Uther Talents

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Hammer of Justice Build

Recommended

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Uther's Hammer of Justice Build increases your crowd control by a considerable amount, allowing you to peel for your team during team fights.

Hammer of the Lightbringer at Level 1 and Well Met at Level 13 are great together as they empower each other: the Slow provided by the latter makes you Basic Attack more while the cooldown reduction given by the former makes you Stun more.

Hybrid Build

Situational

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Uther's Hybrid Build features various offensive and utility Talents that can be used to damage and crowd control opponents.

The combination of Holy Shock at Level 4 and Silver Touch at Level 1 is useful for dismounting enemy Heroes, especially Tanks that are trying to engage.

Holy Light Build

Situational

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Uther's Holy Light Build gives a considerable boost to your healing power and survivability in the late game in the form of sustain healing for your teammates and burst healing for yourself.

The synergy between Beacon of Light at Level 16 and Blessed Champion at Level 13 allows you to go from low to high Health with a single Holy Light cast and few Basic Attacks. Basic Attacks will also heal nearby allied Heroes.

ARAM Build

ARAM

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Uther's ARAM Build is designed to help you keep allied Heroes alive when you cannot position aggressively and to punish whoever gets too close to you or allied Heroes nearby.

Wave of Light at Level 1 slightly increases your sustain healing as well as your Armor uptime, allowing you to better support allied Heroes with Holy Radiance while they are taking damage.

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Silver Touch (Level 1) Uther

Quest: Reduce damage from Heroic sources with Devotion.

Reward: After reducing damage 40 times, Holy Light's Mana cost is reduced from 80 to 60.

Reward: After reducing damage 80 times, Holy Light's Mana cost is reduced to 40, and its range is increased by 50%.

Silver Touch is a good Talent that provides additional range for your healing via Holy Light while also reducing their Mana cost. Pick this Talent when you feel like you will not get enough value from Hammer of the Lightbringer because the enemy team has too much crowd control to safely hit them with your Basic Attacks.

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Wave of Light (Level 1) Uther

Quest: Damage or heal Heroes 60 times with Holy Radiance.

Reward: Increase the duration of Devotion by 0.5 seconds.

Passive: Damaging or healing Heroes with Holy Radiance refunds 5 Mana and reduces its cooldown by 0.75 seconds.

Wave of Light is a good Quest-based Talent that improves Holy Radiance by reducing its cooldown and Mana cost. The duration increase to Devotion's Armor-increasing effect furthermore contributes to Uther's ability to help with survivability, especially if your team has another Healer.

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Hammer of the Lightbringer (Level 1) Uther

Quest: Basic Attack enemies 75 times.

Reward: Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of Hammer of Justice by 1.5 seconds.

Passive: Basic Attacks restore 1.5% of Uther's maximum Mana.

Hammer of the Lightbringer is a strong Quest-based Talent that can punish melee Heroes. Under ideal circumstances, Hammer of the Lightbringer will provide more Mana than its two alternative Talents, on top of a hefty cooldown reduction to Hammer of Justice, particularly valuable when combined with some of the other Talents that improve Hammer of Justice.

When you have Divine Storm as Heroic Ability, you can chain your Stuns almost perfectly:

1. start with Hammer of Justice;
2. use Divine Storm when the previous Stun is almost over;
3. Basic Attack during the whole time to have a second Hammer of Justice available right after the Stun from Divine Storm ends.

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Holy Shock (Level 4) Uther

• Cooldown: 6 seconds

Activate to deal 145 (+4% per level) damage to the target enemy, and gain the self-healing benefits of Holy Light. Shares a cooldown with Holy Light.

Holy Shock is a good Talent that, by giving you a separate Active Ability, allows you to cast Holy Light on enemies at the cost of less Mana and for a reduced cooldown, dealing moderate damage to them. Holy Shock and Holy Light share their cooldowns, so casting one will put the other on cooldown, and vice versa.

The extra damage provided by this Talent can be useful when your team's strategy involves bursting down one specific target, or when your team composition lacks damage because you have a second Healer.

Combine it with Silver Touch at Level 1 to spend less Mana and have more cast range. Being able to deal damage from the distance can also be useful for dismounting enemy Heroes, slowing down their rotation or weakening their engage attempt.

An added benefit of this Talent is that it can trigger Devotion's effect on Uther himself at a relatively low Mana cost and, thanks to the cooldown reduction, Beacon of Light at Level 16 more often. The downside of the Talent, however, is that it does nothing when using Holy Light to heal someone. For this reason, we only recommend picking this Talent when you have another Healer in team.

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Pursuit of Justice (Level 4) Uther

Hammer of Justice increases Uther's Movement Speed by 25% for 3 seconds.

