backstory: arrogant queen of the highborne and their empire, azhara was one of the greaest mages of all time, and a beauty that made people around her cry of wonder. after failing to summon sargeras to the world and the destruction of her empire, she was offered a second chance with the old god N’zoth, becoming his queen, and the ruler of nazjatar and the naga empire.
(all scales up by 4% unless stated)
role: ranged assassin.
info:
she is the first ranged assassin in heroes of the storm to get 2 very diverse playstyles, either as an anti-support who weakens the enemy team and allows for better diving, kills, and enables allies in teamfights while shutting down her opponents, ESPECIALLY TANKS and her standard ranged assassin build that allows her to dish out extreme amounts of damage if well executed. both builds share some attributes from the other style, so she can go full anti-support, but still has fair damage to back her. same goes with the damage build, which still accesses her some good CC. her main prowess from her talents comes from her AAs , not basic buffing. making her a difficult hero to properly activate.basic AA dmg: 88
basic AA range: 7.0
basic AA frequency: 1.4/ sec
base health:1483
base regen: 2.4 /sec
base mana: 550
base mana regen: 2.3/sec
unit radius: (same as garrosh)
TRAIT: fatigue:
basic attacks reduces armor by 5% and attacking in a 3 second time period against the same hero deal an extra 10 dmg and reduce an adittional 2% armor. max: -75% armor. SPECIAL EFFECT: talents now have a certain requirement of AAs against enemy heroes before unlocking. failing to meet the amount results in her not unlocking the talent tier. but gaining the amount early results in the talents being open 1 level earlier.
ACTIVATABLE (1): ( increases next requirement by 30 AA ) N’zoth reaches from under the ground and pulls Azhara down, she is summoned at the hall of storms after 10 seconds.
Q: dark void (7 sec CD) (5 range) ( 2 charges ) (35 mana)
fire a blast that knocks enemies back by 1 yard and deal 66 dmg, heal for 100% of dmg dealt.
W: maddening whispers (8 sec CD) (6 range) (60 mana)
throw a small shadow bolt that silences and slow down an enemy hero by 80% for 0.5 seconds.
E: trident of neptulon (12 sec CD) (5 radius) (80 mana)
in an area around azhara, throw the trident on all enemy targets, bouncing on all enemy targets one by one over the duration of 3 seconds,dealing 79 dmg, stunning them for 0.25 seconds.
R1: arcane explosion (80 sec CD)(7 range)(10 radius)(100 mana)
target an enemy hero. in 10 radius around the hero, all enemies take 5 dmg/sec and are slowed by 5% ( increases by 2% per enemy hero in area).
after 5 seconds, deal 60 dmg + 100% per enemy hero in area.
R2: N’zoth himself: (115 sec CD) (90 mana)
become n’zoth for 15 seconds, , +400 health, and +40 attack dmg, and gaining a new arsenal.
R2 ( Q ) : abyssal void ( 4 sec CD ) (6 range)
in a large area in front of n’zoth, fling all enemy heroes 3 yards away, and deal 79 dmg.
R2 (W) : insanity ( 6 sec CD ) (7 range)
fire a medium size bolt that removes unstoppable, and silences all enemies in its path for 2 seconds, dealing 102 dmg.
R2 ( E) : xal’atath, blade of the black empire (one use) (10 radius)
slice all enemies existing on the map with the blade, dealing 50 dmg, and losing 1% max health per second while n’zoth lasts.
TALENTS!!
TIER 1 (10 AA required) :
-strength in their weakness: basic attacks lower the cooldowns of basic abillities by 7.5% . (not including activatables)
-Q (QUEST) : ebony void : after hitting 45 heroes, reduce the cooldown of Dark void to 4 seconds and increase it’s damage by 40, remove it’s mana cost
-zin’azhari: basic attack range is increased by 0.8 and her attacks slow by 5% up to 30%
TIER 2 (35 AA required) :
-Waterqueen: trident of neptulon now reduces spell power by 15% and reduces healing received for enemy heroes hit by 40% for 5 seconds.
