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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. 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
Strengths
Great mobility- Strong damage-over-time
- Good Solo Laner
- Excellent duelist
- Can mitigate damage with
Revolving Sweep and 
Blood Rage
Weaknesses
Susceptible to enemy Stuns and Silences- Dependent on terrain
- Steep learning curve
- Extremely dependent on hitting her Abilities
- Bad waveclear
Qhira's Talent Build Cheatsheet
Heavy Bleeding Build
Recommended
The 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 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.
Final Strike is the standard Heroic Ability here, as it
will be very effective in most games. However, 
Unrelenting Strikes
is a better choice if enemies cannot easily cancel it. In this scenario you should
pick Silent Killer at Level 20, since the Silence and Cooldown Reduction
provided by it will be excellent in fights.
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
Qhira synergizes with
Qhira pairs very well with Healers that excel at supporting individual targets by empowering their damage or granting them large amounts of protection. Furthermore, Tanks with strong crowd control make it easier for her to reliably land her skillshots.
Qhira is countered by
Every Qhira Ability besides Blood Rage can be interrupted
by crowd control or displacements
( Unrelenting Strikes
is only interrupted by stuns or silences). Therefore, she is countered by Heroes that
can constantly knock her back or stun her. Qhira also has a hard time against
cleanses, as she will lose her invulnerability from Revolving Sweep
if the target becomes unstoppable.
Since 
Carnage and Revolving Sweep
are slow skillshots, it is extremely painful for her to face
very mobile ranged Heroes, like Tracer.
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.
- 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.
- Blood Rage is totally reapplied when Qhira deals damage to a Hero. Therefore, it is essential to prioritize hitting enemies that have a low remaining duration on the bleeding, either with
Carnage or with Basic Attacks. - Revolving Sweep can be used to avoid predictable damage, like a
Pyroblast from Kael'thas. - While spinning, Revolving Sweep grants Qhira protection against all damage and crowd control effects.
Final Strike has an extremely low Cooldown for a Heroic Ability. It should be used to follow every allied crowd control if you are not in range for Revolving Sweep.- Against Heroes without crowd control it is good to start a gank or a pickoff with
Unrelenting Strikes, as the stun can be used to guarantee a Revolving Sweep hit.
Qhira's 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
- 26 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Updated Talent recommendations.
- 26 Feb. 2021 (talents page): Updated Talent recommendations.
- 26 Feb. 2021 (this page): Builds Updated.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (abilities page): Abilities section updated.
- 20 Jan. 2021 (this page): Guide update to ensure meta relevance.
- 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 (talents page): Updated Talents and Builds to reflect current meta.
- 30 Jul. 2020 (this page): Updated 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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