Yrel Build Guide “Victory will be ours.”

Yrel is a resistant Bruiser who excels at creating opportunities to decide fights in her team's favor. Since all of her Basic Abilities come with a short wind-up time, it is extremely important to think ahead when playing Yrel in order to avoid getting interrupted or missing the right moment to strike.

Strengths

• Decent self-sustain
• Good objective or Mercenary point control with Righteous Hammer
• Strong disengage
• Good mobility thanks to Avenging Wrath
• Decent waveclear
• Can greatly reduce armor with Templar's Verdict

Weaknesses

• Vulnerable to crowd control
• Predictable engage
• Susceptible to getting kited
• Bad at clearing Mercenary Camps

Vindication Build

Recommended

Level 1

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7

Level 10

Level 13

Level 16 ?

Level 20

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Yrel's Vindication Build provides a good balance of survivability, damage, and utility. While playing this Build, you should generally use Divine Purpose right before casting Vindication.

Righteous Hammer Build

Advanced

Level 1 ?

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7 ?

Level 10

Level 13 ?

Level 16 ?

Level 20

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Yrel's Righteous Hammer Build provides a good balance of survivability, damage, and utility. While playing this Build, you should generally use Divine Purpose right before casting Righteous Hammer.

Avenging Wrath Build

Situational

Level 1 ?

Level 4 ?

Level 7

Level 10

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20

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Yrel's Avenging Wrath Build provides a good balance of survivability, damage, and utility. While playing this Build, you should generally use Divine Purpose right before casting Avenging Wrath.

ARAM Build

ARAM

Level 1

Level 4 ? ?

Level 7

Level 10

Level 13

Level 16 ?

Level 20

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Yrel's ARAM Build provides a good balance of survivability, damage, and utility. While playing this Build, you should generally use Divine Purpose right before casting Vindication.

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Yrel synergizes with

Yrel can help Tanks with a weak engage to force a fight by finding a good flank and can support the ones who lack peeling to protect the backline from aggressive enemy Heroes.

The Armor from Aegis of Light at Level 4 is great for protecting allied Heroes who lack mobility. Garrosh benefits from it more than other Heroes because it stacks with Armor Up.

The healing from Gift of the Naaru at Level 4 can be useful for playing in the offlane as a 2-man with Zarya on Braxis Holdout. This strategy allows you to have good damage and survivability on both lanes.

The ability to provide Movement Speed and remove some crowd control effects with Hand of Freedom at Level 4, together with the possibility to use Righteous Hammer defensively when needed, is quite useful for helping allied Heroes who are in trouble.

Yrel is countered by

Yrel suffers against Heroes that possess reliable crowd control effects who can interrupt her Basic Abilities as they are being channeled (Stuns and Silences) or who can interrupt Avenging Wrath during its jump animation (Roots and Knockbacks).

She also struggles against Heroes who can kite her from the distance or have a lot of mobility to deal damage without being hit in return. While laning, these Heroes could threaten a gank, forcing Yrel to use her Heroic Ability to stay alive.

Last but not the least, Yrel is relatively weak to healing reduction effects (especially if having Ardent Defender as Heroic Ability), Armor reduction effects (especially if having Sacred Ground as Heroic Ability), and percent-based damage because they all reduce her survivability during team fights.

Yrel's stronger maps

Yrel's average maps

Yrel's weaker maps

Thanks to her excellent waveclear, Yrel does better on Maps where she can double soak. After gaining priority over the enemy Offlaner, she can rotate to force a fight with a numerical advantage over the enemy team.

When contesting a Capture Point, Yrel can make use of her survivability to buy time and rely on Righteous Hammer to Knock enemy Heroes away. This is not only useful for securing Mercenary Camps but also for controlling some Objectives.

Yrel can unleash her true potential on Maps where there are various spots to flank by manually charging up Avenging Wrath while hidden, jump over impassable terrain to close the distance, and still have Divine Purpose to instantly fully-charge Righteous Hammer.

• Vindication should be used on cooldown while laning, even if not hitting anyone, because it is your main source of self-sustain. Combine it with Divine Purpose to save Mana.
• Righteous Hammer can be used either aggressively, to engage for punishing enemy Heroes, or defensively, to peel for allied Heroes in need of help.
• Avenging Wrath is best used to engage by channeling it behind impassable terrain, to take enemy Heroes off-guard.
• Divine Purpose should be used when you need to fully charge a Basic Ability. The specific Basic Ability to fully charge this way depends on your Build and sometimes even on the situation.
• Ardent Defender should ideally be used when Yrel is around 50% maximum Health instead of waiting until the last moment. This way you can keep fighting instead of having to retreat anyway.
• Sacred Ground is best used to secure a Capture Point but can also be used to mitigate burst damage when needed during team fights.
• Hand of Freedom can be used not only to remove Roots and Slows from Yrel or an allied Hero, but also to simply give them Movement Speed when needed.
• Seraphim is great for becoming Unstoppable while channeling a Basic Ability, so that you cannot get interrupted.

Yrel is an amazing Offlaner that can easily fight the enemy in her lane and roam before them, flanking enemies with Avenging Wrath to push them towards your team with Righteous Hammer.

While laning, she is not that easy to gank and her self-sustain allows her to perform well even in unfavorable match-ups. During team fights, Yrel excels at flanking the enemy team and peeling for allied Heroes in need.

Thanks to her self-sustain, Yrel does well against sustain damage. After reaching Level 10, Yrel can get away with playing very aggressively when her Heroic Ability is not on cooldown as they can mitigate a lot of burst damage when active.