Gall Talents

Level	Choices
1	? ✓ ✘︎
4	✓ ✘︎ ✘︎
7	✘︎ ? ✓
10	? ✓
13	? ✘︎ ✓
16	✓ ✘︎ ✘︎
20	? ? ✘︎ ✓

Keep Moving! competes with Taskmaster, in that they both seek to improve Shove in some way. Keep Moving! does so offensively by providing a small increase to the duration of the Movement Speed increase effect provided by Shove, granted Cho is attacking. In general, Taskmaster will be a good choice, but Keep Moving! will be rather impactful if you are looking to disengage or to chase enemies in a fight, instead of being used to dodge some Abilities.

Taskmaster significantly reduces the cooldown of Shove, allowing it to be used more than twice as often in some cases. The Talent is particularly effective against fast attackers such as Tracer.

We See You! provides a notable yet unnecessary cooldown reduction to Eye of Kilrogg. The range increase is less than useful under most circumstances.

Rising Dread improves the flexibility of Dread Orb by allowing you to orient its third bounce more accurately. While only modestly useful against Heroes, Rising Dread significantly increases Gall's PvE damage output, particularly when combined with Twilight Nova. Against Heroes, Rising Dread's true power is unlocked with Leaden Orb, allowing two consecutive Stuns.

Both Runic Persistence and Bomb's Away add a modest amount of damage to Runic Blast. The two Talents suffer from poor synergy with Gall's other Talents however, making them less powerful in the long run.

Edge of Madness competes with Double Trouble, in that they both seek to improve Shadowflame in some way. Whereas Edge of Madness offers more damage potential than an unstacked Double Trouble, the latter becomes much more powerful later on due to its synergy with Searing Shadows and Shadowsnare. Double Trouble does require the Gall player to be very well coordinated with the Cho player, as Consuming Blaze needs to be used for stacks. In short, pick Double Trouble with Searing Shadows to counter teams featuring multiple Heroes with high maximum Health.

Ogre Rampage is a straightforward and fairly powerful damage increase for Gall, provided you can maintain Ogre Rage up. Rarely a bad choice.

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.

Shadow Bolt Volley provides a good single-target damage option to Cho'gall that can easily change the tides of a teamfight. However, with Dread Orb's Build, Cho wants to be constantly disrupting and poking enemies, to then walk forward to finish them, and for that objective, Twisting Nether is a better Heroic.

Twisting Nether's crowd control is an excellent addition to Cho'gall's fighting style, by allowing Cho to constantly hit enemies with Basic Attacks (which will be extremely strong in some builds), to then end their suffering with a high burst damage. Although the Slow is relatively strong, it requires Gall to stop dealing damage through his other Abilities to be maintained, which is counterproductive. To better take value of this Heroic, use it as soon as you use your Abilities, since the cooldowns will be running during the channel, thus without reducing Gall's damage output.

Searing Shadows's purpose is to punish high-Health Heroes. Effective against teams featuring multiple Heroes with high maximum Health, but unfortunately cannot compare to Twilight Nova's power.

Psychotic Break provides a modest increase to Gall's damage and makes dying slightly less backbreaking for Cho'gall. It does compete with excellent Talents however, making it difficult to recommend.

Twilight Nova, when combined with Rising Dread, turns Gall into an outstanding PvE damage-dealer. This allows Cho'gall to very quickly raze Structures or claim Bosses. Further, the additional bombs make Dread Orb much more difficult to avoid for opponents.

Leaden Orb synergises directly with Rising Dread and Twilight Nova to cause repeated Stuns in a large area of effect. Extemely disruptive.

Deafening Blast provides Cho'gall with a reliable long-range interruption tool. The Talent has notable synergy with Cho's Runic Feedback Talent, allowing you to launch Silencing bombs at a rather quick pace. However, again, due to the disparity between Dread Orb's Talents and others, we cannot recommend Deafening Blast.

Shadowsnare provides Cho'gall with something his Ability set sorely lacks: a strong and reliable Slow. However, it is overshadowed by two significantly more powerful crowd control options

Shadowfury greatly increase Gall's damage in a fight. While Shadow Bolt Volley can deal a massive amount of single target damage, this Talent allows this damage to be dealt to several targets, but, most importantly, to key backline targets that would otherwise be covered by teammates.

Shifting Nether provides Cho'gall with some instantaneous combat mobility, allowing you to much more reliably secure Twisting Nether hits without the use of Cho's Upheaval Heroic Ability. It can also be used to dodge some area of effect crowd control effects, like Leoric's Buried Alive.

The Will of Gall has some powerful offensive implication, but becomes available too late to truly see a significant amount of stacks, and thus, be impactful.

Twilight Frenzy can be used alongside Rising Dread and Leaden Orb to practically chain-Stun a given target and otherwise cause much disruption. There are two important things you should not be doing with this Talent:

1. Never use it after using your Abilities, since it will only reduce the cooldown after using it, and you will be wasting the whole Talent by doing that.
2. Do not use your Heroic Ability during Twilight Frenzy's effects, or you will completely waste the Talent.