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Virell is a team-oriented Strength support who excels in sustained engagements and area control during the mid to late game. His toolkit revolves around damage mitigation, healing auras, and disabling enemies, making him an ideal backbone for defensive lineups and teamfight-heavy strategies.

Though he lacks high mobility or hard initiation tools, Virell thrives when paired with durable frontline allies or aggressive initiators who can draw attention while he supports from the rear or side. His presence greatly increases his team's survivability through Stone Shroud’s powerful defensive buff, Quake Step’s disruptive stun, and the healing and vision control granted by Watchful Ward.

Virell's ultimate, Memory of Stone, offers game-changing comeback potential — allowing him to revive a key ally mid-fight, punishing teams that overcommit without securing kills. With Aghanim's Scepter, this effect becomes even more powerful, restoring allies at full strength and briefly turning the tide in your favor.

Virell is not a lane dominator or burst healer, but in coordinated play, he becomes a bulwark of endurance, ensuring his team stays alive and in control of the map.

Long before the struggle between Radiant and Dire scorched the land, deep in the frozen silence of the Wailing Mountains, there thrived a secluded circle of elemental mystics — practitioners of the Old Stone. Among them walked Virell, not as a warrior, but as a humble caretaker of the Groves of Silence, a place where nature's essence and elemental earth converged in harmony.

For centuries, Virell served as a quiet sentinel, guiding lost spirits, tending to memory-bound stones, and maintaining the warding rituals that held back the world’s creeping chaos. It was there he first encountered emissaries from the Order of the Earth Spirit, nomadic monks who shaped stone not just with brute force, but with balance, breath, and spirit. Among them was a younger Kaolin, whose presence briefly stirred Virell’s dormant strength.

But peace would not last.

As the endless conflict between Radiant and Dire encroached upon even the most sacred places, and the Groves themselves began to fracture under the strain of war, the ancestral spirits offered Virell a final choice: remain bound to the groves and fade with them… or take their essence into himself, becoming the last living Warden of the Grove.

He chose sacrifice.

Infused with the will of the land and the binding rites of stone, Virell's form shifted — skin hardened to bedrock, blood stilled to silent magma, and his once-kind eyes now shone with an eerie, emerald light. No longer merely a guardian of place, he became a guardian of people, carrying the wards of remembrance and protection into the battlefield.

Though he has not seen Kaolin since the groves fell, the techniques Virell now uses echo that old, shared discipline — not just of earth, but of control, clarity, and spiritual connection. Where Earth Spirit is an embodiment of force and precision, Virell is a manifestation of endurance and foresight.

And so he walks the war-torn world, not to end the conflict, but to shield those caught in its path — a stone that does not strike, but endures.