Tyrael

Tyrael
"Reckoning is at hand."
Basic Info
Title	Archangel of Justice
Role	Tank
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2517
Health Regen	5.2382
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1.25
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	78
Data Page

Tyrael, the Archangel of Justice, is a melee Tank hero from the Diablo universe. Among the angels it is the Archangel of Justice who is humanity's greatest defender. Wielding his sword El'druin against the Burning Hells, the Prime Evils would have enslaved Sanctuary and all of humanity long ago if Tyrael had not intervened.

Tyrael is a Tank who pairs well with allies that like to dive into the enemy team.

History

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

As Archangel Angel and Aspect of Justice leader and aspect of the Heavenly Host one of the five Angel Aspects and a member of the Angiris Council, Tyrael was born from one of the virtues of the great titan Anu at the beginning of time. He has fought against the forces of Hell since time immemorial. For countless eons Tyrael thought the only principles of justice were the laws of the High Heavens. This view of Creation was shattered once he encountered the denizens of Sanctuary, humans. Humans were the spawn of rogue angels and demons who had become weary of the endless Eternal Conflict that consumed all of the focus of both Heaven and Hell.

While at first many angels saw humanity as an abomination, Tyrael saw the potential for good that resided within this new race. Tyrael would spend much of his time observing humanity, but direct interaction was forbidden by the laws of Heaven. Eventually Tyrael would come to face one of the most difficult decisions of his existence when humanity was endangered by the release of the Prime Evils onto Sanctuary. Tyrael would have to choose between following the law and letting the exiled leaders of Hell destroy mankind or intervening to help save humanity and turning his back on the one central ideal he held most dear. It was this decision that caused Tyrael to learn the true meaning of justice. Justice wasn't upholding some lofty, idealistic laws, it was doing what was right.

Tyrael came to the aid of the humans many times when the Three threatened them. First when he armed humanity with the sacred Soulstones to contain the Prime Evils and again when he sacrificed himself to destroy the corrupted Worldstone to prevent the forces of Hell from pouring into the mortal world, but not even death could stop the embodiment of Justice.

Twenty years later Tyrael would return from death only to find himself put on trial by his peers. Tyrael had done the unthinkable by interfering on the behalf of humanity and his answer to the crimes of breaking Heaven's laws was to renounce his divinity. Tyrael would no longer stand among the angels if it meant idly standing by while the innocent suffered. A now mortal Tyrael would immediately be faced with another challenge as the forces of hell sought after the Black Soulstone to unleash the Prime Evil upon Creation.

Tyrael would not face this challenge alone as a mortal hero, the Nephalem, would come to his aid in this battle against the forces of Hell. After a hard fought battle the forces of the Light would emerge victorious and the Prime Evil would be locked away within the Black Soulstone, but the threat wasn't over. The evil within the Stone would begin to seep out into Heaven where it held and only Tyrael could see the subtle changes within the holiest of realms. Tyrael was again faced with the decision of following the laws of Heaven or breaking them to save his former home, only this time his decision would have far darker consequences.

Abilities

See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.

Archangel's Wrath

Upon dying, become Invulnerable and gain 20% Movement Speed for 4 seconds. Upon expiration, explode, dealing 450 damage and reducing Tyrael's death timer by 10% per enemy Hero hit.

Archangel's Wrath reduces nearby enemy Heroes' damage by 50% while active and for 3 seconds after it expires.

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Type: Spell Damage / Offensive damage modifier / Special death state, Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Enemy Heroes / Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Movement Speed

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

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• Tyrael ignores collision until he explodes.
• During Archangel's Wrath, Tyrael can move through pathing blockers and enemy Gates, but not through other unpassable terrain.
• Damage debuff is removed immediately when the target leaves the radius of Archangel's Wrath. Duration extension requires being hit by the explosion upon expiration.
• Damage debuff stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target Hero's damage output.

Q

El'druin's Might

45 Mana Cooldown: 12 / 0.5 seconds

Throw El'druin to the target area, dealing 110 damage to nearby enemies and Slowing them by 25% for 2.5 seconds. Reactivate within 5 seconds to teleport Tyrael to El'druin and Slow nearby enemies again.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Teleport

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Slow

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range: 9.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

Missile speed: 15

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• El'druin's Might cannot be cast on unpathable terrain.
• Teleport on secondary cast has no range limit.
• Reactivation has an initial 0.5 second cooldown, and it cannot be used before the thrown sword has reached the target location.
• All reactivations of El'druin's Might are considered Basic Ability casts.
• Cooldown starts when the Ability is activated for the first time.

W

Righteousness

45 Mana Cooldown: 9 seconds

Shields Tyrael for 336 damage and nearby allies for 40% as much for 4 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allies, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

Ally shield amount: 134.4

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• Damage dealt to allies shielded by Righteousness is shown in small pop-up numbers. Regardless of the real damage type of the attack, these numbers appear in orange, normally reserved for Physical Damage.

E

Smite

45 Mana Cooldown: 6 seconds

Rake target area for 150 damage. Allies moving through the targeted area gain 25% Movement Speed for 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Allies, Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 5.5

Area of Effect: Custom ⁽¹

Radius: 1.5

Width: 7.0

Height: 3.0

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• ¹⁾ Area consists of 5 overlapping circles with 1.5 radius in a wide V-shape.
• The ground effect lingers for 3 seconds, applying the buff to allies in the area every 0.25 seconds. Multiple instances of the buff only refresh the duration.

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Judgment

80 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

After 0.75 seconds, charge an enemy Hero, dealing 150 damage and Stunning them for 1.5 seconds. Nearby enemies are knocked away and take 75 damage.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Launch, Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes (targeting), Enemies / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Knockback, Splash, Stun, Unstoppable

Cast time: 0.75 (ch) + 0.35 seconds

Range: 12.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

Missile speed:
- Initial: 0
- Maximum: 100
- Acceleration: 80

Knockback duration: 0.1875 seconds

Knockback speed: 18

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• Interrupting Tyrael during the cast puts the Ability on a 10-second cooldown.
• Upon activation Tyrael gains vision of the target for the duration of the Ability.
• The cast is also interrupted if the target becomes untargetable, gains Stealth or moves farther than 5 units past its maximum cast range during the windup.
• Charging Tyrael can only be disjointed if the target dies, is removed from the plane (certain Stasis effects) or instantly teleports farther than 20 units from its previous location. When disjointed, the charge expires upon reaching the target's location before the event. Otherwise, the charge will keep redirecting to the target unit.
• Judgment always applies its area effects upon reaching the end location, regardless of being able to hit its original target.
• Tyrael is Unstoppable while charging.

R

Sanctification

75 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

After 0.5 seconds create a field of holy energy that makes allied Heroes Invulnerable. Lasts 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Channeled cast (stationary), Invulnerable

Cast time: 0.5 (ch) + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

Tickrate: 16 per second

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• Interrupting Sanctification during its cast puts the Ability on a 10-second cooldown.

Talents

1

Salvation

Increase the Shield amount Tyrael gains from Righteousness by 40% and heal Tyrael for 140 Health if his Shield is destroyed. Does not increase the Shield amount gained by allies.

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Type: Healing, Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Bonus shield: 134.4

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• Healing does not trigger if the Shield expires without breaking.

Justice for All

Increase the Shield applied to allies by Righteousness to 80% of the Shield gained by Tyrael.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allies

Total shield amount: 269

Ardent Restoration

Dealing damage to a Hero heals Tyrael for 20 over 5 seconds. Dealing damage resets this timer, and the heal amount stacks up to 10 times.

❢ Quest: Every Regeneration Globe gathered increases this heal amount by 1%.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Properties: Heal over Time

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x5)

Healing per tick: 4 (per stack)

Maximum quest stacks: 35 000

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• Quest healing bonus stacks additively with healing dealt modifiers that can affect healing from Ardent Restoration.

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Stalwart Angel

Gain 25 Armor while El'druin's Might is active, and for 3 seconds after teleporting.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Bound by Law

Heroes hit by El'druin's Might heal Tyrael for 3% of his maximum Health. Tyrael's Basic Attacks against enemies Slowed by El'druin's Might increase the Slow duration by 1 second, up to 4 seconds.

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Type: Healing, Crowd control

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier (slow refresh)

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• Only the initial cast of El'druin's Might triggers the heal.

Divine Vigor

If Smite hits an enemy, Tyrael's Basic Attacks within the next 4 seconds heal for 70% of the damage dealt.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

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Reciprocate

When Tyrael's Shield from Righteousness expires or is destroyed, it deals 190 damage to nearby enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

Purge Evil

Each enemy Hero hit by Smite increases Tyrael's Basic Attack damage by 60% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

Maximum bonus: 600% (x10)

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• Subsequent applications refresh the duration. Stacks from previous casts carry over.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Tyrael's Basic Attack damage.

Swift Retribution

Smite grants 20% more Movement Speed and also grants 25% Attack Speed for 2 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Non-Structure Allies, Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
• Movement Speed bonus stacks additively with baseline bonus, but not with other sources of Movement Speed.
• Attack Speed stacks additively with other effects that can affect the target's Attack Speed.

10

Judgment

Cooldown: 70 seconds
After 0.75 seconds, charge an enemy Hero, dealing 150 damage and Stunning them for 1.5 seconds. Nearby enemies are knocked away and take 75 damage.

Sanctification

Cooldown: 90 seconds
After 0.5 seconds create a field of holy energy that makes allied Heroes Invulnerable. Lasts 3 seconds.

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Sword of Justice

Upon teleporting using El'druin's Might, El'druin swaps places with Tyrael, and El'druin's Might can be reactivated to teleport an additional time.

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• Reactivations do not increase the time El'druin can stay on the ground.

Holy Ground

Create a ring for 3 seconds that blocks enemies from entering the area teleported to using El'druin's Might.

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Type: Pathing blocker

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Displacement from the creation of Holy Ground doesn't apply Daze.

Law and Order

Each enemy Hero hit by Smite reduces the cooldown of Righteousness by 1 second. Each allied Hero Shielded by Righteousness increases the damage of the next Smite by 35%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability<

Maximum bonus: 140% (x4)

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• Stacks from previous casts of Righteousness do not carry over. New cast resets the counter.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Smite's damage.

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Horadric Reforging

Tyrael's Basic Attacks reduce the cooldown of El'druin's Might by 2 seconds.

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Properties: Attack Modifier

Burning Halo

Both Tyrael and El'druin deal 18 damage per second to nearby enemies. Teleporting increases this damage from Tyrael by 150% for 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Burning Rage

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.5 ⁽¹

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• ¹⁾ Extended by Tyrael's unit radius.
• Enemies can take damage from both Tyrael's and El'druin's damage auras at the same time.
• When Sword of Justice is picked, the first reactivation increases the damage around both Tyrael and El'druin. The second reactivation does not further increase the damage, but only reapplies or refreshes the effect.
• Does not affect unaggroed neutral Mercenaries.
• Does not draw tower aggro when damaging enemy Heroes under their Structures.
• Damage from Burning Halo is unaffected by external offensive damage modifiers and lifesteal effects.
• Disabled while Mounted, Stealthed or in Stasis.

Smite the Wicked

While El'druin's Might is active, and for 2 seconds after teleporting, Smite's cooldown recharges 125% faster.

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• Reduces the cooldown of Smite by 0.0781 seconds every 0.0625 seconds while active.

20

Angel of Justice

Increases the cast range of Judgment by 50%, and reduces the cooldown by 40 seconds.

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Bonus cast range: 6.0

Holy Arena

Increases the duration of Sanctification by 1 second and increases the damage of allies inside by 25%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes & Summons, Self

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• Summons themselves must be inside Sanctification to gain the damage buff from Holy Arena.
• Summons are still unaffected by the baseline benefits of Sanctification.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target's damage output.

Seal of El'druin

Using a Basic Ability grants 50% Attack Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Does not stack with itself. Subsequent applications refresh the duration.
• Stacks additively with other effects that can affect Tyrael's Attack Speed.

Defense of the Angels

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to gain 50 Armor for 3 seconds.

Each time Tyrael damages an enemy Hero with a Basic Attack or Basic Ability, increase the duration of this Armor bonus by 0.5 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Armor

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• Cooldown starts when the Ability is activated.

Skins

Tyrael Skins
Archangel of Justice
Backstory: Among the angels it is the Archangel of Justice Tyrael who is humanity's greatest defender. Wielding his sword El'druin against the Burning Hells, the Prime Evils would have enslaved humanity long ago if Tyrael had not intervened.
500 / 4,000 Archangel of Justice	Free Platinum	Free Ivory
Archangel
Backstory: Each archangel's armor is a manifestation of their spirit. While his appearance had changed during his battles within the Nexus, his dedication to justice remained steadfast.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Wisdom	120 / 75 Silver	120 / 75 Vengeful
Demonic
Backstory: Of all the Aspects of Sin, Tyrael, the Lord of Pride, is the most ruthless. His every action and every thought serves only to fulfill the desires of his true master: himself.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Fel	600 / 1,200 Void	600 / 1,200 Infernal
Mecha
Backstory: Neo Stormwind's latest Angiris-class mecha utilizes a cerebro-mesh modeled after the legendary Mecha Tassadar. Once deployed, the Tyrael unit will dispense justice for the atrocities committed during the great Mecha War.
Features: Replaced voice-over, themed abilities, themed animations, themed mount.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Kaijo world skins.
750 / 1,600	750 / 1,600 Strike	750 / 1,600 Deathreaper	Perfect
1,125 / 2,400 Dark	1,125 / 2,400 Storm
Seraphim
Backstory: With tired eyes the newly appointed High Seraph Tyrael looked across Sanctuary... after the fall of the High Heavens, this world was the last bastion against Imperius's wrath.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Dark	160 / 100 Ancient

Mounts

Tyrael Mounts
Mecha Thrusters (Mecha Tyrael exclusive)
Free

Portraits

Tyrael Portraits
Angel of Winter Weil75 / 40	Carbot Tyrael120 / 75	Diablo III Tyrael75 / 40	Mecha Tyrael Insignia75 / 40	Pachimari Tyrael75 / 40	Stylized Demonic Tyrael75 / 40	Tyrael Hero
Tyrael Mastery	Tyrael's First Charger75 / 40

Sprays

Tyrael Sprays
Carbot Tyrael120 / 75	Cute Mecha Tyrael75 / 40	Mecha Tyrael Badge75 / 40	Mecha Tyrael Insignia75 / 40	Pachimari Tyrael75 / 40	Tyrael Pixel75 / 40

Emojis

Tyrael Pack 1			Tyrael Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Tyrael Happy	:tyraelhappy: :tyrhappy:		Tyrael Angry	:tyraelangry: :tyrangry:
	Tyrael ROFL	:tyraellol: :tyraelrofl: :tyrlol: :tyrrofl:		Tyrael Cool	:tyraelcool: :tyrcool:
	Tyrael Sad	:tyraelsad: :tyrsad:		Tyrael Embarrassed	:tyraeloops: :tyraelembarrassed: :tyroops: :tyrembarrassed:
	Tyrael Silly	:tyraelsilly: :tyrsilly:		Tyrael in Love	:tyraellove: :tyraelinlove: :tyrlove: :tyrinlove:
	Tyrael Speechless	:tyraelmeh: :tyraelspeechless: :tyrmeh: :tyrspeechless:		Tyrael Surprised	:tyraelwow: :tyraelsurprised: :tyrwow: :tyrsurprised:

Mecha Tyrael Pack 1			Mecha Tyrael Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Mecha Tyrael Happy	:tyraelmechahappy: :tyrmhappy:		Mecha Tyrael Angry	:tyraelmechaangry: :tyrmangry:
	Mecha Tyrael ROFL	:tyraelmechalol: :tyraelmecharofl: :tyrmlol: :tyrmrofl:		Mecha Tyrael Cool	:tyraelmechacool: :tyrmcool:
	Mecha Tyrael Sad	:tyraelmechasad: :tyrmsad:		Mecha Tyrael Embarrassed	:tyraelmechaoops: :tyraelmechaembarrassed: :tyrmoops: :tyrmembarrassed:
	Mecha Tyrael Silly	:tyraelmechasilly: :tyrmsilly:		Mecha Tyrael in Love	:tyraelmechalove: :tyraelmechainlove: :tyrmlove: :tyrminlove:
	Mecha Tyrael Speechless	:tyraelmechameh: :tyraelmechaspeechless: :tyrmmeh: :tyrmspeechless:		Mecha Tyrael Surprised	:tyraelmechawow: :tyraelmechasurprised: :tyrmwow: :tyrmsurprised:

Quotes

Main articles: Tyrael/Quotes, Tyrael/Quotes/Mecha

Trivia

• Tyrael was mentioned in the manual for Diablo (December 1996), and made his first appearance in Diablo II (June 2000).
  • His book debut was four months later, in Demonsbane (October 2000).
• Tyrael is voiced by Ed Trotta in Diablo II and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, and by Jonathan Adams in Diablo III, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Diablo III: Wrath, and Heroes of the Storm.
• Tyrael was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• NECA revealed the Heroes of the Storm Tyrael action figure at SDCC 2015.
• Tyrael is the first angel hero in the game, the other three being Auriel, Malthael and Imperius.
  • He is also the first of the Angel Aspects to appear in the game, the other three being Auriel, Malthael and Imperius.
• Tyrael is the first member of the Angiris Council to enter the Nexus, the first three being Auriel, Malthael, and Imperius.
• Tyrael is one of three Diablo tank heroes in the game, the others being Diablo and Johanna.
• Tyrael's Mecha skin is based on the Mobile Suits in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (October 2002).
  • The Dawnbreaker Mecha color scheme is based on the ORB-01 Akatsuki Gundam
  • The Justice Mecha color scheme is based on the ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam.
  • The Strike Mecha color scheme is based on the ZGMF-X42S Destiny Gundam in color and GAT-X105 Strike Gundam in name.
• Tyrael's Mecha skin's construction materials consist of silver-titanium alloy and a crystal composite.

Gallery

General

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  Tyrael's artwork

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  Archangel Tyrael

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  Infernal Champion Tyrael

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  Dark Seraphim Tyrael

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  Tyrael on a mount

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  Tyrael leads his forces in the Eternal Conflict

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  The Tyrael action figure

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  Hand of Sacrifice (replaced by Smite)

Abilities

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  Q: El'druin's Might

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  W: Righteousness

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  E: Smite

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  R1: Judgment

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  R2. Sanctification

Artwork

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  Demonic Tyrael in the Eternal Conflict

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  Tyrael vs. Illidan

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  Mecha Tyrael concept art

External links

• Developer Insights: Giving Tyrael Justice
• Tyrael Hero Week
• Tyrael - Heroes of the Storm
• Tyrael - Diablo Wiki
• Tyrael Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Tyrael Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Tyrael Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm