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Revision as of 20:22, 3 November 2016
| Kerrigan | |
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| Basic Info | |
| Title | Queen of Blades |
| Role |  Melee Assassin
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| Difficulty | Hard |
| Franchise |  StarCraft
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| Price |  500 /  4,000
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| Release Date | March 13, 2014 |
| Base Stats | |
| Attack Type | Melee |
| Health | 1764 |
| Health Regen | 3.6757 |
| Resource | 500 Mana |
| Unit Radius | 0.6875 |
| Attack Speed | 1.25 |
| Attack Range | 2 |
| Attack Damage | 115 |
| Data Page | |
Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, is a melee assassin hero from the StarCraft universe.[1] Once a terran ghost with formidable psionic abilities, Sarah Kerrigan was betrayed by her allies and transformed by the zerg into the Queen of Blades. Now freed of the dark one's corruption, Kerrigan faces a threat that could destroy the galaxy itself.
Kerrigan is an aggressive Hero that gains temporary Shields by attacking enemies and using her Abilities. Able to stun enemies and pull them towards her.[2]
Background
Sarah Louise Kerrigan discovered the strength of her latent psionic gift as a young girl. An innocent flash of childish anger at her parents resulted in massive cerebral hemorrhaging and a horrific death for her mother. Her father would only repeat one thing over and over again in the ensuing years: “I saw her head come apart.” This gruesome event alerted the Terran Confederacy to her powers, and she quickly became the focus of the fledgling ghost program. Because she had reached unheard-of scores on psi-evaluation tests, her abilities elicited a complete readjustment of the scoring system so that she could be properly measured. The remnants of her humanity were stripped from her, and Kerrigan was designated Ghost Number 24601.
Following her emergence from the ghost program, she became an unstoppable assassin for the corrupt Confederate government. It was her assassination of the independent senator Angus Mengsk that brought her to the attention of his ambitious son, Arcturus. At first wishing to extract revenge from Kerrigan for his father’s murder, Arcturus soon realized that she was much more useful as a weapon against the Confederacy. After rescuing her from a clandestine experimental facility, he removed her neural inhibitor and used her restored memories to build righteous anger against the government that had abused her. Kerrigan and Mengsk became allies.
She was running a mission on Antiga Prime when she first came across one-time Confederate marshal Jim Raynor, a new recruit to the Sons of Korhal. He disapproved of her lethal dealings with the Confederacy, but the conflict between the two soon grew into mutual respect, admiration, and even... something more. Kerrigan and Raynor ran several secret missions together before Mengsk’s revolutionary movement brought them to Tarsonis. Even Kerrigan’s jaded sensibilities were shocked when she learned what Arcturus had planned for the Confederate capital world: the placement of psi emitters to lure the zerg to one of the most densely populated planets in the sector. It would result in the death of almost every living thing on Tarsonis. Voicing her opposition, she nonetheless set about loyally fulfilling her mission to protect the hive clusters from a mysterious new alien enemy, the protoss. Mengsk would take advantage of that loyalty, abandoning her to die on Tarsonis when the mission was complete. He couldn’t run the risk of having a powerful weapon like Kerrigan running loose in the shadow of his new government, and he couldn’t resist the chance to claim some vengeance long overdue.
Little did Arcturus Mengsk suspect that he had just succeeded in arming the zerg against him. The zerg Overmind sensed Kerrigan’s formidable psionic powers and desired to adapt this new weapon for the Swarm. Bringing all of the evolutionary strength of its genetic skill to bear upon the one-time ghost, the Overmind transformed Sarah Kerrigan into an unstoppable combination of psychic ability and biological deadliness: the Queen of Blades was born.
Not wanting to hamper Kerrigan’s intellectual and strategic brilliance, the Overmind left her a degree of individual will that differed from its cerebrates. It was this freedom that allowed her ambitions to rise, and before long, the Queen of Blades conquered her cerebrate kin and took charge of the Swarm when the Overmind was slain.
Now Kerrigan moves the zerg toward an unknown future. Ancient prophecies foretold her coming. The sense and meaning behind these prophecies are vague, but make no mistake: countless billions of lives are bound to the destiny of Sarah Kerrigan.
Abilities
Talents
Hitting an enemy Hero with Ravage grants 100 points of Assimilation Shields.
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%.
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.
- 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.
❢ 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.
Damaging an enemy increases the damage of Kerrigan's next Impaling Blades within 10 seconds by 10%, up to 100%.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Impaling Blades' damage output.
Primal Grasp explodes a second time 2 seconds after its first explosion.
- Secondary explosion interacts with all talents affecting Primal Grasp.
Reduce the cooldown of Ravage by 3 seconds and increase its damage to Minions and Mercenaries by 100%.
- Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Ravage's damage.
Hitting an enemy Hero with Ravage grants a charge of Ravage. Can only occur once every 10 seconds per Hero.
Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes reduce the cooldown of Kerrigan's Basic Abilities by 0.6 seconds.
Cooldown: 90 seconds
Deals 74 damage per second to nearby enemies. Lasts for 7 seconds.
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.
Each enemy Hero hit by Primal Grasp grants 20 Spell Armor and 4% Movement Speed for 4 seconds, stacking up to 20% Movement Speed.
- 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.
Increase the amount of Assimilation Shields granted from damage dealt by 10%, but reduce duration of Assimilation by 3 seconds.
- Stacks additively with other talents affecting baseline Shield gain.
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.
- 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
Ravage grants 5% Spell Power for 5 seconds, up to 40%.
- 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.
Enemies hit by Impaling Blades take an additional 70 damage the next 6 times Kerrigan damages them within 5 seconds.
Damaging a Hero with a Heroic Ability grants 35% Spell Power for 4 seconds.
- 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.
Maelstrom's duration is increased by 0.25 seconds every time it damages a Hero.
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.
Torrasque
- 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.
Damaging an enemy increases Basic Attack damage by 2% for 5 seconds, up to 40%.
- Stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers affecting Kerrigan's Basic Attack damage.
- Consecutive applications refresh the duration of existing stacks.
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.
- Stacks additively with other talents affecting baseline Shield gain.
Skins
- Queen of Blades
- Backstory: 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.
- Price:
4,000 / 6.49
- Master
- Backstory:
This page is a candidate for deletion. Reason: "No reason has been provided"
- Price: 10,000 / (requires Hero Level 10)
- Price:
- Succubus
- Backstory: Kerrigan, the Queen of Suffering, rules over her brood of succubi with a fel iron fist. Warlocks brash enough to summon her risk facing her terrible vengeance.
- Price: $7.49 / 6.49€
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other franchises merging into Warcraft skins.
- Countess
- Backstory: Countess Sarah von Kerrigan's bloodthirst knew no bounds. It was only a matter of time before the Vampire Slayers of Raven Court rose up against her reign of terror.
- Price: $9.99 / 8.99€
- Skin Features: Themed mount, themed abilities. The skin's Impaling Blades resemble iron stakes, and she gains access to Bat Transformation.
- Note: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Raven Court skins.
- Queen of Ghosts
- Backstory: Fully cleansed by the Xel'Naga Artifact, Kerrigan joined forces with Jim Raynor and Prince Valerian. Armed with the latest Umojan tech, they prepare to bring Arcturus to justice once and for all.
- Price: $14.99 / 13.99€.
- Legendary Skin Features: Themed abilities, replaced voice-over.
Mounts
Countess Kerrigan has access to "Bat Transformation", a unique mount that makes her look like a small bat.
- Backstory: Template:Backstory Bat Transformation
Trivia
- Kerrigan first appeared in StarCraft (1998).
- Kerrigan is voiced by Glynnis Talken Campbell in StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War, and by Tricia Helfer in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void.
- Kerrigan was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
- Kerrigan's ghost form was under consideration to be a separate hero in the game.[3] However, it has since been made an optional tint for Nova.[4]
- Kerrigan's line "Hell hath no fury like a woman swarmed." is derived from a line in William Congreve's play The Mourning Bride.
- Kerrigan's gag quote "Phenomenal psionic powers...icky, sticky living space" is based on a line in the Disney movie Aladdin.
- Kerrigan's line "You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." is derived from the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Kerrigan's gag quote "I'm a Killer Queen. Guaranteed to blow your mind." is a reference to the Queen song, Killer Queen.
Balance changelog
Click expand to view the Balance Changelog Balance Changelog May 17th, 2016 (18.0.0) -General Talents
-Battle Momentum (7) changed to Bladed Momentum (7).
--Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5.
--No longer reduces Heroic Ability cooldowns.
March 29th, 2016 (17.0.4) -Ultralisk (R)
--Attack damage increased from 91 (+4% per level) to 100 (+4% per level)
--Torrasque (Talent)
---Egg timed life decreased from 8 to 4 seconds
---Egg Health decreased from 1095 (+4% per level) to 594 (+4% per level)
August 18th, 2015 (13.0.0) -General Talents
-Seasoned Marksman (Talent) removed.
-Focused Attack (Talent) removed.
-Searing Attacks (Talent) removed.
-Sprint (Talent) removed.
-Blood for Blood (Talent) removed.
-New Talent (Level 13): Queen’s Rush
--Activate to increase Movement Speed by 25% for 4 seconds. Hero Takedowns automatically activate this effect.
-New Talent (Level 16): Essence for Essence
--Activate to steal 10% of an enemy Hero’s Health, and gain twice that amount as Assimilation Shields.
-Assimilation (Trait)
--Lingering Essence (Talent) Assimilation Shield duration increased from 12 to 20 seconds.
--New Talent (Level 7): Assimilation Mastery
---Increases Health and Mana Regneration by 100% while Assimilation Shields are active.
-Ravage (Q)
--Damage increased from 50 (+20 per level) to 60 (+22 per level) and mana cost decreased from 75 to 50.
--Clean Kill (Talent) Now also increases the damage dealt by Kerrigan’s next Ravage by 20%.
--Adaptation (Talent) Half of Ravage’s Mana cost is now refunded when jumping to an ally.
--Eviscerate (Talent) Range bonus increased from 25% to 40%.
-Impaling Blades (W)
--Mana cost increased from 60 to 75.
-Primal Grasp (E)
--Range increased by 20%, mana cost increased from 50 to 60, cooldown increased from 8 to 10 seconds, and damage decreased from 50 (+13 per level) to 40 (+10 per level).
--Sweeping Grasp (Talent) removed.
--Psionic Pulse (Talent) Damage per second increased from 12 (+2.4 per level) to 15 (+3 per level).
--New Talent (Level 1): Energizing Grasp
---Refunds 10 Mana per enemy hit, up to a maximum of 60.
-Maelstrom (R)
--Damage per second increased from 25 (+2.5 per level) to 30 (+3 per level), cooldown reduced from 120 to 100 seconds, and duration reduced from 9 to 7 seconds.
-Ultralisk (R)
--Cooldown now begins once the Ultralisk is killed.
--Torrasque (Talent) Ultralisk can now be reborn more than once, so long as the egg isn’t destroyed within 8 seconds of the Ultralisk’s death.
Gallery
Kerrigan's artwork.
Queen of Ghosts.
Kerrigan (old model).
Succubus Kerrigan (old model).
Countess Kerrigan (old model).
Kerrigan fights over an objective.
Kerrigan and her allies defeat Arthas and steal his treasure.
Kerrigan fights a mercenary camp with Uther.
Concept art for Countess Kerrigan.
Concept art for Countess Kerrigan's bat form.
Q: Ravage.
W: Impaling Blades.
E: Primal Grasp.
R1: Summon Ultralisk.
R2: Maelstrom.
Videos
References
- ↑ 2013-11-11, Heroes of the Storm: The Tactics and Teamwork Behind Blizzard's Brawler. IGN, accessed on 2013-11-19
- ↑ http://www.heroesnexus.com/heroes/12-kerrigan
- ↑ 2011-10-23, BlizzCon 2011 - Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm and Blizzard DOTA - Art & Technology Panel (Full). YouTube, accessed on 2011-11-07
- ↑ 2013-11-09, Heroes Skin Showcase - Heroes of the Storm - Blizzcon 2013. YouTube, accessed on 2013-11-19
External links
- Developer Insights: The Heart of a Queen
- Kerrigan Hero Week
- Kerrigan - Heroes of the Storm
- Kerrigan - StarCraft II
- Sarah Kerrigan - StarCraft Wiki
- Kerrigan Build Guide on Icy Veins
- Kerrigan Quotations
- Kerrigan Quotes on YouTube
- Queen of Ghosts Quotes on YouTube
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