Greymane Build Guide “I am the alpha!”

Greymane is a Ranged Assassin that thrives on aggression. With an unusual ability to transform into a melee Hero to temporarily reveal a different set of Abilities, Greymane offers unparalleled versatility in terms of damage-dealing. His lack of defensive Abilities and Talents and limited utility, however, may spell his downfall... in the hands of an unprepared player.

Strengths

• Outstanding on-demand burst damage
• Excellent PvE damage output
• Potent duelist
• Flexible pick that can work in almost all compositions
• Decent waveclear

Weaknesses

• Offers zero utility beyond raw damage
• Low survivability albeit having a reasonably-sized Health pool
• Particularly weak when playing "from behind"

Attack Build

Recommended

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Greymane's Basic Attack Build revolves around improving his Basic Attacks and thus sustained damage output. Although it provides less waveclear and burst damage than its counterpart, it provides Greymane with more consistent sustain damage.

Executioner greatly increases Greymane's damage, and should be the pick in most games where you have any kind of crowd control. If you do not have many Abilities to trigger Executioner in your team, Alpha Killer is a great option for more power in teamfights, while Eager Wolf is better in the PvE.

Worgen Build

Situational

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Greymane's Worgen Build, as the name suggests, is totally focused on dealing high damage as a Worgen. This build may not have the reliability provided by Quicksilver Bullets, but it has a much better kill potential and higher burst damage in melee form.

Considering this build has several Talents that require Greymane to play as Worgen in fights, it is much riskier to use. We do not recommend using this Build against Team Compositions with good single target damage and several crowd control tools to punish you. Otherwise, this build provides an excellent chase potential, dive capability, and a good way to dodge skillshots with Unfettered Assault.

Cocktail Build

Situational

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Greymane's Cocktail Build focuses on dealing high damage to the opposing team's backline. Differently from Greymane's other builds, this one does not have a good early game, as it will only be useful after stacking Incendiary Elixir. However, once stacked, Greymane will start to deal massive damage in fights.

Gilnean Cocktail requires an enemy in front of a Hero to actually damage them. For this reason, we only recommend this build on maps with several Minions or Monsters where fights happen, such as Infernal Shrines or Tomb of the Spider Queen.

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Greymane synergizes with

Greymane's excellent damage output scales well with anything that might improve his Attacks or give him extra resistance during Worgen form. Otherwise, strong initiation and team fight presence goes a long way to opening windows of opportunity for him to pick off Heroes that are out of position. He also has a good synergy with Malthael, as Cursed Bullet is excellent with Last Rites.

Greymane is countered by

As an Assassin with a rather telegraphed play style, Greymane is very vulnerable to any form of targeted crowd control. Given that his Basic Attacks are his main source of damage, he is also greatly hindered by any form of debuff that might blind him or reduce his Attack speed.

Greymane's stronger maps

Greymane's average maps

Greymane's weaker maps

None

Greymane's outstanding single-target DPS makes him particularly potent on Maps where there are multiple Mercenary Camps to be captured. Beyond this point, Greymane's relative relative well-roundedness does not make him particularly effective or weak anywhere, although his lack of self sustain might make him unsuited to offlane against some of the better duelists.

• Use Minions, Summons and Structures to trigger Gilnean Cocktail's increased cone damage against Heroes.
• Inner Beast's duration can be increased by attacking anything — not just Heroes.
• Razor Swipe is useful for quickly avoiding skillshots and area of effect Abilities.
• A marker appears above Heroes that would die to Go for the Throat's damage.
• Cursed Bullet should not be used as a poke tool. It is extremely important to have it ready to follow up an engage on any character, as its damage is essential for the kill.
• Darkflight's Cooldown runs while Greymane is in Worgen form. Cursed Bullet can be used during that form to become Human, allowing Greymane to instantly use Darkflight again.
• Greymane gets 10 Armor during Worgen form. Use it to take less damage from unavoidable spells, like Pyroblast.
• If you are not in Melee range from your target, Go for the Throat can be used to give you 1-4 frames of unstoppable, removing blinds affecting you.
• During a blind, you cannot refresh Inner Beast's duration through Basic Attacks. At that moment, you should use an Ability to not lose the Attack Speed buff (assuming you picked Viciousness at Level 1).

Greymane's melee-ranged hybrid archetype allows him to benefit from both the safety of Ranged Assassin and the raw damage output of melee Assassins. While this allows him to perform well in any given situation, Greymane will never outperform "pure" ranged or melee damage dealers at their best. This flexibility also comes at the cost of utility — Greymane offers zero options for crowd control, and has absolutely no means of healing himself. These factors make him particularly reliant on teamplay to succeed.

In general, he tends to do well against team compositions that feature multiple ranged Heroes, and more particularly, "mage"-like Heroes, who tend to be weak against aggressive melee Heroes. If several reliable tools for crowd control are available to your opponents, it may be wise to look into another ranged Assassin to take up Greymane's spot, as he is not particularly strong when Worgen form can not be reliably or safely utilised.