• You do not expend energy when Healing a full health target.

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• Lt. Morales can heal minions, but not monsters or mercenaries. This point is useful if you want to heal yourself with your trait and can't find a nearby Hero.

• The cast range of activating Healing Beam is shorter than the tether range! Once you start healing your patient, you can take a step back and you'll still be in range. Furthermore, when your patient leaves the healing radius, you have about half a second grace period to get back into range before the beam breaks.

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• Goes without saying that this is your bread and butter. Keep your team topped off and prioritize your teammates that are suffering damage.

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• You will not lose energy for healing a full health target, but you won't regenerate any energy either. This is a good way of keeping your passive online so you can heal yourself, or to abuse First Responder's[16] movement speed bonus for both of you.

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• Don't forget to stop healing when it is not necessary. Although energy as a resource is much more forgiving than mana, you will run out very quickly in a prolonged fight. Deactivate your healing so you can rejuvenate in time for when the important fight picks up again.

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• Healing Beam will be interrupted and go on a 2 second CD if you suffer CC that impairs your abilities (stuns, silences, sleeps, etc). The fact that it stops your healing is a big problem. However, suffering a cooldown on healing beam can be avoided by skillfully de-activating Healing Beam right before the CC connects. You should only ever think about this tip when facing mini-stuns of sorts, where a tiny 0.25s interruption can deactivate healing for 2s.

• When the enemy team is really putting on the pressure on someone, slap some extra armor on them. As Morales, you will develop a skill at eyeing when your opponents have decided to focus fire on someone. Provide armor as soon as you see it.

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• Make a mental note of ally heroes that have armor bonuses of their own. Armor in Heroes of the Storm does NOT stack. Instead, only the highest available armor will be applied. Negative armor simply subtracts from that maximum. Same principle works for slows and speed boosts, too. If someone is already receiving +20 Armor from other source, then you should only use Safeguard on them when their lives are endangered.

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• Lt. Morales is a high priority target. If you get jumped multiple times in a match, consider saving your safeguard for yourself. Keep a ready hand on Alt+W to self-cast the ability on yourself as soon as you smell danger. Getting the armor in before you suffer any CC is extremely important to your survival.

• Grenade's knockback has a stun component (known in the files as "Daze") that will interrupt any ability channels. When fighting some ETCs, Nazeebos, Kael'Thas, watch for when they channel their ultimates and shut the party down.

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• Despite the fact that is the most offensive ability Morales has access to, you should still think of it as a defensive tool that can peel allies. An ally getting jumped by 4 people is destined to die in spite of your healing, but the knockback can very well save his life.

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• This is the hardest ability for Morales to use, aside from Medivac, so you'll need practice. Bad grenades can end up pushing enemies in the wrong direction. A tip for landing grenades - wait for a reliable CC from a teammate, like a slow or stun. Follow up with an easy grenade, which is almost certainly a kill. If you're hot on someone's trail, a grenade coming from their behind will swoop past them and push them back for maximum gains.

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• Assassins underestimate how much damage Morales can dish out with her right clicks and grenade. Grenades are phenomenally good at executing low health stragglers.

• Morales is picked over other supports for her ultimates. Stim Drone is mind-boggling powerful on a Raynor, Illidan, Valla, or just about anyone who does right clicking primarily for their damage.

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• Identify when it's a fight to the death, or a dancing competition. When you administer Stim Drone, your opponents are smart enough to immediately back away and wait it out. You must be patient and wait for when either team has committed an engagement with no hope of pulling out of it. When someone is doomed, people feel obligated to help, even at the expense of your own lives. That's when the fight-to-the-death occurs, and now you may stim and they cannot escape.
  Alternatively, posture around an objective. Stimming is perfect! Either they concede the objective because a stimmed assassin is too dangerous to deal with, or they fight to contest, forced into challenging a stimmed assassin.

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• You ought to support and keep your stimmed ally alive. People recognize the threat a stimmed assassin can pose, and will adjust their target accordingly.

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• Always try to get stim-drone on the teammate that can use it best. In the event that he is either dead/missing/too far to give to, it is acceptable to give it to someone else immediately who also benefits from right clicking. Finally, if you're about to die for certain, GIVE THE STIM TO ANYONE! If you so happen to panic and give it to the tank, so be it. Better to die using it than to hold on to it - 70 second cooldown is extremely short.

