Possible future Valeera main here. So far I have a 62% winrate on Valeera, but still feels like I’m lacking some skills in some places. Any tips in general to improve with Valeera? I can also share my experience with her so far.
Maybe will be useful.
You don’t need stealth to walk closer to enemies right? They can see you anyway and try to get you out of stealth with skill shots just to deny your opener. Wouldn’t it be a lot better if you just move towards them on your mount, without stealth so you can enter stealth when you want to use your opener? Like this it’s impossible that your opener will be denied.
Stealth is good if you don’t want to be seen on the minimap or for preparing an ambush with complete invisibility.
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Honestly? Play a better hero. As a long time Valeera main, blizzard does not care about her and won’t make her viable any time soon. She’s just a noobstomper who punishes bad drafts. She is not and will never be good enough. She’s useless against competent players. Don’t bother.
I expected some tips from you, what a shame.
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For me, I feel like Valeera doesn’t need any changes or buffs. I came from League and climbed to Diamond with mostly Evelynn, another stealth hero. Valeera suffers the same problem as Evelynn does too: easily detectable in higher ranks, enemy drafting comps specifically to counter you, depending on bad picks, etc. Of course over the past years of playing Evelynn, I developed specific ways to counter the counters, and most applies to Valeera as well. The problem is Valeera’s skill set is different from Evelynn, and I am still adjusting to the transition from League to HotS, so I’m still trying to improve, despite the challenges ^^.
Sadly, the only way to counter the counters that HailFall has developed is making crying threads here.
As people said before, you should usually save your trait to use right before an opener, otherwise you could just lose your stealth and then you can’t do much.
Abathur is a great hero to play with Valeera. When you have an Abathur on your team, you can roam around getting kills very easily, even on tanks.
Q build is really really good. You can 100-0 almost any hero with it.
I’m still used to using stealth and jumping onto the backline, although I usually wait for the enemy to use their cooldowns then jumping on top of them.
Q build is always my go to but I’ll go energy build if I have to stay for extended fights.
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You guys know valeera openers have a melee range for first 3 seconds right? So what u gonna do, walk up unstealthed to their backlines? Mount or no mount you’re not going to reach any hero without dying
You don’t walk up to their backline with any hero though. You always focus whoever is out of position, no matter who it is. It can even be the tank.
The only situation where you dive the backline is when your whole comp is meant to do that. Let’s say you have Tyrael, genji, kharazim, blaze and ming. You go in with tyrael genji khara, followed by ming spells then sanct, then blaze stun + bunker. Get the kill, reset, keep going or get out.
My experience with valeera in most teamfights is, I spend the whole teamfight waiting for someone to get out of position while my team 4v5s. And because my team is getting rekt 4v5 while the enemy is comfortably outhealing the damage of our team (because there is a useless valeera which is me), the enemy team is never out of position (while my team is constantly pressured into being out of position)
We then lose the fight and I have contributed absolutely nothing to the fight.
I just don’t think asking your team to 4v5 while “waiting for someone out of position” is a good plan at all, at least not in decently high levels of play
Take a look into this:
I am lvl205 but there were still some good tips+ideas I found in this post.
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Have read that, and most other valeera guides before
Hey, if your tank don’t step up to create space for you and your team, you can’t do much. That’s why playing tank is the most difficult role. If your tank sucks, your team won’t be able to engage/follow up properly. You also can’t just dive the backline because of that. The enemy team will just peel for the person you engaged on. IF you can find someone out of position in the backline, the it’s another thing, you can definitely dive him (even if it’s just to do some minor damage) and get our to let your tank step up.