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Data Page for Kerrigan
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name name Kerrigan
date date March 13, 2014
price price 4000
title title Queen of Blades
role role Melee
franchise franchise Starcraft
info info A combo Assassin who goes all in, diving into the enemy team.
lore lore Once a Terran Ghost with formidable psionic abilities, Sarah Kerrigan was betrayed by her allies and transformed into the Queen of Blades. Now freed of the dark one's corruption, Kerrigan faces a threat that could destroy the galaxy itself.
difficulty difficulty Hard
melee melee True
health health 1764
healthRegen health regen 3.6757
resource resource 500
resourceType resource type Mana
armor armor 0
attackSpeed attack speed 1.25
attackRange attack range 2
attackDamage attack damage 115
healthScaling health scaling 0.04
regenScaling health regen scaling 0.04
adamageScaling attack damage scaling 0.04
unitRadius unit radius 0.6875
skills skills see below
talents talent_<tier>_<column> see below

Skills

Assimilation Icon
Assimilation

Gain 10% of damage dealt from Basic Attacks and Abilities as Shields for 6 seconds. Shield amount gained doubled against Heroes.

Current maximum: 1004


Type: Shield
Scaling: - (gain) / 4.00% (maximum)
Affects: Self
Properties: Lifesteal (shields)

  • Benefits from all damage from Basic and Heroic Abilities and Talents.
  • Duration is refreshed every time more Shields are gained through Assimilation.
  • Shields gained are calculated from the final damage dealt after all damage modifiers.
  • Hero bonus stacks multiplicatively with all bonuses from talents affecting Assimilation's baseline Shield gain.
Ravage Icon
Q
Ravage
20 Mana Cooldown: 8 / 0.25 seconds

Leap at a target, dealing 130 damage. If the enemy dies within 1.5 seconds, restore 1 charge and refund 20 Mana.


Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Launch
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies / Self
Targeting: Unit target
Cast time: Instant
Range: 5.5
Missile speed: 21
Impaling Blades Icon
W
Impaling Blades
80 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

After 1.25 seconds, deal 165 damage to enemies within the target area, Stunning them for 1 second.


Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Area of Effect, Stun
Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds
Range: 6.0
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 1.5
Primal Grasp Icon
E
Primal Grasp
65 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Pulls enemies within the target area towards Kerrigan, dealing 25 damage. After 2.5 seconds, an explosion occurs around Kerrigan, dealing 195 damage to nearby enemies.


Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: Point target
Cast time: 0 + 0.5 seconds
Area of Effect:
- Pull: Radial
- Explosion: Circle
Radius:
- Pull: 8.2
- Explosion: 2.5
Arc: 35 degrees (pull)
Knockback duration: 0.375 seconds
Knockback speed: 10

  • Both pull and explosion trigger talents affecting Primal Grasp.
  • Removes active knockbacks on hit.
Maelstrom Icon
R
Maelstrom
80 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

Deals 74 damage per second to nearby enemies. Lasts for 7 seconds.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Targeting: No target
Properties: Area of Effect
Cast time: Instant
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 4.5
Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x14)
Damage per tick: 37

  • Kerrigan can't mount while Maelstrom is active.
Summon Ultralisk Icon
R
Summon Ultralisk
75 Mana Cooldown: 80 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, summon an Ultralisk that rushes foward upon spawning, dealing 250 damage to the first enemy Hero hit and Stunning them for 0.5 seconds.

The Ultralisk's Basic Attacks deal 50% of their damage in an area around their target. Reactivate to retarget the Ultralisk.


Type: Summon
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Clamping
Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds
Range: 12

Ultralisk
Type: Active
Scaling: 4.00% (damage & Health)
Targeting: Retargetable
Health: 1369
Basic Attack damage: 100
Attack speed: 1.0
Attack range: 1.5
Movement Speed: 5.5
Unit radius: 1.25
Sight radius: 9.0
Leash radius: -
Splash radius: 2.0

  • Upon summon, Ultralisk spawns in front of Kerrigan and casts Charge to the target direction.
  • Kerrigan gains Assimilation Shields from all damage dealt by Ultralisk.

Charge
Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Dash
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemy Heroes / Ultralisk
Targeting: Point target
Properties: Skillshot, Stun
Cast time: 0.5 + 0 seconds
Range: 12
Hitbox: 2.25 x 4.5
Missile speed: 19

Talents

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Siphoning Impact Icon
Siphoning Impact

Hitting an enemy Hero with Ravage grants 100 points of Assimilation Shields.


Type: Shield
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self
Assimilation Mastery Icon
Assimilation Mastery

Regeneration Globe healing grants 50 points of Assimilation Shields per second while active. While Assimilation is active, Kerrigan's Health and Mana regeneration is increased by 150%.


Type: Shield
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self
Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x5)
Fury of the Swarm Icon
Fury of the Swarm

Gain 10% more Assimilation Shields from Basic Attacks. After casting Ravage, Kerrigan's next Basic Attack within 3 seconds splashes for 100% damage around the target.


Type: Physical Damage / Shield
Scaling: -
Affects: Enemies / Self
Properties: Attack Modifier, Splash
Radius: 2.5 (splash)

  • Stacks additively with other talents affecting baseline Shield gain.
  • If Kerrigan's Basic Attack misses due to being Blinded or the target Evading, the visual and audio effects of the splash damage are still triggered, although the damage is not dealt and hence the effect is still wasted.
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Sharpened Blades Icon
Sharpened Blades

❢ Quest: Minions and Heroes that die within 1.5 seconds of being hit by Ravage increase its damage up to a maximum of 75.

Minions grant 1 increased damage and Heroes grant 5 increased damage.

❢ Reward: After reaching a 75 damage increase, Ravage gains 50 additional damage.


