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Lt. Morales · Healer

Lt. Morales Aggressive Guide

OffensiveData-drivenMediumPatch 2.57.0.98304
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Overview

This guide is about playing Lt. Morales aggressively. Aggressive healing means pushing forward with your team when the enemy is down a hero and adding your own damage between heals. Your big moments are level 10, when you pick Stim Drone or Medivac Dropship, and level 20, when the heroic gets its upgrade.

Strengths

  • Heals allies: keeps the team in fights.
  • Brings utility that helps the whole team.
  • Clear job in the team: keep your team alive, avoid the enemy dive and add utility.

Weaknesses

  • No escape tools: vulnerable when divers reach it.
  • First target for the enemy dive.
  • Every death while playing aggressively hands the tempo back to the enemy.

Build cheat sheet

Pick the build that fits what you want to do this game.

Builds

Damage talents

OffensiveRecommended
Open build

When to use it

At each level, the talent most focused on damage. Choose it when your team has enough frontline and needs you to kill.

Map job

Battlegrounds change every match, so this is its job on any of them.

  • Solo laneHolds a lane alone and wins it.
  • Double soakSoaks experience in two lanes at once.
  • RotateMoves between lanes to gank and help.
  • Mercenary campsTakes mercenary camps when it is safe.
  • With the teamMainStays with the team: it wins fights, not lanes.

Talents by level

  • Caduceus FeedbackIncreases Attack Range by 1.1 and Basic Attacks against Heroes generate 4 Energy.Passive
  • Life SupportDuring the first 2 seconds of Energy regeneration, Healing Beam regenerates 100% more Energy. Passive: Increase your maximum Energy by 10.Q
  • Clear!Quest: Each enemy Hero hit with Displacement Grenade restores 3 Energy. Reward: After hitting 15 Heroes, reduce the cooldown of Displacement Grenade from 12 seconds to 9 seconds. Reward: After hitting 30 Heroes, increase the detonation area of Displacement Grenade by 25%.EQuest
  • 1The most utility-focused option at level 1.
  • 4Upgrades Safeguard for more damage.
  • 7Upgrades Healing Beam for more survivability.
  • 10Heroic ability focused on damage.
  • 13Upgrades Displacement Grenade for more damage.
  • 16Upgrades Healing Beam for more survivability.
  • 20Upgrades Medivac Dropship for more damage.

Abilities

  • QHealing Beam0.5s6 mpHeal target allied Hero or Minion for 172 (+4% per level) Health per second as long as they are in range. After not channeling Healing Beam for 2 seconds, regenerate 6 Energy per second. Reactivate to switch targets, or self-cast to cancel channeling.
  • WSafeguard11sGrant target ally Hero 35 Armor for 3 seconds.
  • EDisplacement Grenade12sFire a grenade that can be manually detonated, dealing 208 (+4% per level) to nearby enemies and knocking them away.
  • RStim DroneHeroic70sGrant an allied Hero 75% Attack Speed and 25% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.Heroic. Plan your fights around its cooldown.
  • RMedivac DropshipHeroic45sTarget a location for a Medivac transport. For up to 10 seconds before takeoff, allies can right-click to enter the Medivac.Heroic. Plan your fights around its cooldown.
  • Caduceus ReactorTraitWhile channeling Healing Beam, Lt. Morales regenerates 2% of her maximum Health per second.

Strategy

1When to fight

Your big moments are level 10, when you pick Stim Drone or Medivac Dropship, and level 20, when the heroic gets its upgrade. Aggressive healing means pushing forward with your team when the enemy is down a hero and adding your own damage between heals.

2Picking your targets

Heal the teammate under pressure, not the one with the lowest bar, and keep Healing Beam for burst moments. The best target is the one your team can reach and kill before the enemy answers, not always the most valuable one.

3Snowballing a lead

After a won fight, take map objectives and mercenary camps before anything else: that's what turns kills into a lead the enemy can't erase. Early, help your team reach map objectives and mercenary camps with full health and mana.

4When to back off

Safe healing means standing at the back, keeping mana for the fight and moving away as soon as a diver appears. If your key abilities are on cooldown or the enemy is missing from the map, the aggressive play is to wait.

Tips

  • At level 10, pick the heroic that ends fights fastest: Stim Drone or Medivac Dropship.
  • Track the enemy's key cooldowns and attack right after they use them.
  • Turn every kill into map objectives and mercenary camps: a kill without an objective is a wasted lead.
  • Push your lane before you roam so the aggression doesn't cost you resources.

Matchups

Strong against

  • Kerrigan

    Blizzard classifies Kerrigan as a Melee Assassin, and they have to close the gap before they can do anything to Lt. Morales, who fights at range.

  • Maiev

    Blizzard classifies Maiev as a Melee Assassin, and they have to close the gap before they can do anything to Lt. Morales, who fights at range.

  • Murky

    Blizzard classifies Murky as a Melee Assassin, and they have to close the gap before they can do anything to Lt. Morales, who fights at range.

Changelog

  1. Updated for patch 2.57.0.98304.
  2. Updated for patch 2.57.0.98297.
  3. Updated for patch 2.57.0.98285.
  4. Guide created for patch 2.55.17.98025.

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