My Favorite Nova builds by Mr.Fartworthy

My Favorite Nova builds

By: Mr.Fartworthy
Last Updated: Aug 20, 2015
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Nova

Build: Perma-slow Build

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  No Threat
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E.T.C. Rock!!
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Li Li You have lower damage burst with your Q, but what matters is the slow and make her pay.
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Nova Depends on the enemy Nova's build, but with your slow, assassins like zeratul can quickly get to her. just wait for her to appear and then give your
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Arthas What's a tanky hero when he's getting bursted down by 5 heroes without much retaliation.
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Tyrande pretty dangerous if you catch her stun, anyway she does not have any escape abilities
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Brightwing Anyway his blink abilities take time and his squishy too
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Tassadar His Oracle Trait is a plague to stealth-based heroes
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Falstad his barrel roll won't be much of a problem since you can catch up to him quickly with W's slow
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Sylvanas Due to the 70% slow of your W for 4 seconds you can still can catch up to her even after her Haunting Wave.
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Valla Vault away? nah......anyway it's not her vault for trying XD hehe ok ._. i'll stop the jokes .-.
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Illidan Your Slow > mobility. He'll feel helpless when he tries to run away from your W as your allies pound on him.
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Tyrael Anyway your W's slow will make it easy to catch up to him, or chase you.
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  No Threat
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Raynor You won't get to burst him down as effectively when his Andrenaline Rush kicks in since you have lower damage burst with your Q.
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Kharazim With his Radiant Dash he can escape your combo and maybe even turn the tables for him.
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Anub'arak His burrow Charge is simply too long to catch up to him, if he did not used it in the last 10 seconds.
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Nazeebo Just stay away from his zombie wall and you'd be okizay
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The Butcher Now he'll think twice again before trying to attack you.
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Chen The bigger they are the harder they fall.....
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Zeratul Just save your W burst combo on him and he'll think twice again before attacking you
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Stitches Get hooked = GG just avoid his hook and your allies won't have to worry too much
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Jaina Since you have lower damage output she could get more aggressive with you, but just stay out of blizzard and you'll be fine
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Murky Mrrgglll Mrglylggly
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Kael'thas Not recommended engaging with him if you don't have Precision Strike since your Snipe won't deal much damage. but if you do make him cry. a kill is a kill.

Nova

Build: The Living Artillery

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Abathur His probably hiding just inside bushes or behind walls, Precision Strike the camper!
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  No Threat
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Uther Since your not using Triple Tap you don't need to worry about him casting Divine Shield
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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Zeratul Precision Strike > Void Prison
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Muradin Your burst damage will still make him laugh though, but a burst is a burst.
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Sonya A good Sonya player will attack the most dangerous but squishiest enemy in the middle of a clash, which means you.

Nova

Build: Vs. Androids

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Abathur
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Anub'arak
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Arthas
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Azmodan
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat

Nova

Build: Trova (Troll + Nova)

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Murky

Nova

Build: Nuclear Launch Detected

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Abathur His probably hiding just inside bushes or behind walls, Precision Strike the camper!
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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Valla You can outburst her, probably kill her before she can vault.
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Sylvanas Your bursts will always make her go back to a healing fountain
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  No Threat
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  No Threat
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Nova Just wait for her to appear and then burst her
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Johanna doesn't mean she's so tanky doesn't mean she can tank all those damage right?
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Muradin Same with Johanna
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  No Threat
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Zeratul Just kill him before he kills you
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Kharazim he can save his Radiant Dash just for you :3 aww how sweet of him ._.

Perma-slow Build Top

Pros:
- You don't have to worry about being stunned because your not using Triple Tap
- Incredible slow, the enemy literally crawls
- can land easier
- Synergizes well with heroes that have stun or slow
- also Synergizes well with heroes that DON'T a have stun or slow
- Synergizes well with heroes that have channeling abilites like or
- It's Easier to pull off ganks.

Cons:
- Lesser Damage burst potential with , since you don't have Ambush Snipe.
- Shifting to mount decreases the stack you had with your Covert Ops by 20% if it's at max
- Heavily relying on your W
- you need to wait for W to be at least 50% charge(20 secs) in order to be fully effective.

What you need to pull off this build:
- Cloak management
- basic knowledge about Covert Ops's behavior

Explanations Top

This build is hard to pull off since the slow on Covert Ops takes too long to reach it's maximum of +50% slow. It takes like 50 seconds(almost a minute) for it to reach 80% slow(30% from pinning shot + 50% maxing out after 50 seconds) and leaves you to choosing whether not to wait for it or wait for it for at least 20 seconds, which means lots of lost opportunities to kill a target and maybe the enemy is in the safety of his allies by the time the slow maxes to 50% but it's worth it. Mounting is also a difficult choice to choose if you already have maxed out your W's slow, since mounting decreases the stack by an approximate 20%. Entering the haunted mines also screws up your W stack. Remember it only decreases your stack 1 time so even if your uncloaked for more than a second it does not decrease your stacks more, Using W on an enemy will reduce your stack by certain percentage depending on how much stack you have and does not reduce it anymore unless you cast W again.
With this build you replace damage bonus for a longer and more potent slow. The slow also synergizes with heroes that rely on stuns or slows to land their abilities like Entangling Roots Psionic Storm . Precision Strike is best with this build since it will benefit with Pinning Shot's slow and makes it more than ever to land since they simply can't run away from it before it hits them.
Since this build focuses on your W Pinning Shot. The increased duration from Tazer Rounds, plus the 25% damage amplification from Crippling Shot is more than enough to burst down enemy assassins and squishy supports in less than 2 seconds. plus the 50% slow from Covert Ops makes it almost impossible to escape channeling aoe abilities, unless he/she blinks away but then your still gonna catch up because of the incredible 4 seconds 80% slow. Perma-slow build is also awesome for players who are not fully experienced with the build since the 80% slow will make any player disoriented since he's hero is not doing what he's expecting to happen, e.g. he can't chase a hero.

The way Covert Ops behaves is pretty weird cause sometimes it does not decrease your W stack by 20% sometimes it does, sometimes by 5% when at 50% stack. That's how i observed it anyway it's up to you if your curious enough to experiment more with it, i still don't fully understand it(i'm sorry). Remember Mobility is everything to any hero and a sudden reduce to their mobility will either make them disoriented, confused and maybe panic, it also makes any enemy not being able to run to their allies before they get healed.

A Sample Wambo Combo:
+ +

Just watch at your prey desperately trying to get out of as you walk away from them like a boss *puts shades on*

The Living Artillery Top

Pros:
- You don't have to worry about being stunned because your not using Triple Tap
- an approximate 2000(+500 with overdrive) aoe damage burst at lvl 20
with your:

- Synergizes well with heroes that have aoe stun or slow,
most notable abilities are:
Mosh Pit Howling Blast Summon Sindragosa Gravity Lapse Zombie Wall Lunar Flare Divine Storm Entomb
and many more
Cons:
- mana costly, a combo with it almost depletes your mana pool
- using it on 1 target may screw your damage output potential, but if it's a kill it's worth it.
- Combo must be done in at least 3 seconds to pull off successfully because of Overdrive and Ambush Snipe
- you may forget to activate ._.

Explanations Top

This build focuses on utilizing Overdrive instead of Crippling Shot. I know That Crippling Shot is better in many ways, but this is just another way to play Nova using Overdrive
This build realizes it's full potential Once you get . The reason why it's only 2 seconds is because of 1 second bonus duration when out of stealth, since activating breaks your .

Warning Math ahead:
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Sample Combo:

Overdrive + Pinning Shot + Ambush Snipe + Precision Strike

Vs. Androids Top

Pros:
- You can have fun collecting Regeneration Globes

Cons:
- Only effective when playing with bots

Explanation: Top

Anyway this is just a troll build, i use this on bots.

Trova Top

Pros:
- Trololololo
- GIT 360 QUIKSCOPED!!

Cons:
- trolololo
- Scrubscribe me on rwedchub :v

Explanations Top

Your own build when trolling or when you just wanna have fun XD, build depends on what you want to do. ._.

Nuclear Launch Detected Top

Pros:
- You don't have to worry about being stunned because your not using Triple Tap
- an approximate 3902 aoe damage burst at lvl 20 with your Precision Strike
- Use it anytime, anywhere
- Synergizes well with heroes that have aoe stun or slow,
most notable abilities are:
Mosh Pit Howling Blast Summon Sindragosa Gravity Lapse Zombie Wall Lunar Flare Divine Storm Entomb
and many more
Cons:
- using it on 1 target may screw your damage output potential, but if it's a kill it's worth it.
- Trading more damage for Bolt of the Storm

Explanations Top

This is my most Favorite Build, from the list of my favorite builds for nova since it has a high damage output. This build always keeps you ready for clashes because of Headshot.

Sample Wambo Combo:
Decoy + Pinning Shot + Ambush Snipe + Precision Strike

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