Thrall

Thrall
"Glory to the Horde."
Basic Info
Title	Warchief of the Horde
Role	Bruiser
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	500 / 4,000
Release Date	January 13, 2015
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	1896
Health Regen	3.9492
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	0.91
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	173
Data Page

Thrall, the Warchief of the Horde, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the Warcraft universe. As a child, he served the cruel Aedelas Blackmoore as a slave. After gaining his freedom, he guided the liberated orcs to a land of their own, and worked to recover their ancient traditions.

Thrall is a Bruiser who can hold his own in a lane.

History

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

The former slave known as Thrall brought unity to the Horde, turning ravagers into architects and securing a future for his people.

"Thrall" was the moniker bestowed on the young orc Go'el in his first home - an internment camp created to keep the orc prisoners of the Second War from ever threatening Azeroth again - and the name could not be less fitting. When Go'el escaped his prison, he traveled in search of not just aimless freedom but his roots, eventually finding wisdom in the shamanic beliefs of his ancestors.

Thrall's shamanism guided his actions as he re-formed the Horde, becoming its warchief and leading his people to settle in an arid land that he called Durotar, in honor of his father, Durotan. Thrall led the Horde through a seemingly unceasing series of trials: the lifting of the demonic blood-curse that had tainted the orcs, a Burning Legion attack on Mount Hyjal, and the fall of the dreaded Lich King. When Deathwing returned and shattered the world, Thrall stepped down from his role as the Horde's warchief, instead joining the Earthen Ring, a powerful shamanic group, in an attempt to put the elements to rest and stop the Destroyer. Thrall chose Garrosh Hellscream as his successor, a decision he came to regret when the ruthlessness of the new warchief was aimed at other members of the Horde.

Gameplay

Thrall is a durable Bruiser with extraordinary burst damage potential in close combat. He combines utility with raw power, which enables him to cast effective crowd control abilities while also damaging multiple enemies at the same time. Thrall's innate self-sustain and the ability to increase both his movement and attack speed allow him to wreak havoc during teamfights. The fact that he is an essential part of his team composition makes him a high priority target for his opponents.

Strengths

• Strong self-sustain
• Solid crowd control
• Very strong solo-laner

Weaknesses

• Vulnerable to crowd control
• Requires good positioning and map awareness
• Susceptible to being kited by mobile enemies

Abilities

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

Frostwolf Resilience

Dealing damage with Abilities grants 1 stack of Frostwolf Resilience. At 5 stacks, you are instantly healed for 223 Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Q

Chain Lightning

40 Mana Cooldown: 7 seconds

Shock an enemy with lightning, dealing 162 damage. The lightning then bounces 3 times to nearby enemies, dealing 81 damage to each enemy hit.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Bounce

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range:
- Primary: 7.0
- Bounces: 6.0

Bounce interval: 0.375 seconds

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• Targets of secondary bounces are chosen at random from all units in range.
• Each unit can only be damaged once per cast.

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Feral Spirit

40 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Send out a Feral Spirit that deals 153 damage to enemies in its path and Roots Heroes hit for 1 second. Each Hero hit increases the distance traveled by 25%.

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Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Enemy Heroes

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Root, Skillshot (piercing)

Cast time: 0.15 + 0 seconds

Range:
- Initial: 9.0
- Hero bonus: 2.25

Hitbox: 1.25 x 1.875

Missile speed: 12

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• Can still impact Invulnerable targets, giving Thrall stacks of Frostwolf Resilience, increasing the Ability's range, and benefiting Talents, though doing nothing to the target.

E

Windfury

60 Mana Cooldown: 12 seconds

Increase Thrall's Movement Speed by 30% for 4 seconds. His next 3 Basic Attacks occur 100% faster and generate stacks of Frostwolf Resilience.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Attack Speed, Attack Modifier (resilience), Movement Speed

R

Sundering

75 Mana Cooldown: 70 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, sunder the earth in a long line, dealing 290 damage and shoving enemies to the side, Stunning them for 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Knockback, Piercing Skillshot, Stun

Cast time: 0 + 0.5 seconds

Range: 15

Hitbox: 5.0 x 3.0

Missile speed: 47.5

Knockback duration: 0.25

Knockback speed: 30

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• Sundering interrupts active displacements and momentarily removes collision on the targets.

R

Earthquake

90 Mana Cooldown: 100 seconds

After 0.5 seconds, summon a massive Earthquake that pulses every 4 seconds. Each pulse lasts 2 seconds, Slowing all enemies in the area by 50%, and deals 50 damage to enemy Heroes. Does 3 pulses.

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Type: Spell Damage / Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow

Cast time: 0 + 0.5 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 12

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• Only grants Frostwolf Resilience stacks from Heroes.

Talents

1

Echo of the Elements

❢ Quest: Kill minions or heroes within 1.5 seconds of them being hit by Chain Lightning

❢ Reward: After killing 10 enemies, reduce the Mana cost of Chain Lightning from 40 to 20.

❢ Reward: After killing 20 enemies, gain a second charge of Chain Lightning.

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Charge cooldown: 0.5 seconds.

Crash Lightning

❢ Repeatable Quest: Hitting at least 2 Heroes with a single use of Chain Lightning increases the damage of its bounce by 12, up to 360.

❢ Reward: After hitting multiple Heroes 30 times, Chain Lightning prioritizes bouncing to Heroes.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

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• Bounce targets within the groups of Heroic or non-Heroic targets are still chosen at random.

Rolling Thunder

For 8 seconds after hitting an enemy with Chain Lightning, Thrall's next Basic Attack against them grants a stack of Frostwolf Resilience. If the target is an enemy Hero, then he also deals damage to them equal to 3% of their maximum Health and healing for the same amount.

Passive: Increase the number of bounces by 1.

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Type: Percent Damage / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Properties: Lifesteal, Percent damage

4

Feral Resilience

Heroes damaged by Feral Spirit grant 4 stacks of Frostwolf Resilience and 2 stacks of Feral Resilience, granting 75 Physical Armor against the next incoming Hero Basic Attack.

Stacks are consumed on the next cast of Feral Spirit.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Block, Physical Armor

Stack limit (block): 10

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

Frostwolf Pack

❢ Quest: Hit 6 Heroes with Feral Spirit. Progress is lost on death and when Thrall fails to hit a Hero.

❢ Reward: Reduce the cooldown and Mana cost of Feral Spirit by 50%.

Mana Tide

Frostwolf Resilience restores 15 Mana and reduces Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.5 seconds.

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Maelstrom Weapon

❢ Repeatable Quest: Basic Attacks against Heroes while Windfury's Movement Speed bonus is active increase Attack Damage by 1.

❢ Reward: After gaining 20 Attack Damage, increase the Movement Speed bonus of Windfury to 40%.

❢ Reward: After gaining 40 Attack Damage, Thrall permanently gains 15% increased Movement Speed.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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• Continues to gain stacks even after the quests are completed.
• Movement Speed bonuses do not stack.

Ancestral Wrath

Cooldown: 1 second
Activate to consume 8 stacks of Ancestral Wrath, damaging a target enemy Hero for 15% of their maximum Health over 3 seconds, and healing Thrall for 150% of the damage dealt.

Gain 1 stack of Ancestral Wrath every time Frostwolf Resilience activates.

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Type: Percent damage / Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes / Self

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Damage over Time, Lifesteal, Percent damage

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.0

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x4)

Damage per tick: 3.75 % (of max health)

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• Does not generate Frostwolf Resilience stacks.
• Starts with 0 stacks.

Follow Through

After using an Ability, your next Basic Attack within 6 seconds deals 40% additional damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Thrall's Basic Attack damage.

10

Sundering

Cooldown: 70 seconds
After 0.5 seconds, sunder the earth in a long line, dealing 290 damage and shoving enemies to the side, Stunning them for 1 second.

Earthquake

Cooldown: 100 seconds
After 0.5 seconds, summon a massive Earthquake that pulses every 4 seconds. Each pulse lasts 2 seconds, Slowing all enemies in the area by 50%, and deals 50 damage to enemy Heroes. Does 3 pulses.

13

Grace Of Air

Windfury attacks grant twice as many stacks of Frostwolf Resilience.

Frostwolf's Grace

Cooldown: 15 seconds
Frostwolf Resilience can be activated to instantly heal. This healing is increased by up to 100% based on Thrall's missing Health.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

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• Triggering Frostwolf Resilience this way still benefits from all Talents and Abilities affecting it.
• Activating does not affect the current amount of Resilience stacks.
• Bonus healing stacks additively with healing dealt modifiers.

Spirit Shield

Cooldown: 45 / 0.75 seconds
Every 45 seconds, gain 50 Spell Armor against the next enemy Ability and subsequent Abilities for 4 seconds. Triggering Frostwolf Resilience reduces this cooldown by 10 seconds. Can be toggled to allow or prevent this talent from triggering automatically.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target (toggle)

Properties: Spell Armor

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

16

Tempest Fury

The final strike of Windfury hits 3 times for 75% of normal damage.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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• Each additional hit generates Frostwolf Resilience stacks.
• Only the first hit of the three part series benefits from Follow Through's damage bonus.
• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Thrall's Basic Attack damage.

Thunderstorm

Casting Chain Lightning on a Hero other than the last Hero it was cast on causes it to Slow targets by 8% for 2 seconds.

❢ Repeatable Quest: Each consecutive cast against a new Hero increases this bonus by 8%, up to 40%. Bonuses are reset if Thrall dies or casts Chain Lightning on the same Hero twice.

❢ Reward: While at 40% bonus, Chain Lightning's damage is increased by 25%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Crowd control

Affects: Ability / Enemies

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• Stacks are only lost when the primary target of subsequent casts is the same Heroic Target.
• Targeting non-Heroic units (Minions, Mercenaries, Structures...) does not affect the quest progress but also doesn't trigger the Slow.
• Damage bonus triggers regardless of targets when at 5 stacks.
• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Chain Lightning's damage.

Alpha Wolf

For 3 seconds after a Hero is hit by Feral Spirit, Thrall's Basic Attacks against them deal an additional 3% of the target's maximum Health as damage.

Passive: Increase the duration of Feral Spirit's Root to 1.5 seconds.

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Type: Percent damage / Crowd control

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier, Percent damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance and does not generate Frostwolf Resilience stacks.

20

Worldbreaker

Lower the cooldown of Sundering by 40 seconds. After Sundering impacts, it leaves behind an impassable rift, blocking unit movement for 3 seconds.

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Type: Pathing blocker

Width: 5 ⁽¹

Height: 15 ⁽¹

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• ¹⁾ Consists of two rows of 4 overlapping circles with 2.5 radius.
• The "impassable rift" can be cancelled earlier by pressing the heroic button again.

Earthen Shields

You and your allies within the Earthquake area gain a Shield equal to 15% of max Health each pulse. This shield lasts 4 seconds.

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Type: Shield

Scaling: -

Affects: Allies, Self

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• Calculated from the target's maximum Health.

Elemental Momentum

Basic Attacks reduce Thrall's Basic and Heroic Ability cooldowns by 0.25 seconds, tripled against Heroes.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier / Crowd Control

Affects: Self / Enemies

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Thrall's Basic Attack damage.

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 / Enemies

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Thrall's Basic Attack damage.

Wind Rush

Cooldown: 80 seconds
Activate to immediately teleport to a target location and gain Windfury.

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Type: Movement: Teleport, Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Attack Speed, Movement Speed

Cast time: Instant

Range: 7.2

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• Wind Rush benefits from all talents affecting Wind Fury.

