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Welcome to our guide for Blaze, a Tank in Heroes of the Storm. Within these pages, you will find everything required to understand how best to play this hero, in both different map styles and team compositions.
Blaze's Overview
Blaze is a heavy Tank with great waveclear,
powerful crowd-control, and high survivability thanks to his
large Health pool and dependable self-sustain. Due to
Jet Propulsion having a long delay, Blaze is not good against
high-mobility Heroes (for example Tracer)
and ideally requires other Heroes to start the engage for him.
Blaze's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Outstanding ability to disrupt opponents' plans through plentiful crowd control and 
Bunker Drop- Hard to kill due to large Health pool and on-demand access to Armor
- Respectable area of effect damage potential and waveclear for a Tank
Weaknesses
Reliance on multiple skillshots that can be avoided- Fairly immobile, thus prone to be kited
- Limited burst and single-target damage output
Blaze's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Basic Attacks Build
Recommended
Blaze's Basic Attacks Build primarily empowers your waveclear while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Offlaner.
In particular, 
Incinerator Gauntlets at Level 4
makes it easier to clear Minions and Mercenaries while laning
and 
Adrenaline Stimpack at Level 1 further empowers its value
against Mercenaries while also boosting your damage against enemy Heroes.
Oil Spill Build
Situational
Blaze's Oil Spill Build primarily empowers your engage while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Tank.
In particular, the Slow increase provided by
Oil Dispersal at Level 4
makes it easier to use Oil Spill as a setup
for Jet Propulsion.
ARAM Build
ARAMBlaze's ARAM Build primarily empowers your engage while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Tank.
In particular, the Slow increase provided by
Oil Dispersal at Level 4
makes it easier to use Oil Spill as a setup
for Jet Propulsion.
Blaze's Synergies and Counters
Blaze synergizes with
Blaze's well-rounded Ability set allows him to work in most team compositions
and with most other Heroes, granted he is also picked for his anti-melee role.
Oil Spill's Slowing effect is particularly useful for improving the
uptime of Assassins, whereas most Heroes with skillshots
will find Jet Propulsion a great way of setting up for accurate hits.
Blaze is countered by
Since Blaze relies on skillshots to deal damage and on the rather
slow charge up of Jet Propulsion to initiate, he tends to
struggle offensively against highly mobile Heroes. Furthermore, his
large Health pool and limited mobility makes him particularly vulnerable to
percentage-based damage.
Blaze's Maps
Thanks to his great waveclear and good self-sustain, Blaze excels on Maps where it is possible to double-soak and does well on most Maps.
Blaze can get a lot of value from his Abilities on Maps that feature static Objectives that force opponents to fight within a specific area or in enclosed spaces (such as Infernal Shrines).
On the contrary, Blaze does not excel at dueling, therefore he does not do well on Maps where there is a Capture Point to contest in the early game (so Braxis Holdout).
Blaze's Tips and Tricks
Flame Stream fires two parallel projectiles. Hit with both to deal more damage.- An Ignited
Oil Spill will Ignite any other Oil Spills that overlap with it. 
Jet Propulsion has a long delay, so it should be used after Oil Spill.- Avoid staying too long in Bunker Drop if unnecessary. Press the R key or right-click near it to exit.
Combustion prevents you from casting other Abilities while it is being channeled.- The cooldown of
Pyromania is reduced when hitting enemy Heroes with Flame Stream.
Blaze's Role in the Current Meta
Blaze is a niche Tank that excels at disrupting aggressive melee Heroes
and a solid Offlaner that excels at double-soaking.
Sometimes 
Bunker Drop is the main reason why Blaze is being picked
because it can be used to counter many Heroic Abilities (for example
Temporal Loop by Chromie) when used on yourself
or even on your teammates.
Changelog
- 17 Oct. 2024 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Oct. 2024 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Oct. 2024 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 14 Jul. 2024 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 14 Jul. 2024 (abilities page): Guide reviewed.
- 14 Jul. 2024 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 22 Sep. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Bug Fixes.
- 22 Sep. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Bug Fixes.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 30 Jan. 2022 (talents page): Builds and Talent Descriptions updated.
- 30 Jan. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 01 Mar. 2021 (abilities page): Minor fixes.
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 18 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 18 Oct. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (abilities page): Minor fixes.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 30 Aug. 2020 (this page): Role in Current Meta section updated.
- 20 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Talents and recommendations reviewed and updated.
- 15 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added a note about current Anomaly.
- 04 Jul. 2019 (this page): Guide reviewed and updated.
- 03 Jul. 2019 (talents page): Guide reviewed and updated.
- 23 May 2019 (talents page): Updated Talent discussions and recommendations following patch v2.45.1 changes.
- 03 Dec. 2018 (talents page): Updated Talent discussions and recommendations following patch v2.40.1 changes.
- 13 Mar. 2018 (talents page): Recommended build updated to better reflect metagame state.
- 09 Feb. 2018 (talents page): Recommended Talents updated to better reflect metagame state.
- 28 Jan. 2018 (talents page): Updated for patch 2.29.9.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (this page): Guide created.
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