| Threat | Hero | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
 |
Sylvanas | She is too squishy and often alone on the lane |
1 |
 |
Jaina | She will die before being able to defend herself |
1 |
 |
Gazlowe | With a Stun your Heroic and one or two Hamstrings Gazlowe is super dead and can be used to farm XP or meat in the earlygame |
Hamstring
Butcher's Brand
The Butcher looks very bulky and massive but is NOT a Tank - this ability dosnt change this fact so dont stay in front of your team or run into a crowd of enemys without having sombody to help or rescue you.
Ruthless Onslaught Ruthless Onslaught is the first piece of the combo I discribed under "The Strategie". You can also escape by using it on a minion when u get chased. Charge into a fight using this ability to secure kills or threaten nearby enemys. You can even help a teammate escaping by stunning his pursuer and maybe bring him down tougether.
Fresh Meat The Butcher such a monster on the battlefield. All killed enemys will drop "fresh meat" upon death. When
The Butcher collects it, it will automaticly stack (up to 25) granting a damage boost of 1% per stack(max. 25%) When you die you will loose all your stacks of
Fresh Meat which sometimes can be really frustraiting so try not to overextend and stand near a healer if possible ! Also try to get as much stacks as possible before going into team fights.
Lamb to the Slaughter
Furnace Blast The Butcher has. It spawns a ring of fire around you which will explode after a 3 second delay, dealing massive amounts of "aeo damage" to your opponents. It can also be used in combination with
Ruthless Onslaught which makes it nearly impossible to escape and often oneshotes heroes like
Nova or
Gazlowe. Although it can be hard to time this heroic. I recomend using it even if you are new to the butcher because
Lamb to the Slaughter often dosnt work quite as good as
Furnace Blast
The Butcher. Its focused on maximal damage output, thats also where your sustain comes from. I played the Butcher right from the release and i figuered out that this is the best build to use him. The basic strategie to use The Butcher is the following: Fresh Meat will drop thats what this hero is based on so try to get as much
Fresh Meat as possible before going into a team fight. Ruthless Onslaught to charge onto this enemy. Butcher's Brand to heal while dealing damage to your opponent. Hamstring to slow your opponent and dont let him escape after 2/3 Q's he should be dead even without 25 stacks of
Fresh Meat.
Invigoration Hamstring by one second and and costs only half of the mana if it hits a hero. With this Talent you will be able to spam Q while gaining half of the mana back and dealing massive damage to all enemys in your way.
Block Nova or
Raynor it will be better for you to charge at them and heal the damage they did while killing them with using your
Hamstring over and over again.
Chop Meat The Butcher and can be better done by
Sylvanas,
Zagara or
Leoric also you realy dont need minions to drop 3 stacks of
Fresh Meat because it often is pretty useless in the "lategame" - and just to have a good "earlygame" seems resonable but isn't worth spending a whole talent either.
Victuals Invigoration as the lv. 1 talent it lets you spam auto atk's which heals you for 75% (only if Butchers Brand is active) which is much more then the 3% heal from
Victuals. Also if you have high dps you might not even come into the situation where you need much heal because you just gona slauther your opponents with
Hamstring before they can do much damage to you.
Flail Axe Hamstring by 40% which is a lot but not good enough to compare with the other talents.
Unrelenting Pursuit
Cheap Shot Unrelenting Pursuit but against slower tanks like
Leoric or
Stitches Cheap Shot can make the diference and increases your dps.
Envenom
Brutal Stike
Insatiable Blade
Abattoir Fresh Meat which is an additional 10% auto atk. damage boost. Although it might sound like not much but it realy is - esspecialy if you take
Blood Frenzy on Lv. 16. Also with this talent dieing isnt punished so hard because you will only loose the half of your stacks(not realy the half because you only loose 49% of your fresh meat which makes it so if you have 35 stacks you will respawn with 18)
Final Assault
Furnace Blast
Kael'thas
Pyroblast ability. Also this ability is great against squishy heroes like
Falstad, [Nova or
Sylvanas. Just to name a few. Overall its a great heroic and i use it in nearly all of my matches.
Lamb to the Slaugthtr
Zeratul,
Leoric or
Falstad
Blink or
Wraith Walk.
Burning Rage Fresh Meat aswell, so i think its better to go with
Savage Charge
Savage Charge The Butcher always struggles a bit against bulky tanks like
Muradin or
Johanna. With this talent you will have enough burst even against the best tanks, since Roughless Onslaughtdeals 15% more damage equal to the targets current health, you will hit like a truck when charging at
Diablo
Muradin or
Johanna.
Crave Flesh Falstad or
Zeratul. Its also a great talent to chose if you want to conter the high mobility of some heroes (like for exapmle
Li Li. Using Crave Flesh you will be able to Charge on an enemy slam him in the face with
Hamstring and kill him while chasing him with + 30% movement speed.
Spell Shield Savage Charge are way better.
Crippling Slam Blood Frenzy which is absolutly insane in combination with
Abattoir. Thats all i have to say about
Crippling Slam because it just isn't a good talent compared to
Blood Frenzy
Enraged Abattoir) which is provided to you by
Blood Frenzy
Blood Frenzy Fresh Meat you'r pretty much unstoppable in 1v1's and a real beast in team fights. Your auto atks speed is buffed by 35% which synergyses well with
Nexus Blades which will be the optimal lv. 20 talent for this build.
Fires of Hell Furnace Blast is allready pretty inaccurte and hitting a second exlposion is nearly impossible. Although if your opponent still close comabats for three seconds after geting hit by the first explsoin hes dead for sure so having a second exlposion is completly unnessery and a wasted talent.
Sloutherhouse Nexus Blades. Also the fact that if you chain more than two heroes with it you will pretty likly die because they can still atk you.
Nexus Blades Abattoir +
Blood Frenzy Fresh Meat and 20% Nexus Blades Hamstring Hamstring on them
Bolt of the Storm Ruthless Onslaught and you'r missing a lot of damage aswell.
Abathur -
Butcher The Butcher has even more sustain and damage because
Abathur provides him a shield (
Carapace) and two more options to deal massive amount of damage (
Spike Burst and
Stab) while chasing or fighting against an enemy hero. Having a winrate over 80% this combo is probably the best combo with The Butcher.
Tyrande -
Butcher Ruthless Onslaught and
Lunar Flare) you kill your enemys super quick. By the time a tank trys to conter you he gets
Hunter's Mark'ed and is dead for sure. Also if
The Butcher is having trouble with his health
Tyrande can heal him for a good amount. The high winrate of 65% is also very reasonable and makes this combo worth a try in competetiv E-sports tournaments.
Rehgar -
Illidan -
Butcher Illidan and
Rehgar work very good on their own in a team fight but having the addition of
The Butcher is absolutly devestating in team fights. And when Rehgar uses
Bloodlust the game is usally over for your opponents. This combo is very strong in team fights and can be improved by adding
Leoric or
Johanna to the compostion, but if you do so try to pic a ranged damage dealer because your team allready has great sustain and close combat.
HeroesFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new hero, or fine tune your favorite HotS hero’s build and strategy.
Copyright © 2019 HeroesFire | All Rights Reserved
Quick Comment (1) View Comments
You need to log in before commenting.