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
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
Malfurion's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Standard Build
RecommendedThis standard build provides superior utility. Flexible by nature, this build proposes baseline Talents that allow you to better heal and support your teammates as well as several alternative choices to adapt as needed.
Malfurion's Synergies and Counters
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.
Although not particularly vulnerable to any specific Hero himself, Malfurion tends to struggle against burst damage. His sub-par waveclear can also be problematic if your team composition does not make up for this weakness somewhere else.
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 Map 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 up on as many targets as possible, 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.
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
- 27 Oct. 2020 (talents page): Tranqulity 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 (this page): Guide updated.
- 11 Oct. 2019 (abilities page): Abilities section reviewed.
- 28 Jul. 2018 (talents page): Talents and recommendations updated to reflect July 25 balance patch changes.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (this page): Guide fully updated to reflect the Malfurion rework of the Blaze patch.
- 09 Jan. 2018 (talents 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 (this page): Updated strengths, weaknesses, and role in the current meta, following Malfurion's rework in Malthael's patch.
- 13 Jun. 2017 (talents page): Complete revamp of the page 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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Oxygen is a veteran of the MOBA genre, which he has been playing for nearly 15 years. He has coached some of Heroes of the Storm's most prominent North American players and teams alike, including Team Liquid. As a Master player, he enjoys playing all Heroes and roles.
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