Supports in Heroes of the Storm are an interesting role. Many people see them as just heal bots, but they do many different things that can change who should be picked on a certain battleground.
When you take a look at Tomb of the Spider Queen you immediately think ganking, mobility, and sustain to deal with the constant laning. Wave clear is also important to deal with Webweavers. Tomb of the Spider Queen has been described by the developers as “a knife fight in the dark.” So which supports suit that play style best?
#1 Malfurion
Malfurion has three of the qualities I described above, ganking potential, wave clear, and sustain.
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He has early ganking potential with Entangling Roots, which lends itself to the small size of the battleground. It is best to have some set up crowd control ganking with him as the roots can be hard to land solo.
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Innervate can help heroes adept at stalling turn-ins use more of their abilities on even shorter cool downs.
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He also has some of the most efficient healing because of Regrowth. He can use this ability to rotate on the small
battleground and keep everyone sustained during the laning phase
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At level 10 his ganks become scary with Twilight Dream. Twilight Dream also becomes even more powerful on Tomb because of how the battleground tends to clump up heroes with narrow corridors and on turn ins.
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Moonfire with the Moonburn talent also lets him clear waves better than most supports which can definitely speed up Webweaver killing.
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With the Lunar Grace talent Malfurion can interrupt turn-ins from safety constantly.
You could default on this and say that Malfurion is just the best support right now, but I feel that on certain maps he is not. However, on Tomb, this is not the case.
#2 Rehgar
Rehgar has seen his fair share of ups and downs in recent metas, but Tomb of the Spider queen has always been one of his best battlegrounds.
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Thanks to the small size of Tomb, Rehgar isn't punished for moving at slower than mount speed. In fact, he becomes one the hardest supports to gank in the early game because of his ability to enter Ghost Wolf instantly.
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Lightning Shield makes him pretty effective at clearing waves for a support. Because of this and Feral Lunge single target damage, he can pull his weight with killing Webweavers.
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Earthbind Totem provides reliable gank set up because it is an instant cast AOE slow. Colossal Totem and Earthgrasp Totem make the ability even more devasting and reliable and takes advantage of the battlegrounds tight quarters
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Bloodlusted ganks from smoke can make short work of enemy laners. Tomb of the Spider Queen has a lot of smoke gank paths which lends itself to this style, especially in the boss pit and enemy Mercanary camp locations
Tomb of the Spider queen has always been one of Rehgar's best battlegrounds.
#3 Tyrande
Tyrande is not the first name that comes to mind when most think of top supports, but in the right hands she is devastating on Tomb of the Spider Queen.
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By picking Lunar Blaze at level 7, Tyrande can hug the battlegrounds walls while pushing with the Webweavers, staying safe and still in range for follow-up stuns.
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Sentinel is really nice utility for scouting turn ins and mercenary camps. She can scout both turn-ins and boss with one owl from the bottom lane.
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Tyrande usally has a hard time getting value out of the Seasoned Marksman talent but, on Tomb of the Spider Queen, the excessive minion waves and close lanes allows always be within distant of some minion deaths. This makes her full damage build more viable, allowing you to pick her in combination with one of the above supports for a truly lethal gank squad.
Tyrande is the best ganking support hands down. If you are looking to snowball early she is your best choice to make this happen. However, she does have very poor wave clear which is a downfall on this battleground.
Honorable mentions for supports on Tomb of the Spider Queen would have to be Uther and Brightwing. Uther has a targetted stun and an AOE stun with Divine Storm which makes him excellent at ganking. His wave clear is also solid with Wave of Light and Holy Fire.
Brightwing has solid mobility with Phase Shift and Blink heal which helps her navigate the close quarthers of Tomb. Her soothing mist gives her mana free sustain when the fight becomes stalled around a turn in objective as well. However, one of her biggest strengths is global mobility, so the small size of Tomb might become a liability.
These are my top picks for Support heroes on Tomb of the Spider queen. While drafting a Support specfically tailored around your team is always the most important, knowing which Heroes have a particular edge on certain battlegrounds can help you secure the win and have the biggest impact on the game as a support hero.
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