• Incredibly good and fun ultimate when coordinated. Few teams can match the execution speed of a plan helped along by a Dropship. Such tactics could include destroying a fort and mobilizing to another lane, taking a merc camp before arriving at objective, or daisy chaining a won fight/merc/objective into a boss. The possibilities are endless and unique.

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• As Lt. Morales, you must get comfortable opening up the chat and type out/speak out loud what your plans are with a 5/10 second advanced warning. Randoms often... simply forget about the Dropship, which is pretty saddening.

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• In an emergency, casting Dropship will act as a Stasis for Lt. Morales. She'll disjoint things like Pyroblast, Last Rites, and cure off poisons. Furthermore, you should not overlook hoping into a Dropship as a last ditch effort to get out of a nasty situation. This usually doesn't work if you summon the Dropship right next to an enemy damage dealer, but a 50% survival chance is better than 0%.

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• Don't forget about your Reinforcements! It represents half the usefulness of Medivac. You can bring your teammates out to a useful location as soon as they revive at home. Furthermore, there is no cast range limit to reinforcements, unlike regular Dropship. You can literally drop reinforcements right in the enemies core!

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• Do note that there is a minimum casting range of 11 for Medivac. If you try to summon it too close, you will fail.

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• If Reinforcements are called, but then Morales dies, the ship will immediately depart.

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Level 1 for Lt. Morales is all about energy management and how you can earn energy rebates. Plus, there are some other benefits tacked on that incentivize a certain playstyle.

Viable Caduceus Feedback ● Productive Playstyle ● Situationally Powerful ● Opponent Dependent

IncreaseAttack Range by 1.1, andBasic Attacks against Heroes generate 4 Energy.

Mathematically the best Level 1 talent for more energy. Lt. Morales will deplete her entire energy bar after 16 seconds of healing. With this talent, in a best case scenario, you bump that number up to 50 seconds! I also love this talent because it incentivizes using your auto-attacks, which is a very important resource in Lt. Morales's arsenal. You're the 4th hardest hitting Healer in the game, with reasonable range to boot. Use it!
However, you have to be careful about who it is you siphon from. Attacking a Stitches or Misha is mostly harmless, but attacking a Kerrigan will lead to instant death. Don't sacrifice your life for a few points of energy, analyze the situation at hand beforehand.

Recommended Life Support ● Flexible ● Performance Booster

During the first 2 seconds of Energy regeneration Healing Beam regenerates 100% more Energy. Passive: Increase your maximum Energy by 10.

If Caduceus Feedback[1] isn't a safe option, such as fighting a team with lots of assassins that'll murder you on sight, then you need passive help. An increase on your energy cap is nice, and this talent helps when fighting on/off sustain wars. With this talent, you can heal without spending any energy by healing for 4 seconds and then stopping for 4 seconds. This is very efficient in regenerating energy when there's a lull in a fight. Recommended when freshly new to Morales.

Sub-Optimal Clear! ● Quest Requirement ● One Trick Pony ● Opportunity Cost

❢ Quest: Each Hero hit with Displacement Grenade restores 3 Energy. ❢ Reward: After hitting 15 Heroes, reduce thecooldown of Displacement Grenade from 12 seconds to 9 seconds. ❢ Reward: After hitting 30 Heroes, increase the detonation area of Displacement Grenade by 25%.

Clear is an essential component to the Grenadiering strategy. Fire off grenades as much as possible in the early/mid game so you can stack progress. The grenade build is recommended against melee or ranged only teams. They tend to clump together and you have more control over them when you can grenade them around. The added CC can help secure kills and disrupt enemy gameplans.
Technically, the talent gives you energy per hero hit. This is nowhere near the amount you gain compared to your other level 1 talents, so your healing potential will suffer drastically. Hence, I'm not a fan of neutering Lt. Morales' healbot identity.

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Lt. Morales desperately needs more self-protection. Level 4 is your first opportunity as it provides you a few defensive options - a quick bandage, stronger sustained healing, or a higher than average health bar with shields?

Recommended Cellular Reactor ● Performance Booster ● Synergistic ● Value Talent

Cooldown: 20 seconds Active: Consume 30 Energy toheal Lt. Morales for 30% of herMaximum Health over 3 seconds. Caduceus Reactor is disabled while this is active. Passive: Generate 2 Energy each time Safeguard reduces damage, up to a maximum of 10 Energy per use.

A versatile talent that gives Lt. Morales everything that she wants. Cellular Reactor[4] should be your default pick, unless additional durability is needed. Out of combat, the short cooldown of the active and highly efficient 1:1 Energy to %HP healing is super handy. And your energy keeps regenerating because it doesn't count as healing a teammate, according to your Q's rules. You can even patch yourself up while mounted! It's great at keeping yourself healthy. In the middle of a battle though, you have to think twice about using the active. The healing is very energy intensive and you will run dry sooner than you'd like to.

That boost in energy from Safeguard is absolutely not to be slept on. Literally any and all instances of damage, even something as minute as minion damage, will swiftly charge you the 10 max energy. It need not be stated why having more energy is a good thing, especially when you will cast your W several times in a fight.

For these reasons, Cellular Reactor[4] is optimal in a safe game where enemies are unlikely to attack you. However, as much as I praise the stronger stats, it's very important to remember that you cannot heal anyone when you are dead. When you need additional durability, consider the next talent Trauma Trigger[4].

Viable Trauma Trigger ● Very Effective ● Opponent Dependent

Gain 40Armor for 3 seconds if damage is taken while below 40%Health. This effect has a 30 second cooldown. Passive: Increase thehealing provided by Caduceus Reactor from 2% to 4% of Lt. Morales'smaximum Health per second.

Lt. Morales is priority #1 for enemy team because she can keep anyone else alive indefinitely. On the flipside, her self protection is not as strong. Therefore, expect smart opponents to ALWAYS jump you. In such a scenario, you'll reap some tremendous benefits.
Doubling your trait's healing means you have twice the amount of health you'd otherwise have when involved in a chaotic fight. And this comes at no cost to you - it just happens automatically. Over the course of a whole fight, this will give you more self healing than Cellular Reactor[4], if at a lengthier pace. Also, that energy that would've been spent on Cellular Reactor is still being spent on healing the team.

Secondly, you get automatic armor when brought to 40% health. This is especially valuable when you get stun locked and couldn't give yourself the armor in time. It can save you. It's even better when you add layers of protection - give yourself Safeguard at the start of combat, you're healing yourself for 4% every second, and then your automatic armor triggers, hopefully, after Safeguard ends. You are deceptively challenging to kill. I like to call Lt. Morales a backline tank for this reason.

All in all, Trauma Trigger[4] is an incredible pickup for bolstering your own protection, especially when the enemy team have lots of hungry assassins. The armor matters a lot when the attack comes fast and hard before you can react to CC. However, all of this is solely defensive to you. You may find your capabilities as a healer to your team diminished without Cellular Reactor[4]'s efficiency.

Situational Blast Shield ● Unlocks New Capabilities ● Opportunity Cost ● Niche

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade areSlowed by 50% for 1 second after being knocked away and grant Lt. Morales a Shield equal to 6% of herMaximum Health. This Shield stacks up to 5 times.

When Trauma Trigger[4] and Cellular Reactor[4] isn't necessary and your team needs CC, then Blast Shield is quite interesting. 50% slow for 1 second is quite impressive when your team has the damage to back it up. Crippling someone after they get knocked into your assassins is a death sentence, especially if your team lacks good CC.
The shield portion is whatever. It's hard to get value out of it due to it being padded on top of your maximum health, so unless you got grenade talents for frequent grenadiering, don't think about it too much.
Great choice for grenade builds, but I would very rarely consider it on its own outside of it. Your alternative talent options are more important in terms of healing than an infrequent slow.

Uncompetitive Physical Therapy ● Opportunity Cost ● Niche

Safeguard removes allSlows from its target and itscooldown is reduced by 3 seconds.

Theoretically good talent. Challenging to get value out of most of the time. This is not an unstoppable - it is an instant cleanse and nothing more. I find it irritatingly annoying that when I cleanse a decent or powerful slow, they just get slowed again by something trivial!
Reducing Safeguards cooldown is very respectable, and highly synergistic with future talents. That's the only thing keeping it from rock bottom. But... this talent tier has some strong, strong competition. Even in its base case scenario I would still pick another talent.
Either way, I like picking this up only against Stukov , Garrosh , Arthas , Varian , and Nova . These Heroes are highly dependent on a strong slow to secure kills, or make up for their own lack of mobility by debilitating an enemy instead. By keeping your eyes sharp for their signature slowing effects, you'll negate their lethality.

Recommended Vanadium Plating ● Very Effective ● Performance Booster ● Opponent Dependent

While an ally affected by Safeguard isStunned orRooted, Safeguard grants an additional 20Armor. Passive: Increase the duration of Safeguard by 1 second.

By all that is holy, Vanadium Plating is a saint in Healing Theology textbooks. In MOBAs, all forms of CC are strong because people turn bloodthirsty upon seeing a defenseless target. They'll change their focus to punishing a stationary enemy. Upgrading the armor boost when someone is stunned, which is applied whether or not Lt. Morales is healing them, is the difference between them laughing off the tickles or dying brutally. Look at the enemy lineup and imagine all the roots and stuns they possess. Will it be present when trying to secure a kill? Yes? Vanadium Plating is your answer.

As for the mathematics, I will show you why it's so strong. At level 7, let's assume a dummy target with 2150 Health (people have even higher health in the late game). If they have 35% armor, then they only take 65% of damage. Ergo, for them to die, they must suffer more damage to die under the armor.
NO ARMOR: ( 2150 Raw Health / [1 Damage Rate - 0 Armor ] ) = 2150 Effective Health
SAFEGUARD: ( 2150 Raw Health / [1 Damage Rate - 0.35 Armor] ) = 3307 Effective Health!
VANADIUM: ( 2150 Raw Health / [1 Damage Rate - 0.55 Armor] ) = 4777 Effective Health!!
GARROSH ARMOR: ( 2150 Raw Health / [1 Damage Rate - 0.35 Safeguard + 0.40 Armor Up] ) = 8600 Effective Health

● Giving someone Safeguard is a +50% boost to their survivability, not counting the fact that the longer they live, the more healing they get from you. Plus, your healing bypasses their armor, but the enemy damage is reduced by it.
● Giving someone Vanadium Plating-grade Safeguard? It's a +120% difference. You are doubling their health! And don't forget the duration is passively increased by 1 second!
● Finally, Garrosh's trait is unique in that it is the only armor source in the entire game that stacks with other Armor. Plus he has lots of base health. Giving him armor is an excellent idea as his EHP soars to the heavens. Whether it's through him being low on health, or gaining a boost from Vanadium Plating, it's a very common sight seeing him running around with 75% armor, quadrupling his durability.
● Since every 1 point of health essentially means the enemy needs to chew through 1.5 health or 2.4 health equivalent when armored, your healing becomes that much stronger. If you're healing 300 health a second, you are padding on 450/660 more health every single second. It's unbelievably efficient!

Recommended Medi-Drone ● Unlocks New Capabilities ● Consistent Use ● Opportunity Cost

Allies with Safeguard receive 75% of thehealing done by Healing Beam on another ally.

Safeguard will provide healing to ANY target Hero with it so long as you're healing someone's healthbar. Yes, you can Safeguard yourself and heal yourself!!! Anytime you are being attacked, armor yourself up and heal simultaneously. Furthermore, this is an incredibly energy efficient way of sustaining two people at once.
It takes a bit of finesse in fights, but if you are able to you can switch healing to a secondary target, whilst safeguarding your main ally that's being focused. The armor is more important than 25% of the healing, and it's almost like a full heal anyhow. Meanwhile, you're healing a second patient at full speed.
A favorite trick of mine is to find a wounded minion, Safeguard myself, start healing it. It's like an instant fountain.
Against Lunara, other poison based heroes, and artillery, healing just one person at a time is not enough. Medi-drone solves your problem by splashing your healing to more heroes at no additional cost!
Just note that the Medi-drone will only heal IF you are healing missing health.

Recommended Stim Drone ● Very Effective ● Simple

Grant an allied Hero75% Attack Speed and25% Movement Speed for 10 seconds.

This is the ONLY ultimate people think of when associating Lt. Morales. People remember the absolute pain and devastation of an unchecked carry going to town with a stim preceding a loss.
Identify any assassins that primarily use their right clicks to deal damage on your team. You want to stim those guys. Then, consider allies that benefit from attacking more frequently. Artanis is a great example. His passive, Shield Overload, gives him frequent shields. Every attack will lower the shield's cooldown by 4 seconds. Not only does he hit hard with certain talents, but he will be more durable by refreshing his shield more often. Stimming Artanis is hence, a really good idea! I'm certain he'd appreciate extra movement speed, too. This is just one example! Be on the lookout, or just ask your mates in chat.

Stim is ALWAYS a good option to pick. Most teams have 1+ physical damage attackers, and 1+ mages to provide variety in damage type. Providing a gigantic boost to damage output is always appreciated. The only time Stim is not a viable choice is if the team does not have any right clickers. They don't deal their damage that way, and they don't want to auto attack in favor of doing something else. The solution is two-fold: either you pick Medivac, or you just don't pick Lt. Morales to begin with. Such a strange team composition implies an unorthodox strategy. You should consider picking another healer that may offer better CC, vision, or support that can better execute your gameplan. Lt. Morales strictly offers only healing. If your team cannot deal damage, then you're just delaying their deaths in vain.

Situational Medivac Dropships ● Map/Team/Opponent Dependent ● Teamplay ● Skill Expression ● Opportunity Cost ● May Backfire

Gain access to the Medivac and Reinforcement abilities. Choose a destination whilst summoning and entering a Medivac Dropship at your location. Allies can enter the Dropship as well. Alternatively, Reinforcements sets the destination of a Medivac Dropship to be at your location, and summons it back at your base's fountain. After 3 seconds have passed, you may re-activate the ability to launch the Medivac to your destination. Ship automatically launches after 10 seconds. If the ship is destroyed, all Heroes inside are ejected andStunned for 0.5 seconds. The Medivac and Reinforcements Medivac share all properties.

First off, click this text here to visit my dedicated Medivac chapter so we can talk more about tactics.

As for the philosophy of picking the talent... Nothing fuels me as much as a team willing to listen and trust your absolutely bonkers drunk driving abilities. Medivac is so, so much fun! But I must concede to the fact that it is not as necessary as Stim-drone. If you end up on a team without a right-clicking assassin (which isn't a good outcome of a draft for Morales), then Medivac is an automatic pick.

Lt. Morales struggles more than other healers when it comes to macro play due to the fact that she is useless on her own and must be paired with someone else at all times. Medivac alleviates it. If your team is fighting a scary macro oriented team, Medivac will alleviate that. Maps where macro play are important also tend to be quite big, getting you value out of a long range ferry. Shove a wave, take a merc camp, shuttle your mates over to objective on time. Assault a fort, then travel to the other side of the map and bring down the other one uncontested. Take a boss, push with it, Medivac away to another lane/home/merc camp when it falls.

If your team does not have much range and have trouble getting into the middle of a fight, you can technically use Medivac as an engagement tool. Load up the whole squad and dive into the heart of the enemy team. It's a terrible idea, you yourself will definitely die. It'll work. Somehow. Also, this is actually a good strategy vs Sgt. Hammer, and is especially effective with Safe Zone[20].

A Reinforcement Medivac is unironically a great source of healing and mana restoration for your entire team. Command your team to hearth back to base. Then, cast Reinforcements and begin a hearth of your own. Everyone will return to base and restore about 75% of their HP/Mana before they hop in the ship and return to exactly what they were doing 10 seconds ago. Be sure to keep an eye on the map or fountain and send it off as soon as they're in. Funnily enough, Morales too can benefit from this tactic because Hearthing to base takes 6 seconds, while the Medivac will wait 10 seconds max.

When you're dogpiling the objective, call Reinforcements 3 seconds before your mate respawns. Remind him of it at home. Get a fresh new body to keep the unrelenting pressure up! There are no limits to the possibilities and unique map strategies that encompass Medivac gameplay. Get creative!

Situational EMP Grenade ● Situationally Powerful ● Niche

Displacement Grenade deals an additional 96 damage over 2 seconds, and up to 400 bonus damage to Shields.

There are very, very rare games you'll be picking up EMP grenade. There are a bunch of talents that provide shielding for various heroes, but you can't count on enemies picking them, unless you intentionally wait on picking a talent. Instead, you pick it when fighting certain heroes (almost all of which are Starcraft related!).
Keep eyes out for Fenix, Artanis, Chen, Kerrigan, Imperius's Angelic Armaments, Tassadar's Archon + Plasma Shield, Mei, and Zarya, among others.
Still, even when fighting these heroes, you must also consider the entire enemy team composition. If your team is struggling to get through tanks, you will need Bedside Manner. If there is too much damage in the game, System Shock can halt more than one enemy.

Recommended System Shock ● Consistent Use ● Very Effective

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade deal -30% lessdamage for 3 seconds.

The final piece-de-resistance to a Lt. Morales kit. Reducing multiple enemies' damage by 30% is unbelievably good for a support. Your team will appreciate the number leverage. There is no match where you won't get benefit out of reducing ALL damage they can make by 30%. This also synergizes with Lt. Morales gameplan - you will grenade someone to interrupt them, apply armor, start healing. First, they deal 30% less damage. Then they deal another 35% less damage due to armor. Finally, you're healing for a big amount. Your healing is certainly outpacing anything they will throw out.

Situational Bedside Manner ● Opponent Dependent

Heroes hit by Displacement Grenade will take an additional 6% ofmaximum Health as damage from Lt. Morales's nextBasic Attack against them. Passive:Basic Attacks against Heroes deal an additional 1% ofmaximum Health as damage.

For when the meaty boys up front are too hard for your team to get through, or you'll straight up get a lot of value, Bedside Manner is pretty cool. This talent synergizes with Caduceus Feedback at level 1. You want to be constantly outputting auto attacks. You can apply a LOT of pressure to someone with it. Also, don't forget that you apply a mark with your grenade that must be consumed by an auto attack for a +6% HP damage bonus!

Viable Extended Care ● Consistent ● Performance Booster

Channeling Healing Beam on a Hero for at least 3 seconds causes them to behealed for 258 over 3 seconds when Healing Beam ends. Passive: Increase therange of Healing Beam by 30%.

Extended Care is an excellent choice in games where it is simply too dangerous to heal people. Either you suffer AoE effects, or the enemies jump you as soon as you get near a mate to heal them. The 30% increased range is the primary factor in why you pick it. It makes you significantly safer and extremely challenging for an enemy team to dive you.
The healing buff is also pretty nice. It's kind of hard to utilize in the middle of battle, but it is an excellent help at healing the whole team up from poke or poison damage. One thing to note - your healing buff will be applied even if you were healing a full health patient. You can make preparations for an incoming fight by applying the buff to your tank and then switching patients.

Situational First Responder ● Unlocks New Capabilities ● Teamplay ● Skill Expression ● Talent/Comp Dependent

While above 60 Energy, Healing Beam'shealing is increased by 20% and both Lt. Morales and her Healing Beam target gain 15%Movement Speed.

First Responder is a tough talent to work with, but it certainly soars when it works. The increased movement speed is incredibly attractive. Lt. Morales has 0 mobility, so the +15% speed is huge in keeping yourself alive, able to roam the battlefield, and dodging enemies or abilities. Also, it's easier to maintain a healing link, or using other people as a "speed boost" so you can reach who it is you need to heal. And I'm completely ignoring the fact that your patient also benefits from the speed! For Heroes that don't have built in speed or mobility, this can really power up their combat potential or get them out of a sticky situation. The healing boost is also pretty strong in terms of healing one target!

The real challenge of the talent is its demanding > 60 energy requirement. This basically forces your hand to pick up strong energy talents in the early game and to use them to their full potential. Sometimes, you may think about intentionally not healing someone so you can stay over the 60 range. It's in my opinion that a Morales should spend what energy she has so she can keep her team healthy. If you have to lose your level 16, so be it.
Therefore, First Responder is a great option if you need to really boost up one Hero, want a mix of safety for yourself, and that any team fights are short and sweet.

Recommended Shield Sequencer ● Unlocks new Capabilities ● Synergistic ● Very Effective

Safeguard gains a second charge and itsrange is increased by 60%.

If the enemy team has overwhelming single target damage, you're gonna need more protection. Doubling up on your safeguard gives you options. You can extend the duration on one man, or protect a second player if they change targets. Plus, just based on how "charge based" abilities work, in practicality you get a 3rd Safeguard on a reduced cooldown. It's pretty flipping sweet.

