Artanis

Artanis
"Our time has come."
Basic Info
Title	Hierarch of the Daelaam
Role	Bruiser
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	StarCraft
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	October 20, 2015
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2490
Health Regen	5.1875
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.8125
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	1.25
Attack Damage	111
Data Page

Artanis, the Hierarch of the Daelaam, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the StarCraft universe. Despite his relative youth, Artanis was named Hierarch of the Daelaam after the fall of Aiur. Driven by the promise of a brighter future, he hopes to reclaim the Protoss' fallen home world and rebuild their once glorious civilization.

Artanis is a tough Bruiser who deals high damage if the enemy team is unable to shut him down. He repositions enemies and strikes with his blades.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the StarCraft universe.

Artanis is the leader of the Daelaam. A renowned warrior, he seeks to unify his beleaguered people, and will let nothing stand in his way to restore the glory of the Protoss. As a renowned Templar with centuries of experience, Artanis combines martial prowess and tactical acumen—striking swiftly with his psi-blades, taking the brunt of enemy assaults with his Shields, and calling upon his flagship, the Spear of Adun, to turn his foes into dust.

Artanis was a student of Tassadar, and with the appearance of the Zerg during the Great War, Artanis was thrust into command when his teacher was disgraced for defying the will of the Conclave. Now an executor, Artanis allied with Fenix to repel the Zerg from their homeworld of Aiur, but after Fenix fell in battle and he was ordered away from his home to hunt Tassadar, Artanis became disillusioned with the leadership of the Conclave. Instead of capturing Tassadar, Artanis allied with him, helped him rescue the exiled Nerazim Zeratul, and even fought his own people as he prevented Tassadar's capture. When Tassadar was freed, Artanis commanded the Protoss in the final assault on the Zerg's Overmind, with Tassadar sacrificing himself to slay the creature.

However, in the aftermath, Aiur was overrun with feral Zerg, and Artanis worked with Zeratul to lead his people from the planet to the Nerazim world of Shakuras. But the Zerg followed them there, and the Protoss were forced to hunt the Uraj and Khalis to activate a temple capable of purging the Zerg from the planet. Artanis had little time to rebuild their society and try to settle when their planet was attacked twice, first by the fanatical Nerazim Ulrezaj, and then by Sarah Kerrigan, who kidnapped the Nerazim's matriarch Raszagal and demanded the Protoss aid her in killing the second infant Overmind controlled by the invading Terran United Earth Directorate. When Kerrigan's further betrayal resulted in the matriarch's death, Artanis sent a retaliation fleet, and alongside the Terran Dominion and UED fleets, fought Kerrigan's Swarms. But all fleets were repelled.

With an uneasy peace, Artanis reunited Protoss society into the Daelaam, and was made Hierarch to represent all Protoss tribes. His primary goal was to reassemble his fleet to retake Aiur, slowly forming the Golden Armada, the largest group of Protoss ships ever assembled. Six years of tensions, tribalism and border conflicts later, Artanis released his fleet on Aiur, assaulting the feral Zerg inhabiting the world. However, Zeratul warned him of the return of the fallen Xel'Naga Amon, and during the attack Amon seized control of the Khala that bound Artanis's people, taking direct control of the majority. Zeratul gave his life to free Artanis from Amon's corruption, and Artanis swore to continue the fight, escaping the planet on the Spear of Adun.

Over the course of the war, Artanis managed to rally his people and bring into his fleet the forces of the Tal'darim under Alarak, and the Purifiers under an AI construct of the memories of Fenix named Talandar. Together, they used a Xel'Naga relic named the Keystone to drive him into his home realm of the Void, then allied with Jim Raynor and a redeemed Sarah Kerrigan to dog him there, slaying the Xel'Naga once and for all. In the aftermath Artanis attempted to rebuild his society, but the scars of the war made it a struggle.

Years later, Artanis was alerted to a Zerg incursion on the planet Gystt, and found Zagara and her Zerg there, having regrown the planet using a Xel'Naga creature. Artanis was skeptical of the Zerg's intentions, but joined peace talks there at the behest of Emperor Valerian Mengsk. But a plot brewed by Abathur threatened to respark the conflict between the three races, with Artanis prepared to purify the world. A joint-race survey team managed to uncover Abathur's plot and stop him, allowing peace talks to resume. Yet even after these talks, tensions rose over conflicts on the Terran Dominion and Daelaam border, causing Artanis to be pressured by his people to retaliate against the Dominion.

Gameplay

Artanis is a tough Bruiser who deals high damage if the enemy team is unable to shut him down. While below 75% maximum Health, Shield Overload and related Talents can make him deceptively difficult to kill.

Strengths

• Great sustained damage
• Phase Prism can be used during Blade Dash, which provides Artanis with unexpected mobility
• Once below 75% health, Shield Overload can make Artanis very difficult to kill if not focused
• Both Suppression Pulse and Purifier Beam are global, allowing Artanis to influence team fights from anywhere on the battlefield

Weaknesses

• Can be kited easily
• Shield Overload only activates when below 75% health
• Crowd control can prevent Artanis from using his Basic Attacks or Blade Dash, making him unable to recover Shield Overload (although Blinds do not preventing him from reducing its cooldown with Basic Attacks).

Abilities

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

Shield Overload

Cooldown: 24 seconds

After taking damage while below 75% Health, Artanis gains a 365 point Shield for 5 seconds. Basic Attacks lower the cooldown of Shield Overload by 4 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier (cdr)

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• Cooldown reduction is triggered by AAs even if Artanis is Blinded or the target is Evading.

Q

Blade Dash

50 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Dash forward and deal 63 damage to enemies, then return and deal 171 damage. Every enemy hit reduces the cooldown on Shield Overload by 1 second, and Heroes by 2 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Launch

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Piercing Skillshot, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 8.0

Hitbox: 3.0 x 3.0

Missile speed:
- Min: 0.25
- Max: 50

Dash duration: 1.25 seconds

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• Both forward and backward dash grant Shield Overload cooldown reduction.
• Hitting an enemy at the very peak of the dash only damages with backward dash damage.

W

Twin Blades

20 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds

Artanis's next Basic Attack immediately causes him to charge a short distance and strike the enemy 2 times.

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Type: Movement: Dash

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Primed

Cast time: Instant

Range: 3.5

Missile speed:
- Min: 5.0
- Max: 45

Strike interval: 0.25 seconds

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• Activating this Ability immediately resets Artanis's Basic Attack timer.
• Cooldown starts once the Ability is triggered by Basic Attacking an enemy.
• Twin Blades can be triggered while Rooted, but it doesn't dash.

E

Phase Prism

50 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Fire a Phase Prism that deals 66 damage to Heroes and swaps Artanis's position with theirs. Hitting a Hero also grants Artanis Unstoppable for 1.5 seconds. Can be used during Blade Dash.

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

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Daze, Displacement, Skillshot, Stationary channel, Unstoppable

Cast time: 0.0625 + 0.1875 seconds

Range: 7.5

Hitbox: 1.0 x 1.0

Missile speed:
- Projectile: 12.7
- Swap: 18.0

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• Enemies can be swapped over terrain and enemy Structures, but not through allied Structures.

R

Suppression Pulse

40 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds

Fire a large area pulse from the Spear of Adun, dealing 114 damage and Blinding enemies for 4 seconds. Unlimited range.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Blind, Self-castable

Cast time: 0 + 0.125 seconds

Range: Global

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 8.0

Initial delay: 1.25 seconds

Vision radius: 9.0

Vision duration: 3.0 seconds

R

Purifier Beam

65 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

Target an enemy Hero with an orbital beam from the Spear of Adun, dealing 184 damage per second for 8 seconds. The beam will chase the target as they move. Unlimited range.

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Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Area of Effect, Revealed

Cast time: 0 + 0.125 seconds

Range: Global

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 1.25

Missile speed: 3.105

Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x32)

Damage per tick: 46

Initial delay: 2.0 seconds

Vision radius: 3.0

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• Reveals the target for 10 seconds upon cast.

Talents

1

Reactive Parry

Damaging enemy Heroes with Twin Blades or Blade Dash grants Artanis 50 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing its damage by 50%.

Stores up to 2 charges.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Block

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• Twin Blades grants a charge on each attack.
• Blade Dash grants a charge for each Hero hit on both the initial dash and return.
• Charges are gained from Twin Blades even if Artanis is Blinded or the target is Evading.
• Does not stack with other positive Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Amateur Opponent

Twin Blades attacks deal 150% bonus damage to non-Heroes.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Artanis's Basic Attack damage with Twin Blades.

Protector of Aiur

❢ Quest: Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes increase Artanis's Basic Attack damage by 0.1%. Takedowns grant 1% bonus damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Artanis's Basic Attack damage.

