Yrel

Yrel
"Do your worst!"
Basic Info
Title	Light of Hope
Role	Bruiser
Difficulty	Medium
Franchise	Warcraft
Price	750 / 10,000
Release Date	June 12, 2018
Base Stats
Attack Type	Melee
Health	2678
Health Regen	5.418
Resource	500 Mana
Unit Radius	0.75
Attack Speed	0.77
Attack Range	1.5
Attack Damage	155
Data Page

Yrel, Light of Hope, is a melee Bruiser Hero from the Warcraft universe. After traveling to an Alternate Draenor, the forces of Azeroth saved the acolyte Yrel from the Iron Horde. With their aid, she rose to the rank of Exarch and fought back the demonic invasion of her world. Now, she finds herself where time, space, and dimensions converge: the Nexus.

Yrel is a deliberate melee Bruiser whose heavyweight abilities reward investment and careful timing.

Background

This section concerns content exclusive to the Warcraft universe.

Born on the alternate Draenor, the sanctuary of the exiled draenei, Yrel was dedicated to her faith. She grew up in the Temple of Karabor, the center of the Holy Light for her people, and served as an acolyte. Devoted to her beliefs and her studies, she showed promise as a healer. Prophet Velen noticed her talent. He invited her to train as his pupil and began to teach her the value of leadership and sacrifice. But Yrel carried a dark secret within her. Velen sensed it, and he foresaw that for good or ill, she had a larger role to play. Yet when she considered her prospects, Yrel preferred to stay inside the temple, quietly caring for those around her. Unfortunately, that ideal did not survive.

Her peaceful life was shattered when the savage orc clans forged themselves into a fighting force named the Iron Horde and set out to conquer Draenor. Yrel was captured and flung into a war. Enslaved by the Iron Horde, she eventually gained combat experience while fighting the orcish threat. After the demise of Velen and numerous betrayals from within draenei society, Yrel took upon herself the burden of leading her people. She became a member of the Council of Exarchs, and an important figure among both the draenei and the Alliance forces on Draenor.

Gameplay

Yrel is a sturdy Bruiser capable of withstanding pressure in the battlefield and peel for her allies with the power of the Light. She is unique as all her Basic Abilities can be charged up to 1.5 seconds, increasing their effectiveness. Her trait, Divine Purpose, allows to instantly use her Basic Abilities at maximum power without requiring to charge.

Overall, Yrel functions well in most team compositions, being able to be played as either a main Tank or a Bruiser.

Strength

• Tank
• Crowd Control
• Sustain

Weaknesses

• Heavy crowd control
• High Mobility enemies.

Abilities

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

D

Divine Purpose

Cooldown: 8 seconds

Activate to instantly charge Yrel's next Basic Ability at no Mana cost.
Passive: Yrel's Basic Abilities charge up over 1.5 seconds, increasing in effectiveness, but reducing Yrel's Movement Speed by 25%.

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Affects: Abilities

Targeting: No target

Cast time: Instant

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• Activating Divine Purpose does not dismount.
• Yrel channels Abilities indefinitely until they are cast or interrupted.
• If Yrel is interrupted while channeling a Basic Ability, it goes on full cooldown without firing off.

Q

Vindication

65 Mana Cooldown: 6 seconds

Unleash holy energy around Yrel, dealing 42 damage to nearby enemies and healing her for 96.
Charging up this Ability increases its damage up to 140, and healing up to 320.

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Type: Spell Damage / Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target - No Target

Properties: Area of Effect, Mobile channel (charge)

Cast time: 0 + Ch + 0.1875 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.0

W

Righteous Hammer

65 Mana Cooldown: 6 seconds

Swing Yrel's hammer, dealing 38 damage to enemies in front of her and knocking them away.
Charging up this Ability increases its knockback distance, and damage up to 125. Enemies hit at maximum charge are Stunned for 0.75 seconds.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies

Targeting: No target - Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Knockback, Mobile channel (charge), Stun

Cast time: 0 + Ch + 0.1875 seconds

Area of Effect: Radial

Radius: 4.0

Arc: 180 degrees ⁽¹

Knockback duration:
- Min: 0.125 seconds
- Max: 0.25 seconds

Knockback speed: 14

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• ¹⁾ Swing search is done in three 60 degree areas rotating clockwise over 0.1875 seconds. Enemies can only be hit by the Ability once regardless.

E

Avenging Wrath

65 Mana Cooldown: 6 seconds

Leap to a location, dealing 225 damage to enemies in an area and Slowing them by 50% for 1 second.
Charging up this Ability increases its range.

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Type: Spell Damage, Crowd control / Movement: Launch

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Enemies / Self

Targeting: No target - Point target

Properties: Area of Effect, Clamping, Mobile channel (charge), Slow, Self-castable

Cast time: 0 + Ch + 0.1875 seconds

Range:
- Min: 2.5
- Max: 8.0

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 2.5

Leap duration: 0.625 seconds

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• Being Rooted prevents initiating the charge and interrupts the Ability if it is charging, putting it on full cooldown.
• Leap has a set duration regardless of distance.

R

Ardent Defender

40 Mana Cooldown: 120 seconds

Surround Yrel in a barrier for 3 seconds, absorbing all damage taken and healing her for 50% of the damage received.

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Type: Status effect, Healing

Scaling: -

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Absorbing

Cast time: Instant

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• Healing is calculated from final damage taken, after all modifications.

R

Sacred Ground

40 Mana Cooldown: 40 seconds

Yrel sanctifies the ground around her, gaining 50 Armor until she leaves the area.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Area of Effect, Armor

Cast time: 0 + 0.1875 seconds

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 5.5

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• Cooldown starts when the Ability is cast.
• Does not stack with itself or other positive Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Talents

1

Light of Karabor

Increase Vindication's radius by 15%. Hitting an enemy Hero increases Vindication's healing by 45%. If more than one Hero is hit, the bonus is increased by 90%.

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Type: Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Ability

Bonus radius: 1.6

Dauntless

Casting a Basic Ability grants Yrel 35 Physical Armor for 2.5 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Physical Armor

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• Requires successfully casting a Basic Ability.
• Subsequent instances of Dauntless refresh the duration. Does not stack with itself.
• Does not stack with other Physical Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Maraad's Insight

After damaging an enemy hero with a Basic Ability, Yrel's next Basic Attack heals her for 135.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Self

Properties: Attack Modifier

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• Maraad's Insight does not stack nor generate charges.
• A Basic Attack at full Health does not consume the healing.

4

Aegis of Light

Upon landing, Avenging Wrath grants other nearby allied Heroes 25 Armor for 4 seconds.

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Type: Defensive damage modifier

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect, Armor

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 4.5

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

Gift of the Naaru

Divine Purpose heals the lowest Health nearby allied Hero other than Yrel for 275.

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Type: Healing

Scaling: 4.00%

Affects: Allied Heroes

Targeting: Automatic (lowest)

Radius: 8.0

Hand of Freedom

Cooldown: 30 seconds
Active: Grant an allied Hero 30% Movement Speed for 3 seconds and remove all Slows and Roots from them.

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Type: CC removal

Affects: Allied Heroes, Self

Targeting: Unit target

Cast time: Instant

Range: 10

7

Righteous Momentum

Gain 5% Movement Speed. Yrel is no longer Slowed while channeling Righteous Hammer, and instead this bonus is quadrupled.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

Holy Avenger

Hitting an enemy Hero with Avenging Wrath at maximum charge deals 25% more damage and reduces its cooldown to 1 second.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Ability

Divine Steed

Mounting is instant and grants 60% Movement Speed that decays over 3 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Properties: Movement Speed

10

Ardent Defender

Cooldown: 120 seconds
Surround Yrel in a barrier for 3 seconds, absorbing all damage taken and healing her for 50% of the damage received.

Sacred Ground

Cooldown: 40 seconds
Yrel sanctifies the ground around her, gaining 50 Armor until she leaves the area.

13

Aldor Peacekeeper

Enemy Heroes hit by Vindication at maximum charge deal 40% less damage for 3 seconds.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier

Affects: Enemy Heroes

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• Damage reduction stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers affecting the target Heroes' damage output.

Repentance

Increase Avenging Wrath's Slow by 25% and duration by 0.75 seconds.

Velen's Chosen

Hitting an enemy Hero with a Basic Ability at maximum charge grants 10% Spell Power for 10 seconds, up to 30%.

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Type: Offensive damage modifier, Healing dealt modifier

Affects: Self

Properties: Spell Power

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• Limited to 1 stack per cast.
• Subsequent instances of Velen's Chosen refresh the duration.
• Stacks additively with itself and other sources of Spell Power.
• Stacks additively with other offensive damage modifiers or healing dealt modifiers that can affect Yrel's damage or healing output respectively.

16

Templar's Verdict

Righteous Hammer reduces the Armor of enemy Heroes hit by 20 for 4 seconds and deals damage equal to 7% of their maximum Health.

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Type: Spell Damage, Defensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemy Heroes

Properties: Armor reduction, Percent damage

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• Bonus damage is dealt in a separate instance.
• Does not stack with other negative Armor effects. Other defensive damage modifiers may stack.

Divine Favor

Casting a Basic Ability reduces the cooldown of Divine Purpose by 2 seconds.

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• Requires successfully casting a Basic Ability.

Holy Wrath

After casting a Basic Ability, Yrel's next Basic Attack splashes for 30% increased damage around the target.

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Type: Physical Damage / Offensive damage modifier

Scaling: -

Affects: Enemies / Self

Properties: Attack Modifier, Splash

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 3.0

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• Increases Yrel's next Basic Attack's damage by the given amount, which then splashes to nearby enemies for 100% of the (increased) damage.
• Requires successfully casting a Basic Ability.
• Holy Wrath does not stack with itself.
• Damage bonus stacks with other offensive damage modifiers that can affect Yrel's Basic Attack damage.

20

Word of Glory

Increase the amount that Yrel heals from damage received from 50% to 75%. Ardent Defender heals nearby allied Heroes for 100% of the healing received by Yrel.

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Type: Heaing

Scaling: -

Affects: Allied Heroes

Properties: Area of Effect

Area of Effect: Circle

Radius: 12

Hallowed Ground

Casting Avenging Wrath while inside Sacred Ground moves Sacred Ground to Yrel's location upon landing.

Bubble Hearth

Cooldown: 80 seconds
Active: After 1 second, Yrel becomes Invulnerable and casts Hearthstone. Cannot be canceled.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Channeled cast (stationary), Invulnerable, Stationary channel

Cast time: 1.0 (ch) + 6.0 seconds

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• Interrupting the Ability during its windup puts it on a 10 second cooldown.

Seraphim

Cooldown: 10 seconds
Active: Activate to become Unstoppable for 2 seconds.

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Type: Status effect

Affects: Self

Targeting: No target

Properties: Unstoppable

Cast time: Instant

Skins

Yrel Skins
Light of Hope
Backstory: After traveling to an Alternate Draenor, the forces of Azeroth saved the acolyte Yrel from the Iron Horde. With their aid, she rose to the rank of Exarch and fought back the demonic invasion of her world. Now, she finds herself where time, space, and dimensions converge: the Nexus.
750 / 10,000 Light of Hope	Free Bloodmyst	Free Crystalforged	120 / 75 Silver Hand	120 / 75 Dreamknight
Mad Jester
Backstory: Not all villains have super powers. Some, like the Jester gang, spread chaos and mayhem using whatever weaponry they can steal. While you don't have to be mad to join their ranks, but if you do... you probably are.
350 / 400	350 / 400 Sparkle	350 / 400 Mad Harlequin

Yrel Event Skins
Mecha
Backstory: Neo-Stormwind scientists used technology recovered from Mecha Tyrael to build a new Exarch-class Mecha called Yrel, with unprecedented durability and a devastating photon hammer.
Notes: This skin theme is part of a shared theme of Kaijo world skins.
900 / 1,800	900 / 1,800 Prototype	900 / 1,800 Master	900 / 1,800 Lunar	900 / 1,800 Carbon

Portraits

Yrel Portraits
Carbot Yrel120 / 75	Mecha Pilot YrelReward	Mecha Yrel75 / 40	Yrel Emblem75 / 40	Yrel Hero	Yrel Mastery

Sprays

Yrel Sprays
Carbot Yrel120 / 75	Cute Mecha Yrel75 / 40	Late to Class YrelReward	Mecha Best FriendsReward	Mecha Pilot YrelReward	Shy Pilot Yrel180 / 112
Wireframe Mecha Yrel75 / 40

Emojis

Yrel Pack 1			Yrel Pack 2
Emoji	Name	Shortcut	Emoji	Name	Shortcut
	Yrel Happy	:yrelhappy:		Yrel Angry	:yrelangry:
	Yrel ROFL	:yrellol: :yrelrofl:		Yrel Cool	:yrelcool: :cool:
	Yrel Sad	:yrelsad: :sad:		Yrel Embarrassed	:yreloops: :yrelembarrassed:
	Yrel Silly	:yrelsilly: :silly:		Yrel in Love	:yrellove: :yrelinlove:
	Yrel Speechless	:yrelmeh: :yrelspeechless:		Yrel Surprised	:yrelwow: :yrelsurprised:

Quotes

Main article: Yrel/Quotes

Trivia

• Yrel made her debut in World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (November 2014).
• Screenshots of Yrel's abilities and talents were leaked on June 4, 2018.
• Yrel is voiced by Erin Fitzgerald.
• Yrel is the second paladin hero in the game, the first being Uther.
  • She is also the first paladin to be a Bruiser hero.
• Yrel is the first draenei to enter the Nexus, and the only draenei hero in the game.
• Yrel is the thirty-eighth Warcraft hero in the game.
• Yrel's hammer, the Hammer of the Naaru, originally belonged to her mentor, the late Maraad.
• One of Yrel's gag quotes references the "I see dead people" meme from the movie The Sixth Sense (August 1999).
• Yrel’s Level 20 Talent Bubble Hearth references a similar tactic often used by Paladin players in World of Warcraft. By activating their ability Divine Shield and hearthing, they could become invulnerable long enough to escape combat.

Gallery

General

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  Yrel's artwork

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  Homescreen

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  Spotlight information

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  Echoes of Alterac background

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  Yrel Concept Art

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  Yrel Concept Art

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  Yrel Concept Art

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  Mad Jester Skin Concept Art

Abilities

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  D: Divine Purpose

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  Q: Vindication

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  W: Righteous Hammer

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  E: Avenging Wrath

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  R1: Ardent Defender

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  R2: Sacred Ground

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  Basic Attack

External links

• Yrel - Heroes of the Storm
• Yrel - Wowpedia
• Yrel Balance Changelog - Heroes Patch Notes
• Yrel Guide on Icy Veins
• Yrel - Heroes Hearth