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Welcome to our guide for Mei, a Tank 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.
Mei's Overview
Mei is a Tank who relies on various types of crowd control to mess up the enemy plans and some peculiar forms of self-sustain to survive longer during team fights. You can play her either aggressively or defensively, based on what your team needs in that given game and moment.
Mei's Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
High survivability- Decent damage output
- Versatile crowd control
- Good mobility
Weaknesses
Not able to peel from high mobility Heroes (like Tracer)- Weak to Knockbacks and Roots
Mei's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Cryo-Freeze Build
Recommended
Mei's Cryo-Freeze Build is designed to drastically increase her survivability.
In particular, 
Crystallize at Level 4 makes it harder
for the enemy team to break the Shield provided by Cryo-Freeze
and Cooling Servos at Level 13 gives her an escape by
reducing the cooldown of 
Icing and other Basic Abilities.
Icing Build
Situational
Mei's Icing Build is designed to increase her mobility
with the cooldown reduction on Icing coming from
Cold Front at Level 4, a Talent that also has the potential
to double the value of Skating Away at Level 7 and
Black Ice at Level 16.
Mei's Synergies and Counters
Mei synergizes with
Mei performs better with Heroes that can follow-up
her engage with crowd control
(such as 
Scroll Of Sealing by Deckard Cain)
and/or burst damage (for example Jaina).
The high Slow uptime is good for
Heroes who get increased damage from it (such as Greymane
with 
Executioner at Level 16).
Mei is countered by
Mei suffers while facing Heroes who have access to any kind of mobility because she will have a hard time trying to engage and her peeling tools will not accomplish anything (for example Tracer).
Roots (such as 
Entangling Roots by Malfurion)
and Knockbacks (like 
Face Melt by E.T.C.)
can stop her while trying to engage with Icing.
While she does not gets completely shut down by them,
Mei also does not like effects that reduce healing (for example
Biotic Grenade by Ana), deal
percent-damage (such as 
Cursed Bullet
at Level 10 by Greymane), or deal bonus damage to Shields
(like 
EMP Grenade at Level 13 by Lt. Morales).
The same is true for Heroes who can poke her team
from a long distance (such as Li-Ming).
Mei's Maps
Mei is good on Maps that have narrow passages and corridors where she can get more value from her Abilities (for example Cursed Hollow). While not her best, she does fine in open space too (Hanamura Temple comes to mind). She does not offer anything on Maps where the macro is important.
Mei's Tips and Tricks
- The moderate Slow provided by
Snow Blind can be used to slightly increase the chance that 
Icing will hit enemy Heroes from a good angle. - The high but decaying Slow provided by Icing must be used to drastically increase the chance that Stun at the end of
Blizzard will trigger. 
Avalanche can split the enemy team by pushing some enemy Heroes away, even behind unpassable terrain.- After you aggressively get behind an enemy Hero by using Icing, you can push them towards your team with Avalanche.
- If you catch 3 enemy Heroes with Avalanche, you can follow the snowball with Icing to be in range for casting Blizzard as a follow-up to the prolonged Stun.
Ice Wall can be used to split the enemy team by putting in Time Stop some Heroes and fighting the others.- A well-timed Blizzard will always Stun enemy Heroes affected by Ice Wall.
Mei's Role in the Current Meta
Mei is a Tank that excels at punishing enemy Heroes who lack mobility to play around her Slows.
She has access to powerful Heroic Abilities that, when having a Mage
in team, can be used to make scary combos.
That said, 
Avalanche and 
Ice Wall
are already strong on their own, both for engaging
and for peeling. With a bit of creativity, you can make
powerful tricks with them.
Changelog
- 24 Jun. 2020 (talents page): Guide updated.
- 24 Jun. 2020 (abilities page): Guide updated.
- 24 Jun. 2020 (this page): Guide updated.
- 20 Jun. 2020 (talents page): Guide created.
- 20 Jun. 2020 (abilities page): Guide created.
- 20 Jun. 2020 (this page): Guide created.
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Elitesparkle is a multiple times Master player in Europe who plays Heroes of the Storm since its release. He is an active member of the community—especially on Reddit—who likes to teach new and veteran players all he knows about his favorite game.
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