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FIVE DAYS LEFT in the season Edition

What's new?

>Call of Kel'thuzad Event
>Join the Scourge in undying servitude with a new hero, new skins, and a bone-chilling challenge
>September 5th - 25th.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/call-of-kelthuzad
https://youtu.be/-jInzG9Ukrk

>Kel'thuzad; The Lich Lord of The Plaguelands, Commander of The Dread Necropolis, Master of the Cold Dark, Founder of the Cult of The Damnuned, Former Member of the Council of Six, Creator of the Abominations, Betrayer of Humanity, Summoner of Archimonde, Archlich of Naxxramas, Majordomo to The Lich King, and Hearthstone enthusiast; Now on PTR!
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/kelthuzad/
https://youtu.be/Uv35ukl8c-w

>For New Players
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm
https://youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>Heroes of the Storm 2.0
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700/
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/
>Official Community Resources, Guides, and Tips
>Talent Calculators, Statistics, Youtubers, and more
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/
>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
http://www.heroescounters.com/map
http://www.robogrub.com/tierlist
http://www.tentonhammer.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-tier-list

>Current Weekly Sale
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21014686/
>Current Weekly Brawl
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21026745/
>Current Patch Notes
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20973152/
>Current PTR Patch Notes
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20976073/

>Where can I find fellow players to group up with and discuss the game?
"/join /vg/" in game chat

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this thread has been visited by the skeleton king. if u play tracer/lucio/diablo with d3 skin then u are a tranny faggot and should fuck off back to r.eddit
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what is it about overwatch that triggers so much autistic screeching in /hotsg/
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>>187946836
REMIMDER THAT THIS IS REAL

HANZO CONFIRMED 2017
ALEXSTRAZA CONFIRMED 2017
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>>187947606
>2017
they'd been 'planning' kt for like 2 years before release
no guarantee that those two are coming any time soon
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>>187947493
Every OW hero released so far has been cancer.
Attack-while-moving is the single worst mechanic introduced in any MOBA.

Also OWtards getting preferential treatment over real shit. Although now we have the two big WHENs in the game, getting OWshit is less painful.
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>>187947762
They started hard development in Janurary. They planned all the way back then that he'd be releasing around August.

Here we are. Theres also "2018 heroes" on that documebt, you'd be retarded to think they don't have this shit timelined far out.

I imagine every hero that is releasing this year is in at least a playable state in Blizzard internally in various stages.
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why is hots the smallest game but also the one full of faggotry everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2U1WBxSfZs
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>>187947643
>not buff
Why bother
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>>187949292
>so inbred they cant even lipsync right
Pro gaming was a mistake
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Is there any neat tweaks or tricks? I just found out about alt+clicking mana to report that so idk what else.
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>>187950076
you can set your shit like Z QWERD 123456 to use normal cast when u press them with combination with shift, useful to look up ranges when u play with quick cast on
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>>187950076
alt+click also works on abilities to announce if they're (not) on cooldown or if you lack the mana to cast them
use shift-clicks to queue up stuff for optimal movement, like moving away from a well after tapping or queueing up your mount while you channel an objective
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>>187950076
>choose talents with keybinds
>ping CDs
>ping obj time
>shift+rmb to make move commands (good for going to fountain or rotating)
>:emote: for emojis
>hold rmb and press A to stutter step instead of machine gun click spam
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>>187950340
just use quickast on release you fag
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>>187950510
>on release
>constantly mouse clicking
>OOPS WHY ARE MY ABILITIES NOT GOING OFF XD
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>>187950459
>hotsbabs are so bad at videogames they can't get the requisite 10 apm to right click on target and then right click on ground

seriously using A to stutterstep is so shitty if there's more than 1 target in range and you want to focus on a specific one, just gitgud and learn how a mouse works
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>>187950510
On release is even worse than QC. Even fucking pro level players whiff on release because it sucks so bad
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>>187950969
>tfw done this for years but my accuracy is shit so i keep misclicking and closing the gap
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>>187951079
>On release is even worse than QC
Do you realize the absurdity of this statement? fucking kill yourself

Quick cast > on release > normie waste of time key press and mouse click for each ability
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>>187950076
You can queue up the mounting with shift + z. Easy way to mount up as soon as possible after capping tower / taking a nuke without the risk of accidentally interrupting it.
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I used normal cast and am GM
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>>187950969
It works for most heroes where it's not as important to perfectly stutter step
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>>187951786
GM in hots
they get matched with plats sometimes
xD

Does the same happen in lol
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>>187951786
>tfw just nearly bungled the tutorial on new account because I've never played with normal cast
Just feels so
different

>r1 friend in wow clicks frames to target
>masters friend in legolegens clicks abilities to level up
I think people overestimate how much these things matter
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>>187952054
what?
>pick literally any range hero
>be in teamfight
>have invincible tank and squishy out of position nottank both in range
you better fucking be hitting that second guy, and you better be moving between attacks like a non-retard
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>tfw full Q build Zul'jin

Holy shit this actually feels so much better than You Want Axe
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How does unranked compare to HL? I feel like people 30% of the time are just drafting without any consideration for the comp and counters. In unranked I can kind of say whatever but if I would lose ranking points because people are too stupid for knowing the basic hero interactions I would probably just rage and get banned.
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>>187952070
I play on EU and only very rarely get non-masters in my game, but I see on american streams that it happens way more over there. The worst I get here is the occasional D1.

>>187952138
Yeah they overestimate massively. Is smartcast faster than normal cast? Absolutely. Is it sginificantly faster in that the extra time spent normal casting actually affects the outcome of whatever it is you're trying to do (getting a kill, escaping, etc.)? No.
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>>187952359
Unranked is where people go to try shit that's too stupid for HL but too dependent on a proper team comp for QM, and they all expect the other 4 people to draft specifically around them. Don't even touch it.
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>>187952359
Why play unranked to begin with? Unranked still uses a ranking to find matches, it's literally the same as HL except people don't try as hard. It's the worst of all worlds as you get the same epic memers as in QM but actually have to wait longer to get into games like HL.

Just play HL.
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>>187946836
Which hero should I get and which one of these is the most FUN
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>>187952552
Cho'Gall are two heroes at the price of one. But you'll need a partner to play.
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>>187952552
Cho'Gall > Zeratul > Medivh > MAYBE Malthael

Don't even bother buying the rest tbqhwyf
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>>187952359
some people treat unranked like qm where "i can pick whatever i want but then my teammates will actually draft supports and tanks for the team"

only real reason to play is if you have terminal videogames autism and get anxiety attacks at the idea of losing in ranked (for some reason this particular flavor of mental illness is very common)
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>>187952552
Lunaara, Garrosh, Malthael and Medivh are fun and good.
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>>187950510
Quickcast on release is only useful for a few characters/things. Kerrigan is one of them (on release impaling, quickcast her pull + leap).
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>>187952552
Malthael or Medivh
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>>187952661
Why play ranked when you don't intend to win.
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>>187952552
grosh or murky
chogall is fun if you have friends but we both know you dont
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>>187952773
why play at all if you dont intend to win
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>>187952552
Deerbutt.
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>>187952552
sopping
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I know this is a meme game, but are in ranked also premades allowed? This shit like in any other teambased game where randoms just get shit on by people that sit in voice chat
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>>187952801
qm and ud are for casual fun. hl is for try harding.
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>>187952860
Ranked is literally solo queue.

>team league
Yeah, parties of 2, 3 and 5. This mode is basically ranked normals, though, where it's often some Master player partied with Bronze-Gold friends.
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>>187952895
losing isnt fun until you run the biggest meme comp with 4 of your friends
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>>187952678
useful for all kinds of shit where you want to see abilities or ranges
e.g. moving just far enough north to nail a wave with a max-range azmo globe
playing liming and throwing purple at a tower from as far away as possible for max orb damage
aiming guldan corruption to hit a tower twice or a fort/boss 3 times
playing any hero with a long-range skillshot and interrupting tribute from as far away as possible
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>>187952661
Most people treat unranked as the place to go for [character that really needs to have a team built around them], they cant have teams built around them in QM, so they try to strong-arm it in unranked.

"I want to damage lili" "I want to tassadar" "I want to do thing that forces the rest of the team into a very specific comp with very defined roles and everyone has to play well, and if they dont I'm going to flame and throw a tantrum".

It's really fucking annoying.
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>>187953141
thats why you pull that shit in ranked instead
your teammates want to win so if you firstpick some garbage that needs team synergy they will try their hardest to draft synergy
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>>187953316
The moment I see Nova I pick Abathur and hat her for the entire game.
Good luck, have fun.
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>>187953316
>thats why you pull that shit in ranked instead
That's how I've gotten "GENJI IS MY BEST HERO" people who have 35% winrates on him (and he's only like level 6), who pick him when we need waveclear.

In ranked you should play the things you're best at, your team needs and you win the most on. Not try to force people into goofy comps and heroes that they might not even be good on (eg firstpick tassadar forces stupid shit).
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Anyone wanna duo and play some low effort team league just to get any rank for the reward shit?
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>>187953647
yes
but I wanna watch HGC right now
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>Greymane pickers
Total shit, report at instant

>Li-ming pickers
Noob who cannot position with or cannot land a very simple stun, report at instant

>Valla Strafe pickers
No need to explain at all, report at instant

>Nazeboo non-spider build
Report at instant

>Picking Lunara for ranged AA damage
Deals the lowest damage compared with all

Thanks for your effort to better ranked leagues.
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>>187953945
lunara is a great ranged autoattacker and deals shitloads of damage what are you smoking
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>>187953730
What's your bnet bb, I can add you and then good whenever.
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r8 m8s
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>>187953945
None of those are as bad as third worlders with broken English who whine about weirdly specific heroes on Czechoslovakian ice sculpting imageboards.
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>>187954164
Not bad.
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>>187954261
Delet this
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>>187954261
Your only purpose in life is to satisfy orc cocks
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>>187953945
Greymane is high in the meta. I dont like most li mings either, but she doesn't have a stun. Strafe is sometimes (not often) the right choice on valla. Spider build on nazeebo is shit.

Lunara is a spread-damage hypercarry. Sure her actual aa damage is really low, but the amount of damage she can cause to a team is insane.
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>>187953945
>This is what Plat league players actually believe.
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>playing zuljin
>listening to HM2 music

let the killing begin...
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>>187954070
zero/expectable mobility

>>187954919
Somehow yes, So do I, no strafe is bad, frog build is shit.

>Hypercarry
Even lolshits started to abandon that retarded nigger term
>Amount of damage is low but the amount of damage she can cause is insane
Nice-self contradict down there, she can't even surpass tassadar-ish heroes on damage.
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>>187954261
I know it'd be a lot of work, but I really wish they made it so announcers had hidden eastern eggs for announcing characters aside from when you're playing the same character as the announcer.

Just imagine Arthas mocking Uther for his failures or downplaying his successes.
Illidan sounding way too into it when casting for Tyrande or having a hard time keeping his cool when casting for Malfurion.
Garrosh talking about how Jaina is a weak little mage that he's going to dominate, etc.
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>tfw you go 5-5 on team league and get diamond 5.
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>>187956613
>Garrosh talking about how Jaina is a weak little mage that he's going to dominate, etc.
Is this the ERP thread?
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>>187956746
>first placement
>against plats
>afk on my team
>next game against golds
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>>187953945
Greymane is a great pick if you have a support who can enable him. If you have an Uther the enemy team needs Anub to disable one or both of them every time or else they lose.

Li-ming is pretty solid, not amazing but at the moment no mages are doing amazingly, also by stun are you comparing her to Kael'thas because those two get picked for very different reasons.

Valla's strafe is rarely good to take.

Nazeebo's spider build has been suffering in part because he really needs to get in there to land it.

No one picks Lunara for AA damage, they pick her for loads of spell damage. Unless they're an idiot, in which case you're completely correct.
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>>187956768
every thread on /vg/ is
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>>187956746
>>187956915
>HL placements going alright
>First round of bans is okay, we ban Gary, they ban Genji
>Our guy picks Zul'jin
>The other team drafts two mages (and later a third one)
>Hover anub and suggest banning Malfurion
>Zul'jin bans Anub
>Proceeds to feed all game while flaming the first pick Johanna

Why do people like this exist?
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anyone have that webm when one of our proud member gets placed in bronze thanks lads or lasses
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>>187956565
>Nice-self contradict down there
Can you read nigger? Her AA damage is low, the damage over time her poison spread causes is fucking absurd. Especially because it scales at better than the standard 4% (iirc it's 4.5%) and her level 13 ramps up poison damage by 50% whenever something is slowed.

Q someone, AA and then hit your w and at level 13 you'll have caused 144+ 92*3 + 61*3 (total 603) over 6 seconds to 4 heroes. Plus whatever additional damage you're doing to your focus target (144 per aa), and if your team has shit like arthas your poison damage ramps hard. That's without even needing to land your Q. You just walk into a fight, AA once and hit W (then Q and AA again).

And you can focus shitters with leaping strike to add another 433/866 damage, which can also put you behind their team and force the enemy team to retreat into you, making them take a shitload *more* damage.

But hey, "lunara is bad" despite the fact that quite a few top GM's main her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCAP_V02sUU

What exactly is your rank hmm?
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>>187957718
BegForMercy has a 75% winrate in grandmaster on assassin, is a lunara main (level fucking 200+), has hit rank 1 grandmaster, is currently rank 75.

Has done a lot to popularize lunara
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retrowave horse
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>>187949306
Women can't be buff without being roid monkeys
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>>187958704
sweet
finally proper black mounts
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>>187958704
ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU
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>71.4% winrate on azmo
seriously, how does anyone even lose with this fatass
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>It's a "Let's go for boss while all 5 are up" episode
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>>187958704
which ones for which league? honestly want to play ranked now, these are tight as fuck
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>>187959195
HotS players have no object permanence. I've seen people literally walk near the boss while chasing someone and then start fighting it right there after ignoring it the entire match.
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>>187959262
bottom ones are probably all master/epic

>>187959134
weak early game eventually becomes a factor
losing first-second objective every game hurts
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>>187959334
>I've seen people literally walk near the boss while chasing someone and then start fighting it right there after ignoring it the entire match.
Are we playing with literal toddlers?
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>>187959262
same as always (...I wanna be with you!):
the regular one is for plat in solo league or just doing placements in team league
the slightly pimped one is for masters in either league
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>>187959431
>take enemy keep
>start to back off, still healthy
>spam ping their nearby mercs
>"they'll do them in like 10 secs"
sure enough
like clockwork
they walk in and start the mercs

this is like shitty low master mind you
I think most people just sort of autopilot

>>187959262
top row is plat+ in solo/hero or finish placements in team league
bottom row is master+ in either queue
probably
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>>187959431
The simplest explanation would be basic human retardation like how you never know what you're going to eat until you actually open the fridge and look at it. Some players don't know the map or bother to learn or even look around and literally don't know the boss is there until they walk by.
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Hanzo and Alexstraza confirmed to be in development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8WqGVX0DWI&feature=youtu.be&t=3m24s

In upper left of screen at 3m24s the design document has their names.
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>>187957718
On paper you deal truckload of damage
On reality you deal nothing, DoTs are shit and only good for real-life damage as nuisance, if you are not in clown meme fiesta, anyone can counter it easy cheap heals.

Your favorite streamer picks it because he makes his teams built on it, real men go to solo HL and try to win with educating 4 nigger apes without getting silenced for 3-5 years.

>>187958005
Everyone can be rank 1 gm with assasins given some time. If you were to a fat nigger nerd who sits in front of screen and play like 7/24 with no worries of tomorrow I can get to gm rank1 with lili outdamaging your favorite streamers "main"
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>>187960114
What rank are you?
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>always solo queueing
>want to try out a new hero in ranked
>have to play a bunch of quickplay matches to reach lvl 5
>slow as shit without a party

I wish i had friends.
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>>187960114
sure you can senpai
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>>187960318
Dia3 yesterday

Plat 4 today

guess why.
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>>187960784
If you have 0 belief in yourself yet playing this game, probably severe case of autism or somehow your learning is incapacitated.
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>>187959820

>>187947606
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>>187962081
nah but I'm actual GM so I know you cant just randomly stroll up there even when grinding
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>HGC switching from displaying pick/ban percentage to total pick/bans for a hero

wew, too embarassed comp play has no variety? how about fixing this shit instead of hiding it blizz
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>>187963650
If your means is Team league, quit responding ty.

If your means is solo, I'm trying to raynor back to my rank.
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>>187959520
>>187959613
so you get the entire top row as long as you finish your tl placements?
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How do I play Tassadar and not suck?
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>>187964909
Realize that he's essentially a bad specialist and pick something else.
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reminder that the fact that morales got reworked at the same time mercy did is no coincidence. i'm predicting that by spring of 2018, we will have mercy as a hero in this game
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>>187964782
That's right.

>Source: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21016370
Placing literally anywhere guarantees you the mount.

>>187964757
I'm getting that Raynor itch. Tempted to see how far I can get playing only him.
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>>187965029
Speaking of which, is Morales fun now?
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>>187965092
but is it ALL the mounts, or do you just get one color corresponding to where you placed?
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>>187965018
But he looks cool
Is he that shit?
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>>187964909
Always go wall, archon fucking sucks.

Templar will
Khala Embrace
Resonation
Wall
Nullification, but others are also viable
Phase disruptor (focused beam if they have tanks)
Wall

Your good to go meme build.
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>Winning game
>Thrall starts ignoring everything for little bit of exp
>Enemy almost catches up
>Next game
>Get him on the enemy team
>Does the same shit
>Take advantage and win

It made no sense to go for a few minions that didn't even give enough xp to level them while his team gets destroyed.
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>>187965875
the thrall was redpilled on the concept of how to play the game, he just wasn't playing the right hero for it

3 things matter in this game, and absolutely nothing else:
>exp
>structures
>core
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>>187966049
+1
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glad for hanzo. only char i actually wanted from OW. hopefully its not fake

traditional japanese guy with bow yes very nice. only wish he was mongolian instead
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maybe they will give hanzo some futuristic skin to match with the next ranked reward horse
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do you guys think that alexstrasza is going to get an ahegao gangrape skin?
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>>187966049
We were several levels ahead of them. We just needed him for team fights but he dicked around killing waves not even getting camps. Enemy easily caught up due to it. It didn't help he would ignored objectives that would push harder then he could soak. All those you listed are important but if ignore it all together you fucked up hard.
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>>187967687
You mean her default appearance?
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>Queue for Team League placements with some bloke to get the free shit
>Probably going to suck ass
>Each queue is several minutes
>8-2
I guess?
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star princess valeera
WHEN?
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>>187972454
Right after sexy kitten Li Li and sailor chromie and he-man varian
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>enemy team turning in coins
>We can stop them
>"get 16"
Fuck this, never playing HotS again, fucking morons.
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>>187956948
>Greymane is a great pick if you have a support who can enable him
greymane does not need an enabler
he fits in pretty much any team comp
yeah maybe with uther or tyrael he can go crazy and blow up the enemy backline in wolf form
but even without those guys he does the 'generic range dps' thing just fine with the option to dive and go into melee when it's safe to do so
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>>187959134
eventually at high enough levels people start actually looking at their map and noticing when they should push out a lane to avoid the risk of azmo doing azmo shit on it
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>>187959334
i dont think ive ever done that for bosses but ive certainly done it for creepwaves and shit if i think im not going to catch that guy i'm chasing
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>>187962081
>im plat 4 but i could totally be GM if i wanted to!
>im only in shit tier because of bad teammates!!!
>never mind that an actual gm player could carry the shit out of these plat games and get out in 3 seconds
>im telling you man the jews are sabotaging my mmr, its an international conspiracy
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>>187964909
youre a ranged assassin who gives shitloads of lifesteal to himself or an ally
dont stick the shield on to block incoming damage, stick it on after the burst has passed so it lasts as long as possible while giving that sweet 75% lifesteal the whole time
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>>187974385
>He-Man Varian
>Starts as Adam
>After picking 10 Talent his shirt flies off and he goes full He-Man

I never knew I needed this.
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>>187965224
it always gave you all 3 recolors of the mount before, and it will give you all 5 this time
youre just confused because blizzard has finally discovered the technology to have more than 3 color variations so it looks different from usual
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>Not even a stimpack as a reward

What gives? This event is ass
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>>187965567
>team composed of shit dps
>be self sustaining archon
>carry team with heals, shields and damage
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>>187958704
>New gold mount
It better be a new 20000 shekle one, I need a new one to get ride of this useless dosh.
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>>187967135
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Is dehaka one of the best 3 heroes in the game currently?
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gifting
when
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>Mostly play QM
>Figure I'll do my placements, if I'm close enough I m might go for the mount
>win 6/10, last three games where with people in diamonds, 2 of the wins
>End up in low gold
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why the fuck did they even think about bringing this shitty fucking brawl back
in what universe is this fun, this was worse than the all Hammer/all Nova on ToD ones combined
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>>187984283
its fun and is short stop complaining faggot
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>>187967538
they could always add this one
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>>187947606
Alexstrasza was probably the Blizzcon reveal. Someone's getting fired.
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>>187958704
This almost makes me want to jump back into the game and play those 70 or so games it takes to get to Master.

... Almost.
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What's a good assassin/specialist that pairs well with Li-Li?

My friend literally won't play anyone else and I gotta carry the scrub somehow.
QP shenanigans not HL.
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>>187988897
Anyone that also blinds. Throw in Jojo and you'll make any opposing AA hero cry.
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>>187989624
One of many reasons why AA heroes just fucking blow. So easily countered, not enough ways to mitigate ability damage. Thank god Garrosh has some decent anti-mage-ability.
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When would you ever pick Last Rites over Tormented Souls?
I feel like the aoe and suitability contributes way too much compared to a burst kill, do pros use his other ult?
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>just start playing
>like playing Kaelthas
>tons of heroes with cancerous amounts of mobility
>do my full combo on Demon Hunter girl
>doesn't kill her
>she AAs me once for half my health
>burly tank champions can tank all my hits and at the same time run me down and kill me
So basically this game is an unbalanced mess like all mobas?
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>>187991343
Guarantee you there's more to this situation to better explain why this played out like it did.
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>>187991343
Kael'thas is fine. I'd recommend looking into your spacing/positioning, especially during team fights.

and respect the hell out of kerrigan, kinky beetle, genji, etc
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>doing team league with duo
>get matched with proplayers

lmao we won in 13 min
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>mfw I learned that "you can leave if it's promo or demo during draft without consequences" is just a meme.

Fuck that, first pick aba on ToD, I just have to spam more big green orc dick aka Gul'Dan
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>>187991343
kael works on lowering his opponent down with pokes in 1v1 lanes

in team fights he is much more powerful due to aoe

you sound like a shitter so play something easier for now
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>>187992884
HAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA! retard
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>>187988897
>pairs well with li-li
cassia
bonus damage to blinded targets plus permanent uptime "fuck every autoattacker on the enemy team" from the both of you alternating blinds
for bonus fun take the talent that reduces your blind cd whenever you attack a blinded target
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>>187992884
I'm pretty sure it's just placements.

>free dodge in promos
I
fucking
wish
my dude
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>>187991306
when malth gets buffed to have his "w applies aoe mark" talent before 10, because he is literally useless in fights without a way to apply aoe mark and TS is currently his only reliable tool to do so
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>>187991343
basically blizzard hates fun and hates people dying so nobody can kill anyone else in one combo unless involves multiple easy-to-dodge skillshots

the only way you're supposed to play is constant 5v5 deathball where you kill people by having 4 heroes hit them while they're stunned
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>>187993017
>>187993314

Laugh at my stupidity, well deserved.

This was the best shit ever in /hotsg/, never seen anyone call it out
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>>187993314
>tfw you know you will lose due to draft but are powerless to stop it

I feel like leaving after it's complete is better than wasting 20 minutes of your time.
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I'm sure you guys get these posts all the time but I gotta ask, how is this game for new players? Does it take a year and a half to unlock heroes like it does with league?
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>>187993676
Not laughin', that's unfortunate nobody shot it down.

>-600 points
haha reasonable penalties

>>187993920
Yeah, it's shit. Just have to bite the bullet, try your best and at least get some practice/warmup in. I've seen all Assassin comps work around d1/masters so keep an open mind. Sometimes.

>>187993931
Significantly less shitty to get into than League, even if you missed the bundles they gave out a while ago. Get somebody to send you a RAF link for two free Heroes and a stim.

>tutorial gives Jaina, Tyrande or Muradin (pick jaina desu)
>advanced tutorial gives a chest (got thrall, I think)

And more than a few of the decent starter heroes are only 2000-4000, which doesn't take long at all.
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>>187993931
You can probably get a good roaster going and learn enough of the hero combos to be set before the end of Hero League that starts Tuesday.
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>>187993931
faster to unlock heroes, you get more cosmetics for free, and way more casual/newbie-friendly/easy-to-learn/no-strategy-required compared to other games in the genre
you might see this third bit as a downside
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>>187994152
I always try with the meme comps like all specialist/no healer/etc because those are so weird anything can happen. But for the comps where they have like arthas + lunara + auriel +dehaka and you have no way to do literally anything throughout the match I just lean towards leaving immediately. Especially when they get those picks because the banner is afk/retarded.
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>>187994152
>haha reasonable penalties
As much as I hate retards ruining drafts, I hate leavers even more.

Because
(a) 99% of people bitching about the draft in pubs are retards who don't know how to draft
(b) Queues are like 5-10m for me, so I really don't want to be in the goddamn queue for an hour just because of people leaving.
(c) You aren't GM, suck it up and git gud and try to outplay the enemy instead of throwing a tantrum. HotS is so rubber-band-y that stupid shit changes the outcome of a game all the time.

Let the trash take themselves out, I say.

I wish Overwatch would hurry up and copy HotS' system so that I can be rid of leavers and retards in there too.

>>187993931
ALL the heroes, you might never finish getting ALL the heroes if you're pure f2p unless you engage in autism grind and/or ToS violating bots.

SOME heroes you like, sure. You can get a few thousand gold a week just from doing dailies and the occasional stimpack gold boost. Doesn't matter THAT much IMO because you'll be too busy grinding everyone to lv 5 for a long time and then buy up all the heroes you wanted to buy by then with the lv 5 gold.

Don't buy heroes without trying them, and try not to buy the cheaper heroes too early because you will probably unbox a few while grinding everyone to lv 5. Feel free to buy the 2k heroes though. They are dirt cheap and usable in many situations.
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>>187994646
I mean leaving after the game loads just gives you -200 and no afker penalty, so just do that. There's no reason leaving during draft should be punished more than when the game actually begins...
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>>187994736
>dodging draft is three times more punishable than locking Abathur and just going AFK, ruining the game for nine other people
Sick.

>>187994646
Hey, when was the last time he reduced Heroes in price? Don't recall anything since 2.0
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>>187994152
>>187994374
>>187994418
>>187994646
Thanks senpaitachi. League's retarded f2p model made me stop playing it. I'll give hots a try if it's better.
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>>187994736
>There's no reason leaving during draft should be punished more than when the game actually begins...
Yeah, should just be -600.

>>187995130
I don't remember anybody getting reduced when 2.0 came out.
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>>187995130
who wants to repick heroes when you can just spend 20 minutes playing a ranked match with a bot?
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>enemy Nova appears behind me from stealth
>kills me before I can even react
>oh that's obviously a clone because no one's positioning is that bad
>turns out it wasn't the clone outplayed dude
>MVP
>literally did nothing but stealth kill people the whole game
What is the counter to stealth in this game. There has to be something that prevents her from just popping up and 100 to 0ing someone.
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>>187996592
>What is the counter to stealth in this game.
Not being blind.
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>>187996737
>seeing tiny dust particles in a game that's nothing but particle effect induced team fights
>can't use targeted abilities on her
Nice dude. Really helpful
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>>187996592
nobody can 100-to-0 fucking anybody in this game
stop playing like a retard when you're at low hp and the enemy team has stealthies who you dont currently see on the minimap

if you're a squishy loser with no escape who still dies to right clicks after she combos you for 50-70% hp, why are you out pushing a lane solo instead of grouped with your team in "5v5 deathball: the game"?
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>>187974385

>Sailor Chromie
Wut
>He-Man Varian

YESSSS
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>>187997013
>nobody can 100-to-0 fucking anybody in this game
*appears behind u*
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how do i replicate the mount bug fellas
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>>187997587
looks like a normal zeratul behavior to me anon
it's only valeera and samuro who cant be invis while on their horses
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or are you talking about a mount bug other than the one in your attached image
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>>187997013
She was literally in our base and came up behind while 4 people watched me die
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>>187996968
What little shimmer you see before the Q revealed her was basically all I saw. You can't spot them 100% of the time (sometimes because of Unrevealable) but you always have to put in effort to keep an eye out. Once they realise they can't come near without getting spotted, they'll just hang back like wusses and only try to killsteal making objectives and fights an effective 4v5 as long you keep your guard up and never get out of position.

Even better if they're idiots trying to cheese pubs with multiple stealth parties.

Stealth players hate it when the enemy travels in groups so do just that so that your team breaking them out of invis is met with swift follow-up kills, and they hate losing their stealth burst combo/advantage. Take it away from them and they're useless. This is why most stealth heroes are pure pubstompers only and rarely good in comp. Zeratul's a notable exception and still pretty situational.

I'm not the best player around but I can spot the shimmers. So you should be able to too.

I think your actual frustration is more that stealth players change the game a lot and how you play changes drastically precisely because you have to pay attention for shimmers 24/7 and have to play very differently than if there were no stealth heroes on the map. Sadly, can't change that without going back in time and removing the stealth hero. But with a properly drafted team, an enemy stealth hero should basically be a free advantage if you can pay attention IMO, even if it's a huge unfun pain in the ass to do.
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Why does this game have SO many healers. Fought a team with Chen, Brightwing and Auriel and it was maximum cancer.

Couldn't kill anyone or win any team fight
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>>187997013
Nova with Snipe Master at full stacks, and against some heroes, can in fact, 100-to-0 people still. It's not that hard.
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>>187984458
>tracer
>fun
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>>187998096
>Snipe Master
And your 100-0 scenario is theoretical bullshit because it'll never happen unless it's against shitters and/or the Nova is afk 90% of the game because they're too scared to miss a Snipe and lose the bonus.
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>>187998096
i really doubt it before rewind at 20
also snipe master does less total damage with its combo than OITC, though it does it much faster which is a big advantage when pulling rewind shenanigans
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>>187984283
>all Hammer / all Nova brawls were bad
You just hate fun.
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>>187996737
That's really fucking iffy because there are a ton of maps where random scenery will have heat waves/energy ripples coming off of it that looks exactly like the stealth particles and whoops you just wasted your only reveal ability on nothing. I mean there it wasn't much of a gamble because Warhead isn't too bad in that regard but it's a fucking nightmare on Sky Temple, Infernal Shrines, and especially nighttime Garden of Terror.
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>>187998338
they would've been fun if they lasted 5-10 minutes instead of being a full normal-length ToD game imo
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>>187998432
Pretty sure they're much faster than a normal ToD game. Every kill is one cannon shot at the core. Combined with altars, that's a major speed boost.
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>>187998338
>>187998432

This. It's fun for like 3 minutes but then it goes on and on and on and on. It's like if that Chromie dodgeball shit lasted 20 minutes or more.
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>>187998225
It wasn't my scenario, I've done it before on Nova, was all. Just recently in fact, when I was seeing if Snipe Master+Explosive Round was still fun in qm. Also, odds are that the one posting their scenario is in fact, a shitter.
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>>187998420
>Sky Temple, Infernal Shrines, and especially nighttime Garden of Terror.
I actually don't have problems with those three. The light textures really make it easy for me, and grass lines covering most of the terror map makes it easy to spot shimmers too even at night. The edges of fog/vision at night bother me more than shimmers, really.

Dragon Shire actually is the hardest for me IMO. Too many walls and patches of fog for shimmers to hide in.
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>>187997963
>>187996592
The problem with stealth characters is that everyone who plays this game are dumb and can't react to anything at all
>playing Chromie
>staying with team
>enemy Valeera kills me while I'm literally standing right next to my Garrosh
>no reaction from anyone
>she keeps going for me
>have to beg people to help me
Her and heroes like Nova are pub stompers that prey on stupidity and disorganized teams
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>Don't play for a couple of weeks
>Reinstall game
>Play a single match in diamond elo
>Uninstall game

I don't even know why I keep coming back to assfaggots, the entire genre is dogshit, but you get fooled into thinking that "maybe my next game won't be AIDS"
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>>187997706
nah i mean misplaced mount on heroes that normally cant have that mount i.e. horse on azmodan
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>>187952552
Lost Vikings are only fun when you would rather play an RTS instead of Hots
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>>188002682
Only because they nerfed them into being minions.
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>>188002310
It's like playing RTS but you being shit doesn't get rubbed in as hard because you can blame your team mates.
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>get legendary drop
>its Tazmanian Dingo

WHY
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>>188002772
Getting their key talents 3 and 6 levels later really hurt them.
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>That hero who no matter how good everyone considers it, just doesn't click with you

Who is that for you?
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>>188003420
literally any healer
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>play game with 4stack
>they all compliment me on my pick
>say gj whenever I make a play
>give me 4 upvotes at the end of the game
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>>188003342
Nerfing boat into the fucking ground wasn't very nice either.
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>>187995921
>faggot leaves at the start of the game
>bot is total tard
>goes out and dies and ignores pings
>picks mind control and sends people out of base
>barely tied 4v5 after 20 minutes
>he reconnects
>promptly lose
>d/c'er flames us for losing game
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>>188003884
Yeah, I random'd into TLV today, which sucked, but I thought I'd give boat a try instead of recall, and boy did I wish I'd just killed myself instead. Literally no damage.
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>>188004621
It also dies to a stiff breeze.
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Who's best waifu?
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>ranked silver 1
>decide to climb out of it
>35 games later
>19-16 @ Gold 5

I really suck at braxis, garden, and tower of doom with no wins on doom.

help
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>>188005040
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>>188005164
pick dehaka
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>>188003420
le ming
probably because i miss every spell except calamity
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>>188003420
Almost anything that can't pve/waveclear. Drowning in minions is the most helpless feeling.
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>>188003460
Not even Monk?
>>188003420
Guldan, I keep forgetting about mana tap, or end up killing myself with it
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>>187952860
you got outdrafted hard
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>>187952860
ranked has separate soloqueue and team modes with separate ranks/MMRs

you can only play team league as a group of 2, 3, or 5
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>>188003420
Tracer.
I just can never get her escape pattern down. If I do manage to get away, my stupid finger THEN hits the Rewind and teleports myself right back into the middle of the enemy team with no Slipstream charges left to get away again.
It feels so stupid to die this way.
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>>188005769
Always keep 1 blink charge. Only go deep if you have your ult up because with out it's hard for you to burst people down.

If you have a Tass on your team just do whatever and become an unkillable god.
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Tyrael any good? Or do I wait to buy Kek'Thuzad?
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>>188006196
Tyrone is okay. Blizzard has a habit of just taking away his best talents and not giving him anything in return though. Just save for KT.
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>>188006196
KT is so much fun. I've been playing him on the PTR and I highly recommend saving to buy him.
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>>188006294
>>188006275
alright thanks guys
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Who's the ultimate GRAND MAGUS? Cool'dan? Li Ming?
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>>188006196
I think Kel'Thuzad is amazing, but best of luck playing him in draft modes. Quick Match queues'll also be miserable.
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>>188003420
zeratul
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>>187959431
It happened to me more than once that I'm taking the enemy's side of the map camp as Gazlowe or Samuro and some guy from the other team passes just next to me mounted on his way to join the teamfight and he completely ignores me, either because of extreme tunnel vision or maybe because he wants to do ebin teamfights.
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Fuck yeah, I did it m8s.
Started the season being placed into plat 3 so dont let your dreams be memes.

Also of course Lucio is the greatest support of all time.
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>>188005560
Don't think I've ever played the monk man. Uther is one the only guy I feel decent on because he goes hard in the paint with a million stuns
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>>188007129
I kinda wish his level 16 talents came a tier earlier and the level 20 amp it up refresh on crossfade was at 16, and I also wish he had a warcraft skin because he's a fucking monkey eating nigger
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>>188007129
I can only muster up to Master every season, then go back to QM. I get so fucking tired of HL so fast, just playing up to the epic mount reward is exhausting. They couldn't fucking pay me to even try to play up to GM.
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>>188007518
I didn't plan on doing it either, but then I just keep winning significantly more than losing while just doing my regular daily plays and then when I noticed I only need like 6 more wins to make GM, I grinded for one day.
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>>188007628
>first pick jaina
>last pick valla
why does this always happen to me
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>>188008079
I had a first and second pick valla/jaina. They picked genji and ofc we lost without a chance.

What a bunch of braindead apes
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>>188009232
I just had a 10 deaths Jaina game, that I carried as Arta, and the dude at the end said
>heh see jaina first pick was fine
He literally wasted all his R, barely did more damage than me as Arta despite me going amateur opponent since it was BoE, and yet at the end he is proud like he was more than a hindrance.
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>>188009553
when people instantly select those types of super squishy heroes and complain about not having enough tank/heals it takes all of my willpower to not call them stupid cunts and tilt them off the face of the earth

like come on dawg I didn't force you to pick a glass cannon
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>>188009687
>>188009553
>>188009232
>>188008079
>nova breaks stealth randomly and gets blown up
"wtf no peels"
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>>188009892
I just had to waste a ban on Nova because some dude on my team wanted to last pick her vs. a malf on Braxxis saying "level 56 nova I know her well".
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>>188009969
I literally had a murky feed butcher meat stacks by minute ~8 who said not to worry since he was "top 30 murky on hotslogs" or some bullshit like that

stupid autists not understanding hard counters exist
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>>187946836

HOW PUMPED ARE WE ABOUT HANDSOAP AND ALEXSTRAZA being CONFIRMED?
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>>187956746
>went 7-3
>gold 4
really makes you think
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how can Sonya lose a lane to Alarak ?
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>>188010691
pretty easily actually

probably ~50% skill based matchup
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>>188005576
DELETE THIS
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>>188003420
Arthas, have a ~25% winrate with him. How do I into lich king /hotsg/?
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>>188010691
anyone loses to alarak if they cant dodge his shit
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>>188010715
please be more explanatory
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>>188010778
silence vs stun

auto attack heal vs ranged ability heal

there you go
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>>188010396
>Genji and his shitty dipshit "SAKE" brother in hots

I think I would prefer literally any other overwatch character, fucking shimada shitheads tilt the shit out of me when I play overwatch and genji already does a fine fucking job of that in hots
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>>187946836

So now that she is confirmed. What do you prefer?

Big Dragon Hips? Big Dragon Titties?
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>>188011539
>So now that she is confirmed.
Please explain

>Big Dragon Hips? Big Dragon Titties?
I like both.
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>>188011772
see >>188010396
and
>>187947606
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>doing placements
>last pick
>hate filling or playing warriors because I'm bad at random filling and warriors, Arty is my only exception mainly because I don't play him like a warrior
>grudgingly pick Anub because enemy team is 99% magic damage
>pray things go well and I land at least 25% of my Impales
>first pick Butcher finishes meat by 7 minutes
>GM destroying top lane solo
>rotating into every lane for ganks like I'm Nyx Nyx Nyx Nyx
>only miss 2 Impales the whole game
>have a swell time
I wish all my placements went this swimmingly. Based kinkbug is so much fun when things go right. We were pretty aggressive though, so I don't know if I would've done as well if there wasn't a Butcher who was on top of things.

Is beetle build ever worth taking these days?
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>>188011914
>level 402
>103k gold
??????????????????
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>>188011851
>>188011772

<<-- and the original Alexstrasza leak
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>>188012121
What would I spend it on?
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>>188011539
do you really think she's gonna be this revealed in a kids game? They'll give her the Sylvanas "panties on leggins" look or some more armor on the hips and a loincloth
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post fun builds
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what's Personal Rank adjustment exactly ?
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>>188013631
the game has an internal ranking where it thinks you belong
if you're below it, you get positive adjustment, if you're above it, negative adjustment.
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>>188013875
but my PRA is growing exponentially, I was at +1 in Silver 1 and now in gold 2 I'm at +5
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>>188013945
If you win a lot, especially streaks, the game sees that as a result of you playing against people below where your skill, thus your adjustment increases.
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>>188011539
I'd rather know what her kit looks like. Anyone got a clue?
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>>188014137
transform between human and dragon form with different skills for each
human form is ranged and dragon is melee
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>>188014008
really makes me think
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>play Muradin/ETC solo tank
>lose
>play Artanis solo tank
>win
umm hotsweenies ?
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>>188014992
Other way around for me.
I fucking love playing Artanis, but I'm sporting a 40% winrate with him and I have no fucking clue what I should do better.
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>valeera and illdan group on enemy team on mines
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>>188014992
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>>188016384
now that's reddit posting
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>>188016647
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>75% winrate
>suddenly 100% of my teammates are retarded
I can feel the 50% knocking at the door bros
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>>187996592
>>187996968
It's because of people like you that Samuro, Valeera and Nova got nerfed into oblivion. Although Samuro kind of deserved it.
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>>188003420
Greymane, because I refuse to go with a cocktail build.
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Is Garrosh good and fun to play?
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Show 'em boys, what heroes do you actually like to play?
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>>188018072
3/4 of my most played are heroes I barely touched in months because they've been nerfed to oblivion so have this most wins list instead
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>>188018187
are those games after the buff? or did you actually do that before?
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>>188018346
the list is from this season and yeah most of those are from before the buff
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>>188018346
lucio games*
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>>188014137
a flame-centric support wouldn't be out of the question, possibly borrowing from oracle's kit (heal that does initial damage then HOT)
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>3 games in a row with salty cunts playing ragnos
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Is there a discord server?
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>>188019663
>3 games in a row with draft throws
I love game with solo supp stukov going full anus build
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>>188019826
reddit.com
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>>188018072
QM scrub reporting in
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>>188020137
The slug in QM? You are either brave or mad!
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>>188010396
Great. Why just have Genji? We need the shit-picker Shimada Bros to really ruin this game like they already have in Overwatch.
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>>188003420
Genji, being completely unable to handle even single creep waves quickly feels so bad.
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>pick double support
>dude spergs out, picks murradin and refuses to play with the team all game
>we dominate all TF 4v5 but Murradin throws the game hard
>end up losing because Murradin refused to clear waves or do camps while calling everyone noobs
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>>188003420
Cassia. Im at about 27 % winrate after like 30 games. I just dont fucking get her
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>>188021879
I love Cassia's kit but find her unplayable because of her AA range and animation
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>>188020813
Slug isn't that bad in QM, even on smaller two lane maps. It only sucks if your team is losing and they have a nova / valeera / tyrande doing nothing but trying to hunt you down but at that point no hero would be able to help your losing team.
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>>188021953
I really like her kit too, hence why I bought her. But ingame I just stumble around like an idiot using everything at the wrong time
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>>188022284
>tfw vividly remember that whole episode from childhood
>tfw Simpsons genuinely made you feel
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>>187947069
There are tranny skins for Lucio and Tracer? I'm not sure what this post implies.
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>>188023223
It's just the mentally ill Yuro who does nothing else all day but shitpost in a general for a dead game.
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>>188023223
I know it's written super poorly, I assume they're just generally autismally whining about each one in the bracket.
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Is having an inability to speak english and a double digit IQ a requirement to play ETC?
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>>188024125
no follow mosh u suck bg
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>>188024225
I had one that seemed to try and communicate with only ping spam. He would ping "powerslide ready" 1000 times then walk into the enemy team and not use powerslide.
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what's good on ToD ?
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>>188024374
The Dehaka
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>>188024654
ah yes... caspere knew this...
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So what skin for a hero do you want most? I want a Infinite dragonflight Chromie
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>>188025218
Morales without the suit
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>>188025218
liming with fat pussy lips
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>>188025997
and in a tiny bikini
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>>188026336
and a visible bulge
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>>188026587
fuck off back to reddit
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>>188011539
Why is she pigeon toed?
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>play dehaka
>get ganked as I take a risky mercenary camp
>fight for it, use essence to regen a bar of health
>take the camp, rest of their team shows up, try and run away
>use adaptation to regen a second bar of health
>burrow to avoid a pyroblast
>dark swarm to walk through a champion block
>use essence gained from essence claws to regen a third bar a health
>get far enough ahead to brush stalker to safety with a quarter of my health remaining
>my teammates meanwhile take bottom keep
>watch as the enemy team stops in lane
>can practically taste the salt in their chat

how is this hero allowed?
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>>188026937
>soloing camps as dehaka at 20
>risking getting ganked at 20
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>>188027147
anon, I admit my map awareness was bad and that is was a mistake to take that camp.

What's incredible is that I could escape from such a predicament, what other heroes could do that?
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>>188026937
He's the primary argument against people who say D.Va's two health bars is a problem.
Starting from the early game, Dehaka has two health bars, and as you saw if he has Adaptation he can get 3, and with Essence Claws it becomes 4 or 5 depending on how well you can weave AAs in.
That and he can become a race car if he's anywhere near a bush.
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The one thing that never changes since the start is Illidan pickers thinking he's a tank bruiser and diving into forts.
Fucking hell, I think it's the one behavior that I've seen replicated on a regular basis since I started to play.
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>>188027390
genji would have gotten out without taking any damage and killed half their team
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>>188026937
>use adaptation to regen a second bar of health
So you where playing against scrubs.
>>188029237
Fuck off with your bullshit shitposter
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Wow illusion master is just garbage huh.
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>>188033940
better than illidan master
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Qipao jaina a best
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>>188039894
>tfw don't have Chinese new year skins because I was in China during the Chinese new year
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>>188040525
I cant wait till I can actually get shit this year for triangles.
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Your daily reminder that if you casualniggers happen to pick illidan;

>DO NOT GET THAT USELESS FRIEND OR FOE SHIT AND GET YOURSELF ACCUSTOMED WITH W BUILD FUCKING NIGGER FORCED LOSE RATE PLAYERS.
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>>188042952
>picking anything but Pozzmodan, Artanus or Gluter
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Decide to play and feeders, silenced Russians and gold who criticize my plays are all on my team.
It's Saturday all right.
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>>188043782
doesn't matter, its niggerday, forced win/lose is full intact.

I get to win 20-0 a game, next one 0-20 ish.

Fuck blizzcuckolds, this is not matchmaking but putting 10 guys in a very random fashion.
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https://www.icy-veins.com/heroes/talent-calculator/auriel#26.0!2332334

This is my standard Auriel build, say something nice about it.
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>>188045883
>bike
>not a direwolf
#notmywarchief
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>>188025218
daily reminder that you are getting Sharkhaka skin, and other pirate themed bullshit after the Kel'thuzad patch
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>>188010936
retard
sonya's autoattacks do literally no damage unless/until she takes followthrough
all her healing comes from spin which alarak can turn off with his silence

meanwhile alarak can spam lightning as much as he wants and there's nothing sonya and her 0.0001 second microstun can do to stop it
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>>188013328
how can you have fun if you dont pick octograb
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>>188045752
>no bursting light
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>>188047554
Bursting light was removed from the game.
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>>188045883
>no wolf
>no Hellscream's eyes
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>>188047261
sonya cant really lose the lane unless shes against zagara or another ranged hero. she either stomps the lane or ties it. literally just let alarak clear and E into his minions once they start going towards your gate
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Why Valeera so useless
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>>188048281
Stealth hero
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>>188047554
>>188047729
I never used Bursting Light, never saw a purpose for it.
>>188048263
>sonya cant really lose the lane unless shes against zagara or another ranged hero
Or the Butcher
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>>188046636
>shark people skins
>bad
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>>188048697
>50% CDR on only heal button
>lol i dont get it
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>>188048394
Even Nova can be good in some scenarios, but Valeera is just bad.
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>>188048904
It's not like 4 seconds is a long wait, and I want to give my team big heals.
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>>188048697
>Or the Butcher
oh i am laffin
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>>188006708
abathur
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>>187997013
That's wrong. I have had so many death recaps as raynor that are death in .62 seconds only Chromie w and q from full hp. And from fog of war too.
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>>188049098
Butcher is designed to win all 1v1 in the game
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>>188049334
Speaking as a Butcher main, he fails at that against certain heroes.

Especially after they crippled Insatiable Blade.
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>>187997013
>nobody can 100-to-0 fucking anybody in this game
That is literally all Chromie is built for.
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>>188048904
50% cdr was only good (arguably overpowered) with characters that could hit >500dps, the removal of bursting light allows even 230ish dps characters generate full heals every 4 seconds. So you can do shit like run a lunara + auriel and even get reservoir and be able to pump out *really* big heals on a low cd.
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>>188049334
designed=/=able
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>>188049660
Chromie is actually amazing area control with time traps and slowing sands. Her 100-0 is just memery, it gets stopped by cleanse + stasis effects.
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>>188049925
Real MVP chromie build is Improved Time Trap and andorhal Anomaly.
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>>188050007
>andorhal Anomaly
I fucking love that. It prints salt by the block if you place them right.
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>>188050279
I played genji against a chromie that went into this once. I felt like a total fucking chump when i dashed into *three* time-traps at once, and then she fucking set another one at the end.
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>>188050007
>Andorhal
I miss old world of warcraft
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>>188049334
Not at all stages of the game, and he was recently nerfed to be even weaker early.
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>>188049334
Being capable of winning a 1v1 slapfight =/= being capable of winning lane
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>>188005486
God I fucking hate this. I wanna play Alarak, but I'm the only one with my head screwed on straight in a splitpush scenario and so the only one who realizes that hey, if there's three waves of creeps + mercs crawling up to our front door with the towers missing half their ammo, somebody better fucking clean it up.
I legitimately spent 5 minutes in a ranked game on Sky Temple the other day sitting in top lane singlehandedly cleaning up 3-5 waves of minions and two sets of mercenaries.
The salt in the wound was that the game ended because our core was exposed completely, they had 3 keeps, and were shredding our core. I sprinted bot and spammed defend pings on bot temple and core and actually got retreat ping spammed while the other four sat middle and killed NPC's on the point. Keep in mind we were winning fights easily at that point because my Q was doing 1400 damage to heroes. Only reason we didn't lose immediately was because they got off the point long enough killing me for the core to regen shield, and the last shot took it to 3%. They ran down bottom and killed it a minute later, because we obviously no longer had a 160% sadism Alarak to help defend.
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>>188049334
Tyrande D build can easily solo her I suppose.

>>188048281
Because people can detect stealth now

>>188003420
Nova, Greymane, Hammer, Zagara, Gazlowe, Kerrigan, Valla, Shiteboo, Zera, Slyvanas, Li ming, Valeera, Chogall, Lunara, Samuro, Probius, Ragnaros.
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>>188052025
>nova
double pin vulnerable one in the chamber with bribe + rewind.
>greymane
https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/greymane#h9qn stay ranged most of the time, only jump in to clean up
>Hammer
https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/sgt-hammer#sDH8 Don't siege unless you *have* to, I like spider mines at 7 but hyper-cooling thrusters can also let you charge after things to secure kills.
>zagara
https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/zagara#o65b this is the most consistent zag build. Poke at shit, be a bully and push hard.
>gaz
Don't play him
>kerrigan
Quick cast on release impale, quickcast your pull, jump ->impale->pull.
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>>188003420
Arthas. I don't know why, but I just can never pick the right talents or just do anything right.
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>>188052915
what the absolute nigger christ is that greymane build
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>57 games as Kael
>36.8% winrate
I think it's time to give up on this guy.
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>>188052971
I used to be pretty good at Arthas until he got reworked; same with original Kael'thas, original Murky, original Kharazim and original Zagara, now I suck at all of them.
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>>188053225
Don't play Kael in QM if that's what you're doing. Though I'd think you'd have figured that out after 4 or 5 games.
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is it possible to earn ~30k by the time Kel'thuzad's price is reduced to 10k?

I want to grind and finally own all the heroes.
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>>188048984
Because they nerfed her damage across the board by about 10% then removed her level 20 talent that allowed her to do enough damage to be relevant at level 20.

It's part of why they said they want to rework the stealth mechanic entirely to be less dominating in QM while still allowing the characters to be good.
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I'm really surprised that for how much Blizzard wants to promote "fun" gameplay how many heroes there are in this game that just don't interact with other heroes and even just ignore objectives.
>Murky: I push the wave and even if you kill me I will keep pushing because 5s respawn timer xd
>Abathur: I just sit in base and spawn mines everywhere while hatting random people xd
>Gazlow: I build my turrets in a lane and you can't do anything unless you bring somebody with me xd
>Azmodan: I will keep spawning minions and clear waves from behind my keep, 15% increased damage and health on minions waves btw xd
>Zagara: I just cancer push in the lane and nobody can kill me because it's impossible to chase on creep on top of 20 free armor xd
>Nova, Valeera, Zeratul: I stay in the brush until you overextend or get low xd
>Xul: If you don't babysit your minion waves I will clear them in 2s and drain all your tower shots in two waves because lel skeletons xd
>Probius: I build shitty structures and blow up the minion wave instantly to dash away instantly because I have 0 health xd
>Medivh: I'm going to fly around your team providing free vision without any counterplay available xd
>Ragnaros: I passive, you no push xd
>Samuro: I just clear all mercs from level 1 and you can't catch me because stealth xd
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>>188045883
remember to use your goblins wisely
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>>188053385
My girlfriend was a beta tester and feels your pain.
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>>188051741
alarak has decent waveclear though
his abilities only do half damage to creeps but remember that their damage to heroes is really fuckin high, and they're all aoe
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>>188053589
>and even just ignore objectives.
99% of people do that no matter which hero they play
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>>188053589
wow bud you sure described what those heroes do and added a xd at the end
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>>188053895
That's people being retarded. My issue is that it's the optimal way to play those heroes.
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>>188053895
Not that anon but I'm the opposite. I'm one of those PvE assholes who'd rather push or capture objectives than jump in on teamfights.
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If you have Medivh out and Bloodbloom a spell, does Aetish summon based on its original mana cost or is nothing summoned because you're paying health instead of mana?
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>>188054108
and it's impossible to play them like that because your team will ignore the objectives and just die if you dont help them constantly
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Just give Valeera some utility and she will be viable? Mb make Smoke bomb more like in wow
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>>188053831
It's not enough to waveclear fast, even with Q quest completed. Q -> E in a line will often not kill creeps to the point where W will finish them, so you have to go and autoattack every single one. Even worse with mercs, he's fucking hideous at merc clearing.
A lot of that is improved if you go level 4 E quest, but still.
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>>188053129
A high sustain build that emphasizes range and correct use of form switching in matches where you may not be able to effectively stack cocktails.

If you're on TotSQ sure, go cocktails, if you're on cursed hollow or something like that, go with a different build.
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>>188054287
they need to rework stealth to be useful against high skill players
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>>188054227
Wrong general, mate.
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>>188052915
>double pin vulnerable one in the chamber with bribe + rewind.
Only in quickmemes

>stay ranged most of the time, only jump in to clean up
Only in quickmemes

>Don't siege unless you *have* to, I like spider mines at 7 but hyper-cooling thrusters can also let you charge after things to secure kills.

Only in quickmemes

>Quick cast on release impale, quickcast your pull, jump ->impale->pull.

Only in quickmemes.

Pic related what would /hotsg do to valla?
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>>188055382
>hurrdurr le quickmeme "rebuttal"
Fuck off retard.
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Just played braxis with plat scumfaggots in my team. We lost it definitely because of me being toxic in chat Haha :D

Even though the dumb piece of useless subhuman shit playing Sonya allowed Ragnaros to take objective 3+ times

Useless fucktard on ETC used mosh 2 times through the game , once into stitches, another time into stitches and arthas

Absolutely retarded faggot wanted to first pick Nazeebo so i banned his monkey character, he fpicked Sylvanas instead. We had opportunity to kill enemy team 5v4 but he decided to push a bit xDDD Srry team !

And a downs syndrome piece of shit on rehgar who catched every single stitches hook in the game. Do these ppl not know how to click their mouse?
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What heroes are in most need of a rework? Not Chromie or Ragnaros, that's for sure
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>nigger picks murky on Braxxis
>8 minutes in and the enemy team is already at our core
ebin, really ebin
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>>188055803
Rexxar. He's basically a weaker ETC that doesn't really do anything. At least he can solo camps really good? The only talent that makes him somewhat usable makes it so you must never die the entire match. This forces you to play passively and/or sacrifice your bear a lot. This is contradictory towards what should be a warrior. They really fucked that hero up.
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>>188051741
This
>really want to learn the highlord
>end up with Xul or rehgar every fucking game
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>>188056021
tfw just want to relax with Murky in QM and get these maps instead
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> Hit Kerrigan combo- win every fight
> Miss once combo- lose game
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>>188056748
except the combo is so shitty and slow that it only hits against badplayers or those who are already stunned
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>>188056870
Even in QM ppl sidestep every time you try to combo. REEEEEEEEe???
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buff impale to work like chrome W and be invisible so kerr can fake shit out

jump in, impale to the left, grasp somewhere completely different, bait people into the impale
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>>188054832
fuck

but on that note sexy party medivh skin when
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>>188055684
I hope you don't write like this ingame because they will silence you and let the retards keep playing.
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>>188056062
>Rexxar. He's basically a weaker ETC that doesn't really do anything.
Wrong
>At least he can solo camps really good?
Partially wrong, he doesn't do much damage to them so others are faster
>The only talent that makes him somewhat usable makes it so you must never die the entire match.
Wrong
> This forces you to play passively and/or sacrifice your bear a lot.
It's not bad to lose misha though

https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/rexxar#kdSr

This is the build you go for as rexxar, ult choice is situational (misha if you need a bit more damage, boars if you want to set shit up for your team).

Easy prey at level 1 does improve camp clear speed, but not so much as to provide ridiculous value, it's much better to just clear lane with a bird or two then go be slightly slower on siege giants. Because having actual good waveclear as a warrior and a strong solo laner is absurd.

Hunter gatherer is good because rexxar himself has so few means of improving his survivability, it leads to most people trying to go face when trading with him. The extra armor is also nice. You should *never* go animal husbandry because you will lose all value if you die.

Crippling talons should be your default at 7, because it improves your ability to trade and control movement. Misha getting more charges off is nice if you're fighting something like Sonya.

Aspect of the hawk makes rexxar attack as fast as illidan, and he already does more damage than him Misha can conceivably extend this to like full uptime if the target never moves, though that is unlikely. Typically you can expect about 4.5-5.25s of uptime on this, which is generally more than enough to absolutely tunnel some damage into a squishy or severely win a trade in a solo lane. Dire beast is bad, don't ever take it.

Thrill of the hunt has massive synergy with aspect of the hawk and crippling talons, you're now running around at basically mounted speed on both yourself and misha. Feign death is good v dive
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>>188057467
Not soon enough!
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>>188058984
>>188056062
Kalimdor Frenzy further synergizes with thrill of the hunt and aspect of the hawk. Hit something with Q then chase them the fuck down while putting out disruptive misha stuns and a ton of damage. Spirit bond can be good if you've gone misha upgrade at 10 instead of boars, but you generally should not need it.
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>>188057467
uh maybe around they time they make him playable below high grandmaster
soo right after vikings get another skin
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>>188053604
>mfw you were to jew to buy the goblin two years ago and now are sitting on 80k gold, all the heroes, master skins are for shards and nothing left to spend that gold on
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>>188058984
>Take aspect of the hawk
>Don't take Taking Flight for almost constant uptime, mana refund, and extended range
And post discarded. Even if your post was correct, he's still worse than most warriors.
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>>188059848
The extra slow+duration is better than the lower cd and mana refund on Q *if you hit a hero*, the range is basically a non-factor.

>worse than most warriors
Rexxar is a CC bruiser and a potential damage threat if you build him right, he's designed with the niche of being ridiculous to deal with in a lane, he's not a fucking solo warrior. So please try to figure out what the fuck the hero does before you start telling other people they're wrong about shit.

What he does isn't *always* useful, but when it is, he is by far the best at it.
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>>188059779
Same. Knowing Blizzard they'll probably bring it back eventually, though. Maybe.

>>188057467
dehaka/greymane skin when
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>>187992031
>kinky beetle
he DOES say "kinky", doesn't he?! why?
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>>188060759
He also sometimes tells Zagara she has nice legs.
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>>188060337
The extra slow would be great in a 1v1 situation. However, you're a warrior and a CC based warrior at that. Thus, you're going to be in teamfights often. It would be much better, and more mana efficient, to have the ability to throw out lots of birds in team fights. This also has the added benefit of synergizing well with aspect of the hawk.

Yes, Rexxar is annoying to deal with in a lane, but so are many specialists (their job) and other bruisers like Sonya. Sonya is especially important here because she is way more than a threat than Rexxar will ever be both in lane and teamfights. So what does Rexxar have here? Annoyance? That's great and all, but there are much better heroes to pick that fill his role. There's a reason why his pickrate is extremely low. He fucking sucks. He can barely bruise, and he can barely warrior.

Rexxar was much better before everyone had 5 stuns and slows, but times have changed. He's obsolete and only serves for a niche that's either not worth filling or someone can do better while also doing even more.
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>>188060759
he's into bondage
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was tracer buffed? Her guns aren't shitty meele range anymore and she actually does damage now
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>>187991343
Kaelthas, instead of dealing single target damage focuses and punishes teams that cling to each other tight.

If enemy has heroes that surely stay close to each other and doesn't have many gap closers make convection>flame strike build

but the safest bet for me is; mana addict, living bomb spam build,

Also I feel your pain, I started to play when it was zeratul-nova free week.
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>>188003420

>Alarak
>TLV
>Tassadar
>Valla
>Greymane
>Any tank because when enemies pick tanks they survive but when I pick anything not Varian to "tank", I melt in seconds
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>>187999815

>Playing Chromie

I mean, patrician taste and all but Enjoy that character while you can. She's getting nerfed into oblivion for being "too newbie unfriendly" which translated to WAH I DON'T HAVE THE APM OF A FUCKING ROTTING BEET, I CAN'T AVOID THESE ATTACKS THAT ARE EASILY DODGED IF YOU MOVE .0000000002 DEGREES NORTH! Shit. I mean there's going to be no choice but to fap it out to Dreadlord Jaina and Li-Ming if you want to play some caster-nukers at this rate.
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>>188005769

>Tracer
>Good

Yeah okay
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omg I HATE LOSING!!!
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>>188063230
>[3. Reddit]
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>>188061363
>but so are many specialists (their job) and other bruisers like Sonya
yes agreed, sylvanas and medivh are terrifying in solo lane
and alarak is shit because he isnt a specialist
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>>187984283
Nova brawl was the best

>Move to mid creeps
>Alt-tab and enjoy what you do until it ends
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>>188063402
brb gonna join a channel with 3 players max online
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>>188062869
>Any tank because when enemies pick tanks they survive but when I pick anything not Varian to "tank", I melt in seconds
You're positioning wrong. Tanking isn't about "taking damage", it's about enabling your team to position correctly (usually through your own positioning and CC threat).
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>>188062869
so all the heroes that actually require more than 2 neurons knocking around in your head?
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>>188056351
Just practice him in QM a whole bunch. Put W and Q on quickcast bare minimum, preferably everything. He's hella fun, I'm just mad that he's a gamble in gold because people don't get the really basic concept of "don't let them rape our buildings".
I'm just waiting for the season reset so I can spam Xul for 10 placement games and shoot my rank up to "this is no longer glorified QM" tier.
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>>187978757
Nigger tassadar shield has very shitty duration and that faggotry can never happen unless you get shield battery or Khaydarin quest.

You nigger african should remember that Archon was %100 bonus damage, YET it sucked more ass since it pushed people to pick it more.

Archon has shitty animation + attack speed and Tassadar with himself with -25 armor or Oracle %hp damage can outdamage shit archon quickly.

Oh and, with that build Tassadar can out sustain Archon tassadar, casualpleb.
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>>188063586
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind next time that brawl shows up.
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>>188063230
>Not picking spec but nigger orc hero on shit huge nuke map

Give me your name so we can report you.
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Is hero's of the storm the most embarrassing E-sport ever?
I tuned into it for like 30 seconds and I kid you not, they have these professional looking people at this nice ass desk and everything an then they cut to screen of some fat bearded shutin who couldn't even be assed to clean their dirty little room.

How embarrassing. I would legit off myself on stage if I was one of the commentators there if I showed up in a suit and had to take seriously one of these utter losers.

They should make a policy where you don't get to appear on camera unless you get 'inspected' first an if you're some fat neet who can't clean their fucking room or make their damn bed you don't get to be interviewed, period.

What a joke lmao. Never see this happen anywhere else.
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>>188065224
>Traps, gays, sissies, faggots
>Dirty room

If you think dirty room is their most prioritized problem, think once again.
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>>188065224
Game will be dead soon, they stopped caring.
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>>188010396

>Alexstraza in HoTS

g1138 continues his tirade to draw all of HoTS's ladies. The battle is GOOD
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>>188045883
Same on everything except Hellscream's Eyes for the line and angry cloud mount.
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>>188063997

>Tassadar
>Taking more then 2 neurons

I mean, those 2 neurons have to be within your fucking teammates, but all the same he's not hard.
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>>188065616
>that dreadlord jaina

wew he is the best
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>>188064123
fuck off /pol/
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>Lucio
Gee, this guy is pretty fun. Are there situations in which you take Reverse Amp or is it usually just Sound Barrier?

also what on earth do you take at 13
>>
ALRIGHT CHUMS

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5gqmA
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>>188066342
ask this >>188018187 guy
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>>188060759
it was one of his unit quotes in TFT, back when he was voiced by steve blum, instead of everyone around him being voiced by steve blum
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>>188066342
reverse amp is a great playmaker but against most halfway decent comps if you're solo supp it's hard to get away with it.
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>>188066342
reverse amp is a 33% increase to healing without ever having to use it, if you don't need the big shield reverse amp is amazing for its playmaking potential and increase of general utility.
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>>188062416
tracer has only had 2 balance patches ever
one was nerfing her right after release
the other was replacing her get-2-blink-charges-after-recall talent with useless garbage
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>>188064123
tass can only do damage while sitting in place, archon can attack while moving
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>>188066342
reverse amp became more popular when they buffed his cdr talent at 16 because the increased amp duration synergises with it
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>win 2 in a row
>mm matches me with brazilians

woop dee doo
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>>188067328
>>188067454
>>188067917
Much obliged, friends.
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>>187946836
Just found out you can get free 7 days stimpack from playing tutorial again
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i really hope all plat players die in worst way possible. and their families get raped 24/7, stabbed, burnt alive & so on & so on and continuously kept alive for a very long time.
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Post Healers that are not Pandas
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>>188070765
I would but people don't make enough art of my favorite paladin bro-dad.
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bets not qm
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>>187987872
>Someone's getting fired.

