Mal'Ganis

Mal'Ganis
"I must feed."
Basic Info
Title	Nathrezim Lord
Role	Tank
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	October 16, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2600
Health Regen	5.414
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.875
Attack Speed	0.91
Attack Range	1.3
Attack Damage	96
Data Page

Mal'Ganis, Nathrezim Lord, is a melee Tank Hero from the Warcraft universe.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Mal'Ganis is one of the Nathrezim, or dreadlords, who served as the Lich King's elite jailers. He aided the Lich King in his task of preparing Azeroth for the Burning Legion's second invasion, spreading a plague through Lordaeron that would turn the population into mindless undead. Posing as the leader of the Scourge, he confronted Prince Arthas at Stratholme, and watched him purge the city before its citizens could turn. Impressed by Arthas' resolve, Mal'Ganis goaded the prince into following him to Northrend. In a desperate attempt to defeat Mal'Ganis, Arthas sought and found the runeblade Frostmourne. However, this was Mal'Ganis' plan all along, as Arthas forfeited his soul to the Lich King when he claimed the weapon. When Arthas finally confronted Mal'Ganis with Frostmourne in hand, Ner'zhul betrayed his jailer and commanded Arthas to slay the dreadlord.

Mal'Ganis, being a demon, wasn't killed and his soul merely returned to the Twisting Nether. After reforming his body, he returned to Northrend, where he manipulated the Scarlet Onslaught - an elite branch of the Scarlet Crusade - in the form of Barean Westwind. When his cover was blown, Mal'Ganis retreated, but eventually came back when the Legion invaded Azeroth for the third time.

Gameplay

Mal'Ganis is a self-sustaining Tank that peels for allies and disrupts enemies.

Strength

• Good Crowd Control, especially against Heroes with little mobility
• High Survivability, due to having various sources of Armor and sustain, like his trait; Vampiric Touch
• Decent to situationally excellent damage output for a Tank
• Decent waveclear
• Acceptable solo-laner

Weaknesses

• Easily kited
• Long cast times that can be interrupted
• Healing reduction, as he relies heavily on lifesteal
• Very weak against slow and root effects.
• Weak against displacement

Abilities

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

Vampiric Touch

Mal'Ganis heals for 45% of damage dealt to enemy Heroes and 10% of damage dealt to non-Heroes.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Lifesteal

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• Grants Mal'Ganis 10% base lifesteal against all units, which is increased by 35% against Heroes.
• Stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.

Q

Fel Claws

45 Mana Cooldown: 8 / 0.5 seconds

Violently slash in the chosen direction, dealing 66 damage to enemies.

Reactivate to slash up to 2 more times. The third slash Stuns enemies for 0.75 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Dash

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping, Piercing Skillshot, Stun (third cast)

Cast time:
- First & second: 0 + 0.15 seconds
- Third: 0.15 + 0.05 seconds

Range:
- First & second: 3.25
- Third: 4.6025

Hitbox:
- First & second: 4.25 x 1.425
- Third: 3 x 2.5

End area radius: 2.125 ⁽¹

End area arc: 180 degrees ⁽¹

Dash speed: 13

Dash duration:
- First & second: 0.25 seconds
- Third: 0.3125 seconds

Reactivation time: 3 seconds

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• ¹⁾ The last part of the first and second dashes' damage area is a half circle in front of Mal'Ganis.
• Cooldown starts immediately upon the first cast.
• The first 0.25 seconds of the third dash's Stun knocks the enemies up in the air. This effect is purely visual.

W

Necrotic Embrace

35 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Desecrate the air, dealing 110 damage to nearby enemies and gaining 25 Armor for 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00% / -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Armor

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 3.5

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

E

Night Rush

70 Mana Cooldown: 14 / 0.5 seconds

After 0.75 seconds, gain 50% Movement Speed for 2 seconds. While active, Mal'Ganis can move through enemy Heroes and put them to Sleep for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control / Status effect

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Mobile channel, Movement Speed buff, Sleep

Cast time: 0.75 + CH + 0

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 1.3

Arc: 205 degrees

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• Night Rush can be reactivated after 0.5 seconds to end its effect early.
• Mal'Ganis can use Necrotic Embrace during Night Rush without breaking the channel. Using any other ability interrupts Night Rush immediately.
• Mal'Ganis cannot use Basic Attacks during Night Rush.
• Sleep counts as a Stun effect and interacts with all effects that interact with Stuns.

R

Carrion Swarm

70 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

After 1 second, disperse into an Invulnerable swarm of bats for 3 seconds, dealing 120 damage per second to enemies. Vampiric Touch heals for 75% of Carrion Swarm's damage to Heroes.

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Type: Spell Damage / Status effect

Scaling: 4.00% / -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Channeled cast (mobile), Stasis

Cast time: 1.0 (ch) + 0

Area of Effect: Radial (x3) ⁽¹

Radius: 4.0

Arc: 45 degrees

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x6)

Damage per tick: 60

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• ¹⁾ Carrion Swarm's damage area consists of three cones in "opposite" directions that rotate every 0.0625s between three possible orientations. Regardless, enemies can only be damaged by the Ability once every 0.5 seconds.
• Interrupting the ability during its cast puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• Mal'Ganis can move, but cannot use Abilities both while channeling and during Carrion Swarm.
• Carrion Swarm removes most negative effects from Mal'Ganis once the channel finishes and Mal'Ganis enters Stasis.
• Carrion Swarm sets the base lifesteal bonus to 75% against all enemies, which is against non-Heroic enemies reduced multiplicatively by 87.1%, resulting in 9.675% lifesteal when no other lifesteal effects are in place.
• Stacks additively with Vampiric Touch bonuses from Fueled by Torment and Vanquish the Weak as well as other sources of lifesteal.

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Dark Conversion

60 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Channel on an enemy Hero for 0.75 seconds, then swap Health percentages with the target over 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Vehicle Enemy Heroes / Self

Targeting: Unit Target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary), Damage over time, Heal over time

Cast time: 0.75 (ch) + 0.15 seconds

Range: 3.75

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x6)

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• Interrupting the ability during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.
• Cast is interrupted if the target moves at least 3 units past its maximum range.
• Despite being based on percentage of target's Health, Dark Conversion is not considered Percent Damage. Its damage can be affected by damage modifiers, such as Armor and Spell Power.
• Heal over time persists even in the case that the DoT is removed.
• Dark Conversion's damage is not affected by the lifesteal from Vampiric Touch.
• If Mal'Ganis has a higher percentage of Health than the target enemy Hero, the ability will instead damage Mal'Ganis while healing the enemy Hero, and can even deal fatal damage to Mal'Ganis.

Talents

1

Winged Guard

Each time Necrotic Embrace hits an enemy Hero, gain 75 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack.

If Winged Guard has no charges, Mal'Ganis will gain 1 charge after 6 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Block

Maximum stacks: 4

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

Vampiric Aura

Mal'Ganis heals for 30% of Physical Damage dealt, and nearby allied Heroes heal for 15% of Physical Damage dealt.

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Type: Healing

Affects: Self, Allied Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect, Lifesteal

Radius: 8.0

Tickrate: 5.33 per second

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• Stacks additively with Vampiric Touch and other lifesteal effects.

Time to Feed

Mal'Ganis heals for 70 when damaging a nearby enemy Hero. This can occur once every 6 seconds against each enemy Hero, but is also refreshed when they are slept by Night Rush.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Radius: 8.0

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• Enemy Heroes damaged by Mal'Ganis must be within the radius to trigger Time to Feed.

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Fueled by Torment

While Necrotic Embrace is active, Mal'Ganis heals for 12 when damage is taken and Vampiric Touch converts 20% more Hero damage into healing.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00% (damage taken) / - (lifesteal)

Affects: Self

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• Lifesteal bonus stacks additively with Vampiric Touch and other lifesteal effects.

Might of Sargeras

Necrotic Embrace's Armor is increased to 50.

Echo of Doom

When Necrotic Embrace expires, it explodes again for 68 damage. For each enemy Hero hit, gain 5 Mana and reduce the cooldown of Necrotic Embrace by 0.75 seconds.

Does not wake Sleeping targets.

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Type: Spell Damage

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Area of Effect

Radius: 3.5

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• Secondary explosion only deals damage and does not interact with talents affecting Necrotic Embrace.
• Does not draw tower aggro when damaging enemy Heroes under their Structures.

7

Black Claws

After Mal'Ganis hits an enemy Hero with Fel Claws, his next Basic Attack deals 60% more damage and reduces the Armor of enemy Heroes by 15 for 2 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self / Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction, Attack Modifier

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• Attack Damage bonus does not stack with itself nor generate multiple charges.
• Armor reduction is applied after the damage is dealt.
• Basic Attack damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Mal'Ganis's Basic Attack damage.
• Does not stack with itself or other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Will of Tichondrius

Each enemy Hero hit by the first 2 slashes of Fel Claws causes the final slash to steal 1% of maximum health from heroes, up to 4%.

If at least 4 enemy Heroes are hit with the first 2 slashes of Fel Claws, then the final slash Stuns enemies for an additional 0.5 seconds.

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Type: Percent Damage / Healing / Crowd control

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Properties: Lifesteal, Percent damage

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• Will of Tichondrius does not benefit from Vampiric Touch.

Spreading Plague

After casting Night Rush, deal 33 damage per second to nearby enemies. This effect lasts 5 seconds and Basic Attacks against Heroes refresh its duration.

Does not wake Sleeping targets.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect

Radius: 3.25

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x4)

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• Does not draw tower aggro when damaging enemy Heroes under their Structures.
• Spreading Plague pauses its duration while Mounted and during Carrion Swarm. Once these effects end, the effect continues with its remaining duration.

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Carrion Swarm

Cooldown: 100 seconds
After 1 second, disperse into an Invulnerable swarm of bats for 3 seconds, dealing 120 damage per second to enemies. Vampiric Touch heals for 75% of Carrion Swarm's damage to Heroes.

Dark Conversion

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Channel on an enemy Hero for 0.75 seconds, then swap Health percentages with the target over 3 seconds.

13

Deep Sleep

Increase Night Rush's Sleep duration by 0.75 seconds and its Movement Speed bonus by 10%.

The Night Beckons

Basic Attacks deal 200% bonus damage to Sleeping enemies. After Night Rush's Sleep ends, targets are Slowed by 30% for 3 seconds.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Slow

Blood Rush

When Mal'Ganis is healed by a Hero, he gains 1% Movement Speed for 6 seconds, up to 15%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed buff

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• If Mal'Ganis receives healing while already at full Health, this talent does not trigger.
• Benefits from each instance of Mal'Ganis's lifesteal against Heroes, and also from healing received from Regeneration Globes, Healing Fountains, Biotic Emitters, Hearthing (but not the Heal over Time while within the Hall of Storms), and healing received from allied Heroes.
• Movement Speed bonus stacks additively with itself, but not with other Movement Speed buffs. Subsequent applications refresh the duration of existing stacks.

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Plague Bats

Necrotic Embrace unleashes a wave of bats in front of Mal'Ganis, dealing 81 damage.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Piercing Skillshot

Range: 7.0

Radius: 1.5 (hitbox)

Arc: 90 degrees (hitbox)

Missile speed: 19

Frenzied Assault

Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes with a higher Health percentage heal for an additional 50% of damage dealt.
Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes with a lower Health percentage grant 35% Attack Speed for 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Attack Speed

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• Lifesteal bonus stacks additively with baseline Vampiric Touch and other lifesteal effects.

Blind as a Bat

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Active: Activate to erupt with blind rage, removing the cooldown and Mana cost of Fel Claws, but losing all vision. Lasts 6 seconds.

Enemy Heroes hit by the final slash of Fel Claws reduce the cooldown of this Ability by 4 seconds.

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Affects: Self

Targeting: No Target

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• Fel Claws during Blind as a Bat follow the same three cast rotation as normal cast.
• Activating Blind as a Bat refreshes the cooldown of Fel Claws, making it instantly available once active recasts have been used.
• Fel Claws will not be put on cooldown if Blind as a Bat expires while awaiting the 2nd and 3rd activation of Fel Claws.
• During Blind as a Bat terrain and Mal'Ganis are visible, but you can't see any other units, abilities or damage pop-ups. Healing pop-ups, however, remain visible and can be used to infer hitting an enemy unit.

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Seeker Swarm

Upon expiring, Carrion Swarm's bats seek nearby enemy Heroes, dealing 132 damage and Sleeping them for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd Control

Scaling: 4.00% (damage)

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Automatic (closest)

Properties: Sleep

Radius: 8.0

Missile speed: 11

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• Does not draw tower aggro when damaging enemy Heroes under their Structures.
• Damage benefits from Carrion Swarm's lifesteal bonus to Vampiric Touch.
• Sleep counts as a Stun effect and interacts with all effects that interact with Stuns.

Wrath of Nathreza

Enemy Heroes near the target suffer 75% of the transferred Health as damage over 3 seconds.

Does not benefit from Vampiric Touch.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Non-Vehicle Enemy Heroes

Properties: Damage over time, Splash

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.5

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x6)

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• The ability deals damage to the secondary targets regardless of whether the primary target or Mal'Ganis was the one that gained the DoT after Dark Conversion connected.

Vanquish the Weak

Damage from Fel Claws and Basic Attacks Slows enemies by 25% for 1.5 seconds, and Vampiric Touch converts 10% more damage into healing versus Slowed Heroes.

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Type: Crowd control

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Slow

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• Lifesteal bonus stacks additively with Vampiric Touch and other lifesteal effects.

Alone in the Dark

Reduce the cooldown of Night Rush by 4 seconds. Enemy Heroes put to Sleep by Night Rush have their vision greatly reduced during the Sleep and for 2 seconds after.

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Reduced vision radius: 2.0

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Mal'Ganis Guide

Mal'Ganis Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Mal'Ganis Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Mal'Ganis Skins
Nathrezim Lord
Backstory: Cunning and Intelligent, Mal'Ganis was chosen to bring Arthas Menethil into the Lich King’s service. After manipulating the prince into purging Stratholme of life, he finally fell to Frostmourne as Arthas's first act as the Lich King's champion... yet a demon does not die so easily.
750 / 10,000 Nathrezim Lord	Free Darkener	Free Undercity	120 / 75 Infernal	120 / 75 Northrend
Dreadmachine
Backstory: The Dreadmachine armor provides industrialist Malcom Ganis with incredible strength and a staggering ordinance. Sure, it may draw power from an alien's heart, but only minor hallucinations have occurred... so far.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities, themed animations
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Superheroes vs. Eternal Empire skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Master	600 / 1,200 Neocarbon

Mal'Ganis Event Skins
Mal'gaucho
Backstory: The frontrunner for this year's nexoweight championship belt, Mal'gaucho Mal'ganis crushes foes beneath cloven hooves and demonically defined delts. Can he fend off the mysterious upstart known as La Gata de Batalla?
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Nexomania skins.
900 / 1,800	900 / 1,800 Underworld	900 / 1,800 Nemesis

Portraits

Mal'Ganis Portraits
Carbot Mal'Ganis120 / 75	Loan Shark Mal'ganis75 / 40	Mal'Ganis Emblem75 / 40	Mal'Ganis Hero	Mal'Ganis Mastery	Mal'gaucho Mal'ganis

Sprays

Mal'Ganis Sprays
Carbot Mal'Ganis120 / 75	Mal'gaucho's Burning Gaze	Mal'gaucho's Triumph

Emojis

Mal'Ganis Pack 1			Mal'Ganis Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Mal'Ganis Happy	:mal'ganishappy: :malghappy:		Mal'Ganis Angry	:mal'ganisangry: :malgangry:
	Mal'Ganis ROFL	:mal'ganislol: :mal'ganisrofl: :malglol: :malgrofl:		Mal'Ganis Cool	:mal'ganiscool: :malgcool:
	Mal'Ganis Sad	:mal'ganissad: :malgsad:		Mal'Ganis Embarrassed	:mal'ganisoops: :mal'ganisembarrassed: :malgoops: :malgembarrassed:
	Mal'Ganis Silly	:mal'ganissilly: :malgsilly:		Mal'Ganis in Love	:mal'ganislove: :mal'ganisinlove: :malglove: :malginlove:
	Mal'Ganis Speechless	:mal'ganismeh: :mal'ganisspeechless: :malgmeh: :malgspeechless:		Mal'Ganis Surprised	:mal'ganiswow: :mal'ganissurprised: :malgwow: :malgsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Mal'Ganis/Quotes

Trivia

• Mal'Ganis was first teased on twitter: The first tweet showed minions with a claw mark on their shield. The second image showed someone casting fel magic into a minion wave. In the third and final teaser tweet, Mal'Ganis himself was shown fighting minions with a Warcraft III quote.
• Mal'Ganis made his debut in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002).
  • His book debut was six and three quarters years later, in Arthas: Rise of the Lich King (May 2009).
• Mal'Ganis is voiced by Michael Gough.
• The Darkener Mal'Ganis skin resembles Tichondrius.
• The Undercity Mal'Ganis skin resembles Varimathras.
• The Northrend Mal'Ganis skin resembles Mephistroth.

Gallery

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  Key artwork

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  Base Skin

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  Basic Attack

Teaser

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  1st teaser

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  2nd teaser

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  Final reveal

Abilities

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  D: Vampiric Touch

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  Q: Fel Claws

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  W: Necrotic Embrace

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  E: Night Rush

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  R1: Carrion Swarm

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  R2: Dark Conversion

External links

• Mal'Ganis - Heroes of the Storm
• Mal'Ganis - Wowpedia
• Mal'Ganis Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes