Dehaka
Dehaka | |
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![]() "Change is upon us." | |
Basic Info | |
Title | Primal Pack Leader |
Role | ![]() |
Difficulty | Hard |
Franchise | ![]() |
Price | ![]() ![]() |
Release Date | March 29, 2016 |
Base Stats | |
Attack Type | Melee |
Health | 2434 |
Health Regen | 5.0703 |
Resource | 500 Mana |
Unit Radius | 1.0 |
Attack Speed | 1.11 |
Attack Range | 1.00 |
Attack Damage | 100 |
Data Page |
Dehaka, the Primal Pack Leader, is a melee bruiser hero from the StarCraft universe.[1][2] On Zerus, the zerg pack leader Dehaka was a constantly evolving apex predator. His drive to slay the strongest prey and consume their Essence has now led him to the Nexus, where Dehaka stalks his opponents across the battlefield. Able to regenerate through massive damage and swiftly move into and out of combat, Dehaka uses the primal zerg’s mutability to deadly effect.[3]
Dehaka is a Bruiser with a strong, global presence that can effectively clear groups of minions.
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Background[edit | edit source]
Dehaka is a primal zerg pack leader from Zerus, the birthworld of the zerg. He is fixated on collecting essence, believing that change is necessary for survival.
After Kerrigan came to Zerus and became the Primal Queen of Blades, Dehaka realized she was the most powerful of the zerg. He allied his pack with her Swarm, believing she would lead them to new essence.
When Kerrigan took the Swarm to Korhal, Emperor Mengsk deployed a Psi Destroyer that could harm the Zerg by attacking their hive mind. Since Dehaka and his pack lacked the psionic connection the Swarm zerg shared, they were able to approach and sabotage it, allowing Kerrigan's zerg to advance. Soon afterward, Dehaka and his pack participated in the assault on Augustgrad, slaying Arcturus Mengsk. In the aftermath, Dehaka swore to aid Kerrigan in her war against the fallen xel'naga Amon.
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Dehaka is an aggressive Warrior with a strong map presence. Powerful self-sustain from Essence Collection makes him very hard to kill. Dark Swarm enables him to break apart enemy formations during fights, while his brutal single target crowd control can incapacitate key targets.
Strength[edit | edit source]
- Powerful on demand self healing
- Can Drag enemies out of position
- Good waveclear
- Cannot be body-blocked while using Dark Swarm
- Can avoid incoming Abilities with Burrow
- High map mobility via Brushstalker
Weaknesses[edit | edit source]
- Lacks a reliable gap-closer
- Susceptible to kiting
- Drag and Isolation are difficult skillshots
- Limited mobility when Brushstalker is on cooldown
Abilities[edit | edit source]
- See Data Page for a table of scaled values at key levels.
Talents[edit | edit source]
- Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
❢ Repeatable Quest: Every 50 Essence collected permanently increases Health Regeneration by 4, up to 40, and maximum Essence by 1, up to 10.
- Essence collected while at maximum Essence still counts towards quest progress.
❢ Repeatable Quest: Every 50 Essence collectedpermanently increases the Movement Speed Bonus of Brushstalket by 2%, up to 20%.
- Stack additively with itself and Brushstalker's passive Movement Speed bonus.
- Essence collected while at maximum Essence still counts towards quest progress.
Launch biomass that hits the first enemy Hero dealing 200 damage, revealing, Silencing and Slowing them 30% for 3 seconds. Additionally, their vision radius is greatly reduced for 6 seconds.
After 4 seconds, heal for 100% of the damage Dehaka took over this period.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Dark Swarm's damage.
- Does not stack with itself or other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
- Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Dehaka's Basic Attack damage.
- Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.
- Increases the amount of healing stored, causing the bonus to stack multiplicatively with healing modifiers.