4

Psionic Synergy

Hitting an enemy with Phase Prism grants 30 Armor for 5 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor

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

Shield Battery

Shield Overload's cooldown recharges 125% faster while its Shield is active.

Passive: Reduce Shield Overload's cooldown by 4 seconds.

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Type: Cooldown reduction

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• Reduces the cooldown of Shield Overload by 0.3125 seconds every 0.25 seconds while it is active.

Shield Surge

Increases Shield Overload's Shields by 80% while below 25% Health.

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Type: Bonus Shield

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Ability

Bonus Shield: 292

7

Solarite Reaper

Increases the damage of the first dash of Blade Dash by 175%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Blade Dash's damage.

Chrono Surge

Hitting an enemy Hero with Phase Prism grants 40% bonus Attack Speed for 5 seconds and Slows the enemy's Movement Speed by 30% for 4 seconds.

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Type: Status effect / Crowd control

Affects: Self / Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attacks Speed, Slow

Final Cut

After using an Ability, your next Basic Attack within 6 seconds deals 40% additional damage. While under 25%, this damage bonus is increased to 60%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Follow Through

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• During Twin Blades the damage bonus is applied to the first strike only.
• Does not stack with itself.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Artanis's Basic Attack damage.

10

Suppression Pulse

Cooldown: 50 seconds
Fire a large area pulse from the Spear of Adun, dealing 114 damage and Blinding enemies for 4 seconds. Unlimited range.

Purifier Beam

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Target an enemy Hero with an orbital beam from the Spear of Adun, dealing 184 damage per second for 8 seconds. The beam will chase the target as they move. Unlimited range.

13

Templar's Zeal

Reduce the Mana cost of Blade Dash from 50 to 25. Each time that Shield Overload activates, reduce the cooldown of Blade Dash by 6 seconds.

Triple Strike

Increase Twin Blades's number of Basic Attacks to 3, but increase its cooldown by 1 second.

Graviton Vortex

Reduce the Mana cost of Phase Prism from 70 to 25. Hitting an enemy Hero with Basic Attacks or Blade Dash lowers the cooldown of Phase Prism by 2 seconds.

Phase Bulwark

Shield Overload grants 50 Spell Armor while active, and for 2 seconds after it expires.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Armor

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• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other damage modifiers may stack.

16

Titan Killer

Basic Attacks against Heroes deal an additional 0.5% of their maximum Health in damage, increased to 1.5% when empowered by Twin Blades.

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Type: Percent damage

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier

Force of Will

Casting Basic Abilities reduces the cooldown of Shield Overload by 5 seconds.

Blades of a Templar

Increase Attack Speed by 20%. Basic Attacks Slow enemy Movement Speed by 20% for 1.25 seconds.

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Type: Status effect / Crowd control

Affects: Self / Enemies

Properties: Attack Speed buff, Slow

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• Slow is triggered by AAs even if Artanis is Blinded or the target is Evading.

20

Orbital Bombardment

Suppression Pulse gains an additional charge. There is a 10 second cooldown between uses.

Target Purified

Increase the speed of Purifier Beam by 15%. If the target of Purifier Beam dies, it automatically recasts on the nearest visible enemy Hero.

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Retarget delay: 2.0 seconds

Zealot Charge

Increase Twin Blades's charge distance by 75%.

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Bonus range: 2.625

Plasma Burn

While Shield Overload is active, deal 70 damage per second to nearby enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.625 ⁽¹

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• ¹⁾ Area of Effect is extended by Artanis's unit radius.
• Plasma Burn does not affect unaggroed neutral Mercenaries.
• Damaging enemies with Plasma Burn does not trigger tower aggro.
• Plasma Burn is unaffected by offensive damage modifier and lifesteal effects.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Artanis Guide