-Serpentide: every fourth basic attack on a hero inflicts Maddening whispers, but reduce AA damage by 20%
-Eyes of the old ones: azhara is immune to blinds.
passive: maddening whispers increases basic attack dmg by 40% for 3 seconds after use.
TIER 3 (60 AA required):
-Touch of death: (activatable) (30 sec CD) the next basic attack gains 3 range and deals an additional 10% max health as damage over 5 seconds. reduces CD by 3 seconds every basic attack against heroes.
-Touch of fear: (activatable) (30 sec CD) the next basic attack reduces healing to the target enemy hero by 100% and fear them for 2 seconds. recharges faster by 1 seconds for every enemy hero inflicted with Fatigue. ( max 6 sec/ sec instead of 1sec/sec)
-Arcane mastery: (QUEST!) every 5 basic attacks against enemy heroes grants 0.5% spell power permanently.
TIER 4 (ults)(95 AA required)
TIER 5 (120 AA required):
-Trident of Azhara: Trident of Neptulon can be cast on an ally and it’s cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds.
-corrupting darkness: Dark Void now acts as an AoE with radius 2, and increase the damage by 30%.
-mindgames: reduce the cooldown of Maddening whispers to 3 seconds and reduce the mana cost to 40 but only slows by 40% for 1 second and does not silence. stacking three on the same target in 10 seconds puts all their basic abillities on cooldown and deals 156 damage. Can only occur once every 30 seconds per each enemy hero.
-blessings of an old god: increase attack speed by 20% and all sources of damage from azhara by 10%
TIER 6 ( 155 AA required ):
-Naga scales: gain 5 armor for every AA done that lasts 2 seconds, or until she attacks again, which stacks it up by another 5. max 40 armor.
-Death pact: reduce her AA damage by 30%, but she gains 100% shields from them.
-Power of the undying: gain both talents above, but increase the requirement of lvl 20 AA by 40.
LVL 20: (200 AA required):
-Arcane chaos: arcane explosion now explodes after 8 seconds, but increase its initial dmg by 50% and it slows by 25% instead of 5% initially.
-n’zoth, unshakled: N’zoth now stays for 30 seconds, and all his abillities gain 30% dmg .
-touch of azhara: increase range of basic attacks by 1.7 and trait now reduces armor by 15% + 10% per attack, stacks to 60% only.
-Vision of death:
after 300 AA, gain all three lvl 20 talents, and gain the other ult in return (seperate CD)
Overview:
Azhara is a VERY unique charachter in the sense that her power comes from her AA and talents for the majority of it. unlike charachters which are mediocrely balanced with talents, azhara's talents are very diverse since , like alarak, can adapt to the situations of the game with her choice of talents. the key to unlock her as an extremely powerful force on the battlefield is basic AAs, but to know what talents to choose and the skill that comes with timing her attacks can provide you with an advantage to your allies. a bad player, however, will be an extreme hinderence to the team as they will not unlock her talents and will not use them properly. she can modify her talents to punish tanks, or to hinder the entire enemy team as a whole, or to simply dish out extreme damage. the hardest part is early game, which is the key point in the game. the more you AA early game, the easier it will be to unlock the stornger talents. her weakness is not in the fact that she relies on teammates, but its because her escape is narrowed to AA. in lvl 16, you can choose powerful survivabillity talents to make you a bit more tanky against her hard counters such as genji and greymane. her basic abillities aren't this hard hitting to make it much more of a challenge to hit the enemy with AA, especially since her E and Q are all about keeping divers at bay. so unlike the butcher or valla, Azhara is more powerful the more you AA, making her a high floor high ceiling skill hero. she counters tanks and melee heroes especially well, but in your rush to AA, dont forget that she has absolutely no way to escape a heavy dive aside from her activatable and basic abillities, which are weak. so engage at the right time, and disegage early when the situation isnt good. maximizing her effectiveness can bring whole comps to void with her corruption.THE END! WHADDYA THINK ?