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Nazeebo Build Guide “The spirits speak to me.”
Welcome to our guide for Nazeebo, a Ranged Assassin 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.
Nazeebo's Overview
Nazeebo is a Mage able to deal a good amount of burst damage and a decent amount of sustained damage from the distance, provided with some crowd control and a high Health pool. While his damage looks decent at any stage of the game, Nazeebo becomes a real threat only in the late game.
Nazeebo's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Decent sustain damage- Good burst damage
- Zoning potential
- Unique crowd control via
Zombie Wall - High maximum Health
- Access to
Ice Block
Weaknesses
Weak early game- Zero mobility
Nazeebo's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Zombie Wall Build
Recommended
Nazeebo's Zombie Wall Build combines a bit more safety with high damage output
against enemy Heroes who cannot play around 
Zombie Wall
by using their own Abilities or with the help of allied Heroes.
The increased casting range provided by 
Thing of the Deep at Level 1
helps Nazeebo hit enemies with his Abilities—especially Zombie Wall—and
gives him extra safety at any stage of the game, unless dove.
While his early game damage is not that great, the additional Spell Power provided empowers both his Heroic Abilities, something that will compensate this little weakness during big team fights.
Corpse Spiders Build
Advanced
Nazeebo's Corpse Spiders Build focuses on 
Corpse Spiders,
which provides him with outstanding burst damage.
Choose this Build when you need to take down an enemy Hero as fast as possible, especially if they dive on your team but also when your Tank has a short-range engage that can be used to crowd control a target and allow you to easily follow-up with all of your Abilities.
Plague of Toads Build
Situational
Nazeebo's Plague of Toads Build is all about poke damage
with 
Plague of Toads, to pressure the enemy
Healer and win the team fight by attrition
without exposing too much.
If you are playing on a Map where the Objective is valuable and takes over 30 seconds to be secured by one of the teams, this Build may be an option against some team compositions who lack sustain healing and cannot engage aggressively.
ARAM Build
ARAMNazeebo's ARAM Build is all about poke damage
with Plague of Toads, to pressure the enemy
Healer and win the team fight by attrition
without exposing too much.
Nazeebo's Synergies and Counters
Nazeebo synergizes with
In order to make Nazeebo work, we recommend
picking a Marksman (such as Sylvanas) to guarantee
your team a good damage output when your Abilities are on cooldown and a
Tank who can provide crowd control
(such as Mal'Ganis) that Nazeebo will be able to follow up
with Zombie Wall. There are also some Healers
who can get value from Zombie Wall after it spawns, usually by adding crowd control
(for example Auriel using 
Detainment Strike).
Nazeebo is countered by
Nazeebo is countered by Heroes who can punish his weak
early game (such as Sylvanas that can
enable her team to push by using 
Black Arrows
to disable Structures) and he is rendered almost useless by Heroes who can
easily get out from Zombie Wall and eventually dodge
his other Abilities (for example E.T.C. can use
Face Melt to Knockback the Zombies
surrounding himself or a nearby allied Hero).
Nazeebo's Maps
Nazeebo requires to rotate between two lanes in order to
gather stacks for 
Voodoo Ritual as quickly as possible
and eventually unlock Vile Infection at Level 20.
As a consequence, he is good on Maps where it is fast and safe to rotate
between lanes (such as rotating mid-top on
Tomb of the Spider Queen)
and he should not be picked on Maps where it is impossible to rotate because there are
only 2 lanes (like Braxis Holdout),
where it is slow and/or dangerous to rotate between lanes (for example
Cursed Hollow), or on
mid-game Maps where there is a low chance to reach Level 20
(such as Sky Temple).
Nazeebo's Tips and Tricks
- If you last-hit a Minion with
Corpse Spiders, the Spiders can potentially run towards a nearby Hero. - Zombie Wall can be used to tank Structures.
- Considering that
Plague of Toads can be difficult to hit, use it on enemy Heroes coming towards you. - When the Objective is not active, focus on
Voodoo Ritual to unlock Vile Infection in the late game.
Nazeebo's Role in the Current Meta
Nazeebo is the Mage with the second highest maximum
Health (only second to Azmodan), able to deal solid amount
of burst damage and some good but avoidable
poke damage during team fights while also having high
waveclear for the laning phase.
A well-placed Zombie Wall can be a lethal
crowd control effect against many Heroes who do not
have any Ability to counter it, especially if their allied Heroes have the same
weakness.
Changelog
- 17 Dec. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 17 Dec. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 09 Oct. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 09 Oct. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 21 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 21 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Sep. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 21 Aug. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 21 Aug. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 24 Feb. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 24 Feb. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 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.
- 09 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Talent Build fully revised to match new standards.
- Talent Build and Talent Build Cheatsheet modified to reflect the current metagame.
- Talent Descriptions modified to better describe when to pick them.
- 09 Apr. 2020 (abilities page): Ability and Strategy fully revised to match new standards.
- Tips and Tricks modified to add important tips that were missing and to remove obvious ones that were not worth mentioning.
- Ability Descriptions modified to better explain how to use Abilities effectively.
- 09 Apr. 2020 (this page): Introduction fully revised to match new standards.
- Overview rewritten to better describe the Hero.
- Strengths and Weaknesses modified to give a better idea about the Hero when being played right.
- Talent Build Cheatsheet updated to reflect the current metagame.
- Synergies and Counters modified to mention notable Heroes that were missing and to remove misleading Heroes that were listed.
- Maps modified to focus on the main aspects of the Hero when evaluating a Map.
- Tips and Tricks modified to list important tips that were missing before and to delete more obvious ones.
- Role in the Current Meta modified to reflect the current metagame and to remove the unnecessary part about the now fixed Experience Globes.
- 23 Mar. 2020 (talents page): Outdated and misleading information corrected.
- 23 Mar. 2020 (abilities page): Outdated and misleading information corrected.
- 19 Dec. 2019 (talents page): Updated Thing of the Deep's description. It remains Recommended despite the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Dec. 2019 (talents page): Updated Nazeebo's Talents and removed the Spider Build.
- 03 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added the current Anomaly (Experience Globes) to the guide.
- 25 Nov. 2019 (talents page): Added Nazeebo's Zombie Build and updated his talent section in accordance with the latest Balance Update.
- 25 Jun. 2019 (talents page): Updated Nazeebo's talents and builds in accordance with the latest state of the game.
- 25 Jun. 2019 (abilities page): Updated Nazeebo's abilities in accordance with the latest in-game terminology.
- 29 Jan. 2018 (talents page): Updated the Soul Harvest description slightly.
- 23 Dec. 2017 (talents page): Added the Spider 2.0 Build and updated Spider Talents from 1 to 7 , as well as Annihilating Spirit at Level 20.
- 22 Dec. 2017 (talents page): Changed Guardian Toads from Situational to Not Recommended.
- 09 Nov. 2017 (talents page): Updated Nazeebo's talents, notably Spirit of Arachyr, Spider Colony, and Humongoid.
- 15 Oct. 2017 (talents page): Further updated Nazeebo's talents, notably Hexed Crawlers, Big Voodoo, and Soul Harvest.
- 12 Oct. 2017 (talents page): Balance patch update.
- Updated Ring of Poison description.
- Updated talent builds.
- 28 May 2017 (talents page): Changed Big Voodoo from Recommended to Not Recommended. Changed Blood Ritual from Not Recommended to Recommended and updated Talent Builds.
- 04 May 2017 (talents page): Updated Gargantuan's and Vile Infection's talent descriptions.
- 04 May 2017 (abilities page): Fixed instance where Gargantuan's cooldown had the wrong value.
- 05 Jan. 2017 (this page): Added Spider build and revisited some talent assessments.
- 28 Oct. 2016 (this page): Nazeebo rework released in the new guide format.
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Elitesparkle is a multiple times Master player in Europe who plays Heroes of the Storm since its release. He is an active member of the community who likes to teach new and veteran players all he knows about his favorite game.
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