Valeera

Valeera
"Here we go."
Basic Info
Title	Shadow of the Uncrowned
Role	Melee Assassin
Difficulty	Hard
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	January 24, 2017
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2047
Health Regen	4.2656
Resource	100 Energy
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	2.00
Attack Range	1.25
Attack Damage	79
Data Page

Valeera Sanguinar, the Shadow of the Uncrowned, is a Melee Assassin Hero from the Warcraft universe. For a time, the gladiator Valeera Sanguinar served dutifully as one of Varian Wrynn's personal bodyguards. Now, her shadowy skills find her a natural fit within the secretive rogue order, the Uncrowned, in their fight against the Legion. She is a tricky assassin who can gain access to different Abilities while stealthed, and builds combo points to eviscerate her opponents.

Valeera is a stealthed Assassin who specializes in shutting down her opponents.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

After her parents were killed by bandits, Valeera Sanguinar survived her rough childhood and the Scourge by stealing. She was eventually caught, but didn't go down without a fight, and her fighting prowess attracted the notice of the orc gladiator manager, Rehgar Earthfury. He handpicked and trained Valeera for his gladiator team, along with Broll Bearmantle and Bloodeye Redfist, until Bloodeye was killed by the mate of a fighter he slew. Rehgar quickly replaced Bloodeye with an amnesiac human he found, who would later be called Lo'Gosh — actually the missing king of Stormwind, Varian Wrynn. Fighting together as a team of three, Valeera formed a great friendship with Broll (who treated her like a surrogate child) and Varian. The trio eventually broke away from their lives as gladiators, restored Varian's memory and throne, and rid Stormwind of the influence of the Black Dragon broodmother, Onyxia. As a result of this, Valeera became Varian's bodyguard and adviser and swore loyalty solely to Varian and his son, Anduin, and while she is proud of her blood elven heritage, she associates herself with neither the Alliance nor the Horde.

After participating in the Battle for the Undercity and helping in the defeat of Cho'Gall, Valeera seemingly vanished with no one knowing her whereabouts. In truth, she joined The Uncrowned, a rogue organization that secretly deals with unknown threats. With the defeat of the Burning Legion and Anduin's coronation, she returned to Stormwind as Anduin's secret spy and adviser.

Gameplay

Valeera is a Melee Assassin who uses Stealth and a unique Combo Point system to shut down her high priority targets. Combo Points are generated every time Valeera strikes an enemy Hero with one of her Basic Abilities, which can then be spent on a powerful finishing move called Eviscerate. Unlike other Stealth based Heroes, Valeera is able to activate Vanish at will, allowing her to regularly shift back and forth between the shadows to trick and deceive her opponents. When Stealthed, Valeera has access to a whole new set of abilities commonly referred to as "openers", as these abilities are used to break Valeera from stealth and be the opening sequence to her unrelenting ability combo.

Each one of Valeera's three openers providers her with a different bonus; Ambush can be used for instantaneous pure damage, Cheap Shot for hard crowd control in the form of a stun, and Garrote for damage over time and a crippling Silence. It is important for players to recognize which opener will best suit Valeera's needs at that exact moment. Valeera is countered by Heroes who are able to easily break her from Stealth, as this will prevent her from being able to cast any of her opener abilities.

Strengths

• Anti-Assassin, can take down high priority targets deep within the backline
• Exceptional at roaming and ganking
• Diverse kit with lots of utility

Weaknesses

• Poor waveclear and PvE
• Most utility is lost upon being knocked out of Stealth

Abilities

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

D

Vanish

Cooldown: 8 / 1.0 seconds

Vanish from sight, becoming Stealthed, gaining 20% Movement Speed and access to new Abilities. For the first second, Valeera is Unrevealable and can pass through other units. Remaining stationary for at least 1.5 seconds while Stealthed grants Invisible.

After being Stealthed for 3 seconds, Ambush, Cheap Shot and Garrote have 100% increased range and cause Valeera to teleport to the target when used.

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Type: Status effect, Movement: Teleport

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Movement speed, Stealth, Unrevealable

Cast time: Instant

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• Valeera can't use Basic Attacks, while Stealthed by Vanish.
• Vanish can be manually cancelled to unstealth Valeera by reactivating the Ability.
• Valeera immediately loses access to Stealth Ablities once she is unstealthed.
• Teleporting with Stealth Abilities places Valeera behind her target.

Q

Sinister Strike

25 Energy Cooldown: 5 seconds

Dash forward, hitting all enemies in a line for 110 damage. If Sinister Stike hits a Hero, Valeera stops dashing immediately and the cooldown is reduced to 1 second.

Awards 1 Combo Point.

Stealth: Ambush
Heavily damage an enemy and reduce their Armor.

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Type: Spell Damage / Movement: Dash

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: Instant

Range: 4.25

Hitbox: 0.75 x 1.5

Missile speed: 21

Dash duration: 0.1875 seconds

Q

Ambush

10 Energy Cooldown: 1 seconds

Ambush an enemy, dealing 130 damage and reducing their Armor by 10 for 5 seconds.

Awards 1 Combo Point.

Unstealth: Sinister Strike
Dash foward, damaging enemies.

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Type: Spell Damage, Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Armor reduction

Cast time: Instant

Range: 2.5

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

W

Blade Flurry

40 Energy Cooldown: 4 seconds

Deal 130 damage in an area around Valeera.

Awards 1 Combo Point per enemy Hero hit.

Stealth: Cheap Shot
Stun, Blind, and damage an enemy.

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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: 3.0

W

Cheap Shot

30 Energy Cooldown: 1 seconds

Deal 30 damage to an enemy, Stun them for 0.75 seconds, and Blind them for 2 seconds once Cheap Shot's Stun expires.

Awards 1 Combo Point.

Unstealth: Blade Furry
Deal damage in an area around Valeera.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Blind, Stun

Cast time: Instant

Range: 2.5

E

Eviscerate

25 Energy Cooldown: 1 seconds

Consumes all Combo Points.

Eviscerate an enemy, dealing increased damage per Combo Point.

1 Point: 85
2 Points: 170
3 Points: 255

Stealth: Garrote
Silence and damage an enemy over time.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 2.5

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• Eviscerate is unavailable if Valeera does not have any Combo Points.

E

Garrote

30 Energy Cooldown: 1 seconds

Deal 20 damage to an enemy and an additional 140 damage over 7 seconds, and Silence them for 2.5 seconds.

Awards 1 Combo Point.

Unstealth: Eviscerate
High damage finishing move.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Unit target

Properties: Damage over Time, Silence

Cast time: Instant

Range: 2.5

Tickrate: 1.0 per second (x7)

Damage per tick: 20

R

Smoke Bomb

Cooldown: 60 seconds

Create a cloud of smoke. While in the smoke, Valeera is Unrevealable, can pass through other units, and gains 60 Armor, reducing damage taken by 60%. Valeera can continue to attack and use Abilities without being revealed. Lasts 5 seconds.

Using this Ability does not break Stealth.

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Type: Status effect, Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Armor, Stealth, Unrevealable

Cast time: Instant

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

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• Valeera can use Smoke Bomb's Unrevealable effect while Stealthed to prevent her Stealth from being broken by incoming enemy damage.
• Does not stack with other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

R

Cloak of Shadows

Cooldown: 15 seconds

Valeera is enveloped in a Cloak of Shadows, which immediately removes all damage over time effects from her. For 1.5 seconds, she becomes Unstoppable and gains 75 Spell Armor, reducing Ability Damage taken by 75%.

Using this Ability does not break Stealth.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier, Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Spell Armor, Unstoppable

Cast time: Instant

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

Talents

1

Vigor

Valeera regenerates an additional 3 Energy per second.

❢ Reward: After Gathering 20 Regen Globes, increase Valeera's maximum Energy to 120.

Subtlety

After teleporting with Ambush, Cheap Shot, or Garrote regenerate 10 Energy per second for 5 seconds.

Combat Readiness

Each Combo Point spent grants 75 Armor against the next enemy Hero Basic Attack, reducing its damage by 75%. Stores up to 3 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.

Crippling Poison

Cooldown: 15 seconds
Activate to make Valeera's next damaging Ability and subsequent Abilities within 4 seconds Slow targets by 20% for 4 seconds.

Activating Crippling Poison does not break Stealth.

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Type: Crowd control

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Primed, Slow

Cast time: Instant

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• Cooldown starts once the effect is triggered by damaging an enemy with an Ability.
• Structures are not affected by the Slow, but damaging them still triggers the effect.

4

Relentless Strikes

Reduces the Energy cost of Sinister Strike by 10.

Hemorrhage

Valeera's Basic Attacks deal 40% additional damage to enemies affected by Garrote.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Attack Modifier

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

Initiative

Ambush, Cheap Shot, and Garrote grant 15% Movement Speed for 3 seconds and award 2 Combo Points.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Wound Poison

Cooldown: 15 seconds
Activate to make Valeera's next damaging Ability and subsequent Abilities within 4 seconds reduce enemy healing received by 50% for 4 seconds.

Activating Wound Poison does not break Stealth.

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Type: Healing received modifier

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target

Properties: Primed

Cast time: Instant

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• Cooldown starts once the effect is triggered by damaging an enemy with an Ability.
• Structures are not affected by the healing reduction, but damaging them still triggers the effect.

7

Mutilate

Sinister Strike now hits with both blades, dealing 125% additional damage, but its range is reduced by 1.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Sinister Strike's damage output.

Fatal Finesse

❢ Quest: Each time Blade Flurry damages an enemy Hero, its damage increases by 6, up to 90.

❢ Reward: After damaging 15 Heroes with Blade Flurry, permanently reduce its Energy cost by 20.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Slice and Dice

Eviscerating an enemy with 3 Combo Points grants 150% Attack Speed. Lasts 3 seconds or 3 Basic Attacks.

Passive: Basic Attacks restore 2 Energy.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Attack Speed

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• Stacks additively with other effects that can affect Valeera's Attack Speed.

10

Smoke Bomb

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Create a cloud of smoke. While in the smoke, Valeera is Unreavealable, can pass through other units, and gains 60 Armor, reducing damage taken by 60%. Valeera can continue to attack and use Abilities without being revealed. Lasts 5 seconds.

Using this Ability does not break Vanish.

Cloak of Shadows

Cooldown: 18 seconds
Valeera is enveloped in a Cloak of Shadows, which immediately removes all damage over time effects from her. For 1 second, she becomes Unstoppable and gains 75 Spell Armor, reducing Ability Damage taken by 75%.

Using this Ability does not break Vanish.

13

Death From Above

Teleporting with Ambush reduces the cooldown of Vanish by 4 seconds.

Blind

Increase the duration of Cheap Shot's Blind by 2.5 seconds.

Strangle

Using Garrote on a Hero reduces their Spell Power by 40% for 6 seconds.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier, Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Spell Power

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• Spell Power reduction from Strangle stacks additively with other sources of Spell Power as well as other offensive damage modifiers and healing dealt modifiers affecting the target Hero.

16

Seal Fate

Sinister Strike deals 50% additional damage and generates an additional Combo Point when used against Silenced, Rooted, or Stunned enemy Heroes.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Stacks additively with other damage modifiers affecting Sinister Strike's damage output.

Assassinate

Ambush deals 50% additional damage and reduces the target's Armor by an additional 10 if no other enemy Heroes are within 4 range of the victim.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies

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• Damage bonus stacks multiplicatively with other damage modifiers affecting damage taken from Ambush.
• Armor reduction stacks additively with Ambush's base Armor reduction, but not with other negative Armor effects.

Thistle Tea

Cooldown: 20 seconds
Activate to instantly restore 100 Energy.

Activating Thistle Tea does not break Vanish.

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Type: Resource

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

20

Adrenaline Rush

While in the Smoke Bomb, Valeera regenerates an additional 40 Energy per second.

Enveloping Shadows

Whenever Valeera uses Vanish, she also gains Cloak of Shadows.

Rupture

Increase Garrote's damage over time by 100%. Valeera's Basic Attacks refresh the duration of Garrote.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

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• Duration refreshing only affects Garrote's Damage over Time effect.

Elusiveness

Increase Valeera's Movement Speed while Vanished by an additional 20%.

Skins

Valeera Skins
Shadow of the Uncrowned
Backstory: For a time, the gladiator Valeera Sanguinar served dutifully as one of Varian Wrynn's personal bodyguards. Now, her shadowy skills find her a natural fit within the secretive rogue order, the Uncrowned, in their fight against the Legion.
750 / 10,000 Shadow of the Uncrowned	Free Wraith	Free Malachite
Bloodfang (tier 2 rogue set)
Backstory: There's no actual proof Valeera infiltrated Blackwing Lair and slew its master at the bequest of her king... But, I mean, there wouldn't be, would there?
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Warcraft tier sets skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Classic	160 / 100 SI:7	160 / 100 Emerald	160 / 100 Moonstone
Demon Hunter
Backstory: The difference between Valeera and her enemies was simple. They would stop at nothing to destroy Azeroth, whereas she would sacrifice everything to save it.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Wild	350 / 400 Deadly	350 / 400 Ivory	350 / 400 Crimson
Nightslayer
Backstory: While Valeera's allegiances may be her own, her friendship with Varian meant she couldn't allow him to go to war alone. If he was going to fight the Horde, than so she would be his blade in the dark.
250 / 300	250 / 300 7th Legion	250 / 300 Sunfury

Valeera Event Skins
Cosmic Force
Backstory: Featuring the actual voice from the hit show, this advanced action figure has brand new space-age joints that allow for fully articulated kung-fu action. Plus, all Valeera's signature jagged metal weapons are included in the box!
Features: Altered voice-over.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of "Toys!".
350 / 400	350 / 400 Psionic	350 / 400 Nega	525 / 600 Galactic	525 / 600 Proto
Vampire Slayer V
Backstory: Not all of Raven Court's vampires swear fealty to the Raven Lord. The one known only as "V" has launched a solitary crusade against her own kind, making her an unlikely ally of the Vampire Slayers.
Features: Themed animations, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Raven Court skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Rogue	350 / 400 Coldheart	350 / 400 Midnight	350 / 400 Phantom

Portraits

Valeera Portraits
Carbot Valeera120 / 75	Celestial Warrior Cosmic Force Valeera75 / 40	Cosmic Force Valeera75 / 40	Classic Vampire Slayer V75 / 40	Hearthstone Valeera75 / 40	Scary Cosmic Valeera75 / 40	Toon Cosmic Force Valeera75 / 40
Toon Vampire Slayer V75 / 40	Valeera75 / 40	Valeera Emblem75 / 40	Valeera Hero	Valeera Mastery	Valeera-O'-Lantern75 / 40	Vampire Slayer V75 / 40

Sprays

Valeera Sprays
Carbot Valeera120 / 75	Cute Cosmic Force Valeera75 / 40	Eternity Princess Valee-Ra75 / 40	Gift of the Cosmic Force	Stalwart Hero180 / 112	Thistle Island Tea75 / 40	Valeera-O'-Lantern75 / 40
Vampire Slayer V75 / 40

Emojis

Valeera Pack 1			Valeera Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Valeera Happy	:valeerahappy: :valehappy:		Valeera Angry	:valeeraangry: :valeangry:
	Valeera ROFL	:valeeralol: :valeerarofl: :valelol: :valerofl:		Valeera Cool	:valeeracool: :valecool:
	Valeera Sad	:valeerasad: :valesad:		Valeera Embarrassed	:valeeraoops: :valeeraembarrassed: :valeoops: :valeembarrassed:
	Valeera Silly	:valeerasilly: :valesilly:		Valeera in Love	:valeeralove: :valeerainlove: :valelove: :valeinlove:
	Valeera Speechless	:valeerameh: :valeeraspeechless: :valemeh: :valespeechless:		Valeera Surprised	:valeerawow: :valeerasurprised: :valewow: :valesurprised:

Vampire Slayer V Pack 1			Vampire Slayer V Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Vampire Slayer V Happy	:vampireslayervhappy: :valevshappy:		Vampire Slayer V Angry	:vampireslayervangry: :valevsangry:
	Vampire Slayer V ROFL	:vampireslayervlol: :vampireslayervrofl: :valevslol: :valevsrofl:		Vampire Slayer V Cool	:vampireslayervcool: :valevscool:
	Vampire Slayer V Sad	:vampireslayervsad: :valevssad:		Vampire Slayer V Embarrassed	:vampireslayervoops: :vampireslayervembarrassed: :valevsoops: :valevsembarrassed:
	Vampire Slayer V Silly	:vampireslayervsilly: :valevssilly:		Vampire Slayer V in Love	:vampireslayervlove: :vampireslayervinlove: :valevslove: :valevsinlove:
	Vampire Slayer V Speechless	:vampireslayervmeh: :vampireslayervspeechless: :valevsmeh: :valevsspeechless:		Vampire Slayer V Surprised	:vampireslayervwow: :vampireslayervsurprised: :valevswow: :valevssurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Valeera/Quotes

Trivia

• When Valeera was designed, the developers decided to make her different from Heroes like Zeratul by really capturing one of the World of Warcraft Rogue fantasies of locking down an enemy Hero. When Valeera was in development, the Valla/Greymane hyper carry meta was in full force, so they thought that this would also be a welcome addition to the game that would shake up the meta. If Valeera is good at locking down only one enemy, and a team's composition relied on having one major damage dealer, she'd be great at it. They wanted to make her good at reducing a carry without also making her too strong in setting up kills.
• Valeera made her first appearances in World of Warcraft: The Comic (November 2007) and the pre-expansion event for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (November 2008).
• Valeera is voiced by Tara Platt.
• The third tint of Valeera's default palette gives a piece of clothing on her arms and legs.
• Many of Valeera's quotes reference her emotes from Hearthstone, and in one quote she makes a joke about unable to perform "miracles" after a particular nerf (a reference the "Miracle Rogue" deck).
  • Her special dialogue with Rexxar, where she asks why he always "aims for the face", is a reference to the "Face Hunter" deck.

Gallery

General

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  Valeera's artwork

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  Valeera home screen

Abilities

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  Q: Sinister Strike

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  Q: Ambush

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  W: Blade Flurry

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  W: Cheap Shot

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  E: Eviscerate

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  E: Garrote

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  R: Smoke Bomb

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  R: Cloak of Shadows

External links

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