Hero Wars Counters – Best Counter Hero To Each Hero (2023 Update)

by Tim updated May 12, 2023, 4:33 pm

There are heroes and hero setups in Hero Wars that are nasty to play against because they are either very strong or have strong synergy – but the cool thing in Hero Wars is that you can beat anything, so I wanted to write this guide as the counterpart of my team synergy guide where I have the strongest hero combos. In this guide, we talk about the counters to them so you have a good overview how to beat any setup in Hero Wars.

Countering In Hero Wars

There are several different ways to counter in Hero Wars, either you have a hard counter or a soft counter.

A hard counter is basically a hero that can shut down another hero or works really effective against a certain hero.

A soft counter is a hero that will take away the benefits of a hero or hero combo, like preventing them from building their synergies or targeting backline heroes.

I wanted to make a good overview so you can find your counters fast and reliable here in this guide, so you will see a counter for most heroes (I only took the strong ones that you need to be able to counter) and give you hard counters and soft counters depending how they are possible so you can get the option you need.

Also please check out my full hero tier list for all heroes in Hero Wars here and I also have a dedicated list for the best skin & glyph priority here.

Hero Counter List

So, here’s the list, alphabetically ordered by the hero you want to counter. Below you see the hero you want to counter and on the right side, you see the options you have to counter that hero.

Aidan

Aidan is sharing health with Kayla so use any setup that will allow you to burst damage. In reality, not too many players have build them to a degree that requires a counter to them at this point. See here Good Team Synergies

Alvanor

Amira

Andvari

Arachne

Use heroes like Andvari, Sebastian or Nebula who can remove the annoying stun and you’re almost done with her. Also Celeste can help by denying her healing. See Best Andvari Build and Best Sebastian Build and Best Nebula Build

Artemis

Is getting more into the meta with Fafnir and is not that easy to counter, at least if you’re looking for an easy hard counter and you need to run a setup like Jorgen, Faceless, Amira and Helios. See here Good Team Synergies

Astaroth

With Celeste you have a great (hard) counter against Asteroth as she can deny his resurrection ability and take away one of his primary strengths. Alternatively, you can use a setup like Morrigan, combined with a team that deals a lot of damage, to nullify his abilities. See Best Celeste Build and Best Morrigan Build

Astrid and Lucas

Astrid and Lucas don’t require any specific counter and shouldn’t be a problem if you run a balanced team. See here Good Team Synergies

Aurora

There are multiple setups that can deal with Aurora well. You can run Chabba that can take her out of the fight for some time and prevent her from giving her team the benefits (hard counter) or Isaac can use his silence effect on her. A really cool way is Corvus who can put the effect back at Aurora’s team or Rufus who is good at staying alive against non-physical attacks. See Best Chabba Build and Best Isaac Buid and Best Corvus Build and Best Rufus Build

Celeste

Celeste is hard countered by Cornelius who directly damages intelligence heroes with an insane amount of damage and can basically one-shot Celeste. See Best Cornelius Build

Chabba

Chabba doesn’t necessarily require a hard counter as he is a basic tank without any special abilities that should give you much of a headache. He can eat away your tank, in this case run a setup with another tank to make your frontline solid enough while focusing Chabba down.

Cleaver

Against Cleaver you have multiple options. Andvari protects his allies against Cleaver’s skill with his shielding or Dorian heals the whole team against Cleaver’s ability with his Vampiric Aura. Cleaver will basically heal more of the enemy team than dealing damage with Dorian in place. See Best Andvari Build and Best Dorian Build

Cornelius

Back to Cornelius… Krista normally has the highest intelligence, so Cornelius will target him with her ultimate and she can block that quite effectively. See Best Krista Build

Corvus

Dante

Countering Dante is usually done best by pushing your lowest health heroes in the back – ideally with patronage – and then he shouldn’t be the biggest problem anymore.

Daredevil

To counter Daredevil, you can run Helios and wait for Daredevil to crit so Helios will do his counter damage and get her down. Also Corvus altar is a great way to deal with her, but she isn’t the strongest hero in Hero Wars so not that complicated. See Best Helios Build and Best Corvus Build

Dark Star

Dark Star is not a crazy damage dealer or has good sustain, using heroes that inflict high damage on her will get her down easily.

Dorian

Countering Dorian with his aura has multiple options – as Celeste can not only block the healing from Dorian’s Vampiric Aura, she also converts it into magical damage that will really hurt the enemy team and counter Dorian effectively. Jorgen redirects damage to the backline so he can help the team to directly attack Dorian early in the battle and take him down faster. See Best Celeste Build and Best Jorgen Build

Elmir

Use heroes with high damage, like Keira with her area damage that also deals with Elmir’s clones. Also, using a tank like Ziri is a good option to deal with him. See Best Keira Build and Best Ziri Build

Faceless

There are two ways to counter Faceless. One big part is that Faceless always requires a good team around, so if you can counter his team setup you will counter Faceless as well. Alternatively, use Rufus as a tank, he has a huge shield against magic damage that can work against Faceless. See Best Rufus Build

Fafnir

Fafnir is a support hero in the backline that you need to stop, so hard counters are heroes like Yazmine or you need to also see what synergy hero he’s running with (like Artemis, see above). See Best Yasmine Build

Fox

She is not that threatening so just get her team down and she will god own as well.

Galahad

To counter Galahad (if he really is the issue you have with a team), use Jorgen as a hard counter as he can pretty much shut down Galahad’s ultimates. See Best Jorgen Build

Ginger

Ginger isn’t outstanding so your team normally shouldn’t have problems dealing with her, get the team down as you normally would

Heidi

Heidi shouldn’t actually give you a headache but if that’s the case use Satori to hard counter her effectively. See Best Satori Build

Helios

To counter Helios, a good option is Cleaver whoe can soft-counter Helios as he can directly attack backline heroes with his active skill. See Best Cleaver Build

Iris

You can counter Iris well with Rufus as he can only be killed with magic damage or Orion & Nebula as well as Dante SHRED setup. See Best Rufus Build

Isaac

Make Isaac take forever to load his skill by using single-target attackers. Avoid using area damage heroes.

Ishmael

To counter Ishmael, Celeste can block healing and turn it into magical damage against Ishmael while Helios soft counters whenever Ishmael crits will deal damage which accumulates fast. See Best Celeste Build and Best Helios Build

Jet

To counter Jet use Helios as he soft counters whenever Jet crits and deals damage wich accumulates quickly. See Best Helios Build

Jhu

To prevent Jhu from snowballing through your allies, use Martha with her high health pool and area healing. Best Martha Build

Jorgen

Satori will hard counter as he will add his mark and one-shot Jorgen at a point whenever Jorgen gains extra energy. See Best Satori Build

Judge

Hasn’t any special abilities so there’s no “required” hard counter hero. In general, heroes who deal a lot of damage to get her down as fast as possible or heroes with magic defense (Phobos best because ults often, Maya, Markus, Thea, Peppy, Cornelius).

Julius

Julius is pretty vulnerable without his shield active, so bursting him down is the best strategy against him.Use Jorgen + heroes that deal high damage, or Amira also works with her fatal damage blows (can be quite RNG; though). See Best Jorgen Build and Best Amira Build

Khar’h

Andvari protects your team by using his shield protection, which helps a lot or Satori will hard counter as he will add his mark and one-shot K’arkh at a point whenever he gains extra energy. Alternatively, Jorgen with his energy manipulation will drain a lot of energy from K’arkh. See Best Andvari Build and Best Satori Build and Best Jorgen Build

Kai

Kai relies heavily on magic damage so a hero like Rufus that’s immune can work really effectively against Kai. See Best Rufus Build

Kayla

You can counter her resurrection with Morrigan but in general Corvus/Morrigan with undead works really well against Aidan and Kayla. See Best Morrigan Build

Keira

Lian is a hard counter as she will directly charm Keira whenever she receives damage from her. See Best Lian Build

Twins (Krista & Lars)

Andvari can deny Lars’ active skill directly or Satori will hard counter as he will add his mark and one-shot the twins whenever they gain extra energy. Cleaver can soft counter twins as he can directly attack backline heroes with his active skill and Dorian can keep his team up with his Vampiric Aura. See Best Andvari Build and Best Satori Build

