2. Blood Blade

• “Blood Blade is the new Walter, but better!!” some people say. And they might be correct – but… There’s 1 big difference between Blood Blade and Walter, which is their basic attack. Let’s start off with Blood Blade’s first 2 Passive skills “Rain Blood III – Each attack has a 100% chance to bleed the target, dealing (45%\Attack) damage each round for 4 rounds and gains 16.8% Hit for 4 rounds”* + “Carnage Heart III – Increases Hit by 25%, Attack by 30%, Armor Break by 32%, dealing extra 70% damage on Bleed foes.” Blood Blade causes Bleed on the hero he attacks, which means him attacking the front row tank every turn lets him cut through it pretty fast and then get into the hero that’s at the Safe Spot. Next is his last Passive “Life Drain III – Gains oneself (160%\Attack) HP for each killed enemy heroes”* which gives him self-sustain, causing him to have good survivability. Because of his survivability I’d recommend using him as the first hero in the back row since he heals as the opponent’s heroes die, so if your front row heroes gets destroyed Blood Blade can serve as a safety tank for the back row.

And last but not least, his special skill, which hits 3 targets, causing Bleed to them and hitting extra hard against Ranger heroes. This is a strong skill since there is a lot of strong Ranger heroes such as Miki, Iceblink, Demon Hunter and Queen and 2 of those can be used as really strong front row tanks, so Blood Blade is a good counter against these. Especially Miki because of his extra Hit from his Passive skills Rain Blood and Carnage Heart and the 15% Hit and 30% damage he gains from the Faction Boost he gets being a Death Hero against a Fortress heroes.

Blood Blade also has really high damage against Marauder and Raid because of the stacking Bleed damage.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: I’d recommend Damage Reduction + HP or Attack + Hit Artifact on him. Attack because of his healing ability. I’d also recommend Attack stone because of the same reason – His healing ability. Plus he’ll just do more damage, taking down the opponent’s front row tank even faster.

3. Walter

• Now to Walter and what makes him different from Blood Blade. Walter hits the back row heroes with his basic attack, poisoning them and his special skill hits 2 back row targets, poisons them with a 30% chance of stunning as well. In the back row you can find heroes that have Crowd Control (CC) abilities, like Demon Hunter, or maybe even the opponents healer, like Ormus. Getting heroes like these down fast is also important since they support the team with silences, heals, stuns, and so on. Because of Blood Blade cutting through tanks fast and getting to the hero in the Safe Spot, players might even consider putting their strong damage dealers (Aidan, Flame Strike etc.) in the back row. And voilà, Walter will be ready to take them down.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: Once again I think Damage Reduction + HP Artifact is the best for overall value against different kind of teams. And I’d recommend using Armor Break stone on Walter because it’s such a massive boost against Marauders and Raids, since both of these have unusually high armor. Tests have shown Armor Break is best because of this.