Greymane, who let the worgens out?
by JR Cook - 8 years ago show comments
Greymane is a unique assassin in the fact that he has two different variations while he fights. Below we will discuss a build that I think makes great use of his amazing skillset.
Abilities
Human
Q – Gilnean Cocktail
This skill will throw an explosive flask towards enemies that shatters on the first enemies it hits, dealing extra damage to those behind the impact. The inital hit deals a base 69 damage while the explosion behind it will deal a base 209 damage. This is pretty good for wave clear and getting extra damage on those pesky squishy targets behind you.
This is a beautiful skill. One of the best in the game most likely. After popping this trait you get an additional 50% attack speed for as long as you continue attacking something. Anything, will do, literally anything. Creeps, walls, bosses, merc camps. We’re going to abuse this skill. A lot.
This is the skill that you will use to turn into your worgen form. This makes you leap at an enemy and shift into your worgen form right after. This leap also deals a base 88 damage. You’re going to be using this to start your finishing blows on people.
Worgen
When you’re in your worgen form, your Cocktail is replaced with Razor Swipe which attacks enemies in a somewhat decent line in front of you. It deals a base 349 damage and it on a pretty short cool down.
Did something go horribly wrong? Did you over commit? Did you win your team fight and you would like your range attack back. Pop this skill and Greymane will roll a short distance away and return to his human form. Great for getting that extra distance away from or in towards people.
Ultimates
This is pretty much the ultimate of choice for Greymane right now. I see this skill taken more than his other. Activating this skill on an enemy hero will cause Greymane to jump in and slash an enemy 3 times for a base total of 375 damage. The bonus to this is that if the target dies, you get a free extra activation of this ultimate. Make sure to pop it on someone quickly.
This is a very long range shot that slaps an enemy hero with vulnerable status, activating it again will cause Greymane to leap at them, shifting into worgen form getting you in close and personal with your prey.
Trait
Certain abilities will shift you between human and worgen form.
The Build
Level 1 Wolfheart
This is the crux of this build. Nothing is more important than this skill right here. While Inner Beast is active, every basic attack chops 1 second off your cool down for Inner Beast. Get 10 attacks in, you have a 6 second cool down. More often than not, you’re going to have a zero cool down extra Inner Beast waiting for you when things do slow down for you.
Level 4 Eyes in the Dark
This is more of a “things went south time to leave” skill more than anything else. The 4 seconds of stealth it gives you is absolutely wonderful for you to get back, reset your position, or continue to head home to safer areas.
Level 7 Quicksilver Bullets
Oh, hey, you’re now a worgen Raynor. The 20% extra human attack range this skill gives you puts you at the exact same range as Raynor. Couple this with all the extra attack speed you will be having via inner beast and this gives you poke damage for days and days. Wizened Duelist is good as well, but again, you’re an assassin that goes in close for finishers, if something goes south, you lose all those stacks, which is bad in low kill games.
Level 10 Go for the Throat
See Ultimates Section
Level 13 On The Prowl
The movement speed bonus that this provides you makes you incredibly quick and very hard to keep away. That low brew Chen keep running away from you? No worries, you now move faster than him thanks to this skill. Slap that stupid jug out of his hands.
Level 16 Executioner
Someone on your team hopefully has some kind of slow/root/stun. The extra amount of damage this skill gives you is absurd when you couple it with everything else. You might not even need to go worgen form to finish someone off. You go from poking them to firing gigantic cannonballs at them.
Note: In the rare case of your team having no disables, I take Concentrated Blast instead.
Level 20 Hunters Blunderbuss
Again, this whole build centers around maximizing the human form damage and going in for the kill with your worgen form when its needed. The splash damage this provides is wonderful and why hit just one thing when you can hit everything around it as well.
Strategy
You are a worgen. This does not mean you are some kind of god-killer-man-eater-of-orcs. You have an assassins health pool, not a warrior class health pool. Greymane has amazing attack speed and range with his builds. You want to work your way around battlefields poking enemy heroes in the early game and going in for worgen kills if they’re too slow to retreat or if they misplay and poke their head out when they’re at too low of health. With your wolfheart skill you want to be sure you’re maximizing your potential with it by getting at least 10-16 hits with it. If you are able to get more, that’s great, more attack speed at any time is a great thing. Once team fights start happening and you’re at least level 7, you want to absolutely make sure you’re on the edge of the fight poking away at their squishes and making them double think their commitment to the team fight, if they take too long, pounce in, murder and disengage out and resume your poking of enemy heroes. If you see an opportunity for a kill with your ultimate during a team fight take it, and take that extra Go for the Throat to get some extra damage on another enemy hero. But keep in mind, you are a hit and runner, if people get in your face, they’re going to put a lot of damage on you and that makes for a sad worgen.
