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Malfurion Build Guide “Nature will rise against you!”
Welcome to our guide for Malfurion, 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.
Malfurion's Overview
Malfurion is a ranged Healer that specialises in highly efficient healing-over-time and strong debuffs. When paired with Heroes that can properly protect him and cover his damage deficiency, his healing is a natural way to sway any extensive battle in his favour.
Malfurion's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
Outstanding healing over time with 
Regrowth and 
Tranquility- Very strong area of effect crowd control through
Entangling Roots 
Innervate is valuable to Mana-hungry allied Heroes- Extremely versatile Talent choices to adapt to a broad variety of situations
Weaknesses
Struggles against burst damage- Vulnerable to dive
- Low waveclear
- Unable to dispel Silence effects
- Unable to provide Unstoppable frames
Malfurion's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Regrowth Build
Recommended
Malfurion's Regrowth Build provides superior healing, a bit of survivability, and utility. Because of its versatility, you should use this Build in most if not all your games, with minor adjustments based on the situation.
Vengeful Roots at Level 1 increases your
damage output, however, it is not ideal against Heroes who
can benefit from enemy Summons (such as Tyrande).
Emerald Dreams at Level 1 is great when you can
coordinate well with your team to get the most out of it by not immediately
breaking the Sleep effect with damage.
Rejuvenation at Level 4 is important to have
when you are the only Healer in your team.
When that is not the case, you can replace it with either
Celestial Alignment for more damage
or with 
Shan'do's Clarity to enable
an allied Hero with more Mana and cooldown reduction.
Nature's Swiftness at Level 13 drastically
increases your survivability, however, it can occasionally be replaced
with Hindering Moonfire when facing Heroes
who can be kited (such as Garrosh)
or with Revitalize when you need more Mana.
ARAM Build
ARAMMalfurion's ARAM Build provides superior healing, a bit of survivability, and utility. Because of its versatility, you should use this Build in most if not all your games, with minor adjustments based on the situation.
Vengeful Roots at Level 1 increases your
damage output, however, it is not ideal against Heroes who
can benefit from enemy Summons (such as Tyrande).
Emerald Dreams at Level 1 is great when you can
coordinate well with your team to get the most out of it by not immediately
breaking the Sleep effect with damage.
Rejuvenation at Level 4 is important to have
when you are the only Healer in your team.
When that is not the case, you can replace it with either
Celestial Alignment for more damage
or with Shan'do's Clarity to enable
an allied Hero with more Mana and cooldown reduction.
Nature's Swiftness at Level 13 drastically
increases your survivability, however, it can occasionally be replaced
with Hindering Moonfire when facing Heroes
who can be kited (such as Garrosh)
or with Revitalize when you need more Mana.
Malfurion's Synergies and Counters
Malfurion synergizes with
Innervate makes Malfurion a natural ally to any Hero that heavily
relies on cooldowns or Mana. 
Entangling Roots also makes him excellent
at following up on anything that can provide their own source of
reliable crowd control.
Malfurion's Maps
Malfurion tends to do well on Maps that feature many choke points,
thanks to Entangling Roots.
His efficient nature as a Healer is also
particularly useful when contesting Objectives that might feature extended
poking wars that never seem to escalate into actual team fights. In
general, however, his versatility makes him a solid pick on most Maps, and
team compositions should be the most important factor to consider when drafting
Malfurion
Malfurion's Tips and Tricks
- Innervate on Mana-hungry Heroes, notably, casters such as Kael'thas or Jaina, who can not function without Mana.
- Keep Regrowth on multiple high-priority Heroes, even if they are at full Health.
Moonfire is useful for quickly checking bushes, dismounting or revealing opponents, and clearing Zagara's Creep Tumors.- Entangling Roots is much easier to land on targets that have already been crowd controlled.
- Keep your Tranquility for heated team fights, where several teammates may require healing.
Twilight Dream is an excellent counter-initiating tool, especially against multiple melee Heroes.
Malfurion's Role in the Current Meta
Malfurion's very distinct Abilities make him a versatile Healer.
Although he lacks damage, he has several tools at his disposal that make him
useful during all stages of the game. His Trait, Innervate, has
the unique ability to provide an allied Hero with additional Mana.
Entangling Roots is one of the game's
strongest follow-up crowd control Abilities
around, and Moonfire is a cheap and reliable poke
that temporarily reveals Stealthed entities.
Malfurion's main healing Abilities, Regrowth and
Tranquility, have high raw healing outputs to make
up for the fact that they do not instantly heal. Moonfire can situationally
provide some burst healing, though this depends directly on the Malfurion
Player's skill level. This makes Malfurion a natural counter to team
compositions that lack single-target burst damage. He is thus commonly picked
against teams that run two or fewer Assassins, or as part of a composition that
is resilient enough to survive large amounts of upfront burst damage.
Changelog
- 18 Jun. 2025 (talents page): Builds updated with Situational Talents.
- 18 Jun. 2025 (this page): Builds updated with Situational Talents.
- 18 Apr. 2025 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 18 Apr. 2025 (abilities page): Guide reviewed.
- 18 Apr. 2025 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 17 Dec. 2023 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
- 17 Dec. 2023 (this page): Guide reviewed.
- 22 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
- 22 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 07 Jul. 2022 (this page): Builds updated.
- 04 Feb. 2022 (talents page): Guide updated for the latest Balance Update.
- 04 Feb. 2022 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 04 Feb. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Balance Update.
- 25 Jun. 2021 (talents page): Builds updated.
- 25 Jun. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
- 07 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Talent tier 1 and 2 swapped and recommendations updated following March 2 patch rework.
- 27 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Tranquility and Serenity recommended.
- 30 Aug. 2020 (this page): Role in Current Meta section updated.
- 19 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Talents and recommendations reviewed.
- 15 Feb. 2020 (talents page): Talents and recommendations updated to reflect February 12 patch rework.
- 09 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added a note about current Anomaly.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (talents page): Talent builds and recommendations reviewed and updated.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (abilities page): Abilities section reviewed.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (this page): Guide updated.
- 28 Jul. 2018 (talents page): Talents and recommendations updated to reflect July 25 balance patch changes.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (talents page): Guide fully updated to reflect the Malfurion rework of the Blaze patch.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (this page): Guide fully updated to reflect the Malfurion rework of the Blaze patch.
- 29 Nov. 2017 (talents page): Removed the Moonburn Talent and added its Celestial Attunement replacement.
- 13 Jun. 2017 (talents page): Complete revamp of the page following Malfurion's rework in Malthael's patch.
- 13 Jun. 2017 (this page): Updated strengths, weaknesses, and role in the current meta, following Malfurion's rework in Malthael's patch.
- 26 Apr. 2017 (talents page): Made Scouting Drone situation (was previously not recommended).
- 13 Jan. 2017 (this page): Guide updated and moved to the new format.
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