I’ve been getting into Nova a lot in the past couple months, so here’s my favorite build:
- (1) Covert Ops
- Mana cost reduction and extra movement speed slow is so godly I’m surprised how rare other Nova players take this talent
- The only con about this talent is that it forces you to stay in stealth for an unreasonably long time just to gain the talent benefits, which is why I proposed in this thread, to lower the time delay before W is upgraded from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
- (4) Rapid Projection OR Covert Mission
- Former gives Holy Decoy (E) more versatility
- Latter is great if you can snag kills and if you can build up the stacks
- Bribe also AMAZING in ARAM on the Diablo and StarCraft maps
- (7) Anti-Armor Shells
- Nova is a single target range assassin and this talent further improves her performance in that field and offers underrated utility to your allies that can benefit from physical armor reduction
- (10) Precision Strike
- Way more versatile and more useful
- (13) Ionic Force Field
- Grants Nova more resilience so she can be more aggressive in her positioning and synergizes really well with Apollo Suit at 20
- (16) Crippling Shot
- Nova is all about single target burst damage, why not improve that? Even more potent with the Level 1 talent in my build
- (20) Precision Barrage OR Rewind
- Former if my team needs more macro in late game
- Generally like taking this talent on BoE if enemy shaman camp is pushing onto our keep and needs to be cleared asap. No problem, lemme just press R and profit while my team continues to win the objective because that camp just got NULLIFIED.
- Latter if former’s reason is not needed in the game
- Former if my team needs more macro in late game
I love that talent. It just provides so much more utility for your team and makes you’re AA damage on par with untalented Snipe. It’s that good. ![]()
I take that talent in almost all of my Nova games because it gives you more independence from your team, which suits Nova’s gameplay and general playstyle.