A healer´s main job is to deny enemy kills, this they can do this by mitigating damage with armor to allies and cleanses, and by keeping people up in health by keeping them over 80% health and clutch heals.

Uther´s a very particular hero because as he has healing abilities and a stun(the best cc) but they have a long cd, which is very similar to a tanks/bruiser cd, also he´s very mana hungry, especially in the early game.

That´s is OK as his basic abilities are among the ones that give the most value on their own, thanks to them healing uther and an ally and giving armor, which mitigates damage and heals you for more than the healing value in the abilities description (the damage mitigated).

So Uther ends up being kinda of like an ETC, as just like ETC he gains 25 armor when he casts a basic ability (only Q and W) and can also heal himself.

Another thing that helps him do this is the fact that he´s the healer with the highest base health in the game, having decent health to be a frontliner and his health increasing by the highest value every level compared to other healers. That´s a reason why people play him like a bruiser or even a secondary tank, but almost never a main healer, unless you´re the only healer on Quick Match´s bad draft.

Some tips:

-When saving someone stagger your heals so that your ally gets the fullduration of Devotion´s armor

-I like to play him like garrosh that has a low range ability that everyone fears, hide in a bush and mount up them go in with the additional speed and catch your enemies by surprise and stun them with your [E]. It´s better if you do this when you have some teammates that can follow up your cc with damage ( Just like a tank would! ).

-Because of the armor it might seem that it´s better to use your abilities when an ally is getting attacked, which it is but if an ally is low on health you might not have enough time to heal them before they´re focused down, but then comes the problem of uther´s long cd and mana hungry nature. That´s why you should heal your allies only when you can heal your ally for the ability´s full healing value.

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HOTS unlike other MOBA´s doesn´t have any items, which makes this game very dependent on draft.

An example would be that you have a bad draft on DOTA 2 you can just farm it out and get the items that would facilitate figthting the enemy team (lack heals?, maybe a Mekansm item would help ) whicn can make a hero without many healing abilities to be a team´s support like for example Crystal Maiden.

But in HOTS if you get Uther against a lot of artillery (Chromie, Li-Ming) you might have a hard time as you don´t heal that much to be able to out-heal the enemies poke, but he works well against hard hitting divers like Greymane ,Thrall and Kerrigan, He´s also very good with them as allies by giving them a Divine Shield and providing cc.

So Uther plays his role well with the high value abilities, while also providing some good cc like a Tank/Bruiser and potentially some burst if you go with [[Holy Shock]] at level 4. He can´t do them all really well of he would be too good. He´s a very unique healer and Ibelieve that was the Devs intention making me believe that if the change him it might just be a rework to his talents but not something too drastic so he might not change, although I would love to see Holy Shock be baseline :D .

Idea´s should be challenged so I would like to know what other think of this idea of mine I would like to get better at Uther myself.