Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Viking

Combat Trait

1

Fighter mode (D)

Cooldown 8s, starts after transform.
Cost: 20 mana
longer delay when entering Fighter mode, cannot be interrupted.

No functional auto attack, Grants the ability to fly and see over terrain, cannot hide in bush terrain, no dismount.
Cannot be body blocked, melee attacked or hit by collision based direct target abilities (like charges)

Passive: "Plot Course"
Can net a potential 35% movespeed momentum over 5s, after 2s of maintaining a singular trajectory. (must continue to move)

2

assault mode (D)

Auto attack: (A) Old tychus chain gun mechanic.
Much quicker windup and unwind then old tychus. aim for 2s to wind, decay at a mirrored rate.
Your Attack Speed increases the longer that you attack, becoming fully wound up after 4 Basic Attacks.

Base atk/spd of 2, adds 1 atk/spd per successive attack
Full atk/spd of 5

Primary Abilities

1

Widow mine (Q)

Cooldown: 16 seconds
Cost: 75 mana
Duration 16s, turret healthbar

Deploy a Widow mine at short range from air or land, automatically burrowing itself on deployment. Once triggered, the widow mine launches a missile designed to explode in a firestorm of shrapnel. After detonating, the widow mine will remain inactive for 4 seconds while it reloads the next missile.

press (Q) again to toggle hold fire/ free fire, targeting will always take hero priority.
A burrowed widow mine will reveal itself for 1s after firing a missile

2

Multi-Lock Weapons System (W)

Cooldown: 18s, starts upon activation
Cost: 60 mana
duration 8s, If a missile's attack refresh has begun during the duration, it will load and fire as a last shot.

Assault Mode: Prevents your basic attack from unwinding and Fires Haywire missiles at an att rate of 1.4 sec/atk, Reactivate (W) to select new target for Haywire, missiles will fire on the move.

Fighter mode: Haywire Missiles can be fired manually with (A) basic attack mechanic, at 1.4 sec/atk rate.

3

Displacement Field (E)

Cooldown: 12 seconds
Cost: 50 mana
duration 2.5s

For a short time the Viking emits a small barrier, reducing the Damage from basic attacks made outside the bubble by 60% to targets inside the bubble.

Assault Mode: radius of 3
Fighter Mode: radius of 1

the barrier works on a principle of interception, rather then simple radius protection. If a ranged attack is made from inside the bubble, it will not be blocked.

Heroic Abilities

1

Ares Artillery Battery

Cooldown: 20 seconds, 3 charges
Cost: 25 mana
channel range 6, channel break range 10
Can channel Ares battery from Fighter or Assault mode. channel does not interrupt normal behavior/ability usage.

After successfully channeling an enemy hero within a range of 6 for 4.5 seconds, a precision missile strike hits the enemy and a small area around him.

If the target exits channel range the timer will freeze, if the target exits the break range the ability will reset with a 1s cast delay. The casting delay also applies between charges

2

Spartan Company

Cooldown: 50 seconds
Cost: 60 mana
Target drop on allied minions/mercs

Drop two Spartan company Goliaths to push lanes until death. Spartans deal 125% bonus dmg to captured enemy mercs.

Azmo General AI model

Special Mount

1

Charon Boosters

Cooldown: 25 seconds, free at nexus
Duration 10s

Assault Mode: 10% movement speed
Fighter mode: 20% movement speed

while Charon Boosters are active, Viking can transform on the move, with little delay

Notes

Talents

T1
Backup Bulwork (E) - upon Displacement Field's expiration while in assault mode, the shield persists for an extra 2.5s after shrinking to a range of 1.

Sentry protcol(E) - increases Displacement field's duration by 1s and basic attack range by 1.5 for the duration.

Iron Dome (E) - Increases Displacement field's block to 80%

Defense Matrix (E) - Reduced Displacement field's block to 50%, But allies protected by Displacement field's block gain a charge of 30 spell block. This effect can occur on each target once per second, protected allies must be attacked in the bubble for this effect to trigger.

T2
Fly Trap (Q/active) - Widowmine can unborrow and change position (1) key, one use per cast.
Quest: hit 10 enemy heroes with a window mine. Reward: widowmine hits slow enemy movement speed by 40% over 1.5 seconds.

Window, Window (Q) - Widow mine's cooldown is reduced to 5s but begins after the duration. The cooldown is lowered by 1s, for every second it lasts pasts 11 seconds.

Ripwave (W) - Haywire missiles deal 100% additional dmg to minions, monsters and mercs.

T3
Power Train (W) - Chaingun can wind up an extra 2 times with multi-lock active, but it no longer prevents unwind.

Gunner's Dream (E) - Basic attacks against heroes reduce Displacement field's cooldown by 0.2s. But increases its base cooldown by 2s.

Hard pressed (passive) - While your chain gun is fully wound, basic attacks ignore up to 30 armor.

T4
Ares Artillery Battery (R1)
Spartan Company (R2)

T5
Light weight (Z) - Doubles Charon Booster's speed bonus

Repair Servos (active) - Cd 40s, you gains a 300 Hp shield that Decays Over 6s, granting 2 healing for every 1 pt of shield decay.

Reconnaissance (D) - stealth is granted while out of combat for 3s in fighter mode. Fighter's base movement speed is increased by 15% stacking with both Plot Course and Boosters.

T6
Mecha warrior (W) - fires a second Haywire missile at the closest target to your lock on. But Both missiles deal 75% dmg (reduced)

Bombardment (W) - Increases the range of Haywire missile by 20%, when haywire missile hits a new target it deals an additional 40% dmg.

T7
Battery recharge (R1) - Reduces the channel time by 1s, and by an additional 1s each time its used on the same target consecutively (up to 3s). If the missile strike kills the target, the charge is restored and cost returned.

Delivery Company (R2) - Gain 2 charges, reduce the cooldown by 10s, and drop globally.

Viking - 2018 by beargeist

Viking - 2018