Lian

Avoid using area damage dealers like Keira, Orion etc and use single-target damage that will focus down other heroes of the team. Lian will lose almost all potential when not getting hit. Alternatively, heroes like Sebastian (Facebook) or Nebula can remove charms. See Best Sebastian Build and Best Nebula Build

Lilith

Qing Mao will strike with percentage damage to Lilith’s remaining HP and is able to come at Lilith’s high health pool. She also provides armor penetration so other damage dealers can strike harder. See Best Qing Mao Build

Luther

With Faceless you can return Luther to the frontline and easily let your team deal with him. See Best Faceless Build

Markus

With Celeste you can block healing and turn it into magical damage against Markus which is a real effective way to deal with him. See Best Celeste Build

Martha

Celeste can will block healing and turn it as magical damage against Martha. Cleaver can soft counter twins as he can directly attack backline heroes with his active skill or Luther is able to jump to the backline and directly attack Martha. See Best Celeste Build and Best Cleaver Build and Best Luther Build

Maya

Use damage, that works best. K’arkh for example with his burst damage works or any other area damage dealer that will also target her. See Best K’arkh Build

Mojo

Any form of crowd control like stuns or high damage will help, Mojo is not that strong so normally running a solid team will work and you don’t need a specific counter against him.

Morrigan

Mushy & Shroom

Burst damage will help against her quite well, like Amira or Yasmine will give Mushy & Shroom in trouble. See Best Amira Build and Best Yasmine Build

Nebula

Sebastian can block her ultimate or you can soft-counter her by countering the heroes she is buffing. Heavy mages do the job quite well, too. See Best Sebastian Build

Orion

Satori will hard counter as he will add his mark and one-shot Orion whenever Orion gain extra energy or Jorgen with his energy manipulation will drain a lot of energy from Orion. See Best Satori Build and Best Jorgen Build

Peppy

**Jhu** is a pretty effective counter, as she is the last-standing hero in most cases and he can use his skill against her. With **Jorgen** and some timing you can focus her down with the damage redirect. See Best Jhu Build and Best Jorgen Build

Phobos

Direct counters to Phobos is Corvus with his altar as this will make Phobos kill himself slowly. Alternatively, you can use high magic damage teams (Facebook version) or physical damage teams (Mobile version) as Phobos will not target them primarily with his targeting mechanics. See Best Corvus Build

Qing Mao

Counter her with high damage as she doesn’t has a lot of good defensive capabilities and can be focused down quite easily. Sometimes even area damage works. Using Chabba can also help eating away the tank and then focus her down. See Best Chabba Build

Rufus

To counter Rufus you can use Morrigan with her 4th skill resurrection or use any physical hero that doesn’t deal any pure damage as Rufus can only be killed by physical damage. See Best Morrigan Build

Satori

Cornelius directly damages intelligence heroes with an insane amount of damage and can basically one-shot Satori or Nebula & Celeste work effective as well against his kit. See Best Cornelius Build and Best Celeste Build

Sebastian

Phobos can take Sebastian down with one ultimate attack one-shot or Helios is good as he can tackle the combined critical hit damage synergy hero that Sebastian often relies on. See Best Phobos Build and Best Helios Build

Thea

Cleaver can soft counter her as he can directly attack backline heroes with his active skill. See Best Cleaver Build

Tristan

Satori has the ability to blow up any hero that gains a lot of bonus energy so he will deal with Tristan quite easily, but the easiest way to counter Tristan is using a setup with two tanks. See Best Sator Build

Xe’sha

Cornelius can favorably strike her with huge damage that will help to get her down. In general, heroes with higher magic defense help slow her down, like Cornelius, Markus, Maya, Peppy, Phobos and Thea will work (and Isaac on Mobile only). See Best Cornelius Build

Yasmine

Celeste can purity her allies and remove Yasmine’s poison so she is a hard counter or Helios hard counters as well whenever a crit happens, Yasmine will get damage dealt. See Best Celeste Build and Best Helios Build

Ziri

Use magic or pure damage to attack her (optimally with high magic penetration) like Lars, Kai or Peppy