
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:
Facets[edit]
Grudge Bearer
Grants bonus attack damage based on the total incoming damage reduced value while Enrage is active.
Bear Down
Offensive debuffs applied and sourced from Ursa last longer.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade:
Enables Ursa to Enrage at his will, even while being disabled.
Reduces cooldown.
Reduces cooldown.
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade:
Enrages the ursine for a short duration upon an Earthshock cast.
Talents[edit]
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|---|---|---|
| +3 Overpower Attacks | 25 | 2 Earthshock Charges |
| Earthshock Applies 2 Fury Swipes Stacks | 20 | +400 Earthshock Radius |
| +20% Enrage Status Resist | 15 | +5 Fury Swipes Damage |
| +1.75 Mana Regen | 10 | +12s Fury Swipes Duration |
| ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All / / Attributes | ||
Innate[edit]
Maul[edit]
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- Grants flat
bonus attack damage based on Ursa's 
current health and is defined as:
Bestows the ability.
Other illusion-related mechanic notes apply.
Other illusion-related mechanic notes apply.
modifier_ursa_maul
Hidden Modifier
Bear Down[edit]
- Selecting the
facet unlocks this ability.
- Affects offensive
debuff duration applied. - Stacks multiplicatively with other status resistance sources.
- Affects offensive
modifier_ursa_bear_downHidden Modifier
Hero Model[edit]
Details
Hidden Innate Abilities
Tap on the 
innate abilities for more details.
innate abilities for more details.Abilities[edit]
Earthshock[edit]
Leaps forward and slams the earth, causing a powerful shock damaging and slowing all enemy units within the radius.
Cast Animation: 
0 + 0
0 + 0Radius: 
385 (
785)
385 ( 785) Leap Distance: 250
Damage: 75/125/175/225
Move Speed Slow: 22%/28%/34%/40%
Slow Duration: 4
Leap Duration: 0.25
Applies stacks of Fury Swipes to all enemy units within the radius.
Fury Swipe Stacks: (
2)
2)
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Enrages the ursine for a short duration upon an Earthshock cast.
Enrages the ursine for a short duration upon an Earthshock cast.
Enrage Duration: ( 1.4)
1.4) 
(
Cooldown)
Cooldown)
( 2)
2)
15/13/11/9 (
0)
0)
95
The very steps of a male ursine shake the ground as well as the resolve of opposing warriors.
- 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, and cast abilities.
- Interrupts Ursa's
-
- The ability effects are applied upon cast:
- Applies all Enrage components upon cast, except the
strong dispel.
- Reapplying the buff adds time to the remaining Enrage buff duration.
- Fully works with Grudge Bearer facet.
- Applies all Enrage components upon cast, except the
- The ability effects are applied upon cast:
- The ability effects are applied upon impact:
- The
ursa_earthshock.- Reapplying the debuff refreshes its duration.
- The
magical 
spell damage within the radius. 
The Fury Swipes debuff of its corresponding level.
- The
- When interrupted, Earthshock prematurely applies the landing effects at his current location.
- The ability effects are applied upon impact:
Root sources explicitly disable the leap component, and nullifies the self- upward movement applied.Other components still work as per normal.
Requires drafting Fury Swipes for its corresponding component to work. Requires drafting Enrage for its corresponding component to work. 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:
- Acquiring the charges talent immediately grants 1 extra charge.
Overpower[edit]
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)
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.
-
ursa_overpower- Each buff charge is reduced upon Ursa's attack point.
- Reapplying the buff refreshes both the duration and the number of attack charges.
- Grants the following bonuses:
- Flat
attack speed bonus. - Stacks multiplicatively with other slow resistance sources.
- Flat
modifier_ursa_overpowerOverpower: Attacking with greatly increased speed!
Fury Swipes[edit]
E
W
Fury Swipes
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.
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 ( 18/26/34/42)
18/26/34/42) Debuff Duration: 8/12/16/20 (
20/24/28/32)
20/24/28/32) 
Fury Swipes is less effective on Roshan.
Debuff Duration: 10
In nature, the wounded rarely survive the attacks of hungry predators.
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
-
ursa_fury_swipes_damage_increase 
- Each successful attack reapplies the debuff or increases the stack value on the attacked enemy unit, then refreshes its duration, and update the ability values of the whole stack.
- Hence, the bonus
conditional attack damage is applied at the first attack.
- Hence, the bonus
- Each successful attack reapplies the debuff or increases the stack value on the attacked enemy unit, then refreshes its duration, and update the ability values of the whole stack.
- Ursa's attack instance.
-
- 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:
-
-
Damage block sources.
