Hero Classes

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Heroes can be put in several classes depending on what they do on the battlefield.

You will find here descriptions of the several classes and links to Heroes that belongs to them. *Heroes here are determined by classes trough their state in Darky's version 0.41.*

## Tanks :

Heroes that are oriented for survivability. Their role are to be targeted by Bosses instead of other Heroes classes and to carry as many tanky items as possible in order to resist incoming damage. Some Tanks may also have Abilities that places them in other classes like Bursters for instance.

Tank Heroes are :

Goliath - Infernal - Buzan - Defender - Grom Hellscream - Pandaren Battlemaster - Kael - Wendigo - Minos - Mountain King - Blood Grunt - Dragon Clan - Pit Lord (Darky's version only)

## Fighters

Heroes that are designated to deal a lot of damage to the enemy. Since they will be mostly equipped with damage items, they are in general not very tanky and rely on their survivability skills or mates to endure boss fights. There is some exeptions with some Heroes that can be considered as Off-Tanks when their defense is pretty strong.

Warrior Heroes are :

Admiral - Demon Hunter - Berserker - Shadow Hunter - Blademaster - Arthas - Unholy Knight - Archer - Centaur Impaler - Medusa - Marine - Dark Ranger - Sniper (Hero)(Darky's version only) - Archimonde (Darky's version only) - Dante - Assassin - Maiev - Thief

## Offensive Casters

Heroes that uses Spells to deal damage, they are mainly equipped with mana / spellpower items to support their heavy use of mana.

Offensive Casters are:

Oceanus (Darky's version only) - Far Seer - Phoenix (Darky's version only) - Jaina - Medivh - Firelord - Wraith - Arcane Wizard - Dark Mage (In the Darky's version rework) - Selene

## Summoners

Heroes that can summon units. The Heroes themselves are quite weak but they take advantage of their powerful units to win the fights. Those kind of heroes are not recommended for beginners since they require a good managment to be efficiently exploited.

Beastmaster - Dark Wizard - Necromancer - Necromancer (Rise and Summon) (Little Child form) - Half Demon Wizard

## Support

Heroes that are playing to streghten other Heroes or facilitate the game for their mates. They usually follow the more important heroes around and either buff them or debuff/disable bosses that they are going to kill.

Support Heroes are :

Mur'gul Shadowcaster - Tief - Jaina - Priest - Keeper of the Sky - BlackSmith(Hero) - Worker

## Unclassifiable

Little Child : Since this hero has multiple forms, each one having a specific role, Little Child itself cannot be classified.

Party team : With party team you play several charaters of each class that's why the Hero itself is unclassifiable.

### Sub category : Bursters

Bursters are Heroes who deal a huge amount of damage in a short time and need some cooldown to Burst some damage again.

Wendigo - Pit Lord (Darky's version only) - Minos - Pandaren Battlemaster - Unholy Knight - Centaur Impaler - Shadow Hunter (in some ways since Darky's version rework) - Sniper (Hero) (Darky's version only) - Assassin - Oceanus (Darky's version only) - Jaina - Dark Mage (in Darky's version rework) - Medivh - Arcane Wizard - Far Seer - Phoenix -Blood Grunt

### Sub category : DPS

DPS are Heroes who deal a damage regularly, mainly with their auto attacks or with counter abilities.

Pit Lord (Darky's version only, counter) - Grom Hellscream (auto counter) - Necromancer (through summons) - Half Demon Wizard (through summons) - Beastmaster (through summons) - Worker (through Towers) - Admiral - Wraith - Phoenix - Archer - Medusa - Marine - Dark Ranger - Shadow Hunter - Sniper (Hero) (Darky's version only) - Archimonde (Darky's version only) - Thief - Ninja - Maiev - Dante - Assassin - Blademaster

### Sub category : Control

Control Heroes have Abilities to inflict Character Control status to an enemy, those can be stun, freeze, root...

Wendigo (freeze) - Keeper of the Sky - Arcane Wizard - Half Demon Wizard - Arthas - Medusa - Shadow Hunter (light stun since Darky's version rework) - Dante

## Sum-up table

> *Thanks to Bumblebeer that created this table. Heroes are determined by classes trough their state in Darky's version 0.41.*
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