Pursuit of Justice provides Uther with a reliable Movement Speed increase, which helps make up for his otherwise inexistent mobility.

If you have Benediction at Level 16, you can do a neat trick with this Talent: activate Benediction, cast Hammer of Justice on any enemy unit nearby (for example a Minion) to gain Movement Speed, run towards an enemy Hero, and use Hammer of Justice on that Hero.

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Holy Fire (Level 4) Uther

Deal 13 (+4% per level) damage per second to nearby enemies. Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes increase this damage by 20% for 3 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times.

Holy Fire is a decent Talent that somewhat improves Uther's abysmal waveclear and increases his damage to enemy Heroes when having space to Basic Attack them.

One interesting aspect of the Talent is its ability to reveal Stealthed Heroes, turning them into valid targets for Hammer of Justice without the need of casting Holy Radiance towards them. Similarly, it can be used to destroy hidden Summons on the ground (like Creep Tumor by Zagara).

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Armor of Faith (Level 7) Uther

Being Stunned, Rooted, or Silenced grants Uther 90 Mana and causes Holy Light's cooldown to recharge 200% faster for 6 seconds. This effect has a 20 second cooldown.

Armor of Faith is a situational Talent that punishes opponents for Stunning Uther himself by drastically reducing the cooldown of Holy Light. Unlike the alternative options available on this Tier, Armor of Faith cannot be used to help allied Heroes affected by enemy crowd control, reducing Uther's general utility but increasing his survivability.

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Guardian of Ancient Kings (Level 7) Uther

Healing a Hero with a Basic Ability that is Stunned, Rooted, or Silenced grants them 50 Armor for 3 seconds.

Guardian of Ancient Kings is a situational Talent that grants allied Heroes a very significant amount of Armor if you manage to heal them with Holy Light or Holy Radiance when they are affected by enemy crowd control. Remember that it only works with Stun, Root, and Silence.

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Hand of Protection (Level 7) Uther

• Cooldown: 90 seconds

Activate to make target ally Unstoppable for 1 second. Cannot be cast on Uther. Basic Attacks reduce Hand of Protection's cooldown by 5 seconds.

Hand of Protection is a strong Talent that can be used to make any allied Hero other than Uther himself Unstoppable for 1 second, freeing them from any crowd control effect and allowing them to channel any Ability without risking to be interrupted.

While it has 30 seconds more cooldown than most cleanse effects (such as Intercession by Whitemane), you can reduce it by 30 seconds by using Basic Attacks for 6 seconds.

In this section we discuss when and why to pick a given Heroic Ability. If you want to read how they work in detail and/or you are looking for some tips on how to use them, check them out on the Abilities and Strategy page.

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Divine Shield (Level 10) Uther

• Mana: 80
• Cooldown: 90 seconds

Make an allied Hero Invulnerable and increase their Movement Speed by 20% for 3 seconds.

Divine Shield is a strong but relatively-hard-to-use Heroic Ability that provides Movement Speed to an allied Hero and also make them Invulnerable for a few seconds, a buff that will basically make them Protected and Unstoppable at the same time.

Pick it when you want to help an allied Hero to make an aggressive play without the risk of being stopped and/or when you need a tool to save allied Heroes from certain death.

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Divine Storm (Level 10) Uther

• Mana: 80
• Cooldown: 80 seconds

Deal 170 (+4% per level) damage and Stun nearby enemies for 1.75 seconds.

Divine Storm is a good and relatively-easy-to-use Heroic Ability that allows you to Stun for almost 2 seconds all enemies in a small area around you. Do not hesitate to use it on isolated enemy Heroes!

Choose it when you need to counter-engage and/or peel for your team, regardless of the Role you are covering in your team composition.

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Blessed Champion (Level 13) Uther

For the next 5 seconds after using Holy Light, Uther's Basic Attacks heal him and nearby allied Heroes for 15% of the total amount healed by Holy Light.

Blessed Champion has the potential of providing some incredible area of effect healing. This potential, however, hinges upon being able to reliably deliver Basic Attacks, which may be not always possible.

The healing done by this Talent is also increased by the self-healing provided by Beacon of Light at Level 16, so they are great when paired together as they can increase Uther's sustain healing by a considerable amount when the situation permits.

Pick this Talent when your team needs sustain healing, when the enemy team lacks burst damage to quickly get a kill, and/or when you want to keep your team healthy between team fights.

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Well Met (Level 13) Uther

When used against Heroes, Hammer of Justice reduces the target's Movement Speed and damage dealt by 25% for 3 seconds.

