Welcome to our guide for Nova, 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. Nova's Overview

Nova is a Stealthed ranged damage dealer. Her strongest point is her exceptional long-ranged single-target burst damage. As a fragile Hero with no movement Ability, she must rely on deception and killing her foes before they can respond. Quick fingers and accurate shots go a long way to playing Nova and forcing opponents to play overly defensively.

2. Nova's Strengths and Weaknesses

3. Nova's Talent Build Cheatsheet

4. Nova's Synergies and Counters

Nova synergizes with Nova works best with Heroes that provide one or many form of initiation or crowd control. Her high burst damage output also benefits from buffs and debuffs. Since her team fight presence is considered to be low, avoid drafting her along Heroes such as Abathur, Murky, or The Lost Vikings. Nova is countered by As a ranged Assassin with little in the way of escaping, Nova players must rely on burst damage and long-ranged attacks to perform well. As such, she tends to struggle with anything that has a reliable means of mitigating damage for oneself or for allies or closing the gap to get up close and personal with her.

5. Nova's Maps

Nova's stronger maps Nova's average maps Nova's weaker maps Nova's role as a roamer and abysmal waveclear means she excels on Maps that feature many opportunities to gank, and a lackluster choice for everything else, but especially for Maps that involve a lot of pushing and sieging or killing Monsters.

6. Nova's Tips and Tricks

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Nova's uniquely high ranged burst damage allows her to kill certain Heroes in a single successful Ability chain. She is also permanently Stealthed while out of combat, which makes tracking her position difficult. This deadly combination makes her a prime candidate for roaming. The psychological pressure caused by a Nova pick is evident in and of itself: while she is out of sight, opposing players tend to play more defensively, opening up windows of opportunities for your own teammates. She forces fragile Heroes to constantly have to consider their positioning in order to avoid her damage, which reduces their effectiveness.

Nova's binary nature of being outstanding versus fragile Heroes and subpar versus everything else, on top of her limited utility, makes her a niche Hero that is easily countered. She is therefore typically picked late into drafts to specifically punish compositions that rely on many fragile Heroes or lack instant defensive tools.

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