Whitemane Build Guide “Burn in the Light!”

Whitemane is a Healer who can heal her allies with Zeal by damaging her enemies. She is capable of trading damage favourably against most Heroes, and must do so in order to maximise her healing. If she is able to consistently deal damage, she can generate immense healing for her team.

Strengths

• High burst healing
• Access to a cleanse effect

Weaknesses

• Very poor waveclear and Camp clear
• Lack of mobility
• Healing output largely dependent on damage dealt, therefore low out-of-combat healing
• No crowd control
• Weak to healing reduction effects

Inquisition Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Whitemane's Inquisition Build is based on Talents that increase the defensive and offensive effectiveness of Inquisition, making it a useful peeling tool and a powerful follow up for allied engages.

Subjugation at Level 13 will reduce the damage done by enemy Heroes and Shared Punishment at Level 16 will reduce their Armor, a great combination of Talents that will shift damage and healing in your team's favor. To do all of this more often, we have Pity the Frail at Level 1.

Searing Lash Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Whitemane's Searing Lash Build empowers Searing Lash, increasing your damage output and giving you access to crowd control in the late game. Consider going for this Build when you expect Inquisition to be interrupted too often and too quickly.

Block enemy Heroes with Harsh Discipline at Level 16 to help your team deal more damage to them or to peel when needed. When doing so, you can easily get a cooldown reset from Lashing Out at Level 13.

ARAM Build

ARAM

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10 ?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20 ? ?

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Whitemane's ARAM Build is based on Talents that increase the defensive and offensive effectiveness of Inquisition, making it a useful peeling tool and a powerful follow up for allied engages.

Subjugation at Level 13 will reduce the damage done by enemy Heroes and Shared Punishment at Level 16 will reduce their Armor, a great combination of Talents that will shift damage and healing in your team's favor. To do all of this more often, we have Pity the Frail at Level 1.

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Whitemane synergizes with

Whitemane has synergy with Heroes who can create a lot of space (for example Johanna) or that like to take prolonged team fights (such as Sonya) as she can keep healing them for long.

Due to the high amount of raw healing she has access to, Whitemane is great when paired with Heroes who have Armor baseline (like Garrosh) or with high uptime (notably Cassia).

Whitemane is countered by

Whitemane has very limited mobility, and must remain within the threat range of enemies in order to deal damage to heal her allies. She will struggle against Heroes who can displace her, as she lacks any kind of escape once caught, or crowd control her to death.

Heroes who can deal damage to Whitemane and her teammates while she cannot damage them back (for example Chromie) may be difficult to play against. Additionally, Heroes who can significantly reduce or prevent healing received (such as Deckard Cain with Sapphire at Level 7) can greatly reduce the effectiveness of Zeal during teamfights.

Whitemane's stronger maps

Whitemane's average maps

Whitemane's weaker maps

Whitemane excels in short team fights and at contesting Objectives that take less than 30 seconds to be secured (for example Infernal Shrines). If the fight takes too long, she struggles to keep up with her Mana consumption.

The least interesting Maps to play Whitemane on are the ones where she cannot abuse her kit around the Objective, that are heavily focused on Mercenaries (such as Sky Temple), or where the early game is too important (notably Braxis Holdout).

• Desperate Plea is the only Ability in Whitemane's kit that has a Mana cost, but you have to manage your Mana wisely because of the Desperation mechanic.
• Use Inquisition immediately after casting Searing Lash to maximise your damage output while they are Slowed.
• Cast Searing Lash when you can hit enemy Heroes, preferably when they are under crowd control effects that impair their movements.
• Scarlet Aegis can be used during team fights to apply Zeal to multiple allied Heroes without having to pay Desperation cost, given they are in range.
• Divine Reckoning should be preferably used as a follow-up to allied crowd control effects that can keep enemy Heroes in place.
• Make sure to apply Zeal to allied Heroes before using your Abilities to deal damage, otherwise you will not convert that damage into healing.
• When there are no enemy Heroes in range, make sure to use Clemency to sustain your team with out-of-combat healing.
• To save Mana, try to use either Inquisition or Clemency to remove 1 Desperation stack before casting Desperate Plea again.

Whitemane excels at relatively quick team fights, during which she can get value from her burst healing and have time to go back for restoring her Mana. Among her Talents, she has various tools to save teammates from enemy Heroes who hard engage, leading the opponents to expose for getting a kill and then suddenly deny it.

Whitemane needs to be able to deal damage in order to heal optimally, so a strong frontline is necessary for her to reach peak performance. Her complete lack of waveclear is another weakness that will limit the team compositions she can fit into. She must have allies who can generate enough map pressure to make up for her weak macro. Although Whitemane has clearly defined weaknesses, she can be powerful in many team compositions, given they have a strong frontline and plenty of waveclear.