Lt. Morales Build Guide “I protect every member of my squad!”

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.

Strengths

• 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 Dropships

Weaknesses

• Lack of area of effect healing
• Healing Beam is quite Energy consuming
• Almost non-existent crowd control
• No escape Abilities
• Low self-healing

Healing Beam Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7 ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ? ?

Level 16

Level 20 ?

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Lt. Morales's Healing Beam Build allows you to constantly heal your team when they take poke damage without spending too much Energy in the process.

Life Support at Level 1 provides you extra Energy and, if you cast Healing Beam for 4 seconds and then pause for 4 seconds, allows you to stay above the threshold for First Responder at Level 16.

Safeguard Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ? ?

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Lt. Morales's Safeguard Build drastically increases your own survivability against dive by empowering Safeguard in various ways.

The second charge of Safeguard provided by Shield Sequencer at Level 16, combined with Medi-Drone at Level 7, makes Lt. Morales extremely hard to kill for the enemy team.

Displacement Grenade Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7 ?

Level 10 ?

Level 13 ? ?

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Lt. Morales's Displacement Grenade Build gives you a lot of utility in the form of personal Shields and constant Knockbacks once you reach the late game.

You can use this Build against team compositions featuring a lot of melee Heroes, who tend to play near each other, as you will make their life harder and at the same time it will be easier to get value from Second Opinion at Level 20 and Blast Shield at Level 4.

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Lt. Morales synergizes with

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).

Lt. Morales is countered by

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 and Junkrat). 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 stronger maps

Lt. Morales's average maps

Lt. Morales's weaker 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 Dropships works best on big Maps (preferably Sky Temple) and can completely reverse their ratings.

• When healing a Hero with Healing Beam, especially if melee, try to synchronize your movement with theirs to avoid going out of position and getting 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.
• Thanks to Caduceus Reactor, Healing Beam can be used to heal Lt. Morales without consuming Energy by targeting an allied Hero or allied Minion at full Health.

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 Dropships 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.