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shield on an ally for 2 seconds, and all you
need is line of sight, allowing you to save
your allies wherever they are. The 7 second
cooldown ensures it’s almost always available they’re vulnerable.
when you need it, which can be further
pushed down through the use of cards and
Chronos. You can even upgrade the effect to
provide movement speed to the affected ally, his ultimate, or E if you like, Hyper Beam. For
further increasing the life-saving potential of
this ability.
But wait! There’s more! Torvald’s F Runic
Blast is a short range AoE (area of effect)
blast that silences and disarms all enemies
hit for 1.5 seconds. Let that sink in for a bit.
For 1.5 seconds, all you can do is walk. Sure,
the cooldown is 14 seconds but that still
means you can have an almost guaranteed
kill every time it’s up! Combine this with
some form of displacement, like Makoa’s
Dredge Anchor, and you have a very scary
combination. This especially hurts characters sacrifices somewhere, and that is mainly in
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like Evie that rely on skills and mobility for
their survivability, and small health pools are
easier to burst down in the 1.5 seconds that
Speaking of displacement, Torvald is the king
of knocking people around the second he has
2.35 seconds he channels the aptly named
Hyper Beam that knocks back enemies
and deals the same damage as his LMB.
The game changer: it has unlimited range.
Pushing people so far out of bounds they hit
the invisible wall at the end of the level is
now actually possible.The only drawback is
that your movement drops to the same slow
grind as Ruckus’ ultimate Hexa Fire, so you
need to have positioned yourself properly
before using it.
With all this utility Torvald has to make some
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