Illidan Stormrage (Battlegrounds)

Illidan Stormrage is a hero that the player can pick in the Battlegrounds game mode.

For more information, see Battlegrounds.

Strategy
Illidan's Hero Power gives him an early start on attack order for two minions. His Hero Power works best in compositions that highly benefit from attacking first, such as Cave Hydra, Zapp Slywick, Crackling Cyclone, and Glyph Guardian benefit the most. Alternatively, Illidan's Hero Power makes Deathrattle minions much more likely to die as soon as possible. It helps ensure a Goldrinn, the Great Wolf or Nadina the Red activate their Deathrattle before the opponent can potentially kill your other minions before their Deathrattles go off. This also means Monstrous Macaw is extremely effective with Illidan, guaranteeing it gets an attack in and activate your other Deathrattles. Even without those minions, it acts as a pseudo-Windfury for the left-most minion, so having a highly buffed minion be able to attack twice relatively soon can be useful. Any minions which already has Windfury or Mega-Windfury will trigger these effects. Attacking first might be beneficial in getting Overkill bonuses, but it might be nullified by Divine Shield on enemy minions.

While Illidan's Hero Power gives him a tactical advantage, it doesn't give him any statistical advantage, so his Hero Power doesn't become actually useful until you have the right minions to take advantage of it. Illidan highly favors Pirates, Deathrattle Beast builds, and occasionally Elementals, and without them he becomes significantly weaker with no strong minions to take advantage of his Hero Power with.

Patch changes

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