🧬 Who is Muradin?
Muradin Bronzebeard, legendary dwarven warrior and brother to the king of Ironforge, brings his indomitable spirit and mighty hammer to the Nexus. As one of the most reliable and versatile tanks in the game, Muradin excels at initiating fights, absorbing damage, and disrupting enemy formations. If you love jumping into the fray, stunning priority targets, and shrugging off damage like it’s nothing, the Mountain King awaits your command.
Main Roles:
🛡️ Main Tank | ⚡ Initiator | 💪 Bruiser Hybrid
🛠️ Abilities (Quick Look)
- Second Wind (Trait – D): Rapidly regenerate health when out of combat.
- Storm Bolt (Q): Throws a hammer that damages and stuns the first enemy hit.
- Thunder Clap (W): Slams the ground, damaging and slowing nearby enemies.
- Dwarf Toss (E): Leaps to a location, becoming Unstoppable during the jump.
- Avatar (R1): Transform into a giant, gaining max health and basic attack damage.
- Haymaker (R2): Punch an enemy, stunning and knocking them back.
🎮 Gameplay Guide
Muradin thrives on the frontline, initiating fights, peeling for allies, and disrupting enemy formations with his crowd control abilities.
✅ Early Game
- Use Storm Bolt to set up ganks or escape sticky situations.
- Thunder Clap helps with waveclear and harassing opponents.
- Don’t be afraid to trade damage thanks to your Second Wind trait.
✅ Teamfights
- Initiate with Dwarf Toss, followed by Thunder Clap and Storm Bolt.
- Use Avatar early in big fights to maximize sustain.
- Save Dwarf Toss for escape if enemy has multiple stuns.
- Position to body-block retreating enemies after your CC.
✅ Objective Control
- Contest vision points with your excellent survivability.
- Use Thunder Clap to disrupt enemy channels.
- Peel for teammates capturing objectives with Storm Bolt.
🛡️ Builds & Gameplay Focus
⚔️ Unstoppable Mountain King Tank Build
Level 1: Perfect Storm
Level 4:
Reverberation
Level 7: Iron-forged Momentum
Level
10: Avatar
Level 13: Heavy Impact
Level
16: Imposing Presence
Level 20: Unstoppable Force
Focus: Main Tank, Sustain, Disruption, Stun Chains
The Lowdown:
This build transforms Muradin into the quintessential
frontline tank — an immovable mountain that controls the battlefield through strategic
stuns, slows, and physical presence. You’re not here to top damage charts or make
flashy plays. Your purpose is more fundamental: you create space, absorb punishment, and
lock down threats so your team can operate safely. With Avatar as your heroic, you
become nearly unkillable during key objectives and teamfights.
The build focuses on maximizing your Storm Bolt impact and cooldown reduction, allowing you to chain-stun priority targets and constantly disrupt enemy positioning. By level 13, with Heavy Impact, even your Dwarf Toss becomes a formidable CC tool. The combination of Avatar’s health bonus and Imposing Presence makes you the bane of auto-attackers, while Unstoppable Force at 20 turns you into a virtually unstoppable juggernaut during Avatar.
Where other tanks might falter under focused fire, you endure, regenerate, and continue enforcing your dominion over the battlefield.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- Perfect Storm (1) increases Storm Bolt damage with each successful hit.
- Reverberation (4) increases Thunder Clap slow and duration.
- Iron-forged Momentum (7) reduces cooldowns with basic attacks.
- Avatar (10) dramatically increases health pool and survivability.
- Heavy Impact (13) adds stun to Dwarf Toss for CC chains.
- Imposing Presence (16) reduces auto-attack damage and speed.
- Unstoppable Force (20) grants Unstoppable during Avatar.
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Initiate with Dwarf Toss + Heavy Impact stun, then chain into Storm Bolt.
- Use Thunder Clap to apply slow after enemies use mobility skills.
- Time Avatar for maximum value when you’re about to take heavy damage.
- Position aggressively but intelligently — you’re durable but not immortal.
In short: You’re the mountain. You dictate where and when fights happen, you absorb punishment, and you create the opportunities for your team to shine.
⚔️ Haymaker Playmaker Build
Level 1: Block
Level 4: Crowd
Control
Level 7: Sledgehammer
Level 10:
Haymaker
Level 13: Bronzebeard Rage
Level 16:
Stoneform
Level 20: Grand Slam
Focus: Playmaking, Structure Damage, Displacement Value
The Lowdown:
This build transforms Muradin from a conventional tank
into a disruptive playmaker with game-changing displacement potential. Rather than being
the immovable object, you become an unstoppable force, using Haymaker to create chaos in
enemy formations and secure kills through positional punishment. Perfect for maps with
tight choke points, dangerous terrain, or when paired with pick-focused compositions,
this build rewards creative thinking and opportunistic play.
Sledgehammer at level 7 gives you surprising structure damage potential, allowing you to split-push more effectively than most tanks. Haymaker becomes your signature move — a mighty punch that can isolate priority targets, peel threats off your backline, or even secure kills by knocking enemies into your team or structures. Grand Slam at 20 transforms this already impactful ability into a team-wiping tool with reset potential.
While less durable than the Avatar build, you compensate with Block and Stoneform for critical survivability, plus the ability to completely change the geometry of fights in your favor.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- Block (1) reduces incoming basic attack damage.
- Crowd Control (4) increases Thunder Clap’s slow against heroes.
- Sledgehammer (7) increases Storm Bolt damage against structures and minions.
- Haymaker (10) provides massive displacement and isolation potential.
- Bronzebeard Rage (13) deals passive AoE damage and reveals stealthed heroes.
- Stoneform (16) activates to grant armor and healing.
- Grand Slam (20) reduces Haymaker cooldown and enables resets.
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Look for Haymaker angles that knock enemies into your team or away from objectives.
- Use Dwarf Toss aggressively to position for perfect Haymakers.
- Split-push with Sledgehammer when objectives aren’t active.
- Don’t underestimate your isolation potential — Haymaker into Storm Bolt is often a death sentence.
In short: You’re the playmaker. You create opportunities through disruption and displacement, turning fights in your team’s favor with well-timed Haymakers.
📊 Final Thoughts
Muradin’s versatility and durability make him one of the most reliable tanks in the Nexus. Whether you’re soaking damage as the indestructible Mountain King or making game-changing plays with Haymaker, Muradin rewards patience, positioning, and battlefield awareness.
Grab your hammer, leap into battle, and show them why dwarves are the toughest fighters in the realm! 🔨⛰️