Blaze Build Guide “Need a light?”
Welcome to our guide for Blaze, a Tank 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.
Blaze's Overview
Blaze is a heavy Tank notorious for his potent counter-initiations. Although lacking in single-target damage, he is otherwise well-rounded with serviceable area of effect damage output and high survivability, thanks to his large Health pool and dependable self-sustain. His many skillshot-like Abilities can make him ineffective offensively against mobile Heroes, however.
Blaze's Strengths and Weaknesses
Outstanding ability to disrupt opponents' plans through plentiful crowd control and
Bunker Drop
Hard to kill due to large Health pool and on-demand access to Armor
Respectable area of effect damage potential and waveclear for a Tank
Reliance on multiple skillshots that can be avoided
Fairly immobile, thus prone to be kited
Limited burst and single-target damage output
Blaze's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Basic Attacks Build
RecommendedBlaze's Basic Attacks Build primarily empowers your waveclear while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Offlaner.
In particular, Incinerator Gauntlets at Level 4
makes it easier to clear Minions and Mercenaries while laning
and
Adrenaline Stimpack at Level 1 further empowers its value
against Mercenaries while also boosting your damage against enemy Heroes.
Oil Spill Build
SituationalBlaze's Oil Spill Build primarily empowers your engage while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Tank.
In particular, Oil Dispersal at Level 4
makes it easier to use
Oil Spill as a setup
for
Jet Propulsion.
ARAM Build
ARAMBlaze's ARAM Build primarily empowers your engage while also increasing your survivability, utility, and damage. As a consequence, we recommend this Build when playing Blaze as Tank.
In particular, Oil Dispersal at Level 4
makes it easier to use
Oil Spill as a setup
for
Jet Propulsion.
Blaze's Synergies and Counters
Blaze's well-rounded Ability set allows him to work in most team compositions
and with most other Heroes, granted he is also picked for his anti-melee role.
Oil Spill's Slowing effect is particularly useful for improving the
uptime of Assassins, whereas most Heroes with skillshots
will find
Jet Propulsion a great way of setting up for accurate hits.
Since Blaze relies on skillshots to deal damage and on the rather
slow charge up of Jet Propulsion to initiate, he tends to
struggle offensively against highly mobile Heroes. Furthermore, his
large Health pool and limited mobility makes him particularly vulnerable to
percentage-based damage.
Blaze's Maps














Having a well-rounded Ability set with plenty of waveclear, Blaze works well on most Maps. However, his lingering area of effect damage-over-time makes him particularly strong for Maps that feature static Map Objectives that must be defended, as they tend to funnel opponents into tight spaces that are easily controlled. Make sure another player can deal with Mercenary Camps.
Blaze's Tips and Tricks
Flame Stream actually fires two parallel projectiles; hit with both to double the Ability's damage.
- An Ignited
Oil Spill will Ignite any other Oil Spills that overlap with it.
Jet Propulsion does not collide with Minions, allowing you to charge through to hit enemy Heroes or escape without being blocked.
- Avoid staying too long in
Bunker Drop if unnecessary. Press the R key or right-click near it to exit.
Combustion prevents you from casting other Abilities while it is being channeled.
- The cooldown of
Pyromania is reduced for each Hero hit by
Flame Stream; double hits count as well.
Blaze's Role in the Current Meta
Blaze is a niche Tank that excels at disrupting aggressive melee Heroes
and counter-initiating, in no small part thanks to Bunker Drop.
His area control otherwise makes him particularly useful on Maps that feature static Objectives that force opponents to fight within a specific area or in enclosed spaces, such as Cursed Hollow, Dragon Shire, Infernal Shrines, Sky Temple, and Towers of Doom. His generous self-sustain and waveclear also make him an excellent solo laner to ultimately make him a viable choice on most, if not all, Maps.
Changelog
- 22 Sep. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Bug Fixes.
- 22 Sep. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Bug Fixes.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 30 Jan. 2022 (talents page): Builds and Talent Descriptions updated.
- 30 Jan. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 22 Jul. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 16 Jun. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 01 Mar. 2021 (abilities page): Minor fixes.
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 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.
- 18 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 18 Oct. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (abilities page): Minor fixes.
- 24 Sep. 2020 (this page): Builds updated.
- 30 Aug. 2020 (this page): Role in Current Meta section updated.
- 20 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Talents and recommendations reviewed and updated.
- 15 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added a note about current Anomaly.
- 04 Jul. 2019 (this page): Guide reviewed and updated.
- 03 Jul. 2019 (talents page): Guide reviewed and updated.
- 23 May 2019 (talents page): Updated Talent discussions and recommendations following patch v2.45.1 changes.
- 03 Dec. 2018 (talents page): Updated Talent discussions and recommendations following patch v2.40.1 changes.
- 13 Mar. 2018 (talents page): Recommended build updated to better reflect metagame state.
- 09 Feb. 2018 (talents page): Recommended Talents updated to better reflect metagame state.
- 28 Jan. 2018 (talents page): Updated for patch 2.29.9.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (this page): Guide created.
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