Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Narud

Combat Trait

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Amon's Herald

Quest (!) : Every Minion you kill gives you 1 stack. Every Takedown gives 5 stack.

Reward (!) : When Narud dies, consume every stacks and Reduces Narud's death timer to a maximum of 70% total reduction.

Primary Abilities

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(Q) Null Zone

Mark ennemies in a circular AoE (8 meters range, 2,5 meters radius).
After 2,5 seconds, inflict to all of the marked enemies a fraction of the damage collectively underwent during the duration. (self-inflicted damage do not count)

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(W) Void Fury

Teleport to the target location within 5 meters. Inflict medium damages to the enemies near the arrival location.

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(E) Lockdown

Narud can channel for up to 2,5 seconds this ability, being slowed by 40%.
When the ability is reactivated by targeting an enemy within a 6 meter range, it stuns the targeted enemy and immobilize Narud for half the duration of the channel.

Secondary Abilities

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Void Shard

Level 10 active ability talent.

Summon a Void Shard that regularly spawn time-limited Terrazine Shadows that resemble and act like lane minions until it is destroyed.

The number of Terrazine Shadows spawned increases with the total siege damages dealt by Narud during the game.

Recharge Summon Void Shard by collecting 12 regeneration globes.

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Divine Will

level 16 active ability talent

Activate to become Unstoppable for 2,5 second.
Cannot be utilized while channeling or being immobilized by Lockdown (E).

60 seconds cooldown.

Heroic Abilities

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(R) Shapeshift

Narud target an enemy hero that is less than 11 meters away and copy it's appearance, maximum health, basic attack speed and damage, combat trait and basic abilities for 20 seconds (but not it's heroic ability nor it's talents)(Alternative ressources bars are also added for the duration of the Shapeshift).
Shapeshift can be reactivated at will during the duration of it's effect on a 3 second cooldown to instantly switch between Narud's and the copied statistics, abilities and trait.

100 mana, 90 seconds cooldown.

Can only retarget the same hero if at least 3 different enemy heroes have been copied in the meantime.

Available from level 1.

Talents

Level 1:
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Level 4: Shapeshift target specific power-ups tier
- (Passive) : (!) Quest : Takedown enemy heroes.
(!) Reward : Permanently gain 1,5% spell power for the 20 first Takedowns and 0,5% for the following ones.
- (Passive) : (!) Gambit : Increase attack damage by 35%, each death reduces that bonus by 7%
- (Passive) : Basic attacks reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0,5 seconds. This bonus is doubled when Narud is copying an other hero with Shapeshift (R).

Level 7: Lockdown improvement tier
- E : Lockdown (E) reduces it's target's spell armor by 15 point for the duration of the stun, the duration is increased if the target suffers another Stun or Root.
- E : Lockdown (E) reduces it's target's physical armor by 25 for 3 seconds.
- E : Ally heroes' Basic Attacks against targets stunned by Lockdown (E) grant them a shield for 5% of their maximum Health (stack up to 3 times).

Level 10: Heroic tier
- R : Shapeshift (R) can now affect ally heroes. Can now only retarged the same hero if at least 4 different enemy heroes have been copied in the meantime.
- Void Shard (Active)

Level 13: Shapeshift improvement tier
- W : Enhance the range of Void Fury (W) from 5 meters to 7,5 meters.
- R : Reduces the cooldown of reactivation of Shapeshift (R) to switch between Narud's and the copied hero from 3 to 1,75 seconds.
- R : Making 3 or more kill or assist during the duration of Shapeshift (R) reduces it's cooldown to 40 seconds at the end of the effect.

Level 16: Power-spike tier
- Q : Basic Attacks from Narud against enemy heroes affected by Null Zone (Q) benefits from 125% bonus magic damages.
- E : If Lockdown (E) have been channeled for 2 seconds or more, its reactivation does not immobilize Narud.
- Divine Will (Active)

Level 20: Storm tier
- Trait : A Takedown on a hero that is currently targeted by Shapeshift (R) instantly grant the maximum number of Amon's Herald (Trait) stacks.
- W : Minions hit by Void Fury (W) are instantly killed.
- W/E : Void Fury (W) can be used while channeling Lockdown (E)

Intention

My main idea was to create an "extremely-difficult" shapeshifting hero, with a minimal need for new animations, countless combo possibilities and draft subtilities.

Narud imposed itself as the shapeshifter in the Blizzard lore. Making it a low-damage, Support hero was quite natural given the potential impact of the Shapeshifting ability.

My Narud's kit revolves around being a support that improves the damages and ambushing capabilities of it's team while being able to temporarily copy the kit of any enemy hero to try to use it better than he does thanks the mobility given by Void Fury (W) and the AoE potential of Null Zone (Q).
The hero is made to be extremelly hard to master (since it demands to switch between different forms, to master several other heroes and to be imaginative in terms of potential combos) and to open a lot of possibilities in terms of draft strategies and team composition.

Any review or suggestion welcome.

Narud by Lafiel

Narud