Kel'Thuzad Build Guide “The darkness guides me.”

Kel'Thuzad is a combo-oriented ranged damage dealer with outstanding area of effect crowd control and burst damage potential. Relying on skillshot Abilities to grow through Master of the Cold Dark makes him weak in the early stages of the game and harder than most Heroes to play, let alone master.

• Generating Master of the Cold Dark stacks is of the utmost importance early on; the faster you complete this Quest, the more likely you are to snowball.
• Death and Decay should nearly always be used on-Cooldown due to its insignificant Mana cost and short Cooldown.
• When targeting two Heroes, Chains of Kel'Thuzad pulls them towards the middle point between the two Heroes.
• When targeting a Hero and a Glacial Spike, Chains of Kel'Thuzad pulls the Hero to the Spike.
• Frost Nova should be used as a follow up to Chains of Kel'Thuzad or allied crowd control.
• Frost Blast can be negated through effects that render your target Invulnerable, such as Ice Block; pick your target accordingly.
• Shadow Fissure combos particularly well with a center Frost Nova hit due to the Rooting effect.

Note about the current Anomaly: This Anomaly provides Kel'Thuzad with more opportunities to hit opponents who try to collect Experience Globes and thus complete Master of the Cold Dark faster. His playstyle is otherwise unaffected, and Kel'Thuzad players should stick with their teammates as per usual.

Kel'Thuzad's reliable crowd control and high area of effect burst damage make him a good fit for most team compositions, whether there is lack of means of initiating or plenty of Rooting or Stunning effects for Kel'Thuzad himself to follow up on.

Kel'Thuzad's high threat level and fragility make him a high-priority pick in most drafting situations, and generally match-dictating as a Hero, in the sense that team compositions do well to support him — and counter him, when possible. His particular vulnerability to highly mobile Heroes makes drafting a tank with reliable peel essential to ensuring the success of Kel'Thuzad-based compositions. His inability to reliably solo lane also makes it important to draft at least one independent Hero for this task.