Lt. Morales

Lt. Morales
"Let's save some lives!"
Basic Info
Title	Combat Medic
Role	Healer
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	StarCraft
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	October 6, 2015
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1560
Health Regen	3.25
Resource	100 Energy
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	1
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	83
Data Page

Lieutenant Rosa Morales, the Combat Medic, is a ranged Healer Hero from the StarCraft universe. Lt. Morales joined the United Earth Directorate (UED) to make a difference and protect her family. Over a very long and storied career, she has distinguished herself as a peerless medic, able to keep her patients alive and in the fight long after anyone else would have gone down. Lt. Morales is a veteran of the Brood War, and even the destruction of the UED Expeditionary Fleet didn’t slow her down. In the Nexus, she does what she does best: heal her teammates, support her allies, and make a difference.

Lieutenant Morales is a strong, sustained Healer who's unbeatable if left alone by her enemies.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the StarCraft universe.

Rosa Morales was a medic of the United Earth Directorate of Earth. When the UED launched its invasion to conquer the distant terran colonies of the Koprulu Sector and subjugate the alien powers there, Morales signed up hoping to make a difference and protect her family. Initially the assault was successful in conquering the Terran Dominon, and Morales was part of the elite medic team that pacified the Second Overmind and allowed the UED to control the majority of the zerg. However, the invasion ended in disaster as the fleet was destroyed, stranding Morales in the Koprulu Sector 60,000 light years from her home. In spite of her origins, Morales was later inducted into the Dominion Navy Medical Corps of the same nation she had arrived to conquer, and continued to save lives in a new alien sector.

The medics of the United Earth Directorate follow a time-honored tradition of selflessly marching into combat zones to aid their injured brethren. These fearless women, aided only by protective shielding, are highly skilled healers capable of restoring the health and vitality of wounded soldiers. While expendable, the massive losses of terran marines during the Great War began to become cost prohibitive. The medic's use of chemical modifiers has greatly enhanced the survival rate of UED forces, lengthening the expected battlefield life expectancy to over nine seconds.

During the Guild Wars, the Confederacy experimented with adding medics to front-line infantry units. By the Great War, Confederate medics mostly remained at bases to care for wounded soldiers. The Dominion still maintains a combat medic program, as medivac dropships are expensive to deploy. Despite their armor and arm-mounted shields, medics are vulnerable on the battlefield. Generally, their only armament is the A-13 flash grenade launcher, which is used to provide illumination and blind enemy targets.

Gameplay

Lt. Morales is a ranged Healer whose powerful single-target heals make her a very good addition to most Warriors and melee Assassins. However, her lack of mobility causes her to be an easy target to engage on, which is why it is of utmost importance to know how to position yourself when playing as Lt. Morales.

Strengths

• Powerful single-target heals
• Strong damage reduction
• Strong late game

Weaknesses

• No AoE heals
• Healing Beam is quite Energy consuming
• Lack of escape mechanisms
• Has no potential on soloing anything, including siege, waveclear or dueling

Abilities

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

Caduceus Reactor

While channeling Healing Beam, Lt. Morales regenerates 2% of her maximum Health per second.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Lt. Morales uses Energy instead of Mana as a resource. Morales has 100 max Energy, which regenerates at 6 Energy per second while not using Healing Beam.

Q

Healing Beam

6 Energy Cooldown: 0.5 seconds

Heal target ally for 172 Health per second as long as they are in range. After not channeling Healing Beam for 2 seconds, regenerate 6 Energy per second.

Reactivate to switch targets. Self-cast or activate your Trait to cancel the channel.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure allies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Mobile channel

Cast time: Instant

Range: 5.5

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (heal & energy gain)

Heal per tick: 86

Energy recovery per tick: 3.0

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• Consumes no energy, but still triggers Caduceus Reactor, when held on a full Health target.
• Healing Beam goes on cooldown for 2 seconds when interrupted by enemies, 0.5 seconds when switching target, 0.5 seconds when canceling it within 0.5 seconds from the beginning of the channel, and 0 seconds when canceling it after 0.5 seconds from the beginning of the channel.
• Lt. Morales can attack and use her Abilities without interrupting Healing Beam.
• Consumes 3 Energy per Healing tick while activated.

Q

Redirect Healing Beam

Cooldown: 0.5 seconds

Redirect Healing Beam to another target. Use on self to cancel channeling.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure allies

Targeting: Unit Target

Properties: Mobile channel

Cast time: Instant

Range: 5.5

W

Safeguard

Cooldown: 11 seconds

Grant target ally Hero 35 Armor for 3 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.5

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• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects except Garrosh's Trait. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack

E

Displacement Grenade

Cooldown: 12 seconds

Fire a grenade that can be manually detonated, dealing 208 damage to nearby enemies and knocking them away.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Knockback, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.1875 + 0.0625 seconds

Range: 13.5

Radius: 2.25

Missile speed: 22.5

Knockback duration: 0.25

Knockback speed: 16

Reactivate: Detonate Displacement Grenade - Detonate Displacement Grenade, dealing 208 damage to nearby enemies and knocking them away.

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• Grenade detonates automatically at maximum range.

R

Stim Drone

Cooldown: 70 seconds

Grant an allied Hero 75% Attack Speed and 25% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Attack Speed buff, Channeled cast (stationary), Movement Speed buff

Cast time: 0.5(ch) + 0 seconds

Range: 6.0

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• Interrupting the Ability during its cast puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• Cast is interrupted if the target moves over 10 range beyond the Ability's maximum range before the channel has finished.

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Medivac Dropship

Cooldown: 45 seconds

Target a location for a Medivac transport. For up to 10 seconds before takeoff, allies can right-click to enter the Medivac.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary)

Cast time: 1.0 (ch) + 0.25 seconds

Range:
- Min: 11
- Max: 100

Selecting Medivac Dropship also unlocks Reinforcements Ability, which shares a cooldown with it.

Interrupting the Ability during its cast puts it on a 10 second cooldown.

Must be cast on pathable surface.

Lt. Morales is automatically put in the dropship once the cast finishes.

Allies that enter Dropship cannot leave manually. All Heroes inside are ejected automatically when Dropship reaches its destination or is destroyed.

Upon successfully casting Medivac Dropship, Lt. Morales gains access to Depart Ability, which can be cast after 3 seconds to immediately launch toward the target location. The dropship departs automatically after 10 seconds.

Heroes that have entered the dropship cannot leave until it arrives to its target location.

Heroes inside the dropship are put in Stasis, removed from ground plane (disjoints certain projectiles) and have no collision.

Enemies can attack the dropship. If the dropship is destroyed, the Heroes inside it will be immediately ejected and Stunned for 0.5 seconds.

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Medivac Dropship

Type: Passive

Scaling: 4.00% (Health)

Properties: Unstoppable

Health: 955.8

Basic Attack damage: -

Movement Speed: 28

Unit radius: 0.75

Sight radius: 8.0

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• Dropship is Unstoppable and has no collision.

E

Medivac Dropship - Depart

Cooldown: 0.5 seconds

Departs for the target location immediately.

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Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

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• Starts on a 3 second cooldown upon successfully casting Medivac Dropship or Reinforcements.

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Medivac Dropship - Reinforcements

Cooldown: 45 / 3.0 seconds

Call down a Medivac Dropship at your Hall of Storms for your allies. After 10 seconds, or when the Ability is activated again, the Medivac will travel to its original cast location to unload its passengers.

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Type: Summon

Targeting: No target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary)

Cast time: 1.0 (ch) + 0.25 seconds

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• Shares cooldown with Medivac Dropship.
• Can be recast after 3 seconds to depart immediately.
• Cannot be cast while within the mines on Haunted Mines.

Talents

1

Caduceus Feedback

Increase Attack Range by 1.1, and Basic Attacks against Heroes generate 4 Energy.

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Properties: Attack Modifier

Life Support

During the first 2 seconds of Energy regeneration Healing Beam regenerates 100% more Energy.

Passive: Increase your maximum Energy by 10.

Clear!

❢ Quest: Each Hero hit with Displacement Grenade restores 3 Energy.

❢ Reward: After hitting 15 Heroes, reduce the cooldown of Displacement Grenade from 12 seconds to 9 seconds.

❢ Reward: After hitting 30 Heroes, increase the detonation area of Displacement Grenade by 25%.

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Bonus radius: 0.5625

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Cellular Reactor

Cooldown: 20 seconds

Active: Consume 30 Energy to heal Lt. Morales for 30% of her maximum Health over 3 seconds. Caduceus Reactor is disabled while this is active.

Passive: Generate 2 Energy each time Safeguard reduces damage, up to a maximum of 10 Energy per use.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Heal over time

Cast time: Instant

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x6)

Trauma Trigger

Gain 40 Armor for 3 seconds if damage is taken while below 40% Health.

This effect has a 30 second cooldown.

Increase the healing provided by Caduceus Reactor from 2% to 4% of Lt. Morales's maximum Health per second.

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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.

Blast Shield

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade are Slowed by 50% for 1 second after being knocked away and grant Lt. Morales a Shield equal to 6% of her maximum Health. This Shield stacks up to 5 times.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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Physical Therapy

Safeguard removes all Slows from its target and its cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds.

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Properties: CC removal (Slow)

Vanadium Plating

While an ally affected by Safeguard is Stunned or Rooted, Safeguard grants an additional 20 Armor.

Passive: Increase the duration of Safeguard by 1 second.

Medi-Drone

Allies with Safeguard receive 75% of the healing done by Healing Beam on another ally.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Tickrate: 2.0 per second

Heal per tick: 64.5

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• Medi-Drone does not heal, if the primary target of Healing Beam is at full Health.
• Lt. Morales can also benefit from Medi-Drone by using Safeguard on herself.
• Medi-Drone benefits from the bonus healing from First Responder.
• Medi-Drone has its own separate base value that is 75% of Healing Beam's, causing the percentage to stack multiplicatively with healing modifiers and bonus healing effects.

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Stim Drone

Cooldown: 70 seconds
Grant an allied Hero 75% Attack Speed and 25% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.

Medivac Dropship

Cooldown: 45 seconds
Unlock the Medivac Dropship and Reinforcements Abilities. These Abilities share a cooldown.

Medivac Dropship
Target a location for a Medivac transport. For up to 10 seconds before takeoff, allies can right-click to enter the Medivac.

Reinforcements
Call down a Medivac Dropship at your Hall of Storms for your allies. After 10 seconds, or when the Ability is activated again, the Medivac will travel to its original cast location to unload its passengers.

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EMP Grenade

Displacement Grenade deals an additional 96 damage over 2 seconds, and up to 400 bonus damage to Shields.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Damage over time

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x4)

Damage per tick: 24

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• Bonus damage to Shields only applies against Heroic targets.

System Shock

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade deal 30% less damage for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Damage reduction stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting targets' damage output.

Bedside Manner

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade will take an additional 6% of maximum Health as damage from Lt. Morales's next Basic Attack against them.

Passive: Basic Attacks against Heroes deal an additional 1% of maximum Health as damage.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack modifier, Percent Damage

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Displacement Grenade puts a mark on the enemy Hero that lasts for 6 seconds and is consumed if Lt. Morales Basic Attacks them during this time, dealing the bonus damage, or else expires at the end of this interval. The mark is removed, but the bonus damage does not connect, if Lt. Morales is Blinded or if the target is Evading on this Basic Attack.

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Extended Care

Channeling Healing Beam on a Hero for at least 3 seconds causes them to be healed for 258 over 3 seconds when Healing Beam ends.

Passive: Increase the range of Healing Beam by 30%.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Heal over Time

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x6)

Heal per tick: 43

Bonus range: 1.65

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• Heal over Time ends immediately, if Lt. Morales the ally with Healing Beam again.

First Responder

While above 60 energy, Healing Beam's healing is increased by 20% and both Lt. Morales and her Healing Beam target gain 15% Movement Speed.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier / Status effect

Affects: Ability / Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Movement Speed

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• Stacks additively with healing modifiers that affect Lt. Morales's healing output and multiplicatively with modifiers that affect healing received by the target.

Shield Sequencer

Safeguard gains a second charge and its range is increased by 60%.

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Charge cooldown: 0.5 seconds

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Hyperactivity

Reduce the cooldown of Stim Drone from 70 seconds to 35 seconds, and increase the Movement Speed bonus from 25% to 50%.

Safe Zone

After exiting the Medivac, allies are Protected from all damage for 3 seconds.

Passive: Reduces the cooldown of Medivac Dropship Abilities by 15 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Protected

Hospice Care

Safeguard grants its target Unkillable for 1 second. If the target is under 50% maximum Health when the Unkillable effect ends, they are healed for 8% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Healing, Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Properties: Unkillable

Second Opinion

Hitting 2 or more Heroes with Displacement Grenade reduces its cooldown to 2 seconds.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Lt. Morales Guide

Lt. Morales Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Lt. Morales Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Lt. Morales Skins
Combat Medic
Backstory: To good marines, the only thing more important than the rifle in their hand is the medic at their back. As one of the first officers deployed during the United Earth Directorate's invasion of the Koprulu sector, Lt. Rosa Morales is the best of the best.
625 / 7,000 Combat Medic	Free Knight	Free Crystal Arch	120 / 75 Merciful
Apothecary
Backstory: The Royal Apothecary Society's experiments have resulted in many alchemical discoveries, which Apothecary Morales administers to soldiers in the field. Some side effects may occur.
Features: Altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into Warcraft skins.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Ivory	250 / 300 Crimson	375 / 450 Acid
First
Backstory: The UED outfits its best soldiers with the finest in experimental ordnance, and its medics are no exception. As such, Lt. Morales’s gear has been upgraded in accordance with her service record.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Hunter	120 / 75 Automated
Love Doctor
Backstory: Whether your heart is broken, bleeding, or located somewhere outside of your body, the Love Doctor will patch you right up.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Mega	350 / 400 Toxic	350 / 400 Prototype
Paramedic
Backstory: Officer Morales, STORM Unit's newest recruit, is wholly committed to supporting the city's civilian populace as well as her fellow agents. Thanks to her medical training, she is perfect for the unit's emergency response team.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Enforcer skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Covert	350 / 400 Fiery	525 / 600 Neon

Portraits

Lt. Morales Portraits
Carbot Lt. Morales120 / 75	Lt. Morales Hero	Lt. Morales Mastery	Uniform Lt. Morales75 / 40	Yamato Board Game75 / 40

Sprays

Lt. Morales Sprays
Carbot Lt. Morales120 / 75	Emoji Lt. Morales120 / 75	Everyone Loves a Medic250 / 300	First Responder75 / 40	Paper Lt. Morales120 / 75	Paramedic Morales75 / 40
Where Does It Hurt?75 / 40

Emojis

Lt. Morales Pack 1			Lt. Morales Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Lt. Morales Happy	:moraleshappy: :morhappy:		Lt. Morales Angry	:moralesangry: :morangry:
	Lt. Morales ROFL	:moraleslol: :moralesrofl: :morlol: :morrofl:		Lt. Morales Cool	:moralescool: :morcool:
	Lt. Morales Sad	:moralessad: :morsad:		Lt. Morales Embarrassed	:moralesoops: :moralesembarrassed: :moroops: :morembarrassed:
	Lt. Morales Silly	:moralessilly: :morsilly:		Lt. Morales in Love	:moraleslove: :moralesinlove: :morlove: :morinlove:
	Lt. Morales Speechless	:moralesmeh: :moralesspeechless: :mormeh: :morspeechless:		Lt. Morales Surprised	:moraleswow: :moralessurprised: :morwow: :morsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Lt. Morales/Quotes

Trivia

• Medics were introduced in StarCraft: Brood War (November 1998).
  • Lt. Morales was an original character in Heroes of the Storm, but her quotes indicate she was one of four medics sent to pacify the Second Overmind in the StarCraft: Brood War mission To Chain the Beast.
• Lt. Morales was announced at Gamescom 2015.
• Lt. Morales is voiced by Yeni Alvarez.
• Lt. Morales is the first StarCraft Healer hero in the game, the second being Stukov.
  • She is also the only terran Healer hero in the game.
• Lt. Morales's rank of "lieutenant" is a reference to the rank of the medic units in StarCraft: Brood War, which were "1st lieutenant."
• Lt. Morales's trait Caduceus Reactor is an upgrade for medics in Brood War.
• Medivac Dropship is a unit introduced in StarCraft II, replacing the medic in Versus mode.
• Displacement Grenade is loosely based off the the "Optical Flare" ability that medics could obtain in Brood War. Lt. Morales has a quite reflecting the difference between the two abilities. Morales's use of an A-13 grenade launcher reflects her status as a UED medic, as Koprulu Sector medics were not armed with them.
• The talents Cellular Reactor and Vanadium Plating are names of upgrades medics can gain during the Wings of Liberty campaign.
• The alternate "Hunter" recolor of Lt. Morales "First" skin is a refernce to Samus Aran's Power Suit from the Metroid series.
• The alternate "Mega" recolor of Lt. Morales "Love Doctor" skin is a reference to X from the Megaman X series.
• Fiery Morales skin has colors reminiscent of anime protagonist Asuka Langley Soryu, from Neon Genesis Evangelion (October 1995).

Gallery

Artwork

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  Lieutenant Morales's artwork

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  Lieutenant Morales home screen

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  Morales's arena team

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  Master Morales

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  Enforcers loading screen

Abilities

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  Q: Healing Beam

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  W: Safeguard

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  E: Displacement Grenade

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  R1: Stim Drone

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  R2: Medivac Dropship

Gameplay

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  Combat Medic Medivac cockpit.

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  Love Doctor Medivac cockpit.

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  Love Doctor Morales healing Love Bug Anub'arak.

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  Love Doctor Morales healing Love Bug Anub'arak.

Concept Art

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  Lieutenant Morales concept art

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  Lieutenant Morales concept art

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  Lieutenant Morales concept art

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  Apothecary Morales concept art

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  Paramedic Morales concept art.jpg

External links

• Lieutenant Morales Hero Week
• Lieutenant Morales - Heroes of the Storm
• Lieutenant Morales - StarCraft Wiki
• Lieutenant Morales Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Lieutenant Morales Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm