Kelvin Guide — Abilities, Builds & Strategy

Kelvin Base Stats

• Role: Brawler
• Max Health: 880
• Max Move Speed: 6.7
• Stamina: 3
• Base Health Regen: 1
• Light Melee Damage: 50
• Heavy Melee Damage: 116

Kelvin Weapon Stats

• DPS: 70.857
• Sustained DPS: 41.597
• Bullet Damage: 18.6
• Rounds Per Second: 3.8095
• Clip Size: 14
• Reload Time: 2.585s
• Bullet Speed: 160
• Can Crit: Yes

Kelvin Abilities

• Ability 1: Frost Grenade
• Ability 2: Ice Path
• Ability 3: Arctic Beam
• Ability 4: Frozen Shelter

Kelvin Guide — Strategy & Tips

Quick Answer: Kelvin is a frost-wielding support who slows and damages enemies while healing and speeding up his team. Use Frost Grenade and Arctic Beam to soften and slow the enemy, Ice Path to move your team fast, and Frozen Shelter to save allies or trap enemies. He wants to be near his team in every fight.

Kelvin is a supportive frost hero who slows and damages the enemy team while healing, protecting, and speeding up his own. He lays Ice Path under his feet so he and his allies move faster across the map, then uses Frost Grenade and Arctic Beam to chip away and slow whoever he catches. Frozen Shelter is his panic button and his playmaker: an ice dome that rapidly regenerates allies inside while slowing enemies trapped with them. He wants to sit in the middle of the fight, healing and slowing, not solo diving. Play him patient and team-first, and he turns ordinary skirmishes into one-sided fights.

Early Game

In lane he keeps himself and his partner topped up with Frost Grenade, which heals allies and slows enemies in the same throw. He can use Ice Path to push or retreat faster than the enemy expects, and its slow resistance helps him shrug off lane slows. Arctic Beam is his poke and last-hit tool, since it damages, slows, and can claim souls. Play back, heal through trades, and only step up when the enemy is already slowed or low.

Mid Game

Mid game is where he starts dictating rotations, because Ice Path lets his whole team travel lanes and jungle faster and turn fights before the enemy arrives. He leads with Frost Grenade to slow a cluster, then holds Arctic Beam on whoever is trying to escape. Frozen Shelter keeps a diving ally alive or traps enemies in a fight that is already lost for them. Ward around objectives and stay ready to reset a bad fight with the dome.

Late Game

In late fights he is the team's sustain and lockdown, and Frozen Shelter can save a carry from a burst combo or freeze an objective to buy time. He should stand with his team under the dome, healing through poke, then step out to slow divers with Frost Grenade and Arctic Beam. Positioning matters more than his damage, since a Kelvin who dies early leaves his team with no healing and no escape. Use Ice Path so his team can re-engage or disengage cleanly.

Combos

His bread and butter is Frost Grenade first, which heals his side and slows the enemy, then hold Arctic Beam on the slowed target to stack more slow and chip them down. If a teammate is diving, pre-place Frozen Shelter on them or drop it over the teamfight so your side becomes very hard to kill while the enemy is slowed. Ice Path under a retreating ally gives them and the team a fast escape the enemy cannot easily follow. For a pick, slow with the grenade, beam them down, and dome the fight so they cannot run.

Strong Against

He shines against heroes who rely on sustained damage and mobility, because his slow stacks and Frozen Shelter blunt both. Arctic Beam's fire-rate and move-speed reduction hurts auto-attack carries who need to stand and shoot. Ice Path's slow resistance alongside the team speed-up helps him escape and chase heroes built around slows. Against clustered teams, Frost Grenade plus the dome turn their grouping into a weakness.

Weak Against

He struggles against heroes who burst him down before he can heal or dome, because his value ends if he dies first. Long-range poke and heroes who punish him for standing still during Arctic Beam hurt him, since he moves slower while channeling. Silences and hard crowd control that stop him from casting Frozen Shelter strip away his team's best save. Hard-engage heroes who dive past his slow and lock him up can delete him before the dome ever goes down.

Synergies

He pairs best with a diving carry who wants a dome to survive in, since he pre-casts Frozen Shelter on them and they go in with impunity. Slow-based and area-of-effect heroes love fighting inside Frost Grenade, because his slow keeps enemies inside their damage. A mobile ally on Ice Path turns rotations into fast collapses onto outnumbered enemies. Any teammate who wants extra healing and a safe retreat benefits from his grenade heals and the dome's regeneration.

Common Mistakes

• Saving Frozen Shelter for a perfect moment instead of using it to save a dying teammate or swing a fight you are already in.
• Solo-diving or frontlining where he dies before he can heal or dome, leaving his team without sustain or an escape.
• Forgetting that Ice Path moves his whole team and that enemies can walk on the trail too, so he hands them a free escape.

Matchup Notes

• vs Haze — Your Arctic Beam cuts her fire rate and slows her while she tries to stand and shoot, so slow her first and then hold the beam so she cannot trade back.
• vs Vindicta — She outranges you, so avoid standing in the open channeling Arctic Beam; play near cover, move your team in with Ice Path, and dome your ally the moment she lines up a shot.
• vs Infernus — His sustained damage punishes a fight you cannot win by attrition, so use Frost Grenade to slow and separate him, and drop Frozen Shelter to heal your team through his burn.
• vs Lash — He hard-engages and can lock you down before you dome, so stay behind your team, and if he dives you, slow him with Frost Grenade so your team can collapse on him.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kelvin's role?

He is a supportive frost hero: he slows and damages enemies while healing, protecting, and speeding up his team.

How does Kelvin heal his team?

Frost Grenade heals allies caught in its cloud, and Frozen Shelter rapidly regenerates allies standing inside the dome.

What does Ice Path do?

It creates a floating trail of ice and snow that gives Kelvin and his allies movement bonuses, and Kelvin gains slow resistance for the duration.

How does Arctic Beam work?

He shoots freezing energy that damages targets and progressively reduces their movement and fire rate the longer he sustains the beam, and the beam can also claim souls.

What is Frozen Shelter used for?

It creates an impenetrable ice dome around a target ally or himself that rapidly regenerates allies inside, slows enemies, and makes objectives invulnerable and frozen.

Can enemies use Kelvin's Ice Path?

Yes, the floating ice trail gives movement bonuses to Kelvin and his allies, but enemies can also walk on it.