Well Met provides a modest but reliable debuff that stacks with the Armor provided by Devotion in terms of damage reduction. The Slow is also useful as well when used with Hammer of the Lightbringer and Pursuit of Justice as they allow you to consistently maintain the debuff on your chosen target.

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Spell Shield (Level 13) Uther

Every 30 seconds, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability and subsequent Abilities for 3 seconds, reducing the damage taken by 50%.

Can be toggled to allow or prevent this talent from triggering automatically.

Spell Shield is a situational Talent that provides Spell Armor for a few seconds when you take damage. You can toggle it on or off.

If you do not want to waste its cooldown when being hit by cheap damage, keep it off and only toggle it on when you expect to take burst damage. Since you cannot do this while under crowd control effects, you should also toggle it on right before becoming unable to act because of them because you will likely be hit by burst damage in that time window.

We find this Talent rarely needed because, after using his long-cooldown Basic Abilities and especially his powerful Heroic Ability, Uther wants to be the first Hero to die in team fights, so that he can get value from Devotion.

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Beacon of Light (Level 16) Uther

Uther receives 125% bonus self-healing when targeting others with Holy Light. This bonus is increased to 250% while he is below 50% Health.

Beacon of Light provides half value when Uther has high Health and full value when he is low on Health. When high Health, Uther is healed by 226. When low Health, Uther is healed by twice that amount. This effect drastically increases his survivability in prolonged team fights.

The self-healing provided by this Talent also increases the healing done by Blessed Champion at Level 13, so they are great when paired together as they can increase Uther's sustain healing by a considerable amount when the situation permits.

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Tyr's Deliverance (Level 16) Uther

Increase the damage and healing of Holy Radiance by 10%. Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes cause Uther's next cast of Holy Radiance to have its damage and healing increased by an additional 10%, stacking up to 7 times.

Tyr's Deliverance increases the damage and healing coming from Holy Radiance by 10% as flat value and by additional 10% for each Basic Attack done on enemy Heroes before casting it, stacking up to additional 70% healing when allowed to freely use Basic Attack.

We do not recommended this Talent as we find it too hard to get value from during most if not all games, especially if you consider that Benediction and Beacon of Light will give you similar value in short and long team fights respectively.

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Benediction (Level 16) Uther

• Cooldown: seconds

Activate to reduce the Mana cost of Uther's next Basic Ability by 50 and its cooldown by 10 seconds.

Benediction is a strong Talent that can be activated before using a Basic Ability to have its cooldown reset and its Mana cost reduced by 50. Similarly to Rewind, it allows you to cast the same Ability twice in a row.

Spend it on Holy Light when you need more single-target healing, Holy Radiance when you need more multi-target healing, or Hammer of Justice when you need more crowd control.

If you have Pursuit of Justice at Level 4, you can do a neat trick with this Talent: activate Benediction, cast Hammer of Justice on any enemy unit nearby (for example a Minion) to gain Movement Speed, run towards an enemy Hero, and use Hammer of Justice on that Hero.

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Bulwark of Light (Level 20) Uther

Divine Shield is also applied to all nearby allied Heroes and lasts 1 second longer.

Bulwark of Light is a situational Talent that can be used for protecting several Heroes at once, something that is extremely strong as a defensive tool when playing against team compositions featuring a wombo combo.

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Divine Hurricane (Level 20) Uther

Divine Storm's radius is increased by 50% and its cooldown is reduced by 40 seconds.

Divine Hurricane simply increases the reliability of Divine Storm by allowing it to hit more targets. This increases Uther's effective threat range, and can be particularly surprising to unexpecting opponents. This Talent works well with combo-heavy teams that rely on quickly wrestling kills to gain an advantage.

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Redemption (Level 20) Uther

After Eternal Vanguard ends, Uther revives at the spirit's location with 50% of his maximum Health.

This effect has a 180 second cooldown.

Redemption is one of the best Talents in the game. The utility of being able to die, expending your opponent's time and resources, to then be able to use Eternal Vanguard's outstanding healing potential, to then revive near your team with a full Mana bar and a reasonable amount of Health simply cannot be overstated.

Remember to move your spirit to a safe location before Eternal Vanguard ends because clever opponents will quickly switch their attention to you if you happen to respawn near them. This effect has a cooldown of 3 minutes, so avoid wasting it and be careful not to die when it is not available.

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Divine Protection (Level 20) Uther

Increase Devotion Armor to 50 and its duration by 0.5 seconds.

Divine Protection is a subtle yet extremely impactful Talent that helps Uther with that which he is best at: mitigating burst damage. Being able to gain and give 50 Amor on demand and for a longer duration simply cannot be overstated, especially when playing with another Healer in team.