Type: Bonus damage
Scaling: -
Affects: Ability
Kinetic Fulmination Icon
Kinetic Fulmination

Damaging an enemy increases the damage of Kerrigan's next Impaling Blades within 10 seconds by 10%, up to 100%.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Ability

  • Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Impaling Blades' damage output.
Psionic Pulse Icon
Psionic Pulse

Primal Grasp explodes a second time 2 seconds after its first explosion.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Properties: Area of Effect
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 2.5

  • Secondary explosion interacts with all talents affecting Primal Grasp.
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Queen of Blades Icon
Queen of Blades

Reduce the cooldown of Ravage by 3 seconds and increase its damage to Minions and Mercenaries by 100%.


Type: Offensive damage modifier, Cooldown reduction
Affects: Ability

  • Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Ravage's damage.
Boundless Fury Icon
Boundless Fury

Hitting an enemy Hero with Ravage grants a charge of Ravage. Can only occur once every 10 seconds per Hero.

Bladed Momentum Icon
Bladed Momentum

Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes reduce the cooldown of Kerrigan's Basic Abilities by 0.6 seconds.


Properties: Attack Modifier, Cooldown reduction
10
Maelstrom Icon
Maelstrom

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Deals 74 damage per second to nearby enemies. Lasts for 7 seconds.

Summon Ultralisk Icon
Summon Ultralisk

Cooldown: 80 seconds
After 0.5 seconds, summon an Ultralisk that rushes foward upon spawning, dealing 250 damage to the first enemy Hero hit and Stunning them for 0.5 seconds.

The Ultralisk's Basic Attacks deal 50% of their damage in an area around their target. Reactivate to retarget the Ultralisk.

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Psionic Barrier Icon
Psionic Barrier

Each enemy Hero hit by Primal Grasp grants 20 Spell Armor and 4% Movement Speed for 4 seconds, stacking up to 20% Movement Speed.


Type: Defensive damage modifier
Affects: Self

  • Armor stacks up to 10 times (cannot bypass the Armor cap of 75 after subtracting the largest Armor debuff active on Kerrigan).
  • Both effects stack additively with themselves, but not with other positive Spell Armor or Movement Speed effects.
  • Consecutive applications refresh the duration of existing stacks.
Volatile Power Icon
Volatile Power

Increase the amount of Assimilation Shields granted from damage dealt by 10%, but reduce duration of Assimilation by 3 seconds.


Type: Shield
Affects: Self

  • Stacks additively with other talents affecting baseline Shield gain.
Chrysalis Icon
Chrysalis

Cooldown: 50 seconds

Activate to place Kerrigan in a Chrysalis with 750 Health for 5 seconds. While inside, Kerrigan regenerates 5% of her maximum Health per second.

Enemies can destroy the Chrysalis to end its effects early.


Type: Status effect, Healing / Summon
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Self
Targeting: No target
Properties: Stasis
Cast time: Instant
Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x20)
Healing per tick: 1.24%

  • Chrysalis can be reactivated after 0.5 seconds to end its effect early.
  • Chrysalis places Kerrigan in Stasis, removing most negative effects from her.

Chrysalis
Type: Passive
Scaling: 4.00% (Health)
Health: 750
Movement Speed: -
Unit radius: 0.6875
Sight radius: 8.0
16
Mounting Potency Icon
Mounting Potency

Ravage grants 5% Spell Power for 5 seconds, up to 40%.


Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Spell Power

  • Spell Power increase applies after the damage from Ravage is dealt.
  • Consecutive applications refresh the duration of existing stacks.
  • Spell Power from Mounting Potency stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Kerrigan's Spell Damage or healing output.
Painful Spikes Icon
Painful Spikes

Enemies hit by Impaling Blades take an additional 70 damage the next 6 times Kerrigan damages them within 5 seconds.


Type: Spell Damage
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies
Unbridled Energy Icon
Unbridled Energy

Damaging a Hero with a Heroic Ability grants 35% Spell Power for 4 seconds.


Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing modifier
Affects: Self
Properties: Spell Power

  • Does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration of the effect.
  • Spell Power from Unbridled Energy stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power and other offensive damage and healing modifiers affecting Kerrigan's Spell Damage or healing output.
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Omegastorm Icon
Omegastorm

Maelstrom's duration is increased by 0.25 seconds every time it damages a Hero.

Torrasque Icon
Torrasque

Increase the Health and Basic Attack damage of the Ultralisk by 20%. The Ultralisk morphs into an egg when it dies. If the egg isn't killed within 4 seconds, a new Ultralisk is born.


Type: Summon

Torrasque
Type: Passive
Scaling: 4.00% (Health)
Health: 594
Movement Speed: -
Unit radius: 0.75
Sight radius: 6.0
Leash radius: -

  • There is no limit to how many times Ultralisk can respawn this way.
  • Egg is spawned regardless of Ultralisk dying from its duration expiring or being killed by the enemy.
Assimilation Blades Icon
Assimilation Blades

Damaging an enemy increases Basic Attack damage by 2% for 5 seconds, up to 40%.


Type: Offensive damage modifier
Affects: Self

  • Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Kerrigan's Basic Attack damage.
  • Consecutive applications refresh the duration of existing stacks.
Psionic Shift Icon
Psionic Shift

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Active: Activate to teleport to a nearby location, dealing 50 damage to nearby enemies. Generates 300% increased Assimilation Shields from the damage dealt.


Type: Spell Damage / Shields, Movement: Teleport
Scaling: 4.00%
Affects: Enemies / Self
Targeting: Point target
Cast time: Instant
Range: 7.2
Area of Effect: Circle
Radius: 2.0

  • Stacks additively with other talents affecting baseline Shield gain.


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