Illidan
Illidan | |
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![]() "My hatred is unending." | |
Basic Info | |
Title | The Betrayer |
Role | ![]() |
Difficulty | Medium |
Franchise | ![]() |
Price | ![]() ![]() |
Release Date | March 13, 2014 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Melee |
Health | 1650 |
Health Regen | 3.4375 |
Resource | None |
Unit Radius | 0.625 |
Attack Speed | 1.82 |
Attack Range | 1.2 |
Attack Damage | 78 |
Data Page |
Illidan Stormrage, the Betrayer, is a Melee Assassin hero from the Warcraft universe.[1] The first demon hunter betrayed his people by creating a new Well of Eternity after the demonic invasion of Azeroth. Now Illidan lords over the realm of Outland, slaughtering unsuitably prepared heroes who venture into his domain.
Illidan is a mobile, sustained damage assassin who pairs well with heroes that can enable him.
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Background[edit | edit source]
Illidan Stormrage is known as the Betrayer, as throughout the millennia of his life he has deceived friends and family alike for power.
The night elf Illidan Stormrage was born before the War of the Ancients, a conflict that erupted over 10,000 years prior to the Third War, when the chaotic Burning Legion invaded Azeroth. Driven by jealous over his brother's budding relationship with Tyrande Whisperwind), Illidan feigned allegiance to the Burning Legion and Sargeras, seemingly offering his aid while secretly plotting to destroy the Legion from within. Eventually, Illidan, Tyrande, Malfurion, and the Night Elves repelled the Legion invasion, causing the Well of Eternity to implode - but not before Illidan drew several vials of its water to create new fonts of power. When the Night Elves reached Kalimdor and saw Illidan had used the vials to create a new Well of Eternity, they were furious - they saw one of their own covered in demonic tattoos and with his amber eyes burned out - they did not know he helped to defeat the Legion and thought he sought to bring them back to Azeroth once again. Malfurion admonished Illidan for his irresponsible use of magic and when Illidan would not give up his power, he was imprisoned far beneath the surface of the land by his brother and Cenarius.
During the Third War, Tyrande released Illidan from millennia of imprisonment, hoping that the Betrayer would redeem himself by battling a returned Burning Legion. Though Illidan fought to defend his people, he soon slipped into darkness: after absorbing the energies of the demonic Skull of Gul'dan, Illidan became a demon, an act for which he was banished by Malfurion. Fleeing the wrath of the night elves, the twice-condemned Illidan allied himself once again with the only entity that would accept him - the Legion. Illidan's demonic masters sent him to destroy the Lich King, who had broken free of their influence, but Illidan failed to do so. To protect himself from the Legion's vengeance, Illidan hid on Outland, a destroyed world that he would eventually seek to rule.
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Illidan is a nimble Melee Assassin. Very fast basic attacks, several gap closers, and the ability to significantly reduce his own Cooldowns through Betrayer's Thirst make him extremely difficult to outmaneuver. Illidan thrives when played with any Hero that can increase his survivability, be it through Shields, Armor, or raw instant healing. He is typically known to requires allied Heroes known as "enablers" to be at his best. llidan's reliance on the healing and Cooldown reduction provided by Betrayer's Thirst makes him particularly vulnerable to effects that can reduce his attack speed or otherwise stop him from attacking.
Strengths[edit | edit source]
- Nearly impossible to escape from
- Excellent duelist
- May quickly and safely solo claim Mercenary Camps
- No reliance on Mana and excellent self sustain
Weaknesses[edit | edit source]
- Requires a team composition that revolves around supporting him to excel
- Exceptionally vulnerable to crowd control due to Basic Attack reliance
- Limited sieging potential
- Limited waveclear
Abilities[edit | edit source]
- See Data page for a table of scaled values at key levels.
Talents[edit | edit source]
- Always lasts 5 seconds. If the next Sweeping Strike hits only a single enemy Hero while Battered Assault is still active, the baseline bonus of the new cast is overridden until Battered Assault bonus ends.
