Team Composition Breakdown: Tri-Warrior Illidan Counter

This composition was drafted in response to the Illidan pick by Reborn and was made specifically to shut him down.

Innate Hero Synergy

This team has really solid innate synergies:

Sonya and Muradin are a crowd control duo and are great at initiating or creating picks

Zarya can shield both of these front liners protecting them from damage and giving her more damage

The crowd control from Sonya and Muradin can easily set up Li-Ming’s skill shots

Muradin and Sonya both have built in sustain that takes some of the healing burden off of Brightwing.



This composition has great built in synergy, but how does it fit the map?

Picking According to the Map

Picking your heroes to suit the map you are on is crucial. Denial shows mastery of this on Cursed Hollow with these choices:

Mobility

Mobility is crucial on this map due to its size. Quick rotations are required to contest cross map objectives.

Four of the heroes have a gap close. Muradin has Dwarf Toss, Sonya has Ancient Spear and the possibility of Leap, Li-Ming has Teleport, and Brightwing has one if Blink Heal is chosen (it isn’t, but it could have been).

Brightwing gives them a global and are great to have on large maps like Cursed Hollow.

Sustain

Sustain is crucial on this map because the tribute fights can be lengthy. Having heroes that can self-sustain without mana is critical to taking tributes.

Muradin has sustain with his Second Wind passive. It gets even stronger with the Third Wind talent.

Sonya has sustain with Whirlwind. The War Paint and Ferocious Healing talents also give her even more sustain.

Brightwing can passively heal without mana with Soothing Mist.

Zarya’s shields can help reduce poke damage helping the team stay healthy.

Li-Ming has great mana sustain with Power Hungry as long as she can get regen globes.

Poke

Poke can be critical on this map because it can help you elongate tribute fights by interrupting the channel.

Li-Ming has some of the best poke in the game from long range with Magic Missiles, Arcane Orb, and Disintegrate. Her resets can allow her to continue interrupting as long as she can get a takedown.

Zarya’s Particle Grenades allow her to poke repeatedly from moderate range. Her charges allow her to continually interrupt as long as she is alive.

Brightwing has reliable poke with Arcane Flare that she can use from moderate range to interrupt channels and get chip damage in.

Muradin and Sonya don’t have the best poke, but they both have at least a couple options to interrupt. Muradin has Stormbolt and Dwarf Toss. Sonya has Ancient Spear and Leap if she decides to take it. Not the best options, but possibilities

Overall this composition is great on this map and is tailored to fit it well.

Playing the Composition

Executing this composition is fairly straightforward. Here is how you do it:

The main goal should be to create picks and burst down single targets. This composition has excellent pick potential and should definitely be played aggressively to create numbers advantages before objective spawns.

This team can also play the poke game. They have great innate sustain and great poke which can be a massive advantage in tribute fights.

This is an opportunistic team composition. It is best to play safe and poke until a catch opportunity arises on a priority target. When Muradin or Sonya create a pick look to be aggressive and focus down that hero quickly.

Win Conditions

This team has two real win conditions. They are:

Winning tributes through poke and sustain in order to get tributes and siege. This comp excels in tribute poke wars and is extremely hard to kill. This makes it fairly easy to get curses and makes it easy to siege because the enemy team can’t damage them enough to stop the push.

Creating picks and winning fights off of those picks. It has been mentioned several times. This composition is great at creating picks. Bush camping is a viable strategy for this team because of the potential they have to steamroll a fight with crowd control. They don’t have the most amazing damage potential so target prioritization and focus fire is critical to winning fights.

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