Lt. Morales Build Guide “I protect every member of my squad!”
Welcome to our guide for Lt. Morales, 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.
Lt. Morales's Overview
Lt. Morales is a powerful single-target Healer who can provide Armor to allied Heroes, but her lack of mobility and crowd control makes her an easy target to engage on, especially if you are not careful with her positioning.
Lt. Morales's Strengths and Weaknesses
Powerful single-target heals via
Healing Beam and damage reduction via
Safeguard
Ability to interrupt any Stationary Channeled Ability using
Displacement Grenade
Synergy with marksmen thanks to
Stim Drone
Team-wide global with
Medivac Dropship
Lack of area of effect healing
Healing Beam is quite Energy consuming
Almost non-existent crowd control
No escape Abilities
Low self-healing
Lt. Morales's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Healing Beam Build
RecommendedLt. Morales's Healing Beam Build is designed to get as much value as possible from the Hero
by increasing her Energy and decreasing the damage done by enemy Heroes in a way or another.
Talents like Caduceus Feedback or alternatively
Life Support at Level 1 contribute to this plan well
because the additional Energy provided makes you able to cast
Healing Beam for more time than usual and lets you
pay the activation of
Cellular Reactor at Level 4.
To further increase her defensive capabilities, we choose the damage reduction
provided by
System Shock at Level 13.
Lt. Morales's Synergies and Counters
Lt. Morales requires a solid Tank who can consistently
peel multiple enemy Heroes away from her (such as E.T.C.).
If you want to get value from Stim Drone, you need a
marksman in your team (for example Sgt. Hammer).
Considering that Healing Beam needs the targeted
allied Hero to be in range for the whole time and not just the moment you cast it,
Lt. Morales suffers against Heroes who have Displacement
effects (such as Garrosh). Due to her limited self-healing and lack of
crowd control, she does not like to play against
dive compositions that count on aggressive Heroes
who can directly engage on her by skipping her
frontline (for example Zeratul and Anub'arak).
What is often overlooked is the fact that she suffers poke damage
because it can drain out her Energy in around 20 seconds,
something that will make her almost useless for a while.
As a consequence of how her Energy works, she does not want to take prolonged fights,
especially when the enemy team can get value out of them (such as Auriel).
Last but not the least, she definitely suffers area of effect
damage (for example Lunara) because all of her Abilities can heal
or mitigate damage on a single allied Hero at a time.
Lt. Morales's Maps














Lt. Morales performs better on Maps where the team fight cannot evolve on
different fronts because she suffers from flank and
dive strategies a lot. The notorious backdoor strategy
involving Medivac Dropship works best on big Maps
(preferably Sky Temple) and can completely reverse their ratings.
Lt. Morales's Tips and Tricks
Healing Beam can heal Lt. Morales thanks to
Caduceus Feedback without consuming Energy if the healed target is currently at full Health.
- When healing a Hero, especially if melee, try to synchronize your movement with theirs to avoid going out of position and get focused down by the enemy team.
- Do not use
Safeguard in random moments but instead try to cast it when it will mitigate a good amount of damage.
- You can reactivate
Displacement Grenade to make it detonate immediately rather than at its maximum range.
- While the best targets for
Stim Drone are marksmen, you can occasionally use it on Heroes from different Roles when they need Movement Speed to chase or escape.
- A short range
Medivac Dropship can protect yourself from danger without leaving your team without their Healer for too much time.
Lt. Morales's Role in the Current Meta
Lt. Morales is a solid but situational Healer
that can easily keep her frontline healthy
against focused damage, but make sure to have a good target
for Stim Drone to get the most value out of her,
usually a Marskman (such as Raynor).
Alternatively, if you are playing with an organized team, you can use
Medivac Dropship for the infamous backdoor strategy
involving a Hero who can deny the damage coming from enemy Structures
(such as Tyrael with
Sanctification) and
a few Heroes who can take them down for the duration (for example Artanis
with
Amateur Opponent, Raynor, and Greymane),
before the enemy team can react.
Changelog
- 25 Feb. 2021 (talents page): New layout.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jul. 2020 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (abilities page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (this page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 05 Jun. 2020 (talents page): Builds and Descriptions changed according to the latest Balance Update.
- 28 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Talent Build fully 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.
- 28 Apr. 2020 (this page): Introduction fully revised to match new standards.
- Overview rewritten to better describe the Hero.
- Strengths and Weaknesses modified to give a better idea about the Hero when being played right.
- Talent Build Cheatsheet updated to reflect the current metagame.
- Synergies and Counters modified to mention notable Heroes that were missing and to remove misleading Heroes that were listed.
- Maps modified to focus on the main aspects of the Hero when evaluating a Map.
- Tips and Tricks modified to list important tips that were missing before and to delete more obvious ones.
- Role in the Current Meta modified to reflect the current metagame and to remove the unnecessary part about the now fixed Experience Globes.
- 28 Apr. 2020 (abilities page): Ability and Strategy fully revised to match new standards.
- Tips and Tricks modified to add important tips that were missing and to remove obvious ones that were not worth mentioning.
- Ability Descriptions modified to better explain how to use Abilities effectively.
- 23 Mar. 2020 (abilities page): Outdated information corrected.
- 23 Mar. 2020 (talents page): Outdated and misleading information corrected.
- 13 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added an entry about the current Anomaly to the guide.
- 16 Oct. 2019 (talents page): Added the Medi-Drone talent at Level 7 and applied it to Lt. Morales' builds in accordance with the latest Balance Update.
- 17 Jun. 2019 (talents page): Updated Lt. Morales' talents in accordance with the latest state of the game.
- 17 Jun. 2019 (abilities page): Updated Lt. Morales' abilities section in accordance with the latest state of the game.
- 13 Oct. 2018 (talents page): Updated Lt. Morales' Talent Builds in accordance with the recent Balance Update.
- 22 Dec. 2017 (talents page): Changed First Responder from Not Recommended to Recommended.
- 12 Sep. 2017 (talents page): Changed Life Support from Not Recommended to Recommended.
- 08 Sep. 2017 (talents page): Updated Lt. Morales' talents page in accordance with the Kel'thuzad patch.
- 08 Sep. 2017 (abilities page): Updated Lt. Morales' abilities page in accordance with the Kel'thuzad patch.
- 15 Jan. 2017 (talents page): Changed Cellular Reactor from Not Recommended to Situational.
- 09 Jan. 2017 (this page): Updated guide for recent balance patch and moved it to the new format.
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Elitesparkle is a multiple times Master player in Europe who plays Heroes of the Storm since its release. He is an active member of the community — especially on Reddit — who likes to teach new and veteran players all he knows about his favorite game.
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