The Butcher
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Build: I'll give you all that you can drink
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Heroes of the Storm Build Guides
The Butcher is a monster in Heroes of the Storm and a welcomed addition. As an assassin, he is a powerful duelist and roamer. In terms of securing a kill, he is on par with Illidan and Zeratul; if not better. As is stands, The Butcher is my new favorite buddy.
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Combat Talent Fresh Meat |
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Q Ability Hamstring Mana: 50 Cooldown: 4 seconds |
| Nearby Minions drop 1 and Heroes drop 3 Fresh Meat when they die, which you can pick up to gain 1% bonus Attack Damage. Can hold up to 25 Meat. All Meat is lost on dying. | Deal 40 (+10 per level) damage and slow enemies by 49.92% fading over 2 seconds. Your next Basic Attack will strike immediately. | ||
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W Ability Butcher's Brand Mana: 60 Cooldown: 14 seconds |
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E Ability Ruthless Onslaught Mana: 75 Cooldown: 20 seconds |
| Deal 30 (+2.5 per level) damage to an enemy and cause your Basic Attacks against them to heal you for 75% of the damage done for 5 seconds. Healing doubled versus Heroes. | Charge at an enemy, becoming Unstoppable and gaining Movement Speed. If you reach the target, they are stunned for 1 second and take 60 (+10 per level) damage. | ||
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Heroic Ability Furnace Blast Mana: 75 Cooldown: 90 seconds |
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Heroic Ability Lamb to the Slaughter Mana: 75 Cooldown: 60 seconds |
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After a 3 second delay, fire explodes around you dealing 300 (+35 per level) damage to enemies. Can be cast while using Ruthless Onslaught. | Throw a hitching post that attaches to the nearest enemy Hero after a 1 second delay. This deals 75 (+15 per level) damage and causes the enemy to be chained to the post for 4 seconds. | ||
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Invigoration Tier: 1 |
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Block Tier: 1 |
| If Hamstring hits a Hero, half of the Mana cost is refunded and the cooldown is reduced by 1 second. | Periodically reduces the damage received from Hero Basic Attacks by 50% . Stores up to 2 charges. | ||
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Chop Meat Tier: 1 |
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Victuals Tier: 1 |
| Increases the damage of Hamstring by 50% to non-Heroic targets, and Minions killed by Hamstring drop 3 stacks of meat. | Heal for 3% of your Maximum Health when you collect Fresh Meat. Meat continues to drop at maximum stacks. | ||
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Flail Axe Tier: 2 |
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Unrelenting Pursuit Tier: 2 |
| Increases the length of Hamstring by 40%. | Reduces the cooldown of Ruthless Onslaught by 40% upon impact. | ||
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Cheap Shot Tier: 2 |
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Envenom Tier: 2 |
| Hamstring does 100% more damage to targets affected by a slow, root, or stun. | Activate to poison an enemy Hero, dealing 209.88 (+29.92 per level) damage over 10 seconds. | ||
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Brutal Strike Tier: 3 |
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Insatiable Blade Tier: 3 |
| After using Hamstring, your next Basic Attack deals an additional 50% damage. | Increases Butcher's Brand's healing from 75% to 100% of your Basic Attack damage. | ||
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Abattoir Tier: 3 |
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Final Assault Tier: 3 |
| Increases the maximum number of Fresh Meat to 35, and you only lose half upon death. | Increases Ruthless Onslaught's range by 33.333333333333%, and causes you to lunge at the enemy when close to impact. | ||
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Furnace Blast Tier: 4 |
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Lamb to the Slaughter Tier: 4 |
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After a 3 second delay, fire explodes around you dealing 300 (+35 per level) damage to enemies. Can be cast while using Ruthless Onslaught. | Throw a hitching post that attaches to the nearest enemy Hero after a 1 second delay. This deals 75 (+15 per level) damage and causes the enemy to be chained to the post for 4 seconds. | ||
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Burning Rage Tier: 5 |
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Savage Charge Tier: 5 |
| Deal 12 (+2 per level) damage per second to nearby enemies. | Ruthless Onslaught deals bonus damage to Heroes equal to 15% of their current Health. | ||
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Crave Flesh Tier: 5 |
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Spell Shield Tier: 5 |
| While an enemy is affected by Butcher's Brand, you gain 30% Movement Speed. | Upon taking Ability Damage, reduce that damage and further Ability Damage by 50% for 3 seconds. Can only trigger once every 30 seconds. | ||
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Crippling Slam Tier: 6 |
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Enraged Tier: 6 |
