Tyrande Build Guide “Feel the wrath of the Heavens!”

Tyrande is a ranged Healer that offers an exceptional amount of utility. She is capable of providing vision for the rest of her team, healing wounded teammates, and disrupting enemy Heroes by Stunning and Slowing them. Tyrande is a very versatile Hero which allows her to adapt to the course of the game very well. Her strong crowd control and her ability to keep track of the enemy team's movements make up for her low Health pool and lack of mobility.

Strengths

• Sentinel is a useful scouting Ability
• Lunar Flare works incredibly well with other crowd control Abilities
• Hunter's Mark significantly increases her team's damage when focusing on a single enemy target
• Great single target healing
• Access to a low-cooldown cleanse effect at Level 16

Weaknesses

• Lacks any form of escape ability
• Bad waveclear
• High learning curve
• Requires a lot of map awareness
• very susceptible to dives

Ranger Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4 ?

Level 7 ? ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ?

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Tyrande's Ranger Build is completely focused on maximizing her Sentinel's power. While Ranger and Empower add some decent extra damage to Sentinel, Harsh Moonlight will greatly reduce the damage and Movement Speed of up to two enemies. After Level 13, Sentinel can be used either to peel teammates, to engage enemies, or to Slow down fleeing Heroes so your allies can easily finish them.

Standard Build

Situational

Level 1 ?

Level 4

Level 7 ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16 ?

Level 20 ?

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The Standard Build does not focus on any of Tyrande's Abilities. Elune's Chosen will increase her healing capabilities greatly, while talents like Lunar Blaze and Harsh Moonlight increases her playmaking and follow up potential. At level 10, Shadowstalk is the default pick, but in maps like Volskaya Foundry or Infernal Shrines, Starfall can be a good option, and is excellent against heavy melee compositions. At level 16, consider picking Celestial Attunement against crowd controls, otherwise, go for Empower.

Hunter Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4 ?

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16 ?

Level 20 ?

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Tyrande's Hunter Build is based on providing good sustain healing and damage to your team. The Level 4 and Level 7 Talents are excellent if you are able to attack without being punished. Mostly, your Hunter's Mark should be used on the opposing team's Tank to heal your frontline while damaging their whole team. Furthermore, it is important to be aware of when your frontline is engaging to use Trueshot Aura and the refreshed Hunter's Mark to follow up.

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Tyrande synergizes with

Tyrande synergizes very well with Tanks like Diablo, E.T.C., or Varian, whose initiation Abilities lay a perfect foundation for Lunar Flare's Stun effect. In order to get the most efficiency out of those so-called crowd control chains, make sure to wait carefully until the respective Tanks engage and then follow up with Lunar Flare. Burst-heavy Mages like Li-Ming can greatly capitalize on Tyrande's Hunter's Mark Armor Reduction, allowing them to take down enemies much faster.

Tyrande is countered by

Tyrande struggles against heavy dive Heroes, that can easily reach her, such as Anub'arak or Maiev. Despite that, since Tyrande lacks AoE healing, she also suffers against Heroes like Fenix or Lunara, that can damage all of her team at the same time.

Tyrande's stronger maps

Tyrande's average maps

Tyrande's weaker maps

None

Tyrande is great on smaller maps like Dragon Shire or Tomb of the Spider Queen that focus a lot on early game rotations and ganks. Thanks to Hunter's Mark and Lunar Flare, she excels at taking down enemy Heroes with other crowd control abilities. Hunter's Mark can also be applied on non-Heroic targets, such as Bosses, Immortals, or Punishers, which makes her a very powerful Hero on Battlefield of Eternity as well. She will also be excellent on maps that have minions close to her during objective, so she can refund her Cooldowns safer while healing whole team, such as Infernal Shrines or Tomb of the Spider Queen

• Use Sentinel as frequently as possible. The vision it provides helps your team in making better decisions.
• Always mind your positioning when playing Tyrande. If caught by surprise, she is an easy Hero to get taken down.
• Shadowstalk is an incredibly versatile Heroic Ability. Use it to ambush the enemy team or to cover your retreat.
• Landing Lunar Flare on moving targets requires practice and experience. Try to anticipate their movement paths and aim accordingly.
• Hunter's Mark can be used on non-Heroic targets, such as Bosses, Immortals, or Punishers, in order to kill them faster.
• To make the most out of your healing, you should be always using basic attacks. In many situations it will be dangerous to do so, and you should be waiting for enemy tank to use his Abilities to start delivering Basic Attacks.
• Starfall will greatly reduce Light of Elune's Cooldown. Be ready to use it quickly to not waste any healing.
• All of Light of Elune's charges are refilled together, so you can have 1 charge left and start attacking. Use it right before the Cooldown comes back again, giving you 3 uses of the Ability. This is mostly useful against burst damage to surprise your enemies.
• Since Sentinel resets on a kill, it is excellent to use it on dying or fleeing targets, being even better if you picked Ranger at Level 1, as you can hit an enemy several times in a fight with its pierce.

Tyrande's potent defensive and offensive skills make her one of the most flexible Heroes in the game that fits into many team compositions. Although she does not have the strongest of early game healing, Light of Elune provides a useful low-cooldown healing Ability that will assist your allies in need, while Lunar Flare is a very nice follow-up Stun that can be chained with other crowd control Abilities.

Tyrande, furthermore, thrives against team compositions that rely on crowd control, since her Celestial Attunement Talent at Level 16 can be used to quickly remove impairing effects and thus has outstanding saving potential when death timers become dangerously long. Besides, Sentinel greatly improves your team's vision which is useful on every Maps in order to act and react to your enemies' movements. Another aspect that makes Tyrande a very strong pick is her ability to increase all damage dealt to a single enemy Hero by 15% for 4 seconds using Hunter's Mark. This allows her and her teammates to focus and kill priority targets (whether it is an enemy Hero or a neutral Objective) a lot faster, especially if her team has good communication.