- Fury Swipes is a bonus
modifier_ursa_fury_swipesHidden modifier
modifier_ursa_fury_swipes_damage_increaseFury Swipes: Taking an extra x damage from Ursa's attacks
Enrage[edit]
No
Affects
Self
Goes into a frenzy, removing all exisiting debuffs while providing damage reduction and status resistance.
Cast Animation: 0 + 0
0 + 0Damage Reduction: 
80%
80% Status Resist Bonus: 50% (
70%)
70%) Duration: 4/4.5/5
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Enables Ursa to Enrage at his will, even while being disabled.
Reduces cooldown.
Enables Ursa to Enrage at his will, even while being disabled.
Reduces cooldown.
70/50/30 ( 30/24/18)
30/24/18)Ulfsaar succumbs to his ancient spirit, becoming the most ferocious creature on the battlefield.
Grudge Bearer
Grants bonus attack damage based on the total incoming damage reduced value while Enrage is active.
Damage Reduced to Attack Damage Bonus Factor: 0.05
Buff Linger Duration: 5
0.05 Buff Linger Duration: 5
- The ability effects are applied as follows:
- Interrupts Ursa's channeling abilities upon cast.
-
ursa_enrage- Recasting the ability adds time to the remaining Enrage buff duration.
- Grants 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.
- The status resistance increasing talent does not update the current buff until the current instance ends.
- The status resistance increasing
-
ursa_increased_damage- Recasting the ability adds Enrage duration to the remaining buff duration.
- Grants flat bonus attack damage based on the incoming damage reduced value (before reductions), and is defined as:
- EXPR
BonusAtkDmg = 0.8 × IncomingDamage × 0.05- The incoming damage reduced values are periodically checked and the bonus values are updated immediately.
- The strong dispel.
- Interrupts Ursa's
-
- Enables Enrage casting while being disabled, except from the following sources:
- While Ursa cannot act.
- Hex sources.
Silence sources.
- While Ursa
- Ursa can no longer
shift-queue this ability upon acquiring the ability upgrade.
- Enables Enrage casting while being
modifier_ursa_enrageEnrage: Taking x% less damage.
modifier_ursa_increased_damage (x)Grudge Bearer: Gaining x bonus damage.
- Increases model size by 20%, and has no impact on its
collision size.
- Increases model size by 20%, and has no impact on its
- The actual buff duration is defined as:
- EXPR
GrudgeBearer BuffDuration = Enrage BuffDuration + 5
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Ursa/Matches
| Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 |   | EPL World AM S15 |      |  | 1 : 0 |  |      |
| Mar 26, 2025 - 18:00 CET | Tier 1 |  | FISSURE Universe 4 |   |  | 1 : 0 |  |      |
| Mar 26, 2025 - 12:00 SGT | Tier 3 | | EPL World SEA S4 |    |  | 1 : 0 |  |      |
| Mar 24, 2025 - 20:30 CET | Tier 1 | | FISSURE Universe 4 |    |   | 1 : 0 |   |    |
| Mar 24, 2025 - 14:00 PET | Tier 3 | | EPL World AM S15 |  |  | 1 : 0 |   |   |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Talents:
- LVL 10 +15s Fury Swipes stack duration reduced to +12s.
- LVL 15 +7 Fury Swipes damage per stack reduced to +5.
- 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 .
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
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 | |
|---|---|---|
 Mega Kill Streaks Kill Assists Kills |
 Bronze |
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 Silver |
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 Gold |
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 Platinum |
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 Master |
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 Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
| Sets | |
|---|---|
| Claws | |
| Arms | |
Trivia[edit]
- Ursa 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.
- Ursa's rivalry response towards Batrider ▶️ "Batrider, I prevent forest fires." is a reference to the 1940's Anti forest fire mascot "Smokey the Bear".
- Ursa's death response ▶️ "I join hh-hh the wild spirits." is a reference to the death responses from "Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim"
- 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.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Ursa uses the model of the Furbolg Trackers, a medium neutral creep.
- Ursa's title is taken from the Furbolg Ursa Warriors.
- Earthshock's original iteration was identical to the Mountain King's Thunder Clap.
- Fury Swipes' original iteration was based on one aspect of the Firelord's Incinerate.
- Ursa has a 2/13 chance to spawn in with the name "Fuzzy Wuzzy, a reference to the old nursery rhyme, "Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear".
- This is referenced in one of his spawning lines, where he calls himself ▶️ "Fuzzy Wuzzy".
- Ursa uses the model of the Furbolg Trackers, a medium neutral creep.
Gallery[edit]
Model
Splash artwork
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Bone Harvest sprite - alive
Bone Harvest sprite - dead