❢ Reward: Once you reach 20 Attack Damage, receive an additional 20 Attack damage.
- Continues to gain stacks even after the quest is completed.
- Using Dive on an allied Hero does not damage them nor flip Illidan over them.
❢ Reward: After hitting 30 Heroes with Sweeping Strike, gain a second charge.
- Benefits from bonus damage from Marked for Death, but not from Immolation's burn damage.
Transform into Demon Form at the target location, dealing 46 damage in the area. Temporarily increase your maximum Health by 220 for each Hero hit. Lasts for 18 seconds.
Charge to target unit, dealing 251 damage on impact and stunning for 1 second.
- Charges expire when Evasion ends.
- To trigger the bonus damage, Dive has to be used on the same target as last time.
- Does not stack with itself.
- The counter is reset, if Illidan has not attacked the enemy Hero for 3 seconds.
- Attacking a different enemy does not reset the counter.
- Each Hero hit counts as 1 stack. After gathering 5 stacks the ability can be activated, consuming all stacks.
- Starts with full 5 stacks.
- The bonuses are applied when Illidan next time casts Metamorphosis. Active cast does not benefit from bonuses, if the talent was picked during it.
- Metamorphosis and its bonuses are removed upon death.
- The health bonus is still temporary.
- In Demonic Form, Illidan's mount is limited to special, ability-specific one.
- The Hunt cannot be used to travel into or out of the underground level in Haunted Mines. Passive Reveal still applies everywhere.
Active: Activate to teleport to a nearby location.
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Backstory: Illidan Stormrage, the first demon hunter, betrayed his people and created a new Well of Eternity after the demonic invasion of Azeroth. Now Illidan lords over Outland slaying unsuitably prepared Heroes who venture into his domain. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: Free after ten thousand years, Illidan would sacrifice everything in order to defeate the Burning Legion, prove himself superior to Malfurion, and redeem himself in the eyes of Tyrande. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: Stormrage was born with amber eyes; a sign of great destiny... But as he learned from Cenarius, his brother grew distant. Still, none expected Malfurion's betrayal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: As the terrazine haze cleared from his mind, Illidan saw what he had become. His body had mutated, grown irreversibly addicted... But the power was worth any price. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: For most of the year, Illidan loathes druidic customs. But during the Lunar Festival, even he sets aside old grudges and joins his brother in honoring the departed elders of the Stormrage family. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Portraits[edit | edit source]
Sprays[edit | edit source]
Emojis[edit | edit source]
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Illidan first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002).
- His book debut was almost two years later, in The Well of Eternity (March 2004).
- Illidan is voiced by Matthew Yang King in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, and Liam O'Brien in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, World of Warcraft: Legion, and Heroes of the Storm.
- Illidan was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
- Illidan's signature line, "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!", can sometimes be heard when he uses The Hunt.
- This very phrase dates back to the cinematic trailer for World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (January 2007).
- Illidan is one of three elven Melee Assassin heroes, the other two being Maiev Shadowsong and Valeera Sanguinar.
- He is also the first elven Melee Assassin hero in the game.
- One of Illidan's quotes references the running joke about Darkness.
- The maximum stacks for his level 1 talent, Unending Hatred is 65,535 stacks. With the quest completed,this comes out to 65,555 bonus damage that is affected by damage multipliers.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
General[edit | edit source]
Abilities[edit | edit source]
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Illidan rides a mount into combat.
Prerelease[edit | edit source]
The Blizzard DOTA models of Illidan and various other heroes.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 2011-10-23, BlizzCon 2011 - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and Blizzard DOTA - Art & Technology Panel (Full). YouTube, accessed on 2011-11-07
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External links[edit | edit source]
- Illidan - Heroes of the Storm
- Illidan Stormrage - World of Warcraft
- Illidan Stormrage - Wowpedia
- Illidan Build Guide on Icy Veins
- Illidan Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Illidan Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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