The Butcher

The Butcher
Basic Info
Title	Flesh Carver
Role	Melee Assassin
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Diablo
Price	625 / 7,000
Release Date	June 30, 2015
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2154
Health Regen	4.4882
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.9375
Attack Speed	1.11
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	130
Data Page

The Butcher, the Flesh Carver, is a Melee Assassin Hero from the Diablo universe. The Butcher is a sadistic creature that delights in the torture and pain of others. His insatiable hunger drives him to carve up his enemies and consume their fresh meat. Even those fighting alongside him shrink away in fear when he draws near. He is violence incarnate; he is brutality given shape.

The Butcher is an Assassin who starts slow, but deals extreme damage after collecting enough Meat.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

There are many butcher demons within the Burning Hells, though they used to be solely under Diablo's command. The butchers are stitched together from the parts of other demons to combine their strengths, then given life through wicked magic.

Under the guise of searching for the king's missing son, Archbishop Lazarus led many of Tristram's citizens into the old cathedral. The archbishop lured them into a trap, and most of them were killed by the Butcher. The survivors were left with wounds that festered with disease, and even the town's healer found them almost impossible to treat. The Butcher was eventually slain by Prince Aidan and his allies.

Twenty-two years later, the resurrected Butcher demon was summoned to the dungeons beneath King Leoric's manor by Maghda and her Coven.

Gameplay

The Butcher is a Melee Assassin who utilizes his trait to grow drastically in power as a match progresses. The early part of the match should consist of The Butcher trying to complete the quest portion of Fresh Meat as soon as possible. This increase in Attack Damage and Attack Speed provide a huge power spike to The Butcher. His Basic Attacks hit incredibly hard, providing him with very high sustained damage.

Strength

• Strong Late Game
• Extremely high Basic Attack Damage
• Can recover massive amounts of health with Butcher's Brand
• Strong duelist
• Ruthless Onslaught allows for easy engages and ganks

Weaknesses

• Extremely vulnerable to burst damage and crowd control, including Blinds
• Multiple ways for enemy Heroes to negate both of his Heroic abilities
• If he is unable to use Basic Attacks on on the target marked with Butcher's Brand, he will fall very quickly in team fights
• Losing Fresh Meat on death can make it difficult to recover
• Weak Early Game

Abilities

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

Fresh Meat

Upon dying, nearby enemy Minions drop 1 Fresh Meat and enemy Heroes drop 20 Fresh Meat. Fresh Meat can be picked up to gain 0.5 Attack Damage per Meat. The Butcher loses 15 Fresh Meat upon dying.

❢ Quest: Collect 200 Fresh Meat.

❢ Reward: Gain an additional 125 Attack Damage and 25% increased Attack Speed. Heroes continue to drop 10 Fresh Meat, Minions no longer drop Fresh Meat, and Fresh Meat is no longer lost on death.

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Type: Bonus damage, Status effect

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

Radius:
- Drop: 13.125 (Minions) / upon takedown (Heroes)
- Collect: 0.125

Pickup duration: 15 seconds

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• Attack Speed stacks additively with other effects affecting the Butcher's Attack Speed.
• Bonus Attack Damage from Fresh Meat is added to The Butcher's base Attack Damage before multiplying by the sum of any damage modifiers, such as Brutal Strike and Nexus Blades.

Q

Hamstring

40 Mana Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 110 damage and Slow enemies by 50% fading over 2 seconds. The Butcher's next Basic Attack will strike immediately.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: AA reset, Area of Effect

Cast time: 0.1875 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 2.5

Height: 7.0

W

Butcher's Brand

60 Mana Cooldown: 14 seconds

Deal 37 damage to an enemy and Brand them for 4 seconds. The Butcher's Basic Attacks against the Branded target heal him for 75% of the damage done.

Basic Attacks against Branded Heroes heal for double and extend the duration of the Brand by 0.5 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure enemies / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

Cast time: 0.125 + 0 seconds

Range: 1.5

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• Resets The Butcher's Basic Attack timer.

E

Ruthless Onslaught

50 Mana Cooldown: 15 seconds

Charge at an enemy, becoming Unstoppable and gaining Movement Speed. If The Butcher reaches the target, they are Stunned for 1 second and take 119 damage.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Status effect

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Non-Structure enemies / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Mobile channel, Movement speed, Stun, Unstoppable

Cast time: 0.5 + CH + 0 seconds

Range: 12

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• The Butcher is not Unstoppable until the cast time is complete, meaning that, like other Abilities, it can interrupted by enemy crowd control during its windup, refunding its cooldown and Mana cost.
• Ruthless Onslaught can be reactivated after 0.75 seconds to interrupt the charge, placing it on full cooldown. Otherwise The Butcher is uncontrollable during the charge.
• Charge is automatically canceled if it has been active for 4 seconds without hitting the target or if the target becomes untargetable or, for its windup, if the target moves farther than 5 units from its maximum cast range.