Artanis Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Artanis Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Artanis Skins
Hierarch of the Daelaam
Backstory: Despite his relative youth, Artanis was named Hierarch of the Daelaam after the fall of Aiur. Driven by the promise of a brighter future, he hopes to reclaim the protoss' fallen home world and rebuild their once glorious civilization.
Notes: Artanis is free with the purchase of StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void.
750 / 10,000 Hierarch of the Daelaam	Free Vermillion	Free Onyx	120 / 75 Zer’atai
Daelaam
Backstory: The Khala is lost, and the war against Amon rages across the Koprulu Sector. Aboard the Spear of Adun, Artanis and his forces are the last hope against annihilation.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Azure	120 / 75 Scarlet
Hierarch
Backstory: As Hierarch, Artanis strives for unity among his people. Drawing inspiration from the cultures of both Aiur and Shakuras, his ceremonial armor is a symbol of their combined strength.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Violet	120 / 75 Jade
Purifier
Backstory: Shortly after reactivation, Artanis purged Aiur of the protoss in an act of open rebellion. Now the Hierarch of the Purifiers leads his people on a quest to cleanse the sector of all organic life.
Features: Altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Crimson	250 / 300 Test Model
Shogun
Backstory: The Daelaam Shogunate is not blind to its people's suffering. Artanis, the newly appointed Shogun, has sworn to bring the Lenassa to justice before another clan falls to their dark blades.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of StarCraft alternative shared history skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Shadow	350 / 400 Vengeful	350 / 400 Twilight

Artanis Event Skins
Draenei Executor
Backstory: Long-exiled by his adopted Nerazim brethren, Artanis has finally found a new unity.
Features: Themed abilities
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into Warcraft skins.
350 / 600	350 / 600 Royal	350 / 600 Darksteel

Portraits

Artanis Portraits
Artanis Hero	Artanis Mastery	Carbot Artanis120 / 75	Hierarch Artanis75 / 40	Illuminated Draenei Executor Artanis75 / 40	Purifier Artanis75 / 40	Stylized Artanis75 / 40

Sprays

Artanis Sprays
Carbot Artanis120 / 75	Cartoon Artanis75 / 40

Emojis

Artanis Pack 1			Artanis Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Artanis Happy	:artanishappy: :artahappy:		Artanis Angry	:artanisangry: :artaangry:
	Artanis ROFL	:artanislol: :artanisrofl: :artalol: :artarofl:		Artanis Cool	:artaniscool: :artacool:
	Artanis Sad	:artanissad: :artasad:		Artanis Embarrassed	:artanisoops: :artanisembarrassed: :artaoops: :artaembarrassed:
	Artanis Silly	:artanissilly: :artasilly:		Artanis in Love	:artanislove: :artanisinlove: :artalove: :artainlove:
	Artanis Speechless	:artanismeh: :artanisspeechless: :artameh: :artaspeechless:		Artanis Surprised	:artaniswow: :artanissurprised: :artawow: :artasurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Artanis/Quotes

Trivia

• Artanis was the "executor" player character in StarCraft (March 1998), though he was not named or seen until StarCraft: Brood War (November 1998).
  • Artanis's default and Daelaam skins reflect his appearance in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void (November 2015).
• Artanis is voiced by Jason Hayes in StarCraft, and by Patrick Seitz in StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm.
• Artanis was announced at Gamescom 2015.
• All purchasers of StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void automatically unlocked Artanis in Heroes of the Storm.
• Those who prepurchased a digital copy of Legacy of the Void gained access to Artanis on October 20, 2015. He became available for sale to everyone as of October 27, 2015.
• Crimson Purifier Artanis and Test Model Purifier Artanis were inspired by Eva-02 and Eva-01 (respectively) from the influential anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• The Purifier Beam Ability references the Purifier Beam weapon of the Protoss Mothership, and later the Purifier Beam Ability of the Spear of Adun in Legacy of the Void.
• The level 4 Talent Shield Battery references the Shield Battery structure, a Protoss structure that allows Protoss units to recover their Shields.
• The Level 7 Talent Solarite Reaper references the Solarite Reaper axe weapon used by Aiur zealots from the Legacy of the Void campaign and Co-op Missions mode.
  • This weapon itself is a reference to the Arcanite Reaper weapon from World of Warcraft.
• The Level 20 talent Zealot Charge references the Charge upgrade that Zealots can research in StarCraft II. Much of Artanis's design was based off of the Zealot unit.

Gallery

General

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  Artanis's artwork

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  Artanis home screen

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  Tassadar, Artanis, and Zeratul, with the Spear of Adun in the background

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  Purifier concept

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  Draenei Executor Artanis Concept Art

Abilities

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  Q: Blade Dash

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  W: Twin Blades

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  E: Phase Prism

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  R1: Suppression Pulse

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  R2: Purifier Beam

External links

• Artanis Hero Week
• Artanis - Heroes of the Storm
• Artanis - StarCraft Wiki
• Artanis Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Artanis Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes