Valentina: Best build, Counters
Role: Mage · Lane: Mid Lane
Former head of House Paxley who'd stop at nothing to revive her lover.
Valentina – Best build
Items
Tough Boots
Glowing Wand
Brute Force Breastplate
Oracle
Queen's Wings
Winter Crown
Emblem
Common
Talents
Agility
Wilderness Blessing
Brave Smite
Battle spell
Flicker
Valentina – Pro build
Stormie · Selangor Red Giants
Holy Crystal
Divine Glaive
Blood Wings
Lightning Truncheon- Tough Boots
- Glowing Wand
Custom Mage Emblem- Wilderness Blessing
Impure Rage
Inspire- Flicker
Sanji · Team Liquid PH
- Winter Crown
- Holy Crystal
- Divine Glaive
- Lightning Truncheon
- Glowing Wand
- Tough Boots
- Custom Mage Emblem
- Inspire
- Impure Rage
- Wilderness Blessing
- Flicker
Hadji · Team Falcons PH
Wishing Lantern- Divine Glaive
- Blood Wings
- Lightning Truncheon
- Glowing Wand
Magic Shoes
- Basic Common Emblem
- Wilderness Blessing
- Agility
- Brave Smite
- Flicker
S A N Z · ONIC
- Winter Crown
- Queen's Wings
- Oracle
- Brute Force Breastplate
- Glowing Wand
- Tough Boots
- Basic Common Emblem
- Brave Smite
- Agility
- Wilderness Blessing
- Flicker
Valentina – Counters
Weak against (counters)
Heroes with gap closers or high burst like Hayabusa, Natalia, and Hanzo.
Saber51.2%
Odette49.6%
Phoveus48.1%
Minsitthar51.8%
Dyrroth49.3%
Strong against
Heroes that lack mobility or burst such as Hanabi and Faramis are suspectible to Valentina's low cooldown skills that provide soft CC and sustained damage.
Valentina – Skills
Primal Force
Valentina gains 8-50 extra EXP (scales with level) each time she deals damage to an enemy hero. Cooldown: 2s.
If the enemy hero's level is not higher than hers, 30% of the damage dealt is converted into her HP.
Shadow Strike
CD: 7 Mana Cost: 70
Valentina casts Shadow Strike in the target direction, dealing 475 (+145% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to enemies hit and slowing them by 40% for 1s.
Enemy heroes hit are marked with a Shadow Sigil for 4s. Marked enemies hit by Shadow Strike again are Terrified for 1s (a target can only be terrified once every 4s).
Arcane Shade
CD: 12 Mana Cost: 40
Valentina dashes in the target direction, firing 3 Shadow Bolts at nearby enemies that deal 90 (+30% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage each. She can cast this skill again within 6s (costs Mana).
Each time a Shadow Bolt hits an enemy, the cooldown of Shadow Strike is reduced by 1s.
I Am You
CD: 55
Valentina slows the target enemy hero by 70% for 0.5s and gains the ability to cast their Ultimate. Casting the enemy's Ultimate turns her into the enemy hero's form and inherits their Basic Attack type for up to 12s (her regular skills remain unchanged unless the enemy's Ultimate has a Morph effect).
The stolen Ultimate's level equals Valentina's own Ultimate level, and its cooldown is 120% of the target's (but no lower than 10s).
If the target is a Physical Damage hero, Valentina gains (+100% Total Magic Power) Physical Attack for the duration. This cannot be used on an enemy Valentina.
Combo
LANING COMBOS
Use 1st Skill to poke, then 2nd Skill to refresh its CD, and 1st Skill on the same enemy again to cause Terrify.
TEAMFIGHT COMBOS
Copy an Ultimate or use 2nd Skill for better positioning. Use 1st Skill and reset its cooldown with 2nd Skill, then Terrify the target and use her copied Ultimate to secure the kill.
