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

Jaina is combo-oriented ranged damage dealer with outstanding area of effect crowd control and burst damage potential. Befitting her Frost Mage theme, her Abilities also Slow everything they hit. Her reliance on skillshots and delayed Abilities, and relative fragility, however, make her one of the hardest Heroes to play, let alone master.

2. Jaina's Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths Outstanding burst damage

ALL Abilities apply a strong Slowing effect on hit

Excellent waveclear Weaknesses Very fragile, especially to melee Assassins

Difficult to play due to ALL Abilities having some form of counterplay

Long Cooldowns that must be managed with care

Limited mobility

3. Jaina's Talent Build Cheatsheet

4. Jaina's Synergies and Counters

Jaina synergizes with Since Jaina depends highly on skillshots to deal her damage, she naturally works well with any Hero that can provide reliable crowd control against a kill target for her to follow up. Her frailty also makes her dependent on other Heroes to peel for her; Tanks tend to fulfill these two needs, although other Hero types can as well. Jaina is countered by Since Jaina relies chiefly on skillshots and delayed Abilities to deal damage, she does particularly poorly against Heroes that have ways of quickly dodging her Abilities. Furthermore, her frailty and lack of self-peel makes her vulnerable to Stealthed or otherwise high-damage nimble Heroes that can quickly reach her.

5. Jaina's Maps

Jaina's stronger maps Jaina's average maps Jaina's weaker maps Jaina's excellent waveclear makes her particularly effective on Maps where the Objective requires the rapid destruction of several small enemies, or where quick rotations are expected. She also becomes quite proficient at claiming Mercenary Camps as well past Hero Level 7. She tends to be weaker on Maps where she might need to be isolated, although she should probably never be left without an ally regardless, due to her dependence on peeling.

6. Jaina's Tips and Tricks

Use your Abilities together to maximise Frostbite

Root or Slow enemies before casting Blizzard Ring of Frost crowd control is also helpful.

crowd control is also helpful. Use Blizzard to very efficiently waveclear or claim Mercenary Camps.

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While Jaina's sustained damage may be slightly lower than that of other Assassins, her burst damage potential certainly makes up for this. This extreme amount of burst damage allows Jaina to heavily damage or outright kill out-of-position targets, something that her counterparts would be unable to do. Additionally, almost the entirety of Jaina's damage is area of effect, allowing her to heavily punish enemy teams that group tightly together.

Unlike other burst damage Heroes who are very weak during the early game, lack waveclear, or can only deal single target damage, Jaina's abundance of on-demand burst damage does not make other parts of her kit weaker. Her only real weakness lies in her very low mobility and dependence on good positioning.

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