Anduin Build Guide “Injustice will not stand!”
Welcome to our guide for Anduin, a Healer in Heroes of the Storm. Within these pages, you will find everything required to understand how best to play this hero, in both different map styles and team compositions.
Anduin's Overview
Anduin is a ranged Healer that excels at protecting
himself and his allies at the same time using shields and heals. Unlike some of the other Healers,
Anduin possesses quite some play-making potential utilizing various crowd control and
utility effects. He can, for instance, save allies in need by using Leap of Faith
ability, which grants them immunity against crowd control effects 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.
Anduin's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strong burst healing
Can protect himself quite well
Both Heroic Abilites are viable choices
Powerful late game
Leap of Faith counters crowd control
Low area of effect healing
Anduin's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Divine Star Build
RecommendedAnduin's Divine Star Build gives you access to a good amount of sustain healing and a high amount of burst healing 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 most of the options at Level 16.
Flash Heal Build
SituationalAnduin's Flash Heal 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.
Anduin's Synergies and Counters
Chastise is not that easy to land, therefore Heroes
with reliable crowd control can help Anduin with doing so.
The utility that Anduin offers with Leap of Faith
can help allied Heroes who lack mobility to get out
from danger (such as Raynor) 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
(notably
Falling Sword by Johanna)
to execute powerful and quick engages
that the enemy team will struggle to play against.
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 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.
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).
Anduin's Tips and Tricks
Leap of Faith can be used on allies already impaired by enemy crowd control or pre-emptively to prevent them from taking damage.
- Cancelling
Flash Heal's channel animation does not put the ability on cooldown, which allows Anduin to re-position himself and immediately start casting again.
- Safe positioning is key when playing Anduin, as he lacks any form of escape mechanism, such as dashes or teleports.
Lightbomb's Stun can be used after (or before) using
Chastise's Root to trigger a strong crowd control combo.
Anduin's Role in the Current Meta
Anduin is a healing powerhouse that combines AoE healing and single target protection. As such, he is a decent pick against all sorts of damage types on the enemy team. Since he lacks any form of escape mechanism, positioning is key when playing Anduin. Keep an eye out for engaging Tanks and Bruisers that can use Stuns and Roots to lock him down.
At Level 10, both Heroic Abilities can be used with great effect. Lightbomb
is particularly strong with melee Heroes who will likely be surrounded by several enemies. Its relatively
short cooldown also makes it quite forgiving if the ability does not provide the desired efficiency.
Holy Word: Salvation, on the other hand, requires precise timing and game sense.
Thus, counting cooldowns on enemy abilities that could easily interrupt Anduin's channeling process
is often vital to guarantee success.
Changelog
- 06 May 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 06 May 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 21 Nov. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 21 Nov. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 30 Aug. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 30 Aug. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 03 Aug. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 03 Aug. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 17 Jun. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jun. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jun. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 30 May 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 30 May 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 17 May 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Patch.
- 17 May 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Patch.
- 17 May 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Patch.
- 22 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 22 Mar. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 15 Mar. 2021 (this page): Synergies and Counters fixed.
- 10 Mar. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 09 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Talents fixed.
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 24 Feb. 2021 (this page): Builds and Talent Descriptions updated.
- 24 Feb. 2021 (talents page): Builds and Talent Descriptions updated.
- 15 Feb. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 15 Feb. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 23 Oct. 2020 (this page): Builds fixed.
- 23 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Builds fixed.
- 11 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 11 Oct. 2020 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 11 Oct. 2020 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 15 Sep. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 15 Sep. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 25 Jul. 2020 (this page): Builds modified to reflect the current metagame.
- 25 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Builds modified to reflect the current metagame.
- 07 May 2020 (this page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 07 May 2020 (talents page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 09 Apr. 2020 (this page): Introduction partially revised to match new standards.
- Talent Build Cheatsheet updated to reflect the current metagame.
- Role in the Current Meta modified to remove the unnecessary part about the now fixed Experience Globes.
- 09 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Talent Build partially revised to match new standards.
- Talent Build and Talent Build Cheatsheet modified to reflect the current metagame.
- Talent Descriptions modified to better describe when to pick them.
- 06 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added an entry about the current Anomaly to the guide.
- 05 Jun. 2019 (talents page): Checked and proof-read Anduin's guide and found no need for necessary changes.
- 23 May 2019 (talents page): Updated Anduin's talents and builds in accordance with the latest Balance Update.
- 03 May 2019 (talents page): Changed Moral Compass from Not Recommended to Recommended and Holy Reach from Recommended to Not Recommended.
- 28 Apr. 2019 (abilities page): Guide added.
- 28 Apr. 2019 (this page): Guide added.
- 28 Apr. 2019 (talents page): Guide added.
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