| Sylvanas | |
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| Basic Info | |
| Title | The Banshee Queen |
| Role |  Ranged Assassin
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| Difficulty | Medium |
| Franchise |  Warcraft
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| Price |  625 /  7,000
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| Release Date | March 24, 2015 |
| Base Stats | |
| Attack Type | Ranged |
| Health | 1650 |
| Health Regen | 3.4414 |
| Resource | 500 Mana |
| Unit Radius | 0.625 |
| Attack Speed | 1.67 |
| Attack Range | 5.5 |
| Attack Damage | 81 |
| Data Page | |
Sylvanas Windrunner, the Banshee Queen, is a ranged specialist hero from the Warcraft universe. She was not always the Dark Lady of the Forsaken. In another life, Sylvanas was the Ranger-General of Silvermoon. But that was before the death knight Arthas slew her and her people and raised her as the first banshee.
Sylvanas disables enemy minions and fortifications. Killing enemies replenishes her Withering Fire for continuous damage.[1]
Background
As the Queen of the undead Forsaken, Sylvanas Windrunner seeks a higher purpose for a people who have already died once.
Sylvanas was once the ranger-general of Silvermoon, a commander charged with defending the elven kingdom of Quel'Thalas. She perished during the Third War, when her homeland was ravaged by Arthas Menethil and the undead Scourge, but her death was not the end. Cruelly, Arthas ripped her soul from her body, subjugating her as a banshee, a hate-filled agent of the Scourge. When the Lich King was weakened by an assault from Illidan Stormrage, Sylvanas and other willful undead broke free from his control and built a new home beneath the fallen kingdom of Lordaeron. They called themselves the Forsaken, and vowed to exterminate the Lich King at all costs.
After fighting for their right to join the Horde, Sylvanas led her "people" to the continent of Northrend to destroy the Lich King. Before they could succeed, an uprising among the Forsaken killed members of the Horde and Alliance, casting a shadow of mistrust over Sylvanas. She came to dwell on the Forsaken's dim prospects for the future; they were despised and unable to procreate. Ultimately, the Banshee Queen made a pact with the Val'kyr, nightmarish creatures capable of creating more undead, to give the Forsaken a chance to persist on Azeroth.
Abilities
Talents
Hitting an enemy Hero with Withering Fire increases Sylvanas's Attack Speed and Spell Power by 5% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
- Spell Power from Might of the Banshee Queen stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Sylvanas's Spell Damage
❢ Quest: Each time an enemy Hero with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse is hit by Shadow Dagger, its damage is permanently increased by 0.5%.
- Affects both the initial damage and the damage over time.
- Does not grant a stack for the first instance of damage to secondary targets (i.e. for the spread itself, even if the targets already had 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse).
- Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Shadow Dagger's damage.
Enemy Heroes with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse are Slowed by 15%. Sylvanas's Basic Attacks against Slowed enemy Heroes deal 1% of their maximum Health as damage.
- Slow is applied to the target for 3 seconds. This effect and its duration are separate from Banshee's Curse.
- Damage is dealt in a separate instance along with Basic Attack damage.
Minions that die under the effects of Shadow Dagger or Sylvanas's Traits explode, dealing 130 damage to nearby Minions, Mercenaries, and Summons.
- If multiple Sylvanas are on a team, Unstable Poison only triggers from the effects placed by Sylvanases with this Talent. Activation through Banshee's Curse uses a separate counter that requires 3 stacks to be applied or refreshed by the same Hero.
Friendly non-Elite Mercenaries near Sylvanas deal 60% more damage. Sylvanas Stuns and deals 30% additional damage to Mercenaries with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse.
- The Stun is applied for 3 seconds when attacking a Mercenary with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse. This effect and its duration is separate from Banshee's Curse.
- Damage aura does not stack with other Mercenary Lord derivated damage auras.
- Otherwise, damage bonuses stack addtively with other offensive damage bonuses that can affect the target units' damage output.
Charge Cooldown: 12 seconds
Activate to force an enemy Minion to fight for Sylvanas's team. Catapults require 3 charges. Stores up to 3 charges.
- Possession awards experience from the Minion kill (or the appropriate Regeneration Globe if the target unit is a Wizard Minion).
- Possessed Minions are restored to full Health and have negative effects removed from them, including the raven curse on Cursed Hollow.
- The enemy team does not get experience, Regeneration Globes or stacks from killing a possessed Minion and they cannot be repossessed by the opposing team's Sylvanas.
Hitting the same enemy with 5 shots of Withering Fire causes the 5th shot to deal 350% bonus damage.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Withering Fire's damage.
Increase Shadow Dagger's damage by 10%. Basic Attacks against Heroes with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse reduce the cooldown of Shadow Dagger by 1.75 seconds.
- Affects both the initial damage and the damage over time.
- Cooldown reduction is not gained by Basic Attacks that kill their target, even if the target already had three stacks of Banshee's Curse prior to this last Basic Attack.
- Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Shadow Dagger's damage.
Increase Haunting Wave's damage by 15%. Haunting Wave applies 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other damage modifiers that can affect Haunting Wave's damage.
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Shoot an arrow that can be reactivated to deal 228 damage and Silence enemies in an area for 2.5 seconds. The arrow detonates automatically if it reaches maximum range.
Cooldown: 40 seconds
After 0.25 seconds, fire a missile that Mind Controls the first enemy Hero hit. Heroes hit are Silenced, Slowed by 30%, have 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse applied to them, and are forced to walk toward Sylvanas for 1.75 seconds.
Shadow Dagger reduces the Armor of the initial target by 25 and any enemy it spreads to by 10 for 2.5 seconds.
- Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
Haunting Wave can be cast a second time for free within 5 seconds after teleporting. Teleporting with Haunting Wave resets the cooldown of Withering Fire.
Increase Sylvanas's Basic Attack range by 1. Sylvanas's Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse shoot an untalented shot of Withering Fire. This shot of Withering Fire applies Banshee's Curse.
- Remorseless's Withering Fire shots are fired from the target of the Basic Attack upon impact and prioritize the closest unit to the target.
- Withering Fire shot is not triggered by Basic Attacks that kill their target, even if the target already had three stacks of Banshee's Curse prior to this last Basic Attack.
- Withering Fire shot will not bounce to unaggroed Mercenaries.
Hitting an enemy with Withering Fire grants 6% Movement Speed for 2 seconds, up to 30%. Basic Attacks refresh this duration.
- Stacks additively with itself, but not with other sources of bonus Movement Speed.
Heal for 15% of damage dealt by Sylvanas to enemies with 3 stacks of Banshee's Curse. Healing is doubled against Heroes.
- Stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to become Unstoppable and gain 40% Movement Speed for 3 seconds.
Enemies at the center of Wailing Arrow's explosion take 50% more damage and are Silenced for twice as long.
- Additional effect requires the target's center, rather than any part of its hitbox, to be within the radius from this Talent.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Wailing Arrow's damage.
Heroes hit by Mind Control have their vision radius greatly reduced for 5 seconds. Mind Control's cooldown is reduced by 25 seconds.
Withering Fire applies Banshee's Curse, and Heroes hit by Withering Fire reduce its cooldown by 0.75 seconds.
- Each shot applies 1 stack.
Cooldown: 70 seconds
Activate to teleport to a nearby location.
Skins
- The Banshee Queen
- Backstory: Sylvanas Windrunner was not always the Dark Lady of the Forsaken. In another life, she was the Ranger-General of Silvermoon. But that was before the Death Knight Arthas slew her and her people and raised her as the first Banshee.
- Price:
10,000 / 9.99 (free for players recruited by Recruit a Friend upon reaching player level 10)
- Sylvanas Banshee Queen 1.jpg
- Master
- Backstory: The guise of a Dark Ranger strikes fear into the hearts of their enemies. The guise of the Dark Ranger Queen will send them running for reinforcements...
- Price: 10,000 / (requires Hero Level 10)
- Ranger-General
- Backstory: The Ranger-Generals are the commanders of the Farstriders of Quel'Thalas. It is their solemn duty to ensure the protection of Silvermoon, or give their life in its defense.
- Price: $7.49 / 6.49€
- Skin Features: Altered voice-over.
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of character's pre-change skins.
- Sugar Plum
- Backstory: Sugar and spice? Maybe. Everything nice? Not by a long shot.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Skin Features: Themed abilities. Withering Fire, Shadow Dagger, Haunting Wave, and Wailing Arrow have new spell effects, and her banshees have fairy wings.
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
Trivia
- Sylvanas first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002).
- Piera Coppola voiced Sylvanas in Warcraft III. Patty Mattson voices Sylvanas in World of Warcraft and Heroes of the Storm.
- She was under consideration for inclusion as early as 2011.[2]
- Sylvanas was one of the heroes announced at BlizzCon 2014.
- The second tint of the Ranger-General skin (with its green hood and facepaint) may have been inspired by the disguise Oliver Queen used in the first season of Arrow.
- One of Sylvanas's gag quotes references her signature song, the Lament of the Highborne.
Gallery
Sylvanas's artwork.
Blizzard DOTA model from BlizzCon 2010.
The Blizzard DOTA models of Murky, Samuro, Stitches, Sylvanas and Warfield.
The Blizzard DOTA models of Sylvanas and various other heroes.
Heroes of the Storm model from PAX East 2014.
Heroes of the Storm model from BlizzCon 2014.
Sylvanas's portrait from BlizzCon 2014.
Sylvanas, Ranger-General of Silvermoon.
Sylvanas, Banshee Queen of the Forsaken.
Possession (replaced by Mind Control).
Q: Withering Fire.
W: Shadow Dagger.
E: Haunting Wave.
R1: Wailing Arrow.
R2: Mind Control.
Videos
References
- ↑ http://www.heroesnexus.com/heroes/47-sylvanas
- ↑ 2011-10-23, BlizzCon 2011 - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and Blizzard DOTA - Art & Technology Panel (Full). YouTube, accessed on 2011-11-07
External links
- Sylvanas Hero Week
- Sylvanas - Heroes of the Storm
- Sylvanas Windrunner - World of Warcraft
- Sylvanas Windrunner - Wowpedia
- Sylvanas Build Guide on Icy Veins
- Sylvanas Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Sylvanas Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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