🧬 Who is Qhira?
Qhira is a ruthless bounty hunter from the realm of Iresia, a world where survival depends on strength and cunning. Armed with her signature chainblade, she has carved a bloody path through countless battlefields in pursuit of her quarry. In Heroes of the Storm, she represents the epitome of a sustained damage melee assassin who thrives on extended combat. Her unique mechanics revolve around marking enemies with Bleeding wounds and capitalizing on these debuffs to unleash devastating combos that grow stronger the longer fights continue.
Main Roles:
⚔️ Melee Assassin | 🩸 Sustain Fighter | 🎯 Duelist
🛠️ Abilities (Quick Look)
- Grappling Hook (Trait – D): Qhira can hook to terrain, enemies, or structures to swing and reposition
- Carnage (Q): Qhira spins her chainblade, dealing damage to nearby enemies and healing based on Bleeding stacks
- Blood Rage (W): Qhira’s next Basic Attack deals bonus damage and causes the target to Bleed
- Revolving Sweep (E): Qhira swings around her target, dealing damage and applying Bleeding to enemies hit
- Unrelenting Strikes (R1): Qhira becomes Unstoppable and strikes repeatedly, with the final hit dealing massive damage
- Final Strike (R2): After a delay, Qhira teleports to target enemy and deals damage based on their missing health
🎮 Gameplay Guide
Qhira is all about sustained aggression and battlefield control through her unique mobility mechanics. She excels at extended duels where her Bleeding effects can stack and her sustain can outpace enemy damage. Your goal is to identify isolated targets, engage with your mobility tools, and maintain pressure through constant damage application while using your chainblade mechanics to control positioning and escape when necessary.
✅ Early Game
- Focus on stacking Bleeding effects on enemies to maximize your Q healing
- Use your Grappling Hook to secure last hits on minions and harass safely
- Practice hooking to terrain for quick escapes after trades
✅ Teamfights
- Look for opportunities to E through multiple enemies to spread Bleeding
- Use Carnage when you have maximum Bleeding stacks for optimal damage and healing
- Save your trait for repositioning rather than initial engagement
✅ Objective Control
- Your mobility makes you excellent at contesting and escaping objective fights
- Use Revolving Sweep to zone enemies away from capture points
- Grappling Hook allows you to contest objectives from unexpected angles
🛡️ Builds & Gameplay Focus
⚔️ Blood for Blood (Sustain Duelist)
Level 1: The Hunted
Level 4:
Upstage
Level 7: Finishing Touch
Level 10:
Unrelenting Strikes
Level 13: Chainsaw
Level 16:
Swing Life Away
Level 20: No Sanctuary
Focus: Self-Sustain, Extended Duels, Bleeding Amplification
The Lowdown: This build transforms Qhira into an unstoppable dueling machine that grows stronger as fights progress. The foundation lies in maximizing Bleeding application and leveraging those stacks for both damage and sustain. The Hunted provides crucial early game survivability while marking high-value targets for bonus damage, making trades heavily favor Qhira. Upstage gives your Revolving Sweep incredible utility, allowing you to gap-close and stick to targets while building Bleeding stacks. Finishing Touch is the key talent that makes low-health enemies incredibly vulnerable – the bonus damage and healing from Carnage against wounded foes creates a snowball effect where successful trades lead to dominant positions. Unrelenting Strikes becomes your dueling ultimate, providing Unstoppable frames and massive damage that scales with enemy missing health. The build peaks with Swing Life Away at 16, which gives you unprecedented sustain by making Carnage heal based on enemy maximum health rather than just your Bleeding stacks. This creates scenarios where fighting multiple enemies actually heals you more than fighting one.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- The Hunted: Marks provide bonus damage and movement speed, perfect for sustained fights
- Upstage: E gains range and slow, making it impossible for enemies to escape
- Finishing Touch: Carnage deals massive damage and healing to wounded enemies
- Unrelenting Strikes: Unstoppable ultimate that scales with enemy missing health
- Chainsaw: W gains range and hits multiple targets, spreading Bleeding efficiently
- Swing Life Away: Carnage healing scales with enemy max health, not just Bleeding
- No Sanctuary: Unrelenting Strikes gains range and resets, enabling multi-kill potential
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Always try to have 3+ Bleeding stacks before using Carnage for maximum efficiency
- Use W → E → Q as your standard trading combo in extended fights
- Unrelenting Strikes makes you Unstoppable – use it to avoid CC during dives
- Save Grappling Hook for escapes unless you’re certain you can secure a kill
- Focus wounded enemies to trigger Finishing Touch’s massive healing boost
In short: You’re the relentless predator who grows stronger with every drop of blood spilled. The longer enemies fight you, the more inevitable their defeat becomes.
⚔️ Chains of Command (Teamfight Controller)
Level 1: Chainsaw
Level 4: Your Pain, My
Gain
Level 7: Siphoning Link
Level 10: Final
Strike
Level 13: Pulsing Pain
Level 16:
Chainsaw
Level 20: Mortal Wounds
Focus: AoE Damage, Teamfight Presence, Execution Potential
The Lowdown: This build reimagines Qhira as a teamfight-focused assassin who excels at controlling large engagements through AoE Bleeding application and strategic target elimination. Rather than focusing on sustained dueling, this version prioritizes spreading damage across multiple enemies and using Final Strike for precise executions. Chainsaw at level 1 starts your AoE scaling early, making your W hit multiple targets and spread Bleeding efficiently. Your Pain, My Gain provides crucial teamfight sustain by healing you whenever Bleeding enemies take damage from any source, turning your DoT effects into team-wide healing engines. Siphoning Link transforms your trait into an offensive tool, allowing you to hook enemies and deal percentage-based damage while reducing their healing. Final Strike becomes your primary ultimate for eliminating priority targets who try to escape with low health. The build culminates with level 16 Chainsaw upgrade and Mortal Wounds at 20, creating a version of Qhira that can apply Bleeding to entire teams while providing massive healing reduction for teamfight control.
The Core Loop & Synergy:
- Chainsaw (1): W hits multiple enemies, spreading Bleeding across teamfights
- Your Pain, My Gain: Healing whenever Bleeding enemies take damage creates sustain engine
- Siphoning Link: Trait becomes offensive tool with % damage and healing reduction
- Final Strike: Perfect execution ultimate for eliminating fleeing enemies
- Pulsing Pain: Bleeding enemies pulse damage to nearby allies, spreading chaos
- Chainsaw (16): Enhanced W with more targets and Bleeding duration
- Mortal Wounds: Bleeding applies healing reduction, shutting down enemy sustain
Key Tactics & Pro Tips:
- Focus on hitting multiple enemies with W to maximize Your Pain, My Gain healing
- Use Final Strike on enemies below 50% health for guaranteed executions
- Grappling Hook into groups of enemies to spread Bleeding with E
- Siphoning Link counters enemy healers and high-sustain targets
- Position aggressively in teamfights – your healing scales with enemy count
In short: You’re the chaos engine that turns teamfights into bleeding massacres. Every enemy caught in your web of chains feeds your strength while bleeding out their own.
📊 Final Thoughts
Qhira brings a unique flavor to the melee assassin role through her emphasis on sustained combat and battlefield mobility. She’s not about quick bursts or instant kills – she’s about relentless pressure that compounds over time. Her chainblade mechanics create engaging gameplay where positioning and timing matter as much as raw damage output. Whether you’re hunting down isolated targets as a duelist or controlling teamfights through AoE Bleeding, Qhira rewards players who can maintain aggression while managing their resources effectively.
The hunt never ends, and neither does the bleeding. ⚔️🔥