Welcome to our guide for Kel'Thuzad, a Ranged 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.

1. Kel'Thuzad's Overview

Kel'Thuzad is a combo-oriented ranged damage dealer with outstanding area of effect crowd control and burst damage potential. Relying on skillshot Abilities to grow through Master of the Cold Dark makes him weak in the early stages of the game and harder than most Heroes to play, let alone master.

2. Kel'Thuzad's Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths Extremely potent crowd control chain

Powerful situational burst damage

Potent sieger

Shadow Fissure Global presence through Weaknesses Very vulnerable to mobile Heroes

Difficult to play due to all Basic Abilities being skillshots

Limited defensive Talent options and general mobility

Weak in the early game

3. Kel'Thuzad's Talent Build Cheatsheet

4. Kel'Thuzad's Synergies and Counters

Kel'Thuzad synergizes with Since Kel'Thuzad depends highly on skillshots to deal damage, he naturally works well with any Hero that can provide reliable crowd control against a kill target for him to follow up. His frailty also makes him dependent on other Heroes to peel for him; Tanks tend to fulfill these two needs, though other Hero types can too. Kel'Thuzad is countered by Since Kel'Thuzad relies chiefly on skillshots to deal damage, he does particularly poorly against Heroes that have ways of quickly dodging his Abilities. Furthermore, his frailty and lack of self-peel makes him vulnerable to high-damage, nimble Heroes that can quickly reach him.

5. Kel'Thuzad's Maps

Kel'Thuzad's stronger maps Kel'Thuzad's average maps Kel'Thuzad's weaker maps Maps that promote early skirmishes are optimal for the purpose of quickly completing Master of the Cold Dark.

6. Kel'Thuzad's Tips and Tricks

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Kel'Thuzad has a niche role as a counterpick to immobile team compositions. Due to his stacking nature, he also does well on Maps that feature constant brawls, notably two-lane Maps such as Braxis Holdout and Battlefield of Eternity. Under such circumstances, Kel'Thuzad players are expected to exploit his powerful mid-game to snowball the game with excellent burst damage.

His particular vulnerability to highly mobile Heroes makes drafting a Tank with reliable peel essential to ensure Kel'Thuzad's survival. The crowd control provided by most popular Tanks also doubles up as an offensive tool to ease hitting with Kel'Thuzad's powerful yet avoidable Abilities.

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