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Muradin · Tank

Muradin Aggressive Guide

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Overview

This guide is about playing Muradin aggressively. Aggressive tanking means engaging whenever an enemy is caught out and pushing your team forward into objectives. Your big moments are level 10, when you pick Avatar or Haymaker, and level 20, when the heroic gets its upgrade.

Strengths

  • Strong gank potential around the map.
  • Crowd control: Storm Bolt applies a stun.
  • Has escape tools, according to Blizzard's own hero tags.
  • Sustain from Second Wind.

Weaknesses

  • Mana-hungry: Blizzard flags its energy as important, so manage it early.
  • Low damage by itself: it needs its team to finish kills.
  • 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.
  • RotatePriority 2Rotates between lanes to create kills and pressure.
  • Mercenary campsTakes mercenary camps when it is safe.
  • With the teamMainStays with the team: it wins fights, not lanes.

Talents by level

  • Dwarf BlockCasting Dwarf Toss grants 3 charges of Block. Each Block charge grants 75 Physical Armor against a single enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 75%.E
  • Third WindIncreases Health Restoration rate to 90 (+4% per level) per second, and raises Health threshold to 60% Health for improved 180 (+4% per level) per second Restoration.Trait
  • Give 'em the Axe!Attacking a Hero that is Stunned, Rooted, or Slowed increases Muradin's Basic Attack damage by 40% for 3 seconds.
  • 1Upgrades Dwarf Toss for more damage.
  • 4Upgrades Thunder Clap for more damage.
  • 7The most damage-focused option at level 7.
  • 10Heroic ability focused on damage.
  • 13Upgrades Storm Bolt for more damage.
  • 16Adds an active ability for damage.
  • 20Upgrades Haymaker for more damage.

Abilities

  • QStorm Bolt10s45 mpThrow a hammer, dealing 110 (+4% per level) damage to the first enemy hit and Stunning them for 1.25 seconds. After reaching level 10, Storm Bolt pierces to hit an additional target. Muradin's Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Storm Bolt by 1 second and restore 3 Mana.
  • WThunder Clap8s50 mpBlast nearby enemies for 96 (+4% per level) damage and Slow them by 30% for 2.5 seconds. Heroes hit also have their Attack Speed reduced by 30% for the duration.
  • EDwarf Toss10s55 mpLeap to target location, dealing 59 (+4% per level) damage to enemies on landing. Upon leaping, gain 30 Armor for 2 seconds, reducing damage taken by 30%.
  • RAvatarHeroic90s80 mpTransform for 20 seconds, gaining 1000 (+4% per level) Health.Heroic. Plan your fights around its cooldown.
  • RHaymakerHeroic40s60 mpStun target enemy Hero, and wind up a punch dealing 319 (+4% per level) damage and knocking the target back, hitting enemies in the way for 319 (+4% per level) damage and knocking them aside.Heroic — applies a stun. Save it for priority targets or to interrupt a channel.
  • Second WindTraitMuradin restores 55 (+4% per level) Health per second when he has not taken damage for 4 seconds. When below 40% Health, increased to 111 (+4% per level) Health per second.

Strategy

1When to fight

Your big moments are level 10, when you pick Avatar or Haymaker, and level 20, when the heroic gets its upgrade. Aggressive tanking means engaging whenever an enemy is caught out and pushing your team forward into objectives.

2Picking your targets

Open with Storm Bolt on a priority target, then stand between the enemy divers and your healer. 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, be the first at map objectives and mercenary camps and help your team win the first level race.

4When to back off

Safe tanking means peeling for your backline, holding your crowd control for enemy divers and letting them come to you. If your key abilities are on cooldown or the enemy is missing from the map, the aggressive play is to wait.

Tips

  • Use Storm Bolt to start the fight, then commit your damage.
  • At level 10, pick the heroic that ends fights fastest: Avatar or Haymaker.
  • 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

  • Greymane

    Blizzard classifies Greymane as a Ranged Assassin: once Muradin is on top of them, that distance stops mattering.

  • Gul'dan

    Blizzard classifies Gul'dan as a Ranged Assassin: once Muradin is on top of them, that distance stops mattering.

  • Hanzo

    Blizzard classifies Hanzo as a Ranged Assassin: once Muradin is on top of them, that distance stops mattering.

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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