Until July 10th, Blizzard will test the next one Heroes of the Storm Patch on the Public Test Realm. The new hero Stukov will also be available to try out.

In addition to the new supporter, improvements will be made to the graphics, the user interface and the battlefield rotation for rated games will be updated.

Heroes of the Storm - New Support Champion Stukov

Alexei Stukov is known from Starcraft 1 and 2, where he first appeared as the commander of a fleet, but was later betrayed and abused for experiments.

property

• Immune reaction (D)
  • Activate to detonate all viruses spread by Stukov. Every healing pathogen heals the goal; each Viral Pustule deals damage and Slows the target by 70 % for 2 sec. Can be used when channeling the deep arm.

Basic skills

• Healing pathogen (Q)
  • Infects an allied hero with a healing pathogen that heals the target for 240 life over 4.5 seconds. Healing pathogens can jump to another allied hero every 0.75 seconds and infect them as well. The same healing pathogen can infect each allied hero only 1 time.
• Viral pustules (W)
  • Hurls a pustule that hits all enemy Heroes in their path, dealing damage and slowing them by 5 %. The slowdown increases to 50 % over 3 seconds. When the viral pustule expires or is removed, it causes additional damage.
• Depth arm (E)
  • Channel to inflict 144 damage per second on enemies in the target area and silence them while they are in the target area. Deals 50 % less damage to non-Heroic targets. No additional mana is consumed while channeling. Lasts until the ability is canceled or interrupted.

Heroic Skills

• Arm swing (R)
  • Swings arm 3 times over 1.75 seconds, dealing damage and knocking away enemies. Each swing is bigger than the previous one.
• Massive impact (R)
  • Makes the arm snap forward. If an enemy hero is hit, they are quickly pushed away until they collide with the terrain and take damage. Grants 50 armor while knocking away an enemy.

Battlefield rotation

The new selection of bad fields for rated games will look like this on the live server:

• Hanamura
• Dragon Gardens
• Burial chamber of the spider queen
• Cursed valley
• Hell shrines
• Garden of Fears
• Warhead Manufactory
• Ghost mines
• Towers of doom

The Heroes of the Storm Patch will be playable on the public test server until July 10th. The battlefield rotation is only activated when the update is uploaded to the live server. You can find the spotlight video for Stukov at the beginning of the article, a video about the skins and spray etc. that are in development can be found on the official Blizzard YouTube Channel find.