Chromie Talents

Level	Choices
1	? ? ✓
2	? ✓ ?
5	? ? ✓
8	✓ ✓
11	✓ ✘︎ ?
14	✓ ✘︎ ?
18	✘︎ ? ✓ ✘︎

Once Again the First Time's stacking Quest is relatively easy and quick to complete and provides a nice bonus to Chromie's damage thanks to the second echo. This Talent synergizes well with Chromie's Level 18 Talent Piercing Sands as the Echoes benefit from it as well.

Timewalker's Pursuit provides Chromie with an early level damage increase that transitions well into the late game as well. The reduced time of arming Chromie's traps can help you make more impactful plays with them. The reveal is a nice side bonus to this Talent and can definitely help out scouting ambushes or if the enemy team is working on a Mercenary Camp.

Deep Breathing increases the damage output of your Dragon's Breath and is fairly easy to complete. After completing the quest, Chromie gets a huge bonus to cooldown reduction and the Mana reduction is a nice touch to the Talent, allowing Chromie to use more Abilities before having to go back.

Time Troubles is an amazing Talent. Reducing enemy Heroes' Armor can never be underestimated as it automatically buffs all damage done by your allies on that target as well.

Andorhal Anomaly adds a lot more crowd control to Chromie's kit, especially if the enemy team features multiple hard-engaging threats.

Chronic Conditions can provide a nice bonus if your team is not bursty enough to benefit from Time Troubles where the Slow can help out setting up plays instead.

A Proper Greeting is the best choice here as it is easy to activate and provides a 25% additional overall damage, compared to Bronze Talons which only increases your Basic Attack damage.

Bronze Talons is weaker than A Proper Greeting, however it has some use if you are facing an enemy Hero like Tracer, where the Basic Attack damage increase is can be very useful.

Mobius Loop is a huge increase to Dragon's Breath power. With Mobius Loop, it becomes more important to carefully aim your Dragon's Breath so that you are certain to hit the enemy with the center for the damage bonus, while the slow will help with hitting them with all three waves.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

Slowing Sands is a great choice on Maps that feature several choke points like Cursed Hollow or Towers of Doom. Besides, Slowing Sands gains a lot of value if the enemy team composition consists of multiple melee and low-range Heroes, which will likely stay close to each other during team fights. It is of utmost importance, however, to remember to manually re-cast the Ability depending on the enemy team's location.

Temporal Loop allows Chromie to execute deadly burst damage against a single trapped target. In order to successfully do that, however, you need to carefully watch the timer on Temporal Loop. As soon as the little clock shows less than 40% of the remaining time, you should start casting Dragon's Breath followed by Sand Blast. Keep in mind that Temporal Loop can also be cast defensively to trap an engaging Melee Assassin or Tank in order for Chromie to escape. Never pick this Talent if the enemy team has something to counter it. Cleanse effects which make their target Unstoppable will completely deny Temporal Loop's displacement effect, but only if timed so that they are active exactly at the end, when the effect actually goes off.

Gnome Speed Ahead! has virtually no drawbacks, since Chromie does not even have to successfully land Sand Blast in order to benefit from the Movement Speed and Regeneration effects.

Time Out is a reliable defense tool against bursty enemy team compositions that feature multiple mobile Assassins. If your survival cannot be guaranteed, Time Out may just be the Talent you need in order to survive.

Here and There is a rather bad Talent compared to the other two, due to always having to keep up with where your echoes are, however, it does see some use if you are facing heavy-dive Heroes such as Tracer, Illidan, or Zeratul, but even then, Time Out would be a better choice.

Shifting Sands is a great Talent, especially if your planned Build features other Talents to empower Sand Blast. Even if not, Shifting Sands provides decent value, since you should be able to hit enemy Heroes during team fights quite easily.

Quantum Overdrive can be a great damage boost if your team has plenty of crowd control at their disposal. This guarantees some good hits with Sand Blast and Dragon's Breath while Quantum Overdrive is active.

Fast Forward is too unimpactful to make it a worthwhile investment. While the cooldown reduction (if it applies in the first place) is nice to have, the additional damage provided by either of the other Level 14 Talents is too important to give up when it comes to bursting down enemy targets in the late game.

Blessing of the Bronze is a very bad choice compared to Piercing Sands. Blessing of the Bronze has too small of a visual indicator (no one on your team will know you used it), and Chromie has to stay alive during it's effect. Since you are the damage dealer and you want to burst down squishy enemy Heroes, Piercing Sands is always the way to go.

Piercing Sands greatly amplifies Chromie's damage output, especially against teams that consist of multiple melee Heroes who tend to clump up during team fights. This Talent turns Chromie into a monster and allows her to nuke out the enemy backline through the frontline, making nobody safe from her Sand Blasts. This Talent also affects the Sand Blasts from your echoes.

Unravelling provides Chromie with higher damage the longer enemies remain in Slowing Sands. This is certainly not a bad thing, however, since the Ability can be avoided, it is a rather unreliable Level 18 investment.

Stuck in a Loop is an interesting Talent, since it causes Temporal Loop to teleport the trapped target twice. It also allows Chromie to use more Abilities during Temporal Loop due to it happening twice. For a Sand Blast Build it is still recommended to get Piercing Sands, but Stuck in a Loop does see a lot of use in the Dragon's Breath Build.