Anduin Build Guide “Injustice will not stand!”

Anduin is a ranged Healer that excels at saving his allies, not only by healing them. Notably, Anduin can save allied Heroes in need by using Leap of Faith, which makes them Unstoppable and Pulls them towards Anduin. Mastering Anduin's arsenal of protective and offensive tools provides your team with a powerful Healer in the backline that can contribute a great deal during team fights. Unlike some of the other Healers, Anduin possesses quite some play-making potential utilizing various crowd control and utility effects.

Strengths

• Strong burst healing
• Access to crowd control
• Powerful late game
• Baseline cleanse effect

Weaknesses

• Low area of effect healing
• Standing still to channel
• No mobility

Leap of Faith Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

Copy build to clipboard Build copied! Talent calculator »

Anduin's Leap of Faith Build gives you access to a fair amount of sustain healing and a high amount of burst healing and saving tools to save allied Heroes from sudden danger or to help them being more aggressive.

You can mitigate burst damage by using Power Word: Shield at Level 1, Desperate Prayer at Level 7, and get allied Heroes out of danger more often thanks to Glyph of Faith at Level 16.

Lightwell Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7 ? ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ?

Copy build to clipboard Build copied! Talent calculator »

Anduin's Lightwell Build is all about keeping yourself and allied Heroes healthy over time, which is great when facing a team that mostly relies on sustain damage but weak against burst damage.

Try to apply Renew at Level 16 on as many allied Heroes as possible, then rely on Moral Compass at Level 4 to refresh its duration from the distance every 5 seconds with either Divine Star or Basic Attacks.

Most of the Talents in this Build will contribute to reducing the cooldown of Lightwell at Level 1, increasing your healing output without having to spend extra Mana but with the need for allied Heroes to stand in the healing area for a few seconds. For this reason, we find it better for stationary fights to control a given location on the battlefield.

Inner Focus Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20

Copy build to clipboard Build copied! Talent calculator »

Anduin's Inner Focus Build is designed to give a lot of single-target healing, which can be used to support allied Heroes who want to fight from an aggressive position and do not need to be saved with Glyph of Faith because your team wants to dive, not retreat.

Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes, including the ones coming from Moral Compass at Level 4, will reduce the cooldown of Inner Focus at Level 16 and allow you to cast Flash Heal more often. Varian's Legacy at Level 20 will also contribute to that.

Divine Star Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4 ?

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

Copy build to clipboard Build copied! Talent calculator »

Anduin's Divine Star Build can be useful as a backup plan when you end up facing scary dive Heroes and therefore you need additional survivability for yourself rather than tools for saving allied Heroes like usual.

To heal yourself, you can count on Blessed Recovery at Level 7 and Holy Nova at Level 16. To self-peel, you can use Surge of Light or sometimes Piercing Light at Level 4, later combined with Censure at Level 20.

See our Talents page for further information »

Create your own build and share it with friends!

Anduin synergizes with

Chastise is not that easy to land, therefore Heroes with reliable crowd control can help Anduin with doing so. For this reason, you should draft Anduin together with a Tank with a Stun, Root, or a powerful Slow. On a similar note, Stitches is a unique Hero who can also help you with that, given you are ready to cast Chastise right after Hook goes off, without waiting to see if it will hit or not, otherwise the projectile will end up being late.

The utility that Anduin offers with Leap of Faith can help allied Heroes who lack mobility (such as Raynor) to get away from danger or even enable more aggressive plays from Heroes that lack escape tools (for example Diablo, to save his Souls).

You can pair Lightbomb with a lot of Abilities (for example Wind Rush by Thrall) to execute powerful and quick engages that the enemy team will struggle to play against or simply use it as a follow-up to other crowd control effects (such as Blessed Shield by Johanna).

Anduin is countered by

Anduin cannot rely on Leap of Faith to save allied Heroes from enemy Heroes that can engage multiple times per minute (for example E.T.C. with Powerslide).

A strong dive Hero (such as Sonya) can heavily pressure Anduin, to the point that he will not be able to heal the rest of his team anymore, in addition to rendering Leap of Faith useless.

Poke damage is annoying for Anduin because he lacks area of effect sustain healing to keep everyone healthy during prolonged team fights.

Anduin's stronger maps

Anduin's average maps

Anduin's weaker maps

Anduin excels on Maps that feature static Objectives where team fights do not last too long (such as Shrines on Dragon Shire). Choke points can make for great locations for Divine Star to get value from as well as to catch enemy Heroes with Lightbomb.

All in all, Anduin's well-rounded kit leaves him with no real Map vulnerabilities, except for a moderate disadvantage on Maps where the Objective takes too much time to be won that his Mana eventually expires (for example Braxis Holdout) and where there are good paths for flanking.

• Cancelling Flash Heal's channel does not put the Ability on cooldown, which allows Anduin to re-position himself and immediately start casting again.
• To output more healing with it, Divine Star should be used towards enemy Heroes and then caught near allied Heroes while stepping back and repositioning.
• Chastise has an extremely slow projectile, therefore it should mainly be used as a follow-up to other crowd control effects.
• Safe positioning is key when playing Anduin, as he lacks any form of escape mechanism and he needs to be in a safe area when using Leap of Faith to save allied Heroes.
• Leap of Faith can be used on allies already impaired by enemy crowd control or pre-emptively to prevent them from taking damage.
• To make up for its delay, Lightbomb can be used in combo with Heroes with mobility or as a follow-up to other crowd control effects.

Anduin is a healing powerhouse that combines moderate area of effect healing and single target protection. As such, he is a decent pick against all sorts of damage types on the enemy team and a powerful choice against team compositions who want to burst down a single target. Since he lacks mobility to escape, positioning is key when playing Anduin. Keep an eye out for engaging Tanks and Bruisers that can use crowd control to lock him down.

One of the main reasons to have Anduin in your team composition is Leap of Faith, one of the best saving tools in the entire game. With the proper timing and positioning, it can deny kills to the enemy team and turn the tides of the battle in your favor. Another good reason to pick Anduin is Lightbomb, a powerful but delayed crowd control effect that can be cast on allied Heroes with mobility (for example Muradin with Dwarf Toss) to take opponents off guard or as a follow-up, to make sure it connects despite its effect not being instant.