Stitches

Stitches
"Stitches want to play!"
Basic Info
Title	Terror of Darkshire
Role	Tank
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	3060
Health Regen	6.379
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	1.0625
Attack Speed	0.91
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	85
Data Page

Stitches, the Terror of Darkshire, is a melee Tank Hero from the Warcraft universe. Take care when traversing the shadowed trails of Duskwood... Ever since Abercrombie the Embalmer unleashed his abomination upon Darkshire, Stitches has wandered the road aimlessly, hungering for the flesh of low level Alliance players.

Stitches is a Tank who wants to isolate distant enemies away from their team.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Stitches is an abomination found in Duskwood. Abominations are twisted, mutilated undead creatures comprised of multiple dead limbs and body parts from many different corpses. They are enormous warriors, scarred by loose stitchings and putrid, open sores. They love to carve flesh and tear their enemies apart. The slow-moving and dull-witted abominations constantly drip blood and smell like disease-ridden slaughterhouses. They carry large cleavers into combat and wield various sickle-bladed hooks on their disproportionate limbs.

Almost all abominations lack any real intelligence, having an I.Q. closest to that of an ogre on average. Abominations outwardly appear strangely joyful due to their absent-minded expressions and mannerisms, though this is most likely due to their low level of mental capacity. Like their undead cousins, abominations lust for flesh and are known to eat not only the living but the dead as well.

Abercrombie the Embalmer created Stitches as a "gift" for Lord Ello Ebonlocke, the mayor of Darkshire. Setting out from a shack near the Raven Hill Cemetery, Stiches marched through Duskwood and killed all the Night Watch guards he encountered on his way to Darkshire.

Gameplay

Stitches is a low-mobility Tank, capable of pulling distant Heroes to him with Hook. Stitches has a lot of Health, and a powerful self-sustain with Devour. He works best with Heroes who can follow up Hook with strong crowd control, which will help to secure picks throughout the game.

Strengths

• Massive Health
• Hook can pull enemy Heroes completely out of position, allowing your team to kill them easily.
• Hook can pull allied Heroes out of danger, or into otherwise advantageous positions.
• Strong self-sustain with Devour

Weaknesses

• Lacks hard crowd control
• Lacks gap closers
• Lacks peel
• Hook's impactfulness often scales with the the difficulty of the skillshot.

Abilities

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

Vile Cleaver

Cooldown: 3 seconds

Basic Attacks splash Vile Gas, poisoning nearby enemies for 45 damage over 3 seconds. Re-applying Vile Gas increases its current duration to a maximum of 10 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Damage over Time, Splash

Radius: 2.25

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x3)

Damage per tick: 15

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• Damage does not stack.

Q

Hook

75 Mana Cooldown: 16 seconds

Pull the first enemy hit toward Stitches and deal 91 damage.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Pull, Skillshot, Stationary channel, Stun

Cast time: 0.2 + CH + 0 seconds

Range: 12

Hitbox: 1.25 x 1.25

Missile speed:
- Initial: 20
- Return (on hit): 25
- Return (on miss): 50

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• Shares cooldown with Helping Hand.
• Enemies can be pulled through unpassable terrain, but not through allied Structures.
• Unstoppable enemies and Structures hit by the Hook will get damaged and stop the Hook, but can not be pulled.
• Hook Stuns the target upon impact for 0.125 seconds.

W

Slam

35 Mana Cooldown: 8 seconds

Deal 104 damage to enemies within the target area. Enemies in the inner impact area take 40% more damage and are Slowed by 45% for 1.5 seconds. Deals 60% bonus damage to Minions and Mercenaries.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Slow

Cast time: 0 + 0.0625 seconds

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius:
- Outer: 9.0
- Inner: 5.25

Arc: 70 degrees

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• Damage bonuses stack additively with each other and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Slam's damage.

E

Devour

55 Mana Cooldown: 20 seconds

Deal 319 damage to non-Heroic units, or 114 damage to Heroes. Restores 20% of Stitches's maximum Health.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00% / -

Affects: Non-Structure Enemies / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: 0 + 0.2 seconds

Range: 1.5

R

Putrid Bile

75 Mana Cooldown: 75 seconds

Emit bile that deals 37 damage per second to enemies within, Slowing them by 35% for 1.5 seconds. Gain 20% Movement Speed while emitting bile. Lasts 8 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow, Movement Speed

Cast time: 0.2 + 0 seconds.

Area of Effect: Circle ⁽¹

Radius: 3.0

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x13)

Puddle duration: 4.0 seconds

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• ¹⁾ Stitches emits bile puddles every 0.5 seconds at his current location.
• Bile puddles deal damage immediately upon being created to enemies that are not affected by it and once every second thereafter to enemies that remain within their area of effect.

R

Gorge

70 Mana Cooldown: 65 seconds

Consume an enemy Hero, trapping them for 4 seconds. When Gorge ends, the enemy Hero takes 274 damage. The trapped Hero cannot move or act and doesn't take damage from other sources.

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Type: Spell Damage, Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Stasis

Cast time: 0 + 0.4 seconds

Range: 1.5

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• Targets under the effect of Stitches's Gorge will be instantly expelled if Stitches himself enters Stasis.

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Helping Hand

75 Mana Cooldown: 16 seconds

Activate to use Hook that can hit allied Heroes. When used to pull allies, the cooldown of Hook is reduced by 50%.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Crowd control

Affects: Enemies / Allied Heroes

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• Shares cooldown with Hook.
• Helping Hand has the same properties as Hook and benefits from all talents affecting it.

Talents

1

Savor the Flavor

When Devour hits a Hero, Stitches heals for an additional 8% of his maximum Health and Mana over 4 seconds.
❢ Quest: Hitting enemy Heroes with Devour increases Stitches's Health Regeneration by 1.5.

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Type: Healing, Mana regeneration, Bonus Health Regeneration

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Heal over time

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x8)

Heal per tick: 1%

Maximum bonus: 150 (100 stacks)

Patchwork Creation

Increase regeneration effects and all healing received by 15%. Whenever a nearby enemy Minion dies, restore 33 Health. Takedowns restores 255 Health.

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Type: Healing received modifier

Affects: Self

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• Stacks additively with healing modifiers that affect healing received and multiplicatively with modifiers that affect healing dealt.

Hungry for More

❢ Quest: Gathering a Regeneration Globe increases Stitches's maximum Health by 30.

❢ Reward: Every 15 Globes gathered permanently increases Stitches's Movement Speed by 5%, up to 20%.

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Type: Bonus Health, Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement speed

Maximum Health bonus: 30,000 (x1,000)

4

Serrated Edge

Hitting an enemy Hero with Hook deals bonus damage equal to 5% of their maximum Health, and reduces Hook's cooldown by 3 seconds.

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Type: Percent damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent damage

Playtime!

Heroes hit by Slam reduce the cooldowns of Stitches's other Basic Abilities by 0.5 seconds, increased to 2 seconds for Heroes who are hit by its inner impact area.

Chop Chop

Hitting a Hero with Slam grants 25% increased Attack Speed for 3 seconds. Double the Attack Speed bonus and duration if they are hit by Slam's inner impact area.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Does not stack with itself.
• Stack additively with other effects that can affect Stitches's Attack Speed.

7

Blight

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Active: Activate to apply Vile Gas to all nearby enemies. Enemy Heroes hit receive 20% less healing for 5 seconds.
Passive: Vile Gas heals Stitches for 33% of the damage dealt.

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Type: Healing received modifier / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Properties: Area of Effect, Lifesteal

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.0

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• Stacks additively with healing modifiers that affect healing received and multiplicatively with modifiers that affect healing dealt.

Cannibalize

Hitting Heroes with Basic Attacks or the inner impact area of Slam heals Stitches for 2% of his maximum Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

Tenderizer

Basic Attacks Slow enemies by 25% for 2.5 seconds and refresh the duration of Slam's inner impact area Slow.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Slow

10

Putrid Bile

Cooldown: 75 seconds
Emit bile that deals 37 damage per second to enemies within, Slowing them by 35% for 1.5 seconds. Gain 20% Movement Speed while emitting bile. Lasts 8 seconds.

Gorge

Cooldown: 65 seconds
Consume an enemy Hero, trapping them for 4 seconds. When Gorge ends, the enemy Hero takes 274 damage. The trapped Hero cannot move or act and doesn't take damage from other sources.

13

Fishing Hook

Hook has an additional 40% range.

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Bonus range: 4.5

Meat Hook

Hitting an enemy Hero with Hook heals Stitches for 20% of his maximum Health over 4 seconds. While active, Basic Attacks against the Hero hit refresh the healing duration.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Heal over Time

Tickrate: 2.0 per second (x8)

Heal per tick: 4%

Pulverize

All enemies hit by Slam are Slowed by 80% for 0.75 seconds.

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• Slow from Slam's inner area continues with its remaining duration once Pulverize ends.
• Tenderizer's duration extension from Basic Attacks does not affect the Slow from Pulverize.

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Lacerate

Slam afflicts enemies with Vile Gas, and Heroes hit by Slam have their Armor reduced by 10 for 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies / Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction

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

Digestive Juices

Hitting a Hero with Devour reduces its cooldown by 5 seconds and causes the Hero hit to deal 50% reduced damage for 5 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target Hero's damage output.

Gas Flare

Deals 15 damage per second to nearby enemies. Hitting an enemy Hero with Hook increases this damage by 150% for 8 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Burning Rage

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Gas Flare is inactive while Mounted.
• Damaging enemy Heroes with Gas Flare does not trigger tower aggro.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers that can affect Gas Flare's damage.

