Butcher can beat Illidan if he can manage to successfully heal with Brand and use his heroic , but Illidan can often avoid both of those . Post level 20 against Artanis it ' s pretty much a stalemate , but before that point Illidan wins since evasion means Artanis can ' t get his trait up . He has a harder time against Sonya since she has high ability damage as opposed to AA , so it really depends on the talents each hero takes to determine the winner . He will win against Thrall fairly easily due to evasion at higher levels , although maybe early game this dynamic is different . The only ones that I know he 99 % loses to is fury Varian and Lasermodan . He can beat Cho ' Gall sometimes depending on the talents but it ' s not clear cut .