Muradin Build Guide “It's hammer time!”

Muradin is a generalist Tank that excels at disrupting the enemy team. During the laning phase, he can focus on messing up enemy rotations by dismounting and chunking down enemy Heroes with the help of Dwarf Toss allowing him to easily escape and Second Wind denying all damage he received while he farms stack for the Baseline Quest on Storm Bolt.

During team fights, he can either play defensively—by peeling and/or counter-engaging for his team—or play aggressively—by engaging and/or diving on vulnerable enemy Heroes.

Strengths

• Strong self-sustain
• Decent crowd control
• Good mobility

Weaknesses

• Not able to peel from high mobility Heroes (like Tracer)
• Weak to crowd control that can stop Dwarf Toss

Dwarf Toss Build

Recommended

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Muradin's Dwarf Toss Build is designed to give you a good mix of offensive and defensive tools. Based on the situation, you can change a few Talents here and there in order to empower your engage or to increase your survivability.

Thunder Clap Build

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Muradin's Thunder Clap Build is designed to increase your survivability as much as possible, in order to survive against team compositions that can take down any target, regardless of how much maximum Health they have, thanks to percent-based damage (for example Last Rites by Malthael).

The extra survivability comes from the Healing Static at Level 13 combined with Thunder Burn at Level 4, Stoneform at Level 16, Hardened Shield at Level 20, and Avatar boosting your maximum Health and increasing your percent-based healing as well.

ARAM Build

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Muradin's ARAM Build is designed to give you a good mix of offensive and defensive tools. Based on the situation, you can change a few Talents here and there in order to empower your engage or to increase your survivability.

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Muradin synergizes with

Being able to follow up on Muradin's Storm Bolt with a devastating burst damage combo is what makes Mages (for example Li-Ming) his ideal partners.

Chaining crowd control Abilities one after another is so valuable in this game that having another Hero who can provide this kind of effects from another Role (such as Blaze played as Offlaner) in your team will make Muradin a real threat for the enemy team.

Muradin is countered by

Heroes who can deal percent-based damage (such as Tychus via Minigun) can shred Muradin's Health very quickly, especially while in Avatar.

When played quick enough, crowd control Abilities (for example Face Melt by E.T.C.) puts a lot of pressure on him because they can stop Dwarf Toss, his only form of escape.

Muradin's stronger maps

Muradin's average maps

Muradin's weaker maps

In the hand of experienced players, Muradin is good on Maps where he can use his innate resilience and mobility to harass enemy Heroes and enable plays for his entire team by aggressively but safely invading the enemy side of the Map during the early game (such as Hanamura Temple).

On the other hand, he is bad on Maps where the Objective takes a long period of time (for example Braxis Holdout) because he will eventually run out of Mana, effectively denying his Trait value.

• Storm Bolt should be used with patience and combined with the Slow provided by Thunder Clap when possible.
• Thunder Clap is a decent peeling tool, especially against melee Heroes who rely on Basic Attacks.
• Dwarf Toss allows you to disengage when low Health, but be careful when the enemy Heroes have crowd control.
• Avatar is a maximum Health boost that protects you from burst damage but makes you vulnerable to percent-based damage.
• Haymaker should mostly be used for peeling away enemy Heroes rather than to engage by pushing enemy Heroes towards your team.

Muradin is a well-rounded Tank that can provide vision, engage, and peeling to his team.

Thanks to Dwarf Toss allowing him to quickly escape when in danger, Muradin can easily scout the enemy side of the battlefield to give his team a vision advantage, but only if the enemy team does not have tools to easily stop Dwarf Toss during its animation.

During team fights, Storm Bolt and Thunder Clap are decent crowd control tools that can be used to either engage enemy Heroes or peel for allied Heroes.