20

Potent Bile

Putrid Bile lasts 6 seconds longer and its Slow amount is increased from 35% to 45%.

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• This affects the duration for which Stitches can emit bile puddles. The duration of the puddles remains at 4 seconds.

Hungry Hungry Stitches

Cooldown: 0.5 seconds
For 4 seconds after using Gorge, Stitches can teleport a short distance to additional targets and Gorge them.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: 0 + 0.4 seconds

Range: 3.6

Second Helping

Devour gains 1 additional charge. Enemy Heroes hit by Devour reduce the cooldown of Stitches's Heroic Ability by 5 seconds.

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• There is no cooldown between charges.

Shambling Horror

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Activate to gain 50 Armor for 4 seconds.
Passive: Stitches cannot have his Movement Speed reduced below 100%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Armor

Cast time: Instant

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

Skins

Stitches Skins
Terror of Darkshire
Backstory: Take care when traversing the shadowed trails of Duskwood... Ever since Abercrombie the Embalmer unleashed his vile abomination upon Darkshire, Stitches has wandered the road aimlessly, hungering for the flesh of low level Alliance players.
625 / 7,000 Terror of Darkshire	Free Congealed	Free Bruised
Chef
Backstory: What? Everybody needs a day job... Just don't order the "veal."
Features: Themed abilities.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Sous	350 / 400 Head
King
Backstory: Stitches no bozo... Stitches king!
120 / 75	120 / 75 Crimson	120 / 75 Toxic

Stitches Event Skins
Bikini
Backstory: Splish-splash! Hot and ready for the summer sun, Bikini Stitches is off to meet the ghoul of his dreams... that and make a sandcastle!
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: Used to be available by purchasing the Stitches plush. This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Zebra	350 / 400 Pink	350 / 400 Lifeguard	350 / 400 Fuchsia
350 / 400 Verdant	350 / 400 Heatwave	350 / 400 Azure
Cuddle Bear
Backstory: There's a monster on the loose, kids... a CUDDLE MONSTER! This fuzzy friend is desperate to prove he's the sweetest snuggle pumpkin in the Funland Pals. Shucks, he'd do just about anything to be the #1 in your heart...
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of "Toys!".
750 / 1,600	750 / 1,600 Snuggle	750 / 1,600 Honey	1,125 / 2,400 Shabby	1,125 / 2,400 Fuzzy
1,125 / 2,400 Bitter
Greatfather Winter
Backstory: The feast of Great-Winter is a magical time of year. It seems like everyone is getting into that Winter Veil spirit! Even if we kinda wish they wouldn't...
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Festive	350 / 400 Cold	350 / 400 Ivory
Psycho
Backstory: The Crystal Lake of Elwynn Forest hides a horrifying secret beneath the depths of its murky waters...
Features: Themed abilities.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Pumpkin	350 / 400 Camo

Portraits

Stitches Portraits
Bikini Stitches75 / 40	Carbot Stitches120 / 75	Cuddle Bear Stitches	Embalmed Stitches75 / 40	Funtime Cuddle Bear Stitches75 / 40	Greatfather Winter Stitches75 / 40	Pachimari Stitches75 / 40
Nostalgic Greatfather Winter Stitches75 / 40	Rockstar Stitches75 / 40	Scary Cuddle Bear Stitches75 / 40	Sticker Cuddle Bear Stitches75 / 40	Stitches Hero	Stitches Mastery	Toon Cuddle Bear Stitches75 / 40
Toon Greatfather Winter Stitches75 / 40	Wreath of Stitches75 / 40

Sprays

Stitches Sprays
Calavera de Puntos120 / 75	Carbot Stitches120 / 75	Cuddle Bear Stitches Badge75 / 40	Cute Cuddle Bear Stitches75 / 40	Gift of the Cuddle Bear	Grumpy Cuddle Bear Stitches Sticker75 / 40	Hostile Cuddle Bear Stitches Sticker75 / 40
Nostalgic Greatfather Winter Stitches75 / 40	Old Timey Stitches75 / 40	Pachimari Stitches75 / 40	Paper Stitches75 / 40	POOL Time!75 / 40	Sad Cuddle Bear Stitches Sticker75 / 40	Shocked Cuddle Bear Stitches Sticker75 / 40
Whoopsie Bear180 / 112

Emojis

Stitches Pack 1			Stitches Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Stitches Happy	:stitcheshappy: :stihappy:		Stitches Angry	:stitchesangry: :stiangry:
	Stitches ROFL	:stitcheslol: :stitchesrofl: :stilol: :stirofl:		Stitches Cool	:stitchescool: :sticool:
	Stitches Sad	:stitchessad: :stisad:		Stitches Embarrassed	:stitchesoops: :stitchesembarrassed: :stioops: :stiembarrassed:
	Stitches Silly	:stitchessilly: :stisilly:		Stitches in Love	:stitcheslove: :stitchesinlove: :stilove: :stiinlove:
	Stitches Speechless	:stitchesmeh: :stitchesspeechless: :stimeh: :stispeechless:		Stitches Surprised	:stitcheswow: :stitchessurprised: :stiwow: :stisurprised:

Psycho Stitches Pack 1			Psycho Stitches Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Psycho Stitches Happy	:stitchespsychohappy: :stiphappy:		Psycho Stitches Angry	:stitchespsychoangry: :stipangry:
	Psycho Stitches ROFL	:stitchespsycholol: :stitchespsychorofl: :stiplol: :stiprofl:		Psycho Stitches Cool	:stitchespsychocool: :stipcool:
	Psycho Stitches Sad	:stitchespsychosad: :stipsad:		Psycho Stitches Embarrassed	:stitchespsychooops: :stitchespsychoembarrassed: :stipoops: :stipembarrassed:
	Psycho Stitches Silly	:stitchespsychosilly: :stipsilly:		Psycho Stitches in Love	:stitchespsycholove: :stitchespsychoinlove: :stiplove: :stipinlove:
	Psycho Stitches Speechless	:stitchespsychomeh: :stitchespsychospeechless: :stipmeh: :stipspeechless:		Psycho Stitches Surprised	:stitchespsychowow: :stitchespsychosurprised: :stipwow: :stipsurprised:

Greatfather Winter Stitches Pack 1			Greatfather Winter Stitches Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Greatfather Winter Stitches Happy	:stitchesgreatfatherwinterhappy: :stigwhappy:		Greatfather Winter Stitches Angry	:stitchesgreatfatherwinterangry: :stigwangry:
	Greatfather Winter Stitches ROFL	:stitchesgreatfatherwinterlol: :stitchesgreatfatherwinterrofl: :stigwlol: :stigwrofl:		Greatfather Winter Stitches Cool	:stitchesgreatfatherwintercool: :stigwcool:
	Greatfather Winter Stitches Sad	:stitchesgreatfatherwintersad: :stigwsad:		Greatfather Winter Stitches Embarrassed	:stitchesgreatfatherwinteroops: :stitchesgreatfatherwinterembarrassed: :stigwoops: :stigwembarrassed:
	Greatfather Winter Stitches Silly	:stitchesgreatfatherwintersilly: :stigwsilly:		Greatfather Winter Stitches in Love	:stitchesgreatfatherwinterlove: :stitchesgreatfatherwinterinlove: :stigwlove: :stigwinlove:
	Greatfather Winter Stitches Speechless	:stitchesgreatfatherwintermeh: :stitchesgreatfatherwinterspeechless: :stigwmeh: :stigwspeechless:		Greatfather Winter Stitches Surprised	:stitchesgreatfatherwinterwow: :stitchesgreatfatherwintersurprised: :stigwwow: :stigwsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Stitches/Quotes

Trivia

• Abominations first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002). Stitches first appeared in World of Warcraft (November 2004).
• Stitches is voiced by Isaac C. Singleton Jr.
• Stitches was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• Stitches had a skin that was Diablo-themed, but this was rethought as it was too similar to The Butcher.
• NECA revealed the Heroes of the Storm Stitches action figure at Toy Fair NY 2015.
• Stitches has the highest health of any hero in the game.
• Stiches is the Announcer of Pull Party.
• There's a talent that the developers have always wanted to do called Fishing Hook. They wanted to be able to throw an invisible Hook out and at the end of it make a Regeneration Globe. If an enemy hero were to touch or pick up that regen globe he would be pulled to Stitches. So he would literally be fishing with a fishing hook. They never implemented it but they talked about it a whole bunch as you don't really want your Tank to be sitting there doing nothing while the Hook is sitting there with a regen globe.

Gallery

General

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  Stitches's artwork.

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  Stitches's bones are covered with patches in the Korean version.

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  Stitches and Nova.

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  The Stitches action figure.

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  The Stitches plush.

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  Bikini Stitches concept sketch.

Abilities

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  Q: Hook.

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  W: Slam.

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  E: Devour.

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  R1: Putrid Bile.

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  R2: Gorge.

Prerelease

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Murky, Samuro, Stitches, Sylvanas and Warfield.

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Stitches and various other heroes.

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  Blizzard DOTA Stitches.

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  Classic Stitches.

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  Zerg Stitches.

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  Terran Stitches.

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  Prime Evil Stitches.

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  Chef Stitches.

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  Psycho Stitches.

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  Bikini Stitches.

External links

• Stitches Hero Week
• Stitches - Heroes of the Storm
• Stitches - Wowpedia
• Stitches Build Guide on Icy Veins
• Stitches Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Stitches Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm