Valla

Valla
"I stand ready."
Basic Info
Title	Demon Hunter
Role	Ranged Assassin
Difficulty	Easy
Franchise	Diablo
Price	300 / 2,000
Release Date	March 13, 2014
Base Stats
Attack Type	Ranged
Health	1340
Health Regen	2.7930
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.625
Attack Speed	1.67
Attack Range	5.5
Attack Damage	70
Data Page

Valla, the Demon Hunter, is a Ranged Assassin Hero from the Diablo universe. She witnessed the ferocity of hellspawn firsthand as the demons ravaged her village and left her for dead. Now, with no people to call her own, her only allegiance is to her cause: to rid Sanctuary of the demonic filth corrupting its lands.

Valla is a well-rounded Assassin that's mobile and can deal high sustained damage.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to Diablo universe.

In the world of Sanctuary Demon Hunters are spoken of in whispers. They are as feared as the demons they hunt and for good measure. Valla, like all demon hunters, walks a fine line between the tides of corruption from the enemies she faces and giving in to the sea of writhing hatred that fuels her quest to rid her world of the forces of Hell. The only thing that saves her is her incredible discipline that tempers all of her actions since answering the call of her order.

Valla's story starts many years ago when she was a young child. She lived a quiet life in a small town in the Eastern Kingdoms with her parents and younger sister Halissa. Her life changed when a demon horde descended upon her community and butchered everyone. Valla and her sister were the only two to survive the slaughter, her parents and everyone else she had ever known were mercilessly killed by the demons.

Valla and Halissa ran into the forests surrounding her home for safety. Eventually the stress of narrowly surviving a demon attack, living like an animal in the woods and the constant fear that they would be discovered became too much for Halissa to handle and she snapped in the middle of a violent rain storm.

Valla chased after her sister to try and protect her. In Halissa’s fractured state of mind she ran straight into the rapids of a nearby river. Valla tried desperately to save her, but the rain made her grip too slippery, the current was too strong. The last Valla ever saw of Halissa was her being taken by the river. Valla would soon be found by a band of Demon Hunters that were tracking the horde responsible for killing her village and thus began her life as one of their order.

It would take many years for her to temper her hatred with the discipline needed to face powerful demons. She would face a powerful demon called Valdraxxis who used her memories of her lost sister against her, but this only would serve to strengthen her resolve and allow her to finally realize her true potential as a Demon Hunter. When Valla stared into the abyss that was Valdraxxis’ soul, it was the demon that blinked first.

Valla would later play an integral role in the saving of Sanctuary as she fought mercilessly against the Lords of Hell and she would eventually bring down the Prime Evil, Diablo, before he could destroy the High Heavens. Her duty is not yet over though as Death itself has now come to challenge her...

Gameplay

Valla is a highly versatile and sustained Ranged Assassin who can whittle down the enemies with fast auto attacks. Hatred empowers Valla's Basic Attacks and increases her movement speed. This allows her to put an extreme amount of pressure on anything within her Basic Attack range. Her fast base attack speed somewhat helps with this, however, stutter-stepping truly is the key to making the most out of Hatred, and Valla as a whole. Her on-demand area of effect damage and poke allow her to reliably deal damage in all situations. However, her relative fragility makes her a high priority target for the enemy.

Strengths

• Very high single-target and area of effect damage
• Good waveclear
• Good poke
• Strong in all phases of the game
• Versatile; fits any team composition

Weaknesses

• Dependent on good positioning
• Low base Health
• Vulnerable to crowd control

Abilities

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

Hatred

Basic Attacks grant a stack of Hatred, up to 10. Each Hatred stack increases Basic Attack damage by 8% and Movement Speed by 1%. Lasts 6 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack modifier, Movement Speed

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Valla's Basic Attack damage.
• Movement Speed stacks additively with itself, but not with other Movement Speed effects.

Q

Hungering Arrow

60 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Fire an arrow that deals 140 damage to the first target hit, then seeks up to 2 additional enemies, prioritizing Heroes, dealing 80 damage. Can hit an enemy multiple times.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Bounce, Clamping, Skillshot

Cast time: 0.0625 + 0 seconds

Range: 11.5

Hitbox: 1.25 x 1.25

Missile speed:
- Initial: 20
- Bounce: 8.0

Bounce radius: 3.0

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• Bounces prioritize targets within the target groups that have so far not been hit by the current cast of Hungering Arrow. Heroes are still prioritized over anything else.
• Enemies that are immune to skillshots can still be hit by the bounces, but not by the initial projectile.
• Bounce projectiles can be disjointed via Teleports, but only by Teleporting more than 3 units from the previous hit before it connects.

W

Multishot

75 Mana Cooldown: 13 seconds

Deal 159 damage to enemies within the target area.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping

Cast time: 0.1 + 0 seconds

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius:
- Initial: 3.0
- Maximum: 8.75 ⁽¹

Arc: 50 degrees

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• ¹⁾ Area grows to its maximum radius over 0.375 seconds in increments of 1.15.

E

Vault

50 Mana Cooldown: 10 seconds

Dash to the target area. Valla's next Basic Attack within 2 seconds deals 6% increased damage per stack of Hatred.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Movement: Dash

Affects: Self

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Attack Modifier

Cast time: Instant

Range: 5.0

Missile speed: 14

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• Damage bonus stacks additively with itself and multiplicatively with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Valla's Basic Attack damage.

R

Strafe

80 Mana Cooldown: 60 seconds

Rapidly attack enemies within 10 range for 60 damage per hit, prioritizing Heroes over Minions. Valla is able to move and use Vault while strafing. Lasts for 4 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target (automatic)

Properties: Mobile channel

Cast time: Instant

Radius: 10.0

Missile speed: 50

Tickrate: 8.0 per second (x33)

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• Strafe prioritizes the closest enemies within the target group.
• Does not affect unaggroed neutral Mercenaries.
• Strafe can hit the same target only once per 0.3125 seconds, making it possible to hit a single enemy only a maximum of 11 times.
• Valla retains current stacks of Hatred during Strafe and their duration is refreshed when Strafe ends.
• Valla cannot Mount, use Healing Fountains or channel objectives while Strafe is active.

R

Rain of Vengeance

50 Mana Cooldown: 50 seconds

Launch a wave of Shadow Beasts that deals 250 damage and Stuns enemies in the target area for 0.5 seconds.

Stores up to 2 charges.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Stun

Cast time: 0.25 + 0.35 seconds

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 2.8

Height: 9.8 ⁽¹

Initial delay: 0.25 seconds

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• ¹⁾ Area consists of six overlapping 2.8 x 2.8 sub-areas that impact one by one over 0.5 seconds. Enemies cannot be hit more than once.

Talents

1

Puncturing Arrow

Increase the number of Hungering Arrow bounces by 1.

❢ Quest: Hitting an enemy Hero with the initial impact of Hungering Arrow refunds 40 Mana and permanently increases the damage of its initial impact by 6.

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Type: Bonus damage / Mana restoration

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability / Self

Maximum bonus: 6,000 (x1,000)

Fire at Will

❢ Quest: Hitting a Hero with Multishot grants 2 Hatred and permanently increases its damage by 2.

❢ Reward: After Hitting 20 Heroes with Multishot, increase its damage by 40.

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Type: Bonus damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Ability

Maximum bonus: 32,000 (x16,000)

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• Continues to gain stacks after the quest is completed.

Creed of the Hunter

❢ Quest: Every 50 Basic Attacks against Heroes increases Hatred's damage bonus per stack by 1%, up to 6%.

❢ Gambit: Gain 25% bonus Attack Speed. Every death reduces this bonus by 5%.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Speed

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• Attack Speed loss on death only affects the bonus gained from Loan.
• Attack Speed from Creed of the Hunter stacks additively with other effects that can affect Attack Speed.

4

Arsenal

Increase the range of Multishot by 20%. Multishot also fires 3 grenades that deal 100 damage and refund 25 Mana after hitting enemy Heroes.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Skillshot

Range: 11.5 (grenades)

Radius: 0.5 (hitbox)

Bonus Multishot radius: 2.3

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• Increases the time Multishot takes to expand to its new maximum radius by 0.125 seconds.
• Grenades are launced at the very middle and both edges of the AoE.
• Grenades are unaffected by Fire at Will's damage bonus.
• A Hero cannot be hit by any of the grenades more than once.
• Grenades take 0.5 seconds to reach their maximum distance.

Death Dealer

Increases Vault Basic Attack damage bonus from 6% to 15% per stack of Hatred. If this attack kills its victim within 1.5 seconds, the Mana cost and cooldown of Vault are refunded.

Passive: Reduce the cooldown of Vault by 5 seconds.

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• Any unit killing the target triggers the reset.

Repeating Arrow

Vault no longer has a Mana cost. Casting Vault resets the cooldown of Hungering Arrow.

7

Monster Hunter

Hungering Arrow deals 150% additional damage 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 that can affect Hungering Arrow's damage.

Frost Shot

Multishot Slows enemies by 20% for 2.5 seconds. Hungering Arrow deals 25% more damage to Slowed enemies.

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Type: Crowd control / Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemies / Ability

Properties: Slow

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

Hot Pursuit

Increase the Movement Speed bonus of each stack of Hatred to 2%.

10

Strafe

Cooldown: 60 seconds
Rapidly attack enemies within 10 range for 60 damage per hit, prioritizing Heroes over Minions. Valla is able to move and use Vault while strafing. Lasts for 4 seconds.

Rain of Vengeance

Charge Cooldown: 50 seconds
Launch a wave of Shadow Beasts that deals 250 damage and Stuns enemies in the target area for 0.5 seconds.

Stores up to 2 charges.

13

Siphoning Arrows

Hitting a Hero with Hungering Arrow heals Valla for 4% of her maximum Health and Multishot heals for 2%.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

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• Hungering Arrow triggers healing for each bounce and Multishot for each enemy Hero hit.

Tempered by Discipline

Basic Attacks heal for 10% of the damage dealt, increased by 2% per Hatred stack.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Lifesteal

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• Lifesteal bonus stacks additively with itself and other lifesteal effects.

Gloom

Cooldown: 5 seconds
Activate to consume all Hatred, granting 3 Spell Armor per Hatred consumed for 5 seconds.

Passive: Gain 15 Spell Armor, and each stack of Hatred heals for 1.25 Health per second.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier, Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Armor

Tickrate: 1.0 per second

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• Spell Armor from active component stacks additively with itself and the passive component.
• Does not stack with other positive Spell Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

16

Punishment

While at max Hatred, Multishot's cooldown recharges 50% faster.

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• While active, reduces the cooldown of Multishot by 0.125 seconds every 0.25 seconds.

Seething Hatred

While at max Hatred, increase all damage dealt by 10%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

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

Manticore

Every 3rd Basic Attack against the same Hero deals an additional 5% of their maximum Health as damage.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Attack Modifier, Percent Damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance.
• Stacks toward bonus last for up to 5 minutes, and the first stacks applied to any Hero start being replaced if the total stack count across all Hero units reaches 20 (possible against certain team compositions with high Heroic unit counts only as the stacks reset on activating the bonus).

20

Death Siphon

Hitting an enemy Hero with Strafe increases its duration by 0.125 seconds. Strafe also fires penetrating bolts in a line for 34 damage every 0.25 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: Automatic

Properties: Area of Effect

Range: 12.0

Area of Effect: Rectangle

Width: 0.75

Height: 11.0

Tickrate: 4.0 per second (x13)

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• Death Siphon's piercing bolts can target the same enemy only once every 0.375 seconds.
• Death Siphon bolts do not prioritize Heroes or closer enemies. Targets are chosen at random from all valid targets in the area.
• Only regular bolts increase the duration.

