Yrel Build Guide “Victory will be ours.”

Yrel is a resistant Bruiser who excels at creating opportunities to decide fights in her team's favor. With a variety of crowd control Abilities, she can decide to use these either defensively or offensively. Since all of her Basic Abilities come with a short wind-up time, it is extremely important to think ahead when playing Yrel in order to avoid getting interrupted or missing the right moment to strike.

Strengths

• Decent self-sustain
• Good objective or Mercenary point control with Righteous Hammer
• Strong disengage
• Good mobility thanks to Avenging Wrath
• Decent waveclear
• Can greatly reduce armor with Templar's Verdict

Weaknesses

• Very vulnerable to crowd control
• Easily runs out of mana
• Susceptible to getting kited

Bruiser Build

Recommended

Level 1 ?

Level 4

Level 7 ? ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ?

Level 16

Level 20

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The Bruiser Build is designed to make Yrel a formidable solo laner and—as the name suggests—a Bruiser. Both Dauntless and Light of Karabor will greatly increase Yrel's survivability, making sure that you have enough resistance to outlast most other Heroes in lane or at least trade evenly.

Every Talent at Level 7 is excellent in its niche.

• Divine Steed excels in double soak situations by speeding up your rotation. It is also good for Yrel to reposition herself in a team fight, so she can either play aggresively or defensively.
• Righteous Momentum will very often be the best Talent in team fights, because it not only helps Yrel to peel her allies, but it also improves her flanks with Righteous Hammer.
• Holy Avenger can greatly increase your damage against certain compositions. However, it may have no value if enemies can easily cancel Avenging Wrath.

Seraphim at Level 20 removes one of Yrel's core weaknesses and makes her much less susceptible to enemy crowd control by giving her a short time window during which she becomes Unstoppable. Be aware that you can activate Seraphim during the channeling of an ability, denying a premeditated interrupt.

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Yrel synergizes with

Yrel synergizes really well with Garrosh, since she can use Righteous Hammer to either push enemies towards him, or to push enemies away after he Displaces someone into your team, so the target cannot be peeled. Johanna and Maiev are also good with her, because they can Pull enemies together, so Yrel can follow with Avenging Wrath, dealing high damage. Abathur will greatly increase Yrel's survivability and damage in the early game, but after Level 16 both will be very strong together, because of the Movement Speed provided by Adrenaline Boost.

Yrel is countered by

Yrel only struggles against Heroes that possess reliable crowd control, such as E.T.C., Lúcio, or Johanna who can interrupt her while charging her Basic Abilities. She gets heavily punished when an enemy uses a knockback effect on her during Avenging Wrath. For this reason, E.T.C. is the most threatening counter she can face, since he can interrupt every leap from Yrel.

Yrel's stronger maps

Yrel's average maps

Yrel's weaker maps

None

Yrel is not weak in any map, since she can always duel against the opposing Offlaner and roam with them. However, she excels on maps like Braxis Holdout, Infernal Shrines, or Dragon Shire that allow her to hold position on an Objective, abusing her strong self-sustain.

• Ardent Defender is a great defensive tool against enemy burst damage. That being said, feel free to use the Ability after dropping down to 50% Health instead of waiting until the last moment. This ensures you can stay fighting rather than having to withdraw from combat.
• Every of Yrel's Basic Abilities has a wind-up time. Make sure to charge up Basic Abilities in time when you need to gain maximum value off them in fights.
• Divine Purpose can be used to instantly cast an Ability with maximum value. Use it with Vindication to gain an instant heal, with Righteous Hammer to immediately knock enemies back, and with Avenging Wrath to engage or disenage at once.
• Dauntless greatly increases Yrel's survivability; use your Abilities within 2 seconds between each other in order to not lose the extra Armor from the Talent.

Yrel is an amazing Offlaner that can easily fight the enemy in her lane and roam before them, flanking enemies with Avenging Wrath to push them towards your team with Righteous Hammer. Her self-sustain allows her to perform well even in unfavorable matchups. During team fights, Yrel excels at flanking the enemy team and peeling for her own Ranged Assassins and Healers.

With the help of her crowd control, she can take care of allies in need while also locking enemy Heroes down and buy enough time for her team to take them down. After hitting Level 10, Yrel can get away with playing very aggressively, since Ardent Defender allows her to stay alive even through the most dangerous of damage bursts. This makes her a great pick against burst compositions. However, she is also good against sustain damage from Marksmen, due to Dauntless's extra Armor. For those reasons, Yrel should only be concerned when against crowd control.