Skins[edit | edit source]
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Backstory: Cunning and wise, Dehaka is one of the last surviving pack leaders of the forgotten world of Zerus. As with all primal zerg, he is driven by a powerful desire to consume the esence of his foes and evolve into newer and more deadly forms. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: Zerus-class mech D3-H4K4 was developed to gather Kaijo DNA mid-combat. Troublingly, the onboard AI has begun rejecting orders, extracting "essence" from its own targets. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: To the primal zerg, form and function are one. With each change comes greater strength, and thus survival. Few have undergone as much change as Dehaka... and he intends to keep it that way. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Backstory: From this summer's blockbuster, Dehakasaurus Rex is on the hunt! With spring-loaded chomping action and patented dino-grasper technology, this beast will tear through playtime like razor-sharp teeth through its prey. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Portraits[edit | edit source]
Sprays[edit | edit source]
Emojis[edit | edit source]
Quotes[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Dehaka first appeared in StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (March 2013).
- The reveal of Dehaka as a new Hero was teased on several occasions. First, in Arena image (which also teased Xul and Li-Ming), a monstrous arm laid in the dirt far in the background — an arm which matches the one Dehaka lost, but the player can find during the events of Heart of the Swarm. Later on Twitter some screenshots were posted. The first picture on twitter showed some dead minions and footprints leading to a bush.[4] The next picture on Twitter showed some creature underground.[5] The last one showed some News Report of missing pigs and farmers spotting a strange creature.[6]
- Dehaka is voiced by Steve Blum.
- Dehaka's dance is a reference to the song Hotline Bling.
- Dehaka is missing two of his four arms, but they regrow when he picks his heroic ability.[7] Half of his right tusk will regenerate when he selects his heroic ability.
- Dehaka's appearance has changed since Heart of the Swarm; his dialogue attributes the change to the essence he collected while following the Queen of Blades.
- His Heroes of the Storm appearance was used as an evolution for him in the Co-op Missions mode.
- The Drag ability based off of his Drag ability Dehaka has in Heart of the Swarm.
- The Dark Swarm ability is based off of the ability of the defiler in StarCraft. In StarCraft, Dark Swarm did not do damage, but created a cloud that would cause ranged attacks to miss.
- Burrow is based off of the Burrow ability many zerg ground units have in StarCraft and StarCraft II, which cloaks them.
- Essence Collection is a callback to Dehaka's ability to consume the genetic information of others in order to evolve himself, which serves as the core of his character.
- The Bushstalker references Dehaka's appearances in the Zerus arc of Heart of the Swarm, where he can be found in bushes scattered around the map of the first two missions, spying on Kerrigan and her forces.
- The level 4 talent Lurker Strain is a reference to the lurker unit from StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II.
- The level 4 talent One-Who-Collects is a reference to the title Dehaka's introduces himself with, One-Who-Collects.
- The level 16 talent Tunneling Claws is a reference to the roach upgrade from StarCraft II, which allows the roach to move and burrow, much like the talent.
Ability and talent notes[edit | edit source]
- If
Brushstalker is used while inside of 'Bush' and you target the cursor at your own hitbox, the cooldown of
Brushstalker will reset, as soon as he "digs back up " (animation finishes).
Drag is one of the only abilities with something called: "active hitbox". The hitbox can only removed if
Dehaka is Stunned or Silenced at the time of his cast point, or if the animation is finished, example whiffed or landed.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
General[edit | edit source]
Abilities[edit | edit source]
Gameplay[edit | edit source]
Dehaka fighting Falstad
Dehaka fighting Raynor
Dehaka fighting Tyrande
Dehaka taking a shrine
Dehaka taking a temple
Videos[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Technobubble: Dehaka abilities, tips and model art for Heroes of the Storm
- ↑ Destructoid: Zerg terror Dehaka confirmed for Heroes of the Storm
- ↑ Dehaka Hero Page
- ↑ Heroes of the Storm: Something strange is afoot in the Nexus...
- ↑ Heroes of the Storm: This mystery just got a hole lot deeper!
- ↑ Heroes of the Storm: Nothing to see here. Move along.
- ↑ Twitter: John Hodgson
External links[edit | edit source]
- Dehaka Hero Week
- Dehaka - Heroes of the Storm
- Dehaka - StarCraft Wiki
- Dehaka Build Guide on Icy Veins
- Dehaka Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
- Dehaka Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm
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