Qhira Build Guide “This is my domain!”
Welcome to our guide for Qhira, a Melee Assassin 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.
Qhira's Overview
Qhira is a melee Assassin who combines strong mobility, speed, and damage to
relentlessly chase down her prey. Her most useful tool to do exactly that proves
to be her Trait Grappling Hook, which comes with a hefty
cooldown, however, it turns out to be an extraordinarily impactful gap-closer and
escape mechanism. Most of Qhira's damage derives from a stackable Bleeding effect
that gets applied whenever she damages enemy Heroes with both Basic Attacks
and any of her abilities and can be amplified by activating
Blood Rage
in a timely manner.
Qhira's Strengths and Weaknesses
Great mobility
Strong damage-over-time
Hard to read for enemies
Good Solo Laner
Susceptible to enemy Stuns and Silences
Dependent on terrain
Steep learning curve
Qhira's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Heavy Bleeding Build
RecommendedThe Heavy Bleeding Build focuses on Qhira's outstanding sustained damage potential. Her main goal should always be to spread the ticking bleeding damage onto several enemies at the same time.
At Level 1, Fatal Wounds will greatly enhance her
damage and sustain
when complete, while
Maximum Effort will be excellent
against a low
mobility team. At Level 4, Qhira can decide depending on the situation she finds
herself in. We usually recommend picking
Upstage, but
when you are against Heroes with fast Basic Attacks, like Tracer,
Your Pain, My Gain is a good alternative.
Carnage Build
Situational Maximum Effort is the core Talent for Carnage Build, it will
double
Carnage's damage while also adding an excellent slow
that can be used to set up a
Revolving Sweep.
This build is excellent against Melee Compositions. The Thirst
combined with
Maximum Effort can make Qhira very resilient
if she is able to hit
Carnage. However, since it is harder
to hit Carnage against ranged Heroes, it is better to use the Heavy Bleeding Build against
Ranged Compositions.
Basic Attack Build
SituationalThe Basic Attack Build, as the name suggests, focuses on Qhira's Basic Attacks.
This build is mostly focused on Qhira's dueling potential because it is not
as effective as the other builds in teamfights. However, the extra damage from
Finishing Touch and the healing from
Siphoning Link
are very oppressive in a duel. This build is better in Braxis Holdout
and Dragon Shire, because controlling the objective in the solo lane
is essential on those maps.
Qhira's Synergies and Counters
There are very few "hard" counters to Qhira. Her kit is solid and her abilities do not get countered by Blinds. Her mobility allows her to play offensively or defensively. Yet, there are certain Heroes that make Qhira's life a bit harder than others—Heavy crowd control Tanks and Bruisers can keep Qhira at distance, and Heroes that enhance their allies' mobility, such as Lucio, make it harder for Qhira to land her important skillshots.
Qhira's Maps














Qhira excels at holding a Solo Lane and, later on, hitting enemy Heroes from an unexpected angle while flanking. Thus, Maps with lots of openings, such as Dragon Shire or Tomb of the Spider Queen are well suited for her while she is often predictable on enclosed Maps such as Towers of Doom.
Qhira's Tips and Tricks
Grappling Hook pierces through Minions and Mercenaries, which allows Qhira to hit her target from many different angles.
Grappling Hook can be used on enemy Heroes or terrain while Qhira is spinning with
Revolving Sweep, granting her an astounding amount of mobility.
- While spinning,
Revolving Sweep grants Qhira protection against crowd control effects.
Blood Rage gets most value if activated after spreading Bleeding stacks on several enemy Heroes. Use it frequently to heal during the laning phase to prevent downtimes.
Role in the Current Meta
Qhira is usually played as a ganker and Solo Laner.
While laning, her outstanding damage-over-time and self-sustain, most deriving
from Blood Rage, allows her to soak experience and pressure
her opponents. As long as
Grappling Hook is available, she is
very safe against enemy ganks and engages by simply using it against terrain and dashing to
safety.
During team fights, Qhira is most effective when fulfilling the role of an initiator or a flanker. To do this successfully and with impact, she should look for enemies and engage them from an unexpected angle, rather than just charging at them head on.
Changelog
- 24 Aug. 2020 (talents page): Updated Talents and Builds after recent balance patch.
- 24 Aug. 2020 (this page): Updated Builds after recent balance patch.
- 30 Jul. 2020 (this page): Updated Builds to reflect current meta.
- 30 Jul. 2020 (talents page): Updated Talents and Builds to reflect current meta.
- 04 Jun. 2020 (talents page): Updated Unrelenting Strikes and Silent Killer's relevance in Builds and Talents page after balance patch.
- 14 Apr. 2020 (talents page): Updated Talents and Builds to reflect current meta.
- 14 Aug. 2019 (talents page): Updated Qhira's talent build description.
- 09 Aug. 2019 (talents page): Added Talent discussions.
- 08 Aug. 2019 (this page): Guide added.
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Derenash has been playing Heroes of the Storm since 2015 and has achieved Grandmaster in multiple seasons, peaking at Top 1 in Season 3 and 4 of 2018. He participated in the HGC Copa America in 2018 where his team had a strong victory. He is passionate about teaching others about the game, and streams often on Twitch in Portuguese, and you can find him in Wind Striders' Discord as well where he is happy to answer any questions in English or Portuguese.
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