In addition, Safeguard is now a range 12 ability. That's the same as a fully graduated ranged Sgt. Hammer you can plop down! Just being in the fight means you can put a Safeguard onto anyone. It really helps in chaotic games where formations break constantly and it's not safe for you to reach out to your wounded mates. It's also vitally important in always having the ability to provide armor at a moments notice on someone that is in trouble, so that they get the armor at full health, rather than at half when they're bound to die.

Viable Hyperactivity ● Performance Booster ● Team Dependent ● Win-more

Reduce thecooldown of Stim Drone from 70 seconds to 35 seconds, and increase theMovement Speed bonus from 25% to 50%.

Remember kids, overdosing is not good for your health. You really don't need this talent - Stim-drone has a forgiving 70s cooldown. You'll have it available for every major fight. Sure, you can freely activate it in a small skirmish to win it, but I tend to find small skirmishes in a level 20+ game rare. Maybe you get a second Stim-drone off in a big battle. But the higher in ranks you go, the more focused an enemy team gets. They don't waste time, they use their abilities, get a kill, then break off the engagement so they can force a keep/core/boss/objective. And by that point, who cares if you get a 2nd Stim when it's going to be a 3v5 scenario?

I'm just not a fan. You hardly earn any combat boosting effects - it's all in the CDR value. I might consider it if I'm working with a Butcher or Illidan who would seriously appreciate +50% movespeed, but that's the only circumstance. If you are new to Lt. Morales, you may find Hospice Care[20] challenging to use. There's no shame in picking up Hyperactivity[20] to upgrade your most important ability.

Situational Safe Zone ● Unlocks New Capabilities ● Opportunity Cost ● Teamplay

After exiting the Medivac, allies areProtected from all damage for 3 seconds. Passive: Reduces thecooldown of Medivac Dropship Abilities by 15 seconds.

Come on, I'm a fanatic about my dropships. I would take this talent JUST for the cooldown reduction. A 30 second "transport my entire team elsewhere" is ridiculously bonkers. You can freely reinforce and have it ready again for the second person. You can jump in to take some keeps and jump back out.
Oh right, teamwide protection status. Hmm. Incredible. Obviously, this transforms your Medivac into the ultimate teamfight initiating tool. It is the PERFECT showstopper. Enemies doing boss? Taking your keep? Foolishly taking an objective? Fly in and put an end to their dreams.
However, be hesitant and thoughtful of enemy AoE ultimates. Damage protection does not give CC immunity. Jumping straight into a Zarya just to get Graviton Surged, or a Mosh Pit, will still kill you and your team. And then you'll subsequently lose.
Also! Cool note - passengers still benefit from protection even if the Medivac gets destroyed. This sometimes helps when you get caught out of position and try to make a run for it with the Medivac, only for it to get destroyed. You'll have three more seconds for your team to come to your rescue.

Hospice Care ● Unlocks New Capabilities ● Value Talent ● Surprise Factor ● Skill Expression

Safeguard grants its targetUnkillable for 1 second. If the target is under 50%maximum Health when theUnkillable effect ends, they arehealed for 8% of theirmaximum Health.

YESSSSSSSS Unkillable status effect HERE WE GO! You, Morales player, have been babysitting everyone on your team. You will save people by mere hairs. But you can't save 'em all. I present to you: the unkillable status effect. Sure, it takes good timing, but this thing is disgustingly good when it works. The more you practice, the better you'll get at it. It's also a HARD counter to executors like Pyroblast, Rocket Ride, Last Rites, etc. What's more, tacking on an extra +8% HP heal on top is quite baller for your Safeguard!
Remember to still treat your Safeguard as an armor increaser first and foremost (especially with Vanadium Plating). Hospice Care is your triage - the last card up your sleeve. If you rely too hard on the unkillable effect, you may only delay the inevitable when your patient has been brought to deaths door.

Second Opinion ● Alternative ● Talent/Map/Team/Opponent Dependent

Hitting 2 or more Heroes with Displacement Grenade reduces itscooldown to 2 seconds.

The crowning jewel of the grenade build. The last infinity stone. Unlimited grenades, status effects, knockback, and damage. This also changes how you aim your grenade. First, look to secure a kill by follow-up CC. Next, save your grenade for clusters when in team fights.
If you haven't picked up into any grenade talents (except lvl 13 obviously) then it's OK at best. Stick to Safe Zone or Hospice Care for the most part.