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Thrall Guide

Thrall Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Thrall Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Thrall Skins
Warchief of the Horde
Backstory: As a child, Thrall served the cruel Aedelas Blackmoore as a slave. After gaining his freedom, he guided the liberated orcs to a land of their own and worked to recover their ancient traditions. Now and forever he is the Warchief of the Horde.
500 / 4,000 Warchief of the Horde	Free Silver	Free Mag'har
Earthbreaker
Backstory: The weight of the world hangs upon the Aspect of Earth, a burden no mortal can bear. As Thrall embraced its power, he was consumed by living rock and forever changed.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Soulbreaker	600 / 1,200 Dreambreaker
Hellhammer
Backstory: Go'el, the new Warlord of the Ashwolf clan, lifted the shattered Doomhammer from the Blackrock chieftain's corpse. Of his father’s betrayers, only Gul'dan remained.
Features: Altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft alternative shared history skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Draenor	350 / 400 Felhammer	350 / 400 Ashen
World-Shaman
Backstory: The vestments of a shaman should be as simple as the elements themselves. Although, there's no rule about what you wear beneath them.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Dark	120 / 75 Pallid

Portraits

Thrall Portraits
2016 Spring Global Championship	Carbot Thrall120 / 75	Doomgiver75 / 40	Doomhammer 'n' Pegs75 / 40	Hearthstone Thrall75 / 40	Hellhammer Thrall75 / 40	Shadow Warchief75 / 40
Thrall Hero	Thrall Mastery	Warcraft III Thrall75 / 40	World-Shaman Thrall75 / 40	WoW Thrall75 / 40

Sprays

Thrall Sprays
Carbot Thrall120 / 75	Mosh Party!250 / 300	El Lobo Gélido Thrall75 / 40	Thrall Pixel75 / 40

Emojis

Thrall Pack 1			Thrall Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Thrall Happy	:thrallhappy: :thrahappy:		Thrall Angry	:thrallangry: :thraangry:
	Thrall ROFL	:thralllol: :thrallrofl: :thralol: :thrarofl:		Thrall Cool	:thrallcool: :thracool:
	Thrall Sad	:thrallsad: :thrasad:		Thrall Embarrassed	:thralloops: :thrallembarrassed: :thraoops: :thraembarrassed:
	Thrall Silly	:thrallsilly: :thrasilly:		Thrall in Love	:thralllove: :thrallinlove: :thralove: :thrainlove:
	Thrall Speechless	:thrallmeh: :thrallspeechless: :thrameh: :thraspeechless:		Thrall Surprised	:thrallwow: :thrallsurprised: :thrawow: :thrasurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Thrall/Quotes

Trivia

• Thrall first appeared in Warcraft: Of Blood and Honor (January 2001 novel) and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (July 2002 game). His own game (Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans) was cancelled in 1998.
• Thrall is voiced by Chris Metzen in all of his game appearances with the exception of the canceled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans (where he is voiced by Clancy Brown).
• Thrall was a support hero in Blizzard DOTA.
• Rehgar's kit (other than his trait) originally belonged to Thrall. It was moved to Rehgar so Thrall could be redesigned as a more aggressive hero.
• Thrall was one of the heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2014.
• One of Thrall's gag quotes references the famous music band Earth, Wind, & Fire.

Gallery

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  Thrall's artwork.

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  Blizzard DOTA model.

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  Thrall, shown at BlizzCon 2014.

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  The Blizzard DOTA models of Thrall and various other heroes.

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  Concept art for Master Thrall.

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  Concept art for Hellhammer Thrall.

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  A comparison showing how Thrall's design and size have changed.

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  Q: Chain Lightning.

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  W: Feral Spirit.

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  E: Windfury.

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  R1: Sundering.

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  R2: Earthquake.

External links

• Thrall Hero Week
• Thrall - Heroes of the Storm
• Thrall - Wowpedia
• Thrall Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Thrall Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm