Lt. Morales Talents

Level	Choices
1	✔ ? ✘
4	✔ ? ✘
7	? ✔ ?
10	✔ ?
13	? ✔ ✘
16	? ✔ ?
20	? ? ? ✔

Caduceus Feedback is a strong Talent that increases your Attack Range and, more importantly, makes your Basic Attacks generate Energy. Pick this Talent if you can use Basic Attacks without risking death.

Life Support is a good Talent that allows you to generate Energy with Safeguard based on how many instances of damage it gets affected by. Pick this Talent if the enemy team has at least one source of damage that hits multiple times in a few seconds (for example Psionic Storm by Tassadar).

Clear! is a weak Talent that empowers Displacement Grenade by reducing its cooldown and increasing its detonation area. We do not recommend this Talent because it does not give enough value even if combined with Talents that empower the same Ability.

Cellular Reactor is a strong Talent for keeping Lt. Morales alive in dangerous situations because she cannot get the healing from Healing Beam by targeting herself. Activate it only when you really need to, else you will consume more Energy than usual and waste an important cooldown for no reason.

Trauma Trigger is a situational Talent that automatically provides a solid amount of Armor to Lt. Morales if she gets damaged when below 40% of her maximum Health, something that is only useful when the enemy team wants to take you down using crowd control that will not allow you to cast Safeguard on yourself and/or activate Cellular Reactor before it is too late.

Blast Shield is a weak Talent that allows Lt. Morales to Shield herself and generate a bit of Energy each time she hits an enemy Hero with Displacement Grenade. While the Energy will always be provided, the Shield will stack 5 times only. If we compare the full-stacked Shield with Cellular Reactor, it provides less survivability. Even if your plan is to go for Second Opinion at Level 13 and we assume you can make it trigger on cooldown, the Energy provided by this combination of Talents will give you 50% less value than Caduceus Feedback or Life Support at Level 1, making this Talent a bad choice for Energy generation purposes; however, the Shield has no Energy cost compared to Cellular Reactor. All that said, we do not recommend this Talent because it does not perform well even in its best case scenario.

Physical Therapy is a situational Talent that slightly reduces the cooldown of Safeguard and makes it able to remove Slow effects from the targeted allied Hero.

Vanadium Plating is a strong Talent that slightly increases the duration of the Armor provided by Safeguard and, if you are diligent and fast enough to cast it before the same allied Hero gets hit by a Stun or Root effect, then they will get additional Armor from it. Pick this Talent when the enemy team has at least a Stun (for example Powerslide by E.T.C.) or Root (such as Entangling Roots by Malfurion) to get Armor value from.

Medi-Drone is a situational Talent that makes Safeguard heal for 75% of the healing done via Healing Beam while the Armor effect is up. Pick this Talent when you want to mitigate Lt. Morales's weakness to area of effect damage and dive because it basically lets you heal 2 Heroes at the same time and can even be used to redirect the healing to your own Hero while, Caduceus Reactor keeps healing you as well.

Stim Drone is a strong Heroic Ability that can be used to boost the combat performance of a marksman or even a bruiser who heavily relies on Basic Attacks.

Medivac Dropship is a situational Heroic Ability that can be chosen when you need additional protection or—in case you are playing with a coordinated team—a global.

EMP Grenade is a situational Talent that deals damage against enemy Shields (such as Shield Overload on Artanis). Do not automatically pick this Talent if the enemy team has Shields, but think if you do not need the other options in the same Tier first.

System Shock is a strong Talent in most games because it is the only way for Lt. Morales to mitigate area of effect damage; furthermore, it increases her strength against burst damage even more.

Second Opinion is a weak Talent that almost resets the cooldown of Displacement Grenade when hitting 2 enemy Heroes with it, something that gives some value only if paired with other Talents that rely on the same Ability, but we do not recommend it even in that case because you do not want to give up good Talents for that.

Extended Care is a good Talent that slightly increases the range of Healing Beam so that Lt. Morales has to expose a bit less for healing an allied Hero.

First Responder is a strong Talent that basically gives burst healing when having high Energy, something that can make a significant difference in keeping focused allies Heroes alive against enemy burst damage. In case you picked Medi-Drone at Level 7, the additional healing provided by this Talent increases its healing as well.

Shield Sequencer is a good Talent that gives a second Charge of Safeguard, something that enables Lt. Morales to get double value from any related Talent.

Hyperactivity is a good Talent that doubles the Movement Speed increase and halves the cooldown of Stim Drone, a good alterative to Caduceus Reactor 2.0 when you do not need additional self-healing.

Safe Zone is a situational Talent that may be useful when using Medivac Dropship for a backdoor or to force an engage, strategies that only work if playing with a coordinated team. To get value from this Talent, land near Structures so that you can start damaging them when the Protected effect is still up.

Reinforcements is a situational Talent that allows Lt. Morales to summon a Medivac that will travel from the allied Hall of Storms to the casting location, something that indirectly acts like a Death Timer reduction because your team will lack a Hero for way less time.

Caduceus Reactor 2.0 is a strong Talent that triples the self-healing provided by Cellular Reactor, basically healing Lt. Morales for about 50% of the healing of Healing Beam. While the number does not look that high, it easily adds up during a team fight and—more importantly—it is the only survivability increase available in this Tier anyways.