| Hamstring's slow no longer fades out, and the duration is increased by 25% . | Receiving damage that reduces you below 50% of your maximum Health causes you to become Enraged for 10 seconds. You gain 40% Attack Speed and reduce the duration of slows, stuns, silences, and roots against you by 75% while Enraged. | ||
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Blood Frenzy Tier: 6 | ||
| Fresh Meat also increases your Attack Speed by 1% per stack. | |||
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Fires of Hell Tier: 7 |
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Slaughterhouse Tier: 7 |
| Furnace Blast explodes a second time 3 seconds after the initial explosion. | Lamb to the Slaughter now chains all enemy Heroes in range. | ||
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Nexus Blades Tier: 7 |
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Bolt of the Storm Tier: 7 |
| Basic attacks deal 20% more damage and slow the target for 1 second. | Activate to teleport to a nearby location. | ||
| Victuals | Unrelenting Pursuit | Abattoir | Furnace Blast | Burning Rage | Blood Frenzy | Nexus Blade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Furnace Blast and
Burning Rage. More damage, more burst, easier wins.| Victuals | Unrelenting Pursuit | Abattoir | Lamb to the Slaughter | Crave Flesh | Blood Frenzy | Nexus Blade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lamb to the Slaughter fills the heroic ability slot as an emergency precaution. If one or two enemies are coming after you post one of them down, and keep your health up with butchers brand. When they die, move in to kill the other one; if they aren't running away.| Invigoration | Flail Axe | Brutal Strike | Furnace Blast | Spell Shield | Crippling Slam | Bolt of the Storm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hamstring build.| Victuals | Flail Axe | Abattoir | Furnace Blast | Crave Flesh | Blood Frenzy | Nexus Blade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Level 20 | DAM | ATK SPD | DPS | Burst w/ HS | + LttS | + Envenom |
| Base | 371.00 | 1.11 | 411.81 | 982.00 | 1,357.00 | 2,135.36 |
| 25 Meat, No BF, No NB | 463.75 | 1.11 | 514.76 | 1,167.50 | 1,542.50 | 2,320.86 |
| 35 Meat, No BF, No NB | 500.85 | 1.11 | 555.94 | 1,241.70 | 1,616.70 | 2,395.06 |
| 25 Meat, BF, NB | 556.50 | 1.39 | 772.14 | 1,353.00 | 1,728.00 | 2,506.36 |
| 35 Meat, BF, NB | 601.02 | 1.50 | 900.63 | 1,442.04 | 1,817.04 | 2,595.40 |
Blood Frenzy(BF) and
Nexus Blades(NB). In addition, I've includes the damage of a burst attack with
Hamstring(HS),
Lamb to the Slaughter(LttS), and
Envenom. Butcher's Brand onto an enemy hero before giving him a good walloping, here is the kind of damage and healing you can expect to get.| Level 20 w/ Branding | DAM / 5 Seconds | Healing / 5 Seconds | Healing from Two HS |
| Base | 1,855.00 | 2,782.50 | 1,113.00 |
| 25 Meat, No BF, No NB | 2,318.75 | 3,478.13 | 1,391.25 |
| 35 Meat, No BF, No NB | 2,504.25 | 3,756.38 | 1,502.55 |
| 25 Meat, BF, NB | 3,339.00 | 5,008.50 | 1,669.50 |
| 35 Meat, BF, NB | 4,207.14 | 6,310.71 | 1,803.06 |
Time for Slaughter |
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Ruthless Onslaught, popping
Butcher's Brand, and bursting them with a few Auto-Attacks and
Hamstring. It is important to understand that early on you won't be getting any quick kills and you don't want to chase them into their towers; that will be your end. Just get in, do a bunch of damage and let them run. They will be losing time and experience in their absence, and you can help your minions by getting them in to absorb tower ammo. Abattoir death is a very large penalty on your Meat numbers; undoing minutes of work.
Blood Frenzy you can start soloing bosses, directing the flow of team fights, or smashing down every structure that have left.
Hamstring at first or stay out of poke range for the opening of the fight. You really want to avoid taking damage early on, as you will need all you can get to charge into the enemy team. Once the majority of the enemy team has used their abilities, it's time to start picking out a target.
Falstad and
Brightwing. Right after Brightwing used
Polymorph against one of my teammates, Falstad came in to try to take that hero out. When he came in he was close to my range for
Lamb to the Slaughter, so instead of charging him with
Ruthless Onslaught I just cast and posted him with LttS. Knowing my team could quickly kill a posted Falstad, I charged into Brightwing, and within a few seconds both of them were dead.
Jaina is a glass(ice) cannon and an easy picking when she is by herself. However, if you attempt to take her on unprepared she will kite you with
Frostbite.
Kael'thas with his
Gravity Lapse and quick damage output will cause you the same problems. 
Safety Bubble or
Divine Shield, both
Murky and
Uther have the ability to deny your primary abilities. Beside the fact that it's a waste on Murky, you should not pick either of these two enemies as your target of choice.
Ring of Frost, Kael'thas with
Gravity Lapse, and Murky with
Octo-Grab. Furnace Blast and
Spell Shield, and Uther with
Divine Shield. With this combo, you remove The Butcher's main weakness of entering a team fight. By charging in under the protection of the Divine Shield, you can guaranty the firing of Furnace Blast, as well as a few follow up auto-attack before anyone has a hope of stopping him.
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