Welcome to our guide for Arthas, a Tank 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.

1. Arthas's Overview

Arthas is a Tank but he is mostly being played as Bruiser because his Abilities are not that strong compared to the other main Tanks. Avoid playing him as Tank unless you are not countered by the enemy team and you are instead countering them.

He excels at slowing and rooting several enemy Heroes at the same time, which allows him to either chase retreating enemies or to peel for his team, especially against melee Heroes that need to Basic Attack and lack mobility.

2. Arthas's Strengths and Weaknesses

3. Arthas's Talent Build Cheatsheet

4. Arthas's Synergies and Counters

5. Arthas's Maps

Arthas's stronger maps Arthas's average maps Arthas's weaker maps Due to Frozen Tempest being heavy on Mana consumption, Arthas suffers on Maps where he needs to stay active for long periods of time (with Braxis Holdout being the major offender) and does not shine on Maps where it is highly preferred to have your Solo Laner take care of 2 lanes by double soaking (for example top-mid on Towers of Doom). While being decent at it, Arthas does not excel at capturing Camps and/or defending enemy Mercenaries in lane, making him a suboptimal pick on Maps where macro is important (for example Garden of Terror).

6. Arthas's Tips and Tricks

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Even if classified as Tank by Blizzard in-game, Arthas is mostly played as Solo Laner because his lack of interrupts and mobility do not allow him to scare most Tanks and, more in general, Heroes in the current metagame and also because he is fairly weak when he cannot count on his powerful Army of the Dead to increase his survivability—before Level 10, against burst damage, or against healing reduction effects.

To further compare him to other Tanks, the Root provided by Howling Blast cannot stop enemy Heroes from casting their Abilities, making him not a good choice over Tanks with a Stun (such as E.T.C. having Powerslide).

All that said, Arthas is primarly chosen to provide his team additional peeling from melee Heroes during team fights (for example against Kerrigan) or to counter a particular Solo Laner (such as Artanis).

8. Changelog