R

Furnace Blast

75 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

After a 3 second delay, fire explodes around The Butcher dealing 500 damage to enemies.

Can be cast while using Ruthless Onslaught.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

R

Lamb to the Slaughter

75 Mana Cooldown: 90 seconds

Throw a hitching post that attaches to the nearest enemy Hero after a 1 second delay. This deals 171 damage and causes the enemy to be chained to the post and Silenced for 3 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Knockback, Silence

Cast time: Instant

Range: 14

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0 (target search)

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• 'Nearest enemy' refers to the one closest to the center of the search area.
• Chained enemies will be pulled to the center if they try to escape the area.

Talents

1

Invigoration

If Hamstring hits a Hero, half of the Mana cost is refunded and the cooldown is reduced by 1 second.

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Type: Mana restoration, Cooldown reduction

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Block

Every 5 seconds, gain 75 Physical Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing the damage taken by 75%.

Stores up to 2 charges.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Block, Physical Armor

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

Chop Meat

Increases Hamstring damage by 100% to Minions, Mercenaries, and Monsters.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Hamstring's damage.

4

Flail Axe

Increases the length of Hamstring by 40%.

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Bonus height: 2.8

Unrelenting Pursuit

Reduces the cooldown of Ruthless Onslaught by 33% upon impact.

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Cooldown reduction: 5 seconds

Cheap Shot

Hamstring does 100% more damage to targets affected by Slow, Root, or Stun.

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Type: Damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Does not benefit from Hamstring's Slow, as the damage is dealt before the Slow is applied.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting Hamstring's damage output.

7

Insatiable Blade

While facing the branded enemy, The Butcher's Movement Speed is increased by 25%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Radius: 12

Arc: 10 degrees

Victuals

Every time a nearby enemy Minion dies, The Butcher heals 5% of his maximum Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Radius: 13.125

Meat Shield

When Ruthless Onslaught impacts an enemy Hero, The Butcher gains 50 Spell Armor for 2.5 seconds, reducing Spell Damage taken by 50%.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Armor

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

10

Furnace Blast

Cooldown: 60 seconds
After a 3 second delay, fire explodes around The Butcher dealing 500 damage to enemies.

Can be cast while using Ruthless Onslaught.

Lamb to the Slaughter

Cooldown: 90 seconds
Throw a hitching post that attaches to the nearest enemy Hero after a 1 second delay. This deals 171 damage and causes the enemy to be chained to the post and Silenced for 3 seconds.

13

Cleaver

Basic Attacks deal 35% of The Butcher's Basic Attack Damage in an area around the target.

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Type: Physical Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier, Splash

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.0

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• Cleaver benefits from the bonus damage from Fresh Meat.
• Splash damage does not grant lifesteal when damaging enemies affected by Butcher's Brand.
• Damage reduction stacks additively with offensive damage modifiers affecting The Butcher's Basic Attack damage.

Savage Charge

Ruthless Onslaught deals bonus damage to Heroes equal to 10% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Percent damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Percent Damage

Brutal Strike

After using Hamstring, The Butcher's next 3 Basic Attacks within 5 seconds deal an additional 15% damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Does not stack with itself.
• Charges from previous casts are not stored.
• Damage bonus stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting The Butcher's Basic Attack damage.

16

Crippling Slam

Hamstring's Slow no longer fades out, and the duration is increased by 30%.

Enraged

While below 50% of his maximum Health, taking damage causes The Butcher to become Enraged for 10 seconds, gaining 40% Attack Speed and 25 Armor, reducing damage taken by 25%.

This effect has a 25 second cooldown.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier, Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Armor, Attack Speed

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• Attack Speed stacks additively with other effects affecting The Butcher's Attack Speed.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Blood Frenzy

Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes grant 5% increased Attack and Movement Speed for 3 seconds, up to 25%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Attack Speed, Movement Speed

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• Attack Speed bonus stacks additively with itself and other effects affecting The Butcher's Attack Speed.
• Movement Speed bonus stacks additively with itself, but not with other sources of Movement Speed.

20

Fires of Hell

Furnace Blast explodes a second time 3 seconds after the initial explosion.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

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• Secondary explosion has the same properties as the first.

Slaughterhouse

Lamb to the Slaughter now chains all enemy Heroes in range.

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Properties: Area of Effect

Nexus Blades

Basic Attacks deal 20% more damage and Slow enemy Movement Speed by 20% for 1 second.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Crowd control

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Slow

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting The Butcher's Basic Attack damage. The sum of these bonuses is multiplied by The Butcher's Attack Damage (which includes his bonus Attack Damage from Fresh Meat).

Bolt of the Storm

Cooldown: 70 seconds

Activate to teleport to a nearby location.

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Type: Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.2

Builds and guides

Icy Veins The Butcher Guide

The Butcher Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

The Butcher Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

The Butcher Skins
Flesh Carver
Backstory: n unrelenting hacking echoed off the walls of the Cathedral and as Prince Aidan made his way through the depths, the sound only grew louder. There were no screams; just that dreadful sound... over and over.
750 / 10,000 Flesh Carver	Free Contaminated	Free Reptilian	120 / 75 Petrified
Executioner
Backstory: An executioner's hood hides their identity and discourages offended parties from seeking revenge. Of course, that won't be a problem for the Butcher.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Toxic	120 / 75 Dark
Iron
Backstory: There are many Butchers within the Burning Hells, but only those who serve Duriel, the Lord of Pain, bolt plates of burning iron to their flesh.
250 / 300	250 / 300 Fel	250 / 300 Savage
The Butcherlisk
Backstory: Abathur's newest creation was inspired by the tenacity of the hellish abominations he encountered in the Nexus. Its instructions were simple: Acquire fresh essence. Evolve.
Features: Themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of other universes merging into StarCraft skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Enraged	600 / 1,200 Festering	600 / 1,200 Grendel

The Butcher Event Skins
Cyber Oni
Backstory: The Jigoku Corporation's V1.09b Butcher Cyber Oni are the pinnacle of cost-cutting: they eliminate high-profile targets and simultaneously generate feedstock for the Innovation Lab.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Caldeum Complex skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Ivory	600 / 1,200 Jigoku

Portraits

The Butcher Portraits
Carbot Butcher120 / 75	Cute Lil' Butcher{	Diablo III Butcher75 / 40	Jigoku Cybernetics Butcher	Scary Lil' Butcher75 / 40	Sticker Lil' Butcher75 / 40	Stylized Iron Butcher75 / 40
The Butcher Hero	The Butcher Mastery	Toon Cyber Oni Butcher75 / 40

Sprays

The Butcher Sprays
Butcher Pixel75 / 40	Carbot Butcher120 / 75	Cartoon Butcher120 / 75	Cyber Oni Butcher75 / 40	Emoji Butcher120 / 75	Gingerbread Butcher120 / 75	Hologram Cyber Oni Butcher180 / 112
Rampaging Lil' Butcher Sticker

Emojis

Butcher Pack 1			Butcher Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Butcher Happy	:butcherhappy: :butchappy:		Butcher Angry	:butcherangry: :butcangry:
	Butcher ROFL	:butcherlol: :butcherrofl: :butclol: :butcrofl:		Butcher Cool	:butchercool: :butccool:
	Butcher Sad	:butchersad: :butcsad:		Butcher Embarrassed	:butcheroops: :butcherembarrassed: :butcoops: :butcembarrassed:
	Butcher Silly	:butchersilly: :butcsilly:		Butcher in Love	:butcherlove: :butcherinlove: :butclove: :butcinlove:
	Butcher Speechless	:butchermeh: :butcherspeechless: :butcmeh: :butcspeechless:		Butcher Surprised	:butcherwow: :butchersurprised: :butcwow: :butcsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: The Butcher/Quotes

Trivia

• The Butcher first appeared in Diablo (December 1996). His Heroes of the Storm design reflects his appearance in Diablo III (May 2012).
• The Butcher was under consideration for inclusion as early as 2011.
• The Butcher was released on June 30th, 2015.
• The models shown at BlizzCons 2013 and 2014 depicted the Butcher's cleaver, sickle, hands, and apron as being covered with blood. In the live game, they are all clean.
• The Butcher only speaks a handful of words, like "fresh", "meat", "kill", and "slaughter".
• Even without his buffs, the Butcher has the highest auto-attack DPS of any hero in the game.
• The Butcher is voiced by Steven Blum.
• When using the Butcherlisk skin, enemy Heroes and Minions will drop Biomass instead of Fresh Meat. (This is only a visual change and still functions the same as Fresh Meat)

Gallery

General

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  The Butcher's artwork.

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  The Butcher at BlizzCon 2013.

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  The Butcher at BlizzCon 2014.

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  The Butcher on the home screen.

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  The Butcher in the Eternal Conflict.

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  Caldeum Complex concept art

Abilities

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  Trait: Fresh Meat.

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  Q: Hamstring.

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  W: Butcher's Brand.

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  E: Ruthless Onslaught.

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  R1: Furnace Blast.

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  R2: Lamb to the Slaughter.

Gameplay

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  The Butcher fights Johanna.

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  The Butcher rides his battle beast.

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  The Butcher burns some enemy minions.

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  The Butcher chains Illidan, Jaina, and Kael'thas.

External links

• The Butcher Hero Week
• The Butcher - Heroes of the Storm
• The Butcher - Diablo Wiki
• The Butcher Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Butcher%20-%20Default.html Butcher Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm