Steel Build Guide & Deck

Steel is a melee tank who uses his shield to protect his allies. Steel can use his shield defensively to block incoming damage or offensively as a means of crowd control.

When playing Steel, pick up cards that increase your Health, Basic and Ability Resistances.

Early game use your abilities to zone out enemies and keep them from gathering amber. Steel can take a ton of punishment with his Bulwark.

Bull Rush knocks enemies back in the direction you’re moving.

As soon as you have your Ultimate, Shield Slam, look to set up kills for your allies. So initiate with your Ultimate then Bull Rush enemies back into your team. Late game your ability to lock enemies down is crucial. When initiating a fight, target the enemy damage dealers and don’t forget, Force Shield deployed with Bulwark blocks enemy projectiles.

LORE OF STEEL

STEEL OVERVIEW

Steel’s Strengths

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Steel’s Weaknesses

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STEEL’S ABILITIES ANALYSIS

– Punch (Basic Attack)

Melee basic attack dealing Basic Damage.

Base damage is 58 and increases by 1 each Hero level up to 72 at level 15.
Attack speed increases with Hero level.
Ability Card scaling factor is 60%.

– Bulwark (Alternate Ability)

Steel deploys his shield, crouching behind it for a short period of time. The shield blocks all enemy projectiles and applies a 3 seconds of Slow to enemies that are touching it.

Re-triggering or attacking will cancel the ability early.

Cooldown remains constant 18 seconds at all ability levels.
Base cost is 80 Mana and increases by 10 each ability level up to 110 Mana at level 4.
Base Ability duration is 4 seconds and increases by 1 each ability level up to 7 seconds at level 4.
Slow effect remains constant 180 at all ability levels.

– Bull Rush (Primary Ability)

Steel charges forward 1600 units, dealing Ability Damage and knocking back any enemy heroes he hits. Enemy minions will be knocked up.

Base damage is 75 and increases by 45 each ability level up to 210 at level 4.
Cooldown remains constant 12 seconds at all ability levels.
Base cost is 65 Mana and increases by 5 each ability level up to 80 Mana at level 4.
Ability Card scaling factor is 80%.

Good initiation and escape ability keeping in mind the fact that ranged attacks distance is 1300 units. Very often is used right after the ultimate to prolong “knockedup” state of a targeted enemy and bring it closer to your team for focused fire.

– Ablative Armor (Secondary Ability)

[Passive]: Grants Steel four stacks of 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 Ability Armor up to 4 stacks. Taking Ability Damage removes one stack. Steel gains one stack every 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 seconds. This timer is reset whenever he takes new instances of Ability Damage.

– Shield Slam (Ultimate Ability)

Steel slams down at a targeted area, knocking up all enemies, dealing Ability Damage and also applying Stun for 2 seconds.

Base damage is 210 and increases by 110 each ability level up to 430 at level 3.
Stun effect remains constant 2 seconds at all ability levels.
Base cooldown is 90 seconds and decreases by 15 each ability level down to 60 seconds at level 3.
Base cost is 50 Mana and increases by 35 each ability level up to 120 Mana at level 3.
Ability Card scaling factor is 90%.

You can target an area not further than 900 units away from you which is pretty much close. For instance Basic Attack range is 1200 units. Radius of Shield Slam impact is 450 units.

An extremely impactful ability since it knockups all enemies in AOE making them helpless for 2 seconds. Which is a lot for a good initiation. A well landed Slam can disable an entire enemy team giving you and your teammates those precious seconds to focus down a carry or to pick off a dangerous initiator.

Alternatively Shield Slam is an awesome AOE interruption tool. In a team-fight be patient. Wait until you see enemies going all-in and charging all their abilities into your teammate. Disable them all at once with one Slam and see them melting down in a cross-fore of your allies.

STEEL’S DECK CONSIDERATIONS

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Core Cards for Steel

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Starter Hand

Healer Token

Scout’s Ward

Build Order

+ Quartzblade ←

Minor Cast

‒ Scout’s Ward

+ Lord’s Ward

+ Silverspear ←

Minor Cast

+ Windcarver Blade ←

Kinetic

+ Honor the Pure ←

Health

‒ Healer Token

+ Adamant Edge ←

Minor Cast

‒ Silverspear

+ Quartzblade ←

Cast

Health

‒ Adamant Edge

+ Silverspear ←

Cast

‒ Quartzblade

+ Elysian Diamond ←

Major Cast

Divine Health

Major Cast

+ Lord’s Ward ← Divine Health

Health

Lesser Health

Final hand

Silverspear ←

Cast

Honor the Pure ←

Health

Windcarver Blade ←

Kinetic

Lord’s Ward ←

Divine Health

Health

Lesser Health

Quartzblade ←

Cast

Health

Elysian Diamond ←

Major Cast

Divine Health

Major Cast