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Rehgar Build Guide “To the Arena!”
Welcome to our guide for Rehgar, a Healer 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.
Rehgar's Overview
Rehgar is a Healer
with solid waveclear,
the ability to clear Mercenary Camps on his own,
and a powerful Trait to counter crowd control
effects: 
Purge.
Rehgar's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Capable of clearing Mercenary Camps on his own very quickly- High waveclear
- Option to use
Ghost Wolf for in-combat mobility
Weaknesses
Lack of single-target sustain healing- No access to hard crowd control and interrupts
- Low range on
Purge to save allied Heroes without risk
Rehgar's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Earthbind Totem Build
Recommended
Rehgar's Earthbind Totem Build consists of various tools that can increase the survivability of your teammates: from more healing for allied Heroes to damage reduction effects for enemy Heroes.
Grounded Totem at Level 7,
combined with Colossal Totem at Level 1,
turns Earthbind Totem
into a powerful damage reduction Ability.
Hybrid Build
Situational
Rehgar's Hybrid Build is not the best when it comes to healing output but it offers various tools to increase your survivability, save allied Heroes from burst damage, and even crowd control enemy Heroes.
Your opponents will have a hard time choosing their target
because your teammates will be valid targets for
Purification at Level 7
and you will have extra survivability
from 
Feral Heart at Level 1.
Lightning Shield Build
SituationalRehgar's Lighting Shield Build can be used to increase the survivability
of melee Heroes (such as Illidan) by putting 
Lightning Shield
(empowered with various Talents) on them while they are fighting enemy Heroes.
Thanks to Rising Storm at Level 16,
the Hero affected by Lightning Shield
will be healed more by Electric Charge at Level 4.
The range provided by Stormcaller at Level 1 helps
getting value from these Talents.
ARAM Build
ARAMRehgar's ARAM Build consists of various tools that can increase the survivability of your teammates: from more healing for allied Heroes to damage reduction effects for enemy Heroes.
Grounded Totem at Level 7,
combined with Colossal Totem at Level 1,
turns Earthbind Totem
into a powerful damage reduction Ability.
Rehgar's Synergies and Counters
Rehgar synergizes with
Rehgar is a strong enabler for Bruisers
(such as Sonya) and Melee Assassins
(for example Illidan) because they benefit a lot from his whole kit:
Lightning Shield is great on them,
Ancestral Healing can be used to keep them alive,
and 
Bloodlust provides them mobility, damage, and survivability.
Rehgar is countered by
Due to his limited single-target sustain healing, Rehgar is not that good against poke compositions who can whittle down a single target (usually the Tank) with constant damage.
Although he is great against burst-compositions,
some of them will have access to healing reduction effects
(notably 
Biotic Grenade by Ana),
which can partially or completely shut down his main anti-burst tool
when timed correctly: Ancestral Healing.
Rehgar's Maps
Rehgar is particularly good on Maps where macro is important (such as Sky Temple) as he can capture most Mercenary Camps on his own.
Due to his limited amount of sustain healing, especially when the damage is concentrated on a single target, Rehgar does suffer on Maps where there is constant action (notably Braxis Holdout).
Rehgar's Tips and Tricks
- Rehgar is surprisingly good at clearing Mercenary Camps all by himself.
Lightning Shield can be cast on 
Earthbind Totem to damage Minion waves from a safe distance.- Using Ghost Wolf's empowered Basic Attacks while fighting enemy Heroes or clearing Mercenary Camps increases your damage output significantly.
- It is better to cast
Ancestral Healing too early than too late. The more the enemy focuses on killing a single target of your team, the earlier you should cast Ancestral Healing on them.
Rehgar's Role in the Current Meta
Rehgar is a Healer with solid waveclear and the powerful ability within his Role to clear Mercenary Camps on his own.
Most of his power in team fights comes from his Heroic Ability:
Ancestral Healing or Bloodlust.
For this reason, he does not excel in skirmishes
between consecutive Objectives during the early game.
Changelog
- 17 Dec. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 17 Dec. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 21 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 21 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 30 Mar. 2022 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 30 Mar. 2022 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 30 Mar. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 03 Feb. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Jan. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 28 Jan. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 09 Dec. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 09 Dec. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 07 Dec. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
- 07 Dec. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
- 07 Dec. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
- 21 Apr. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 21 Apr. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 22 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 22 Mar. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 10 Nov. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 10 Nov. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 25 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Builds and Descriptions updated.
- 25 Oct. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 23 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Builds modified to reflect the current metagame.
- 23 Jul. 2020 (this page): Builds modified to reflect the current metagame.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (talents page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (abilities page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (this page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 08 May 2020 (abilities page): Descriptions changed according to the current metagame.
- 08 May 2020 (this page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the current metagame.
- 04 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Talent Build partially 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.
- 04 Apr. 2020 (this page): Introduction partially revised to match new standards.
- Talent Build Cheatsheet updated to reflect the current metagame.
- Role in the Current Meta modified to remove the unnecessary part about the now fixed Experience Globes.
- 15 Dec. 2019 (this page): Updated Role in the Current Meta to include information on current Nexus Anomaly.
- 28 Nov. 2019 (talents page): Updated talents to reflect balance patch.
- 28 Nov. 2019 (this page): Updated talents to reflect balance patch.
- 30 Aug. 2019 (talents page): Updated talents to reflect balance patch; Updated recommended talents and builds to reflect current meta.
- 30 Aug. 2019 (abilities page): Reviewed Ability Section following balance patch.
- 30 Aug. 2019 (this page): Updated talents to reflect balance patch; Updated recommended talents and builds to reflect current meta.
- 12 Jul. 2019 (talents page): Updated talents to reflect balance patch; Updated recommended talents and builds to reflect current meta.
- 12 Jul. 2019 (abilities page): Reviewed Ability Section
- 12 Jul. 2019 (this page): Updated recommended builds to reflect current meta.
- 18 Apr. 2019 (talents page): Updated Rehgar's Level 16 talents and talent builds in accordance with the latest Balance Update. Rising Storm is now Recommended.
- 12 Feb. 2019 (talents page): Updated Rehgar's talents and builds in accordance with the latest patch.
- 12 Feb. 2019 (abilities page): Updated Ancestral Healing's description in accordance with the latest patch.
- 12 Feb. 2019 (this page): Updated Rehgar's introduction page.
- 30 Nov. 2017 (talents page): Changed Wolf Run from Situational to Recommended.
- 28 Nov. 2017 (talents page): Removed Lightning Bond from Rehgar's talents following the latest balance patch.
- 15 Dec. 2016 (talents page): Updated a number of tooltips and explanations following Ragnaros patch, but no changes were made to the talent recommendations.
- 15 Dec. 2016 (abilities page): Updated Bloodlust description following the changes in Ragnaros patch.
- 15 Dec. 2016 (this page): Added a new Bloodlust build.
- 29 Nov. 2016 (this page): Moved Rehgar to the new guide format.
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