Lt. Morales Talents

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Caduceus Feedback is a good Talent that increases your Attack Range and, more importantly, makes your Basic Attacks generate Energy. Just be careful with your positioning when using this Talent because, once dead, your remaining Energy will not matter anymore.

Ideally, this is the best Energy Regeneration tool you have at your disposal for when you need to constantly channel Healing Beam, but you will not be able to use Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes all the time, so its real value will vary based on how aggressive the enemy team will be and it obviously will not work while not fighting against enemy Heroes.

Pick this Talent only if you can use Basic Attacks without risking death because it allows you to generate a considerable amount of Energy, even while channeling Healing Beam. With it, you can extend Healing Beam's duration from about 17 seconds (equivalent to 100 Energy) to about 25 seconds (equivalent to 100 + 50 Energy) if you can Basic Attack (equivalent to 100 + 200 Energy) once every 2 seconds (usually possible) or to about 50 seconds if you can Basic Attack once per second (rarely possible). All that said, in order to match the value of Life Support in a sustain healing scenario, you only need about 1 Basic Attacks every 3 seconds.

Life Support is a strong Talent that increases your maximum Energy by a small amount and slightly empowers your Energy Regeneration for a brief period after stopping channeling Healing Beam.

Thanks to how the bonus Energy Regeneration works, assuming you are in a situation where your team needs sustain healing and not burst healing, you can basically heal for 50% value without spending Energy by playing as follows: channel Healing Beam for 4 seconds, stop channeling it, wait 4 seconds, and repeat. This playstyle is pretty good for First Responder at Level 16.

Clear! is a decent Talent that empowers Displacement Grenade by reducing its cooldown, increasing its detonation area, and making it restore 3 Energy for each enemy Hero hit.

Thanks to the cooldown reduction and the area increase provided, this Talent has synergy with Blast Shield at Level 4 and Second Opinion at Level 20, as well as with any Level 13 Talent: EMP Grenade, System Shock, and Bedside Manner.

Cellular Reactor is a strong Talent for keeping Lt. Morales alive in dangerous situations at the cost of 30 Energy. In addition to that, Safeguard will regenerate 2 Energy for each instance of damage, up to 5 instances of damage per cast, for a total of 10 Energy gained in the best-case scenario.

Without this Talent, she can only heal herself via Caduceus Reactor because Healing Beam cannot be self-cast. While its cooldown is relatively low, try to have it ready for team fights and keep an eye on your Energy consumption otherwise you will not have enough Energy to heal allied Heroes with Healing Beam.

Trauma Trigger is a situational Talent that, once every 30 seconds, automatically provides a solid amount of Armor to Lt. Morales if she gets damaged when below 40% of her maximum Health and passively doubles the healing provided by Caduceus Reactor, healing her for about 20% of the healing done by Healing Beam to allied Heroes.

The extra Armor provided by this Talent 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.

Keep in mind that Armor effects do not stack, so you should try to use Safeguard either before or after Trauma Trigger automatically goes off.

Blast Shield is a good Talent that allows Lt. Morales to Shield herself with Displacement Grenade while also Slowing every enemy Hero hit.

To get the most out of this Talent, you need Clear! at Level 1 to increase the area of Displacement Grenade and Second Opinion at Level 20 to heavily reduce its cooldown when hitting multiple Heroes at the same time.

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.

Consider picking this Talent to counter powerful Abilities or Talents which rely on Slows being active (for example Virulent Reaction at Level 16 on Stukov).

Vanadium Plating is a strong Talent that slightly increases the duration of the Armor provided by Safeguard and grants additional Armor to allied Heroes who are Stunned or Rooted.

Go for this Talent when the enemy team has burst damage, especially if they also have at least a Stun (for example Powerslide by E.T.C.) or Root (such as Entangling Roots by Malfurion).

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. This effect does not work if whoever you are trying to heal with Healing Beam is at full Health.

Pick this Talent when you want to mitigate Lt. Morales's weakness to area of effect damage—as it basically lets you heal 2 Heroes at the same time—or to survive against dive—because it can be used on Lt. Morales too.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check the dedicated section in the Abilities and Strategy page.