Storm of Vengeance

Basic Attacks against Heroes reduce the cooldown of Rain of Vengeance by 5 seconds.

Passive: Each stack of Hatred increases your Attack Speed by 2%. While at max Hatred, gain an additional 30% Attack Speed.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Attack Speed

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• Attack Speed from Storm of Vengeance stacks additively with itself and other Attack Speed effects.

Acrobat

Gain 2 additional charges of Vault. Drop 3 Caltrops while Vaulting that deal 60 damage and Slow enemies by 40% for 1 second.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Properties: Area of Effect, Slow, Summon figment

Vault charge cooldown: 0.5 seconds

Caltrops spacing: 1.75 ⁽¹

Caltrop

Radius: 1.0

Arming delay: 0.5 seconds

Duration: 10 seconds

Vision radius: 3.0

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• ¹⁾ Caltrops are dropped at 0.125 second intervals during Vault.

Farflight Quiver

Gain 20% Basic Attack range. While at max Hatred, gain an additional 30% Basic Attack range.

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Base attack range bonus: 1.1

Hatred attack range bonus: 1.65

Builds and guides

Icy Veins Valla Guide

Valla Community Build Guides @ HeroesFire

Valla Community Build Guides @ Heroes Hearth

Skins

Valla Skins
Demon Hunter
Backstory: Valla witnessed the ferocity of hellspawn firsthand as the demons ravaged her village and left her for dead. Now, with no people to call her own, her only allegiance is to her cause: to rid Sanctuary of the demonic filth corrupting its lands.
300 / 2,000 Demon Hunter	Free Verdant	Free Fuchsia	120 / 75 Ochre
Angelic
Backstory: Inarius was dead, and his disciples would be forever changed. Hatred burned within Valla's angelic heart, but she knew, if it could be tempered, it would be a powerful weapon.
Features: Altered voice-over, themed abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of alternative history skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Silver	350 / 400 Dark
Deputy
Backstory: No one settled disputes on the lawless streets of Riksville faster than Valla de Hunter. When Marshal Raynor began to deputize a posse, she was the first gunslinger on his list.
Features: Themed animations and abilities.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Riksville skins.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Grassy	350 / 400 Rosy	350 / 400 Lavender
Nephalem
Backstory: With the Worldstone's destruction, a new generation of Nephalem arose. They were descended from both angels and demons, yet stronger than both. It was not long before the Nephalem's glory was fully realized.
120 / 75
Ordermaster
Backstory: Having returned to the Dreadlands after slaying the Lord of Terror, Valla has taken up the mantle of Ordermaster so that she can share her knowledge and experience with neophyte demon hunters.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Azure
Vengeance
Backstory: Demon hunters share few traditions as each walks their own unique path... but a master passing on their armor, is an honor few refuse. Valla would wear Josen's mantle with pride.
120 / 75	120 / 75 Violet	120 / 75 Bronze

Valla Event Skins
Mecha
Backstory: Mecha Valla was designed to complement Mecha Yrel's frontline prowess with unmatched firepower and agility. The twin prototypes were put to the test when the Xenotech arrived.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Kaijo world skins.
1,125 / 2,400	1,125 / 2,400 Prototype	1,125 / 2,400 Master	1,125 / 2,400 Solar	1,125 / 2,400 Alloy
Vampire Slayer
Backstory: The Countess's thirst for blood could not be quenched even by her death. As the vampire swarm spread across Raven Court, a group of survivors rose up to resist them.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Raven Court skins.
160 / 100	160 / 100 Ebon	160 / 100 Ivory	160 / 100 Poison	160 / 100 Rose
Winter's Helper
Backstory: There's so much to do during Winter Veil that even Greatfather Winter himself needs a little help. Someone always has to cross people off the naughty list, you know.
Features: Themed abilities, themed animations.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of holiday skins.
600 / 1,200	600 / 1,200 Plum	600 / 1,200 Coal	600 / 1,200 Icewind	600 / 1,200 Ivy

Portraits

Valla Portraits
Carbot Valla120 / 75	Deputy Valla	Diablo III Valla75 / 40	Graffiti Valla75 / 40	Mecha Pilot VallaReward	Mecha Valla75 / 40	Nostalgic Winter's Helper Valla75 / 40
Stylized Angelic Valla	Vampire Slayer Valla75 / 40	Toon Vampire Slayer Valla75 / 40	Toon Winter's Helper Valla75 / 40	Valla Hero	Valla Mastery	Valla-O'-Lantern75 / 40

Sprays

Valla Sprays
Angry Pilot Valla180 / 112	Battle for the FutureReward	Carbot Valla120 / 75	Confident Pilot Valla180 / 112	Cute Mecha Valla75 / 40	Guns Ablaze75 / 40	Mecha Best FriendsReward
Mecha Pilot VallaReward	Nostalgic Winter's Helper Valla75 / 40	Tattoo Valla75 / 40	Valla-O'-Lantern75 / 40	Wireframe Mecha Valla75 / 40

Emojis

Valla Pack 1			Valla Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Valla Happy	:vallahappy: :vallhappy:		Valla Angry	:vallaangry: :vallangry:
	Valla ROFL	:vallalol: :vallarofl: :valllol: :vallrofl:		Valla Cool	:vallacool: :vallcool:
	Valla Sad	:vallasad: :vallsad:		Valla Embarrassed	:vallaoops: :vallaembarrassed: :valloops: :vallembarrassed:
	Valla Silly	:vallasilly: :vallsilly:		Valla in Love	:vallalove: :vallainlove: :valllove: :vallinlove:
	Valla Speechless	:vallameh: :vallaspeechless: :vallmeh: :vallspeechless:		Valla Surprised	:vallawow: :vallasurprised: :vallwow: :vallsurprised:

Deputy Valla Pack 1			Deputy Valla Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Deputy Valla Happy	:valladeputyhappy: :valldhappy:		Deputy Valla Angry	:valladeputyangry: :valldangry:
	Deputy Valla ROFL	:valladeputylol: :valladeputyrofl: :valldlol: :valldrofl:		Deputy Valla Cool	:valladeputycool: :valldcool:
	Deputy Valla Sad	:valladeputysad: :valldsad:		Deputy Valla Embarrassed	:valladeputyoops: :valladeputyembarrassed: :valldoops: :valldembarrassed:
	Deputy Valla Silly	:valladeputysilly: :valldsilly:		Deputy Valla in Love	:valladeputylove: :valladeputyinlove: :valldlove: :valldinlove:
	Deputy Valla Speechless	:valladeputymeh: :valladeputyspeechless: :valldmeh: :valldspeechless:		Deputy Valla Surprised	:valladeputywow: :valladeputysurprised: :valldwow: :valldsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Valla/Quotes

Trivia

• Valla represents the demon hunter class from Diablo III (May 2012).
• Valla is the protagonist of the short story "Hatred and Discipline".
• Valla is voiced by Laura Bailey.
• Valla was one of the 18 heroes revealed at BlizzCon 2013.
• Valla was made available as part of the preorder bonus for the Diablo III: Reaper of Souls expansion (March 2014).
• One of Valla's quotes references the running joke about Darkness.
• Valla is the first Diablo Ranged Assassin hero in the game.

Gallery

General

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  Valla's artwork

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  Azure Ordermaster

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  Valla and her team fight for an objective.

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  Valla and E.T.C. taking a mercenary camp.

Concept art

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  Valla (old model)

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  Vampire Slayer Valla (old model)

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  Angelic Valla (old model)

Abilities

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  Q: Hungering Arrow

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  W: Multishot

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  E: Vault

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  R1: Rain of Vengeance

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  R2: Strafe

External links

• Valla - Heroes of the Storm
• Valla - Diablo Wiki
• Valla Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Valla Sound Files - Sounds of the Storm