Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Valeera (Complete)

Talents

TIER 1 - Level 1

1. [Buckler]:
Periodically reduces the damage received from Hero Basic Attacks by 50%. Stores up to 2 charges.

2. [Fan of Knives] (W):
Blade Flurry cooldown is decreased by 1.5 seconds for every enemy Hero hit.

3. [Recklessness] (E):
Eviscerate hits multiple enemy targets in a cone dealing less damage to subsequent targets.

4. [Seasoned Stalker]:
For every 6 enemy Minion or Mercenary kills near your Hero, gain 1 Basic Attack damage. Hero Takedowns count as 2 Minion kills.

TIER 2 - Level 4

1. [Focused Attacks]:
Every 10 seconds, your next Basic Attack deals 75% additional damage. Basic Attacks reduce this cooldown by 1 second.

2. [Malice] (W):
Blade Flurry makes enemy targets to Bleed for 4% of their maximum health. Lasts 3 seconds.

2. [Opportunist] (E):
Eviscerate deals 20% more damage against enemy targets affected by any Bleed effects.

4. [Swift Death] (Trait):
Basic Attacks against Bleeding enemy targets also increase Attack Speed by 15% for 2 seconds.

TIER 3 - Level 7

1. [Battle Momentum]:
Basic Attacks reduce Ability cooldowns by 0.5 seconds.

2. [Blood Trail] (Q):
Rupture Bleed duration refreshes every time you deal damage with Basic Attacks.

3. [Adrenaline Rush] (W):
After using Blade Flurry, gain 10% Attack Speed and 10% Movement Speed for 2 seconds.

4. [Blood Splatter] (E):
Eviscerate makes enemy target to Bleed for 8% of their missing health. Lasts for 4 seconds.

5. [Find Weakness]:
After using an ability, your next Basic Attack within 6 seconds deals 40% additional damage.

TIER 4 - Level 10

1. [Death from Above]

2. [Embodiment of Evil]

TIER 5 - Level 13

1. [Slaughter]:
Attacks against enemy Heroes deal bonus damage equal to 1.5% of the Hero's maximum Health.

2. [Lethality] (E):
Dealing damage with Eviscerate leaves enemy Hero vulnerable and they take 15% more damage from any Bleed effects for 2 seconds.

3. [Hunger for Blood] (E):
Dealing damage with Eviscerate enrages you and next three Basic Attacks against Bleeding enemy Hero deal 20% more damage. Effect lasts 3 seconds.

4. [Sprint]: Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to gain 75% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.

TIER 6 - Level 16

1. [Internal Bleeding] (trait): Cooldown: 12 seconds
Activate to make enemy target to Bleed for additional 15 (20 + 2 per level) damage a second for 6 seconds and grants 20% Movement Speed for 2 seconds.

2. [Berserk]: Cooldown 60 seconds
Activate to increase your Attack Speed by 40% and Movement Speed by 10% for 4 seconds.

3. [Stoneskin]: Cooldown 60 seconds
Activate to gain 30% of your maximum Health as a shield for 5 seconds.

4. [Deadened Nerves]:
Reduces Ability Damage taken by 20% for 4 seconds. Can only trigger once in 15 seconds.

TIER 7 - Level 20

1. [Ambush] (R):
Upon activating Death from Above it grants Cloak until enemy target or Hero is hit. Death from Above cooldown is instantly reset when it kills enemy target.

2. [Mark of Kathra'Natir] (R):
Upon activating Embodiment of Evil deals 350 (55 + 5 per level) damage to surrounding nearby enemy targets and slows them by 20% for 2 seconds. Also gain 10% more Attack Speed and shield lasts infinitely until destroyed.

3. [Nexus Blades]:
Basic Attacks deal 20% more damage and slow the target for 1 second.

4. [Bolt of the Storm]: Cooldown: 40 seconds
Activate to teleport to nearby location.

Play style

Valeera's early game is pretty weak since she only has 10% slow. It was my intention to make her weak early. She can get kited and zoned out pretty heavily.
But still once opponent makes a positioning mistake, she can deal a lot of damage, almost killing any squishy instantly or leaving them to bleed for decent damage until they succumb. Because they WILL eventually bleed out :) .

Her true power comes from Heroic abilities. Once you choose one, the game just starts.

My main goal was to create two play styles. Which doesn't mean you should follow this 100%. Everyone has their own "unique" play style but I wanted to give you some closure of what you could do.

Both play styles are unique (in some way) and revolve heavily around Heroic Abilities:

- DfA (Death from Above) build
- EoE (Embodiment of Evil) build

Describtion:

DfA mostly revolves around applying Bleed effects and and doing your basic damaging combo before leaving enemy Hero to suffer for heavy Bleed damage.

Pros:

* Great single target damage
* With [Ambush] talent, sneak attacks are almost always guaranteed

Cons:

* Squishy when pinned down
* Team fighting sucks

Describtion:

EoE build revolves around good sustain and Attack speed boosts. It shines especially in team fights.

Pros:

* Team fighting rules
* Can zone enemy Heroes from objectives

Cons:

* Heroic Ability has long cooldown
* Enemy Heroes can still CC you and control you

Info

Hit hard and fast, make them bleed!

I just wanted to create something fun. And I chose Valeera to be my victim because I love her character (inb4 kit doesn't resemble her in lore) and rogues in general.
Just give my concept a good look and feel free to comment. Criticism is welcome (we all have to learn some day and do the math correctly).
That leads to my next point: numbers. Yes, some numbers seem nasty, other seem O.K (rly?). But these numbers are mostly there for eye candy. Just don't let numbers take over your life (and I'm bad at math).
And about that secondary Heroic ability: yes it's Illidan! Actually I tried to bring some of Valeera's lore into her kit. As she got possessed by evil demonic maniac who just loves to cuddle poor mortal souls.

Note 1: I'll definitely update this concept whenever I can and if I have some new ideas.

Note 2: Bleed effects don't stack, these are kinda like "hidden" debuffs.

Note 3: Valeera is resourceless Hero.

Tag: leetk1ng#2415, EU

NB: english is not my main language.

Changelog

05/21/2015

Concept published!

05/22/2015

Corrections:
* removed talent icons because of display issues
* minor talent fixes (mostly renamed couple of these)

New section! added Basic Stats section!

05/23/2015 -

Concept complete! (I'll still update whenever I feel like it)

Corrections:

Ability changes -
* [Embodiment of Evil] now provides 10% Movement Speed and Basic Attacks heal you for 8% the of damage dealt by Basic Attacks (splash attacks count as multiple attacks therefore you get more healing when attacking enemy Heroes who are stacked together for example)

Talents changes -

* [Vampiric Assault] removed

* [Opportunist] moved to Tier 2, now deals 20% more damage against targets affected by any Bleed effects

* [Lose Control] moved to Tier 3

* [Sprint] moved to Tier 5

* [Blood Trail] moved to Tier 5

* [Deadened Nerves] moved to Tier 6

* [Mark of Kathra'Natir] provides 5% Movement Speed

New:

* [Battle Momentum] added to Tier 3

05/24/2015

Corrections:

[Neurotoxin] removed

New ability! [Blade Flurry] (I felt that Neurotoxin was too weird in her kit in general and I wanted to promote some AoE gameplay)

Ability changes -

* [Embodiment of Evil] - removed Movement Speed increase (again, just

experimenting with talents and stuff)

Talent changes -

* [Lose Control] removed

* [Dirty Tricks] removed

* [Necrotic Toxin] removed

* [Blood Trail] moved to Tier 3

New:

* [Fan of Knives] added to Tier 1

* [Adrenaline Rush] added to Tier 3

* [Lethality] added to Tier 5

05/26/2015

Corrections:

Ability changes -
* [Embodiment of Evil] - now grants 30% shield based of maximum Health

New section! added Play Style section!

06/02/2015

Corrections:

Talents changes -
* [Ambush] no longer makes enemy target to Bleed
* [Ambush] Death from Above cooldown is immediately reset if this kills enemy Hero (more cleanup power and mobility when picking DfA, Valeera already has her main Bleed tool to make enemy Heroes Bleed, so I removed it and changed it to something more rewarding when executed well)

06/04/2015

Corrections:

Talent changes -

* [Envenom] removed

* [Cutthroat] removed

* [Internal Bleeding] now grants 20% more Movement Speed for 2 seconds after activating on enemy target or Hero

* [Sharpened Blades] removed and replaced with [Nexus Blades]

New:

* [Malice] added to Tier 2, Blade Flurry makes enemy targets to Bleed for 4% of their maximum health which lasts 3 seconds

* [Blood Splatter] added to Tier 3, Eviscerate makes enemy target to Bleed for 8% of their missing health which lasts for 4 seconds

* [Hunger for Blood] added to Tier 5, next three Basic Attacks against Bleeding enemy Hero deal 20% more damage which lasts 3 seconds

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Like it, just think that Valeera should have access to envenom in tier 2 since rogues are always poisoning enemies in WoW.

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Nice concept! I like Valeera too. In the case of similarity with Illidan with the second Heroic, I thinked about Zeratuls Shadow Assault. But yeah you are right Kathra'Natir needs to be with Valeera. (spoiler: At least for while. After they release Meryl it would be weird :D ) To deffy her little more maybe add more bleeding :) Some bleeding Heroic or something like that. :) Anyway GJ :)

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I might have to change some stuff pretty soon (atm lazy), because I realised some things are quite similar to other things currently in HotS. Like how DfA (with Ambush talent) is like Ravage vol.2 but better.

I'll think of something soonish to make her different.

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Valeera (Complete) by BrownHoleKnight

Valeera (Complete)