Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (2024)

Table of Contents
Arthas's Overview Arthas's Strengths and Weaknesses Arthas's Talent Build Cheatsheet Frozen Tempest Build Death Coil Build Frostmourne Build ARAM Build Arthas's Synergies and Counters Arthas's Maps Arthas's Tips and Tricks Changelog References

Last updated on Sep 20, 2023 at 10:27by Elitesparkle27 comments

General Information

Welcome to our guide for Arthas, a Tank inHeroes of the Storm. Within these pages, you will find everything required tounderstand how best to play this hero, in both different map styles and teamcompositions.

1.

Arthas's Overview

Arthas is a Tank but he is mostly being played asBruiser because his Abilities are not that strongcompared to the other main Tanks. Avoid playing him as Tank unless youare not countered by the enemy team and you are instead countering them.

He excels at slowing androoting several enemy Heroes at the same time,which allows him to either chase retreating enemiesor to peel for his team, especially against melee Heroesthat need to Basic Attack and lack mobility.

2.

Arthas's Strengths and Weaknesses

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (1)Strengths

  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (2)Powerful crowd control
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (3)Good self-sustain
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (4)Counters melee Heroes that rely on Basic Attacks
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (5)Solid damage output

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (6)Weaknesses

  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (7)Weak engage with Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (8) Howling Blast
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (9)No mobility
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (10)Weak to Displacement effects
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (11)Consumes a lot of Mana with Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (12) Frozen Tempest
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (13)Lack of interrupts
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (14)Suffers against healing reduction effects
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (15)Weak to kite
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (16)Not enough burst damage protection

3.

Arthas's Talent Build Cheatsheet

Frozen Tempest Build

Recommended

Level 1?

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10?

Level 13

Level 16?

Level 20???

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Arthas's Frozen Tempest Build allows him to cripple the enemy team's advance or retreatby further increasing the power of Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (30) Howling Blastand Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (31) Frozen Tempest.

Death Coil Build

Situational

Level 1?

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20???

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Arthas's Death Coil Build increases his self-sustainand poke damage. When casting Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (44) Death Coilon enemy Heroes after picking Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (45) Immortal Coil at Level 7,Arthas can heal himself and deal damage to the targeted enemy Hero at the same time.When self-casting it, Arthas gets extra healing from the same Talent.

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Frostmourne Build

Situational

Level 1

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20???

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Arthas's Frostmourne Build increases his damage outputin the late game, given you canget at least 20 stacks for Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (57) Eternal Hungerat Level 1 during the game.

ARAM Build

ARAM

Level 1?

Level 4

Level 7

Level 10?

Level 13

Level 16

Level 20???

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Arthas's ARAM Build increases his self-sustainand poke damage. When casting Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (70) Death Coilon enemy Heroes after picking Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (71) Immortal Coil at Level 7,Arthas can heal himself and deal damage to the targeted enemy Hero at the same time.When self-casting it, Arthas gets extra healing from the same Talent.

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4.

Arthas's Synergies and Counters

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (72)Arthas synergizes with

Arthas pairs well with Heroes who can either follow up on hiscrowd control (such as Chromiewith Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (82) A Proper Greeting) or initiate with their own(for example Maiev), especially if your main Tankdoes not provide enough crowd control for peeling(Stitches comes to mind).

Heroes who can give him some mobility(for example Zarya with Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (83) Speed Barrier at Level 4)and/or help him survive through burst damagedefinitely help (such as Medivh).

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (84)Arthas is countered by

Arthas, due to his lack of mobility gets easilycountered by Displacement effects (such asArthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (91) Wrecking Ball by Garrosh).

He also suffers againstburst damage usually coming from Mages(for example Kel'Thuzad), healing reduction effects (such asArthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (92) Emerald by Deckard Cain), high range (Hanzocomes to mind), Slow effects (for example Jaina),and high mobility (such as Zeratul played correctly).

Last but not the least, Arthas does not like to face enemy Heroes who are weakto interrupts (like Sonya and herArthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (93) Whirlwind) because he does not have any of them.

5.

Arthas's Maps

Arthas's stronger maps

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (94)

Arthas's average maps

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Arthas's weaker maps

Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (105)Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (106)Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (107)

Due to Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (108) Frozen Tempest being heavy on Mana consumption,Arthas suffers on Maps where he needs to stay active for long periods of time(with Braxis Holdout being the major offender) and does not shineon Maps where it is highly preferred to have your Offlanertake care of 2 lanes by double soaking (for exampletop-mid on Towers of Doom).

While being decent at it, Arthas does not excel at capturing Campsand/or defending enemy Mercenaries in lane, making him a suboptimal pick on Mapswhere macro is important (for example Garden of Terror).

6.

Arthas's Tips and Tricks

  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (109) Death Coil can be used on enemies to damage them or on Arthas to heal him, something that can be done faster by using the Self Cast Modifier [Alt] rather than by mouse-hovering Arthas.
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (110) Howling Blast being a slow projectile requires you to predict the movements of enemy Heroes.
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (111) Frozen Tempest reduces both Movement Speed and Attack Speed of enemy Heroes, making it particularly effective against melee Heroes who rely on Basic Attacks.
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (112) Frostmourne Hungers resets the cooldown of your Basic Attack, so try to use it immediately after a Basic Attack goes off.
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (113) Army of the Dead can heal you on cooldown if you press R to cast it, then press and hold R for its duration.
  • Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (114) Summon Sindragosa disables enemy Structures, excluding Healing Fountains, which can make it a very potent ability to use during pushes.

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7.

Even if classified as Tank by Blizzard in-game,Arthas is mostly played as Offlaner because his lackof interrupts and mobilitydo not allow him to scare most Tanks and, more in general, Heroes in the currentmetagame. In addition to that, he is fairly weak when he cannot count on his powerfulArthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (115) Army of the Dead to increase his survivability—beforeLevel 10, against burst damage, or against healing reduction effects.

To further compare him to other Tanks, the Root provided byArthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (116) Howling Blast cannot stop enemy Heroes from casting their Abilities,making him usually not a good choice over Tanks with a Stun(such as E.T.C. having Arthas Build Guide “Frostmourne hungers.” (117) Powerslide).

All that said, Arthas is primarly chosen to provide his team additional peelingfrom melee Heroes during team fights (for example against Kerrigan) or tocounter a particular Tank (for example Diablo) or Solo Laner (such as Artanis).

8.

Changelog

  • 20 Sep. 2023 (talents page): ARAM Build added.
  • 20 Sep. 2023 (this page): ARAM Build added.
  • 26 Nov. 2022 (talents page): Guide reviewed.
  • 26 Nov. 2022 (abilities page): Guide reviewed.
  • 26 Nov. 2022 (this page): Guide reviewed.
  • 02 May 2022 (talents page): Builds added.
  • 02 May 2022 (this page): Builds added.
  • 07 Dec. 2021 (talents page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
  • 07 Dec. 2021 (abilities page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
  • 07 Dec. 2021 (this page): Guide reviewed for the latest Major Patch.
  • 10 Mar. 2021 (this page): Builds updated.
  • 09 Mar. 2021 (talents page): Builds and Talents updated.
  • 09 Mar. 2021 (this page): Builds and Talents updated.
  • 21 Aug. 2020 (talents page): Talent Build page updated.
    • Balance Update revision.
    • Minor fixes.
    • New layout.
  • 21 Aug. 2020 (abilities page): Abilities and Strategy page updated.
    • Minor fixes.
    • New layout.
  • 21 Aug. 2020 (this page): Introduction page updated.
    • Balance Update revision.
    • Minor fixes.
    • New layout.
  • 03 May 2020 (talents page): Talent Build fully revised to match new standards.
    • Talent Build and Talent Build Cheatsheet modified to reflect the current metagame.
    • Talent Descriptions modified to better describe when to pick them.
  • 03 May 2020 (abilities page): Ability and Strategy fully revised to match new standards.
    • Tips and Tricks modified to add important tips that were missing and to remove obvious ones that were not worth mentioning.
    • Ability Descriptions modified to better explain how to use Abilities effectively.
  • 03 May 2020 (this page): Introduction fully revised to match new standards.
    • Overview rewritten to better describe the Hero.
    • Strengths and Weaknesses modified to give a better idea about the Hero when being played right.
    • Talent Build Cheatsheet updated to reflect the current metagame.
    • Synergies and Counters modified to mention notable Heroes that were missing and to remove misleading Heroes that were listed.
    • Maps modified to focus on the main aspects of the Hero when evaluating a Map.
    • Tips and Tricks modified to list important tips that were missing before and to delete more obvious ones.
    • Role in the Current Meta modified to reflect the current metagame and to remove the unnecessary part about the now fixed Experience Globes.
  • 23 Mar. 2020 (this page): Wrong information corrected.
  • 23 Jan. 2020 (talents page): Updated Arthas's Tank Build.
  • 09 Dec. 2019 (this page): Added an entry about the current Anomaly to the guide.
  • 25 Nov. 2019 (talents page): Changed Deathlord from Situational to Not Recommended.
  • 05 Jun. 2019 (talents page): Completely overhauled and updated Arthas's talents and builds to make the guide more up-to-date with the current state of the game.
  • 05 Jun. 2019 (abilities page): Slight updates to some of the ability descriptions.
  • 05 Jun. 2019 (this page): Updated map rankings, strengths, weaknesses, matchups, etc.
  • 04 May 2017 (talents page): Updated Frost Presence's talent description.
  • 16 Apr. 2017 (talents page): Changed the Howling Blast build to use Icebound Fortitude instead of Mortal Coil and improved the description of the Bruiser build.
  • 15 Mar. 2017 (talents page): Removed Self-Heal Build and updated the other two builds.
  • 14 Mar. 2017 (talents page): Overhauled talent recommendations following Arthas's rework in Probius's patch.
  • 18 Jan. 2017 (this page): Converted guide to new format and updated it.

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