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 Dropships provides a situational Heroic Ability that can be chosen when you need additional protection and/or a global, especially on big Maps where traveling from a point to another takes a lot of time.

EMP Grenade is a situational Talent that deals high damage against enemy Shields (such as Shield Overload on Artanis) and moderate damage to Heroes without Shields.

Being a damage Talent, it competes with Bedside Manner. You should only pick this Talent when your team needs burst damage to quickly take down enemy Heroes who are protected by Shields, not necessarily every time you see Shields in the enemy team, especially if you need the damage reduction from System Shock.

System Shock is a strong Talent in most games because it helps Lt. Morales to mitigate incoming damage, increasing her strength against burst damage even more.

Bedside Manner is a good Talent that gives you access to percent-based damage: 1% from Basic Attacks against any enemy Hero and 6% from the next Basic Attacks within 6 seconds against enemy Heroes who have been recently hit by Displacement Grenade.

You can combine this Talent with Caduceus Feedback at Level 1 to get more value from it, especially if the enemy team has a low-threat Tank that you can constantly pressure from the distance.

Extended Care is a strong Talent which slightly increases the range of Healing Beam so that Lt. Morales has to expose a bit less for healing an allied Hero and which provides extra healing over time when Healing Beam ends.

Thanks to this Talent, Healing Beam and Safeguard will basically have the same range. This is extremely useful when trying to save allied Heroes who are taking a lot of damage because you can start healing them sooner, increasing the chances they will survive.

The extra range provided by this Talent indirectly increases your survivability because you will be able to be in a slightly safer position while healing allied Heroes who are positioned forward, in the frontline of your team.

You can trigger the extra healing from Extended Care by switching the allied Hero you are targeting with Healing Beam, assuming the target your are currently healing does not need your help anymore.

First Responder is a good 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. You can use this synergy to make Lt. Morales harder to kill for a few seconds by using Safeguard on herself while channeling Healing Beam on a damaged Minion or injured allied Hero nearby.

Talents that increase the Energy at your disposal have synergy with First Responder because they allow you to stay above the Energy threshold for longer.

Shield Sequencer is a good Talent that empowers Safeguard by increasing its range, to easily cast it on aggressively positioned allied Heroes without exposing too much, and by giving you an extra Charge, something that enables Lt. Morales to get double value from any related Talent.

The extra range is great for saving allied Heroes who are way too far, especially if you have Vanadium Plating at Level 7 and they get either Rooted or Stunned.

This is the only Talent in this Tier that boosts Lt. Morales's own survivability. Keep that in mind when you are struggling to survive against enemy Heroes who tend to flank or dive, causing your premature death in team fights.

Hyperactivity is a strong Talent that doubles the Movement Speed bonus, useful for chasing and dodging, and heavily reduces the cooldown of Stim Drone, sometimes letting you cast it twice in the same team fight.

You can pick this Talent to further empower the Hero in your team that you buffed with Stim Drone during the game, unless you need the defensive value provided by Hospice Care.

Safe Zone is a situational Talent that may be useful when using Medivac Dropships 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 benefits from this Talent as well.

Hospice Care is a situational Talent which empowers Safeguard so that it gives the Unkillable status to the targeted allied Hero and then, if they have less than 50% maximum Health, they get healed for 8% maximum Health. You can use it on Lt. Morales as well.

You should consider picking this Talent when the enemy team has a scary amount of crowd control and burst damage, to the point that even your Tank is constantly in danger. Since frontline Heroes have more maximum Health, using this Talent on them means it is easier to trigger the healing effect.

Second Opinion is a good Talent that almost resets the cooldown of Displacement Grenade when hitting multiple enemy Heroes with it.

When planning to go for this Talent, it is important to have Clear! at Level 1 because it increases Displacement Grenade's area, making it easier to hit multiple enemy Heroes with it.

If you have good aim and the enemy team tends to clump, the cooldown reduction given by this Talent will help you get more value from both the Slow and the Shield provided by Blast Shield at Level 4.