Mei Build Guide “A-Mei-Zing!”

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.

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

Cryo-Freeze Build

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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.

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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 stronger maps

Mei's average maps

Mei's weaker 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.

• 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 impassable 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 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.