Heroes of the Storm Build Concept: Zurvan

Combat Trait

1

Emerge

Usable when Submerged

You are normally not on the map. Activate to pop your head out of the ground anywhere on the map, allowing you to use new abilities but making yourself vulnerable to damage. You are immobile, have no basic attack, and are immune to displacements.

2

Submerge

Usable when Emerged

After you have been emerged for at least 15 seconds, activate to Submerge, taking you off the battlefield and fully healing yourself. You cannot Emerge again for 25 seconds.

Primary Abilities

1

Energized Enzymes

Usable when Emerged

Lob a ball of enzymes to target location, dealing damage to enemies on impact. The ball leaves a pool of enzymes for 4 seconds, dealing damage every second to enemies standing on it and slowing their movement speed by 20%. 6 second cooldown.

2

Primal Hunger

Usable when Emerged

Stretch out your neck and take a bite at target location after a delay, dealing damage to enemies in the area and pulling them to your location. Enemies are in stasis while being pulled. Enemy minions are instantly killed.

16 second cooldown.

3

Tentacle Slap

Usable when Emerged

Passive

Whenever you Emerge, a Tentacle spawns above your position. Every 5 seconds, another Tentacle spawns around you in a triangle formation for a maximum of 3 Tentacles. Tentacles can be killed individually. Tentacles spawn clockwise or counterclockwise depending on which team you are on.

Active

All Tentacles slam the ground to deal damage in a line area after a 0.5 second delay. The line areas start at each Tentacle and are directed toward target point.

8 second cooldown.

Secondary Abilities

1

Feast

Usable when Submerged

After a 2 second delay, pop out of the ground at target location anywhere on the map to bite at enemies, dealing damage to enemy non-buildings in the area. All enemy minions in the area are instantly killed.

20 second cooldown.

NOTE: You do not actually Emerge or become targetable, the skill animation just looks like your head bursting out of the ground and taking a giant NOM. The Jaws theme plays during the delay.

Heroic Abilities

1

Fully Emerge

Usable when Emerged

After being emerged for at least 5 seconds, fully emerge your entire body, allowing you to move at 80% normal hero speed and granting you a basic attack that deals area damage.

You can still cast Energized Enzymes [Q] and Primal Hunger [W]. You no longer spawn Tentacles around you. Casting Tentacle Slap [E] deals damage in a wide line area in target direction after a 0.5 second delay.

Lasts for 30 seconds, until you activate Submerge [D], or are killed.

80 second cooldown after the effect ends.

2

Primordial Gut

Usable when Emerged

Passive

While you are emerged, allied heroes respawn next to you.

Active

Stretch out your neck and take a bite at target location after a delay. All allied heroes in the area are instantly transported back to the Hall of Storms. 45 second cooldown.

Talent Tree

Level 1

Hard Headed

Some Thoughts

Wanted to make an interesting take on a global hero. His Emerge/Submerge grants him more of a global presence than current global heroes, but his lack of actual mobility once on the map means he has to pick and choose his emergence points carefully.

Since he can't move and I envision his abilities to be medium range, I think he would need to have a lot of health because he can't avoid skill shots, which is also why he has a stronger version of Regeneration Master. Even if he takes the talent to lower his minimum emergence time, he still has to stay on the map for at least 12 seconds, which is plenty of time to get killed if he emerges in a bad position.

For the lane phase, I imagine it would be hard to emerge in lane, since you would be taking harassment and be pretty prone to ganks. Since I think his abilities should be mid range at most, emerging behind your fort walls isn't much of an option either. That's why I gave him Feast, to let him wave clear at a moderate rate when he needs to do something on the map, but his full presence is not yet necessary/worth the risk of being ganked. I believe that a 20 second cooldown on Feast is long enough to let enemy dedicated wave clearers still push into his towers. Which is also why he has talents to help with that as well.

For clarification, Primal Hunger is a circular AoE "pull enemies to your location" that would have an animation/warning indicator to make it clear what would be about to happen. Primordial Gut would have similar targeting/animation but it's used to save allies instead.

The idea behind Primordial Gut is that Zurvan is so massive and old, that he's eaten all sorts of things in the universe, all of which exists as some sort of primordial soup in his stomach. Somehow, from this soup... Heroes get respawned, and he pukes them back out. This gave me an interesting idea for a level 20 talent, which would help hasten this process of... birthing heroes.

Energized Enzymes and Tentacle Slap are abilities he has in Starcraft 2, when you fight him with Kerrigan. His full body model exists in that game, so I thought Fully Emerge would be an appropriate heroic option.

Zurvan by reversedaura

Zurvan

Zurvan

Ancient Primal Zerg

Combat Trait

Primary Abilities

Passive

Active

Secondary Abilities

Heroic Abilities

Passive

Active

Talent Tree

Level 1

Some Thoughts

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