Dehaka Confirmed! Abilities Inside!

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Edit: I wanted to add a skin I've found on a website.

Mech Dehaka: http://www.gannett-cdn.com/nb-images/2016/3/15/b19df841-ba5f-4414-a712-1676cc6860c7-Heroes17_Dehaka_MechaSkin_KL_Take_01.jpg

Dehaka is classified as a Warrior Type and Difficulty is Easy. He looks more like a bruiser type from the description of abilities but we will see when he comes out!

http://www.destructoid.com/zerg-terror-dehaka-confirmed-for-heroes-of-the-storm-349153.phtml

Mount: Brushstalker (Z): You cannot use Mounts. Instead, you may burrow to any bush or vent on the Battleground. 40 second cooldown

Trait: Essence Collection (D): You collect 10 Essence per Hero Takedown, and 2 per enemy Minion killed nearby, storing up to a maximum of 50 Essence. Activate to consume all stored Essence and regenerate Health over the next 5 seconds for each stack consumed. Can be cast during Drag and Burrow.

Basic Abilities

Drag (Q): Lash out with your tongue, dealing light damage to the first enemy hit, and dragging them with you for 1.75 seconds.

Dark Swarm (W): Over the next three seconds, you gain the ability to move through units and deal damage in an area around yourself. Deals double damage to Heroes. Can be cast during Drag and Burrow.

Burrow (E): Burrow into the ground, entering Stasis and becoming Invulnerable for 2 seconds.

Heroic Abilities

Isolation (R): Launch biomass that deals damage, silences, and slows the first enemy Hero it hits by 30% for 3 seconds. For the next 6 seconds, the affected enemy loses sight of allied Heroes, and has greatly reduced vision.

Adaptation (R): After a 5 second delay, 60% of all damage taken during this time will be returned to you as Health.
Edited by Liaka on 3/16/2016 10:06 PM PDT
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Looks promising!
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they showed pictures of 3 tiers of talents, is there any way of seeing the rest?

Also curious if you can use the mount while in burrow. Sounds like a get out of jail free card every 40 seconds, so I doubt it's possible.
Edited by Feni on 3/16/2016 4:11 PM PDT
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The only thing I really dislike here is Burrow (E) - it's way too much like Tassa's and Murky's E (at least it seems that way according to the info we have for now).
I really hope he would be more like Rek'Sai from LoL when it comes to burrowing.

Rest of the hero looks fine, though.
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http://m.imgur.com/F6o3Z?r

His master skin
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03/16/2016 04:06 PMPosted by Feni
they showed pictures of 3 tiers of talents, is there any way of seeing the rest?

Also curious if you can use the mount while in burrow. Sounds like a get out of jail free card every 40 seconds, so I doubt it's possible.


Apparently, he can't mount. Just burrow.

Sounds AWESOME.
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So do you guys think he auto-attacks with his 'strong hand' bahhahahaha
Srsly though.
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03/16/2016 04:08 PMPosted by Lithary
The only thing I really dislike here is Burrow (E) - it's way too much like Tassa's and Murky's E (at least it seems that way according to the info we have for now).
I really hope he would be more like Rek'Sai from LoL when it comes to burrowing.

Rest of the hero looks fine, though.


One of my hopes was that he would truly evolve on the battlefield.

Killing Assassins gave you essence buffs to do higher damage or killing warriors would give you essence buffs to be more tanky. In practice it might not have worked out good for hots but I think it would have been a unique fun hero to focus down certain priority targets to make yourself uniquely evolve!
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He looks so cool. Very excited.
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Even if he sucks im gonna main him for a while cuz dats ma boyeeee.
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I might buy this hero with gold, But I am no longer going to buy heroes with real money. I'm tired of buying the new hero only to have them nerfed a week later. So pointless.
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03/16/2016 04:31 PMPosted by Sages
I might buy this hero with gold, But I am no longer going to buy heroes with real money. I'm tired of buying the new hero only to have them nerfed a week later. So pointless.

Don't play them for being OP. Play them because you enjoy the character/playstyle.

I bought Lunara with money on release and never once regretted it despite how bad she was at first.
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03/16/2016 04:00 PMPosted by Liaka
Adaptation (R): After a 5 second delay, 60% of all damage taken during this time will be returned to you as Health.

What a boring, bland, unimaginative ultimate. Did Jay Wilson design this ultimate ability? Pathetic.
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Drag and Dark Swarm both look like true tank warrior abilities. Use Drag to latch onto an enemy, then use Dark Swarm to carry them into your team.
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Adaptation will make Dehaka way tankier than Artanis :). Too bad his lost arm didn't come with him to the Nexus though D:.
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03/16/2016 04:12 PMPosted by BotFen
03/16/2016 04:06 PMPosted by Feni
they showed pictures of 3 tiers of talents, is there any way of seeing the rest?

Also curious if you can use the mount while in burrow. Sounds like a get out of jail free card every 40 seconds, so I doubt it's possible.


Apparently, he can't mount. Just burrow.

Sounds AWESOME.


No I mean his E burrows him into the ground and makes him immortal, and then his Z burrows him to a bush. I'm just wondering if you can go immune with E whenever you're in danger and then just peace out to the other side of the map with Z while immune. Or will Z only work above ground.

I get that they're both burrows so obviously he should be able to use Z while burrowing with E but....ugh, is anyone else seeing just how un-killable this sounds?
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03/16/2016 04:00 PMPosted by Liaka
Adaptation (R): After a 5 second delay, 60% of all damage taken during this time will be returned to you as Health.


a 5 second delay? how long does it last to make up for that? if its not long then 5 seconds is plenty to kill even the most tanky heroes
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03/16/2016 04:37 PMPosted by TonyRomo
What a boring, bland, unimaginative ultimate. Did Jay Wilson design this ultimate ability? Pathetic.

Funnily enough many heroics are very simple, but have big impacts.

Ancestral Healing - Big single target heal after a delay
1000 Cups - Psuedo-AOE healing
Tranquility - AOE healing
Shadowstalk - Stealth and Global AOE healing

Maw - AOE CC, makes them untargetable
Void Prison - AOE CC, makes them untargetable
Divine Storm - AOE CC
Blessed Shield - AOE CC
Mosh Pit - AOE CC

Not to mention a dozen heroics that just deal damage in slightly different delivery mechanisms (And no utility either!)
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03/16/2016 04:45 PMPosted by Feni
No I mean his E burrows him into the ground and makes him immortal, and then his Z burrows him to a bush. I'm just wondering if you can go immune with E whenever you're in danger and then just peace out to the other side of the map with Z while immune. Or will Z only work above ground.I get that they're both burrows so obviously he should be able to use Z while burrowing with E but....ugh, is anyone else seeing just how un-killable this sounds?

No. He very much can't use Z while burrowed with E. His E is basically an ice block built into a basic ability, plus whatever his talents do.

03/16/2016 04:45 PMPosted by Teeki
a 5 second delay? how long does it last to make up for that? if its not long then 5 seconds is plenty to kill even the most tanky heroes
It's instantaneous. You use it, then 5 seconds later you heal 60% of the damage you took since you used the ability, unless you die of course. The reason why it works is because he's going to be fairly tanky anyway, being a warrior, and that 2 second burrow on his E. So he really only has to survive 3 seconds. If he starts taking too much, he burrows, the time wears off, then he comes back up with 60% of that damage back as HP.
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