I am a little addicted to the ‘dings!’ associated with Morales’ level 1 grenade talent. Additionally poking the enemy with grenades just feels so damn incredible. I’ve been playing Morales for so long, that there are many times where I know where the enemy is going to walk before even they do. This leads to me shooting the grenade at no obvious target AND THEN THE ENEMY WALKS INTO THE PATH OF THE GRENADE.
The only time I don’t run grenade build is when I’m playing with Nova. Its one thing to lose Kel’Thuzad a stack, or to ruin a max size orb from Li-Ming, its another thing entirely to potentially reset a teammates stacks to zero. Imagine if grenading someone reset Butcher’s meat to zero!
I enjoy Morales a lot. Over time she crept up the charts, and is now my most played character. I don’t have much desire to play anyone else, Morales just FITS really well, I love the sci-fi soldier aesthetic, and her medevac ultimate makes me feel like a strategic genius at times. Just recently my team hard shoved bot while the objective was appearing up top, and when the enemy showed up to stop us from taking a tower we just flew to the objective and took it without contest! (Well, almost. There was an Abathur who looked like he REALLY wanted to slap me to stop the channel, but then Nova showed up and he started screaming for his gods).
I am happy. Morales is fun, I just can’t get enough of her. Also the green apothecary skin is the best.
Haha, love to see it. Morales is my “relax” pick, and I almost always go grenade, even if there’s a Nova.
You should check out this thread where I argue that grenade isn’t a trap talent.
Some people will say you can’t carry in the game. Others will say you can carry, but will often make Morales the exception. Which I find ridiculous. She’s not like the best, but she empowers her team just fine if you’re competent with her, even if your team isn’t good.
She’s pretty much the only hero in the game that doesn’t have some power spike or wombocombo condition for killing an enemy hero.
Her selfsustain is conditional, her mobility is limited, and her resources can be depeleted sooner than other heroes.
Her contributions are very narrow, very specialized, and if you try solo carrying in an inbalanced ai game (ie unreliable allies vs normal enemies) she is going to have a significantly harder time than any other hero pick due to her limited contributution and reliance on another enabling hero.
Who needs a power spike if you can do your job without one (Though her latest talent overhaul actually boosted the power level of many of her talents)?
Her self sustain is conditional on the very role she is designed for and use most often. If people deviate from that role, of course your ability to carry will be much less.
Her resources depleting is only really an issue if you don’t know how to manage her resources intelligently. It really has nothing to do with her ability to carry.
A lot of heroes lack mobility, that’s not entirely unique.
Morales is always going to be useful so long as healing is important in this game, which it is. If you actually focus on her role, she can still carry, and yes, that includes stupid AI too. If anything, when I’ve played Morales against AI, I can almost permanently push without needing to back because of her resource mechanic compared to other heroes or healers.
I don’t play Morales I just know to Mocus Forales, obviously.
I mainly heal with Uther or Malf with a handful of others sprinkled in if I can’t pick them or they seem like a bad pick. My healer rosters probably my weakest so I’m down to learn a new hero if the information is spoon fed to me.
Fancy writing a small guide to Morales Volun? Best talents (guessing grenade based on this conversation), when she’s a good/bad pick, when to pick which ult, general tips etc.
As i’m too lazy to research it atm i fully understand if you don’t want to lol.
Yeah, I rarely tell people how to pick their talents. Just do what works for you. She doesn’t really have any bad talents anymore imo. The only one I caution on picking is Safe Zone because offensive medivac is incredibly hard to pull off/position successfully.
I tend to only chime in when people start saying X talent sucks, when it doesn’t. Talents like Clear! and Medivac will often get scapegoated for being bad or too “reliant” on allies or whatever BS.
An explanation of why here:
Morales really comes down to her base kit mechanics. If you suck at that, or if you try to be some kind of wave clearing duelist who doesn’t look after allies (whether they suck or not), it doesn’t really matter all that much about what talents you pick. This is why Fan is terrible at her even though he is generally really good at the game. He doesn’t understand her Regen, how to utilize her base kit on ALLIES, or how to triage.
You can check out these posts which have some tips about how to play her.
And here:
As for when to pick her, you can pick her against almost any comp. The only times where it’s an issue is if you pick her against heavy AOE teams, or barrel rolling Chen. Or I guess against multiple sticky melee heroes and you don’t have much peel on your team. But even then, with Medivac, you can probably survive.
Stim targets are completely irrelevant in my decision making for Morales, I don’t care if I have a Valla, I’m still picking Medivac probably.
Man this is one of the many reason I hate this hero she is number one on my healer ick list! I know Deckard and Auriel can have this problem but at least you have until 10 before Deckard becomes a pain and it’s encouraged for Auriel players to try to wall stun a target and both healers have something to make up for their derp player playing them.
Morales is very bad with AoE healing, so spamming of grenades with a damage debuff helpeth much. I do the same thing with Tyrande when I take an owl at 1 and 13, plus the Starfall. I don’t remember if I already said that I consider buffs the one of most powerful mechanics in the game after stuns.