Nah, Blizzard loves these sneaky previews.
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>>188072925
>meme league
all on blue

>>187987872
>implying it was an accident
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>>188072925
Blue, red has very few disables outside of ETC.
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ppl on plat dont know when to go/ when they can kill core. so pathetic. every game clowns. shouldnt have thrown my fucking placements + then some more. now i waste time climbing out, so far im not climbing. dunno maybe i should lvl greymane. i could easily climb on anub garrosh arthas but rlly dont wanna play warrior for these subhumans, its just antifun
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>>188073253
okay thanks for letting us know
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>>188013085
alexstraza is wearing a thong in wow. Sylvanas is wearing the thong-over-pants in wow as well.
When Alexstraza is added she'll (hopefully) be in her battle thong.
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>>188074061
She'll have skin-tight leggings and make my dick diamonds.
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Garrosh is mighty. No one is mightier!
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how the FUCK do i get good at garden of terror

i know it's a shit map inherently but it always feels like the entire enemy team is clearing every seed camp at the same time on both sides while my garrosh splitpushes
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>>188074720
stop posting gucci
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i went to google alexstraza for some hot dragon elf action and found fucking tauren inflation porn.
What the fuck.
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>>188074720
Get small seeds asap
Use terror to push a fort opposite of your team so the enemy is forced to lose a fort or both
Group with your team if you want to push for a keep with the terror unless its early game, in which case just focus on putting damage into the keep
Be aware of where the enemy is

I always ignore the towers, break the side wall and start hitting directly into the fort/keep.
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>>188074990
>using google for porn like some barbarian
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>>188075180
wasn't even looking for porn, just wanted an alexstraza-related pic to post.
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>>188072925
if liming is good and use the vikings to reset her cds then totally on blue
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Alexstraza is going to have a loincloth, more conservative than a thong and keeps the whole "Savage/Conan-esque sorceress" deal she has going on, a nice compromise while keeping her general aesthetic.
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>>188075305
>>188073170
>>188073157
We lost. Li Ming didn't have quick cast and did awfully on resets.

Vikings completely carried them.
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>>188075419
Well, glad HotS saltybet isn't a thing or I would've lose all my money.
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>>188075297
>hot dragon elf action
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bets again for kicks
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Am I missing anything by not playing ranked? Sounds like pure cancer
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>>188077313
>everything is cancer
I mean
like

if you prefer the batshit retarded comps of QM
or the "lmao dude it's not even ranked" and "build around my first pick abathur pls" of unranked
go ahead, nobody is stopping you
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>>188076835
>gucci with the ragequit
kek
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>>188076835
if your illidan is not stupid and only dives in when butcher has already used his charge then blue
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>>188076835
easiest win EVER for right side team
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>>187946836

>>rotating into every lane for ganks like I'm Nyx Nyx Nyx Nyx

XD
I can only wonder how many people get this joke here...
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>XD
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>>188081059
>xd dota guys haha
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>Doing placement
>Team is silver
>We keep losing because someone is wildly out of possession or picking absolute dog shit talents

I know I'm not masters but I am much better than this shit an I feel like I'm gunna get stuck here because my team is throwing even when I have 7 kills and 2 deaths that doesn't matter because bliz mmr.
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>>188083219
improve
be consistent
play a lot

annnnd that's all there is to it

>bunga team
if you can't win 55%+ of your games down where people are basically bots you 100% deserve to be there friendo
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>>188083219
oh i know that feel bro but when i was with my mental lagging friends when we finished the placements they got silver 5-bronze1-3 and i got plat 3 so it depends of the way you play but yeah a good team helps a lot
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>>188013328
only if the other team has no mobility
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>>188084443
>they got silver 5-bronze1-3 and i got plat 3 so it depends of the way you play
>so it depends of the way you play
what do you think he meant by this
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Alpha here.

I only play alpha characters but I'm tired of losing games because I never play supports. What's the most alpha support?
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>>188085430
Rehgar
Kharazim
Uther
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>>188085430
here u go amigo:
https://heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/List_of_heroes_by_release_date
every hero before TLV is an alpha hero
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>>188085676
You are my sunshine, anon.
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now this is what I call bullshit lol
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Oh hell yeah! I GOT A LEGENDARY!

IT'S SAMURO! He is the last remaining blademaster to wear the banner of the Burning Blade, is on a warrior's pilgrimage in search of vengeance and redemption for his fallen clan. It will be a long journey, but he has sworn an oath to restore his clan's honor.

Maybe I'll play him in 2 years or 3, if this game's servers won't be shut down by that time. Maybe they'll finally rework him into a hero that is viable outside of Bronze league?

Oh yeah finally a legendary Hero after buying 2 7k heroes for gold and buying 2 for 750 gems each.

And a duplicate of a skin that I recently crafted!

The other legendaries were a Murky announcer and a duplicate Murky announcer!

Blizzard's mighty """"""""Å–NG""""""""""" working as intended!
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What makes the mastery taunts have the gold hue? I know there's level 25, 50, 75 and 100 emblems but in the dev video none of them turned gold?
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>>188087901
Just abuse TL
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>>188087901
>queue right after since I only have to win 2 games in a row, I can do that
>lagspike
>dc in select screen
>come back
>-600 points

lol
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>>188062869
Seriously, listen to this guy: >>188063725

I'm backing this up because I got some friend of mine who's an ex-wowfag to play the game, and his first game of Tyrael he just started running into the enemy team 1v5 thinking that he was meant to be drawing aggro like the other team were NPC's or some shit.
If your moba actually makes this a viable strategy it's a shit moba. Tanks in mobas are usually disable monsters that jump in with the team nearby to either A) disable the whole enemy team so your allies can drop their pants and shit all over them or B) single somebody out so you can shit on them like it's a 1v5 (e.g. the quintessential Stitches/Pudge clone character) or C) react to some cocky assassin diving your assassin/DPS, handcuff them, and drag them to your cop car from hell and drive them back to their fountain.
tl;dr mobas have a lot in common with RPG's but shit changes a lot when your biggest threat is other human beings
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>>188076835
Given the gold/silver players I'd actually vote red because people don't know how the fuck to deal with split pushing, Morales, or Butcher.
All competent players would be blue no contest though.
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I see a lot of people pick mosh pit, but that ult seems pretty fucking hard to pull off in modern Heroes. Everyone and their mother has 50 stuns and other CC options that cancel it compared to when he came out. I understand how much of a game changer that ult is, but when a lucio can just push you a bit it seems the usefulness has wavered. Stage dive being global is pretty huge.
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>>188089521
Blue won
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>>188089521
>cassia and jojo
>butcher getting to play the gaame

>>188089574
>smurf placements
>pick jimmy
>enemy team has ETC
>Q his mosh
>he dies
>after the third time he starts literally inting
whew

also jimmy buffs when, he deserves something
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>>188089608
mmmmm... acceptable~
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>>188088775
You have to be a real special kind of retarded to complain about epic/legendary duplicates when they're objectively better than new items 99% of the time but you're a third worlder judging by your chat so I'm not surprised.
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>>188089746
>inting
this is the most retarded sounding word ever
just say feeding
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>>188090316
You have to be a real special kind of subhuman to care about skins, voice lines and other cool SHIZZ XDDD

Shards don't buy heroes
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>>188090681
>Not having all heroes already

Tough luck, Ivanov. Maybe you can steal some money from your babushka to buy some gems.
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>>188017678
Go the ranged on the prowl inner rage build, really fun and good.
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>>188090681
legendary items rank

#1: Actual new hero (but this never happens ever)
#2: Legendary skin that you specifically wanted (slightly more likely but still almost never happens)
#3: Duplicates/400 shards
#9999 literally anything else, including butcherlists or horses
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>>188090681
>Whines about getting skin duplicates after crafting a specific skin
>Also claims nobody cares about skins
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>>188090790
How pathetic is your life that you have own all the heroes (most of which you don't even play) and care about which horses they ride & what is their dress? You aren't a successful person. You browse this board.
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>>188088775
samuro isn't useless outside of bronze you just have to play him like a specialst and jungle/push 24/7 instead of trying to get ebin invis ganks
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>>188090992
If you don't want to own all the heroes why are you complaining about not getting them in chests, Stefanovic?
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>>188091063
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>>188091483
hotslogs is literally dead
stop trying to use it to win arguments
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>>188091063
No, at last check he actually was.

>can't lane
>can't team fight
>shitty jungle clear
>relatively weak early
>difficult to use clone ult

>>188091483
>tfw ming has a 40% wr at most mmrs and people still call her braindead/easy
>blizzard literally changed her difficulty because of reddit
>negative wr at every mmr
ebinnn
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>>188091834
>>188091834
expected this dumb answer pulled out of the ass. ^_^

its used by significantly less ppl than in preseason but its still used by a significant number of ppl so its a pretty good place to see hero winrates & talents :D

i wonder why samuro is at the top winrates of all but master league, where he is suddenly at the very bottom.

not a useless hero btw ^_^
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>>188091834
>almost nobody plays him
>the few that do usually lose
muh sample size tho

API when, I really want hots to have an op.gg equivelent
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So now that all the Resurrecting Kel'Thuzad videos are out, what did ya'll think of them? It is neat getting to see the beta builds of his abilities with shitty animation and old models.
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>Hero league
>Plat
>Guy first picks raynor
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>>188093791
I really quite enjoyed them, not unlike that one Gazlowe video they made so long ago featuring the voice actor.

>>188093808
Not ideal but fine, desu.
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>>188093791
There's still one left isn't there?
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>>188091951
ming may have a low winrate but that doesn't mean she's not braindead
she is still just "throw purple lmao" with no thinking involved
if she has a bad wr it's because of weak numbers, not high gameplay difficulty
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>>188094092
>just because she has a low win rate doesn't mean she isn't easy
like I can get braindead, especially if taking disintegration
but her numbers were nerfed to the point where she requires a tad of finesse to play

>>188093808
curious as to what the other team picks
I've honestly seen better performance out of <diamond raynors than valla, or whatever other meta adcs
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>>188094035
Yeah, I'm an idiot.
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>>188094092
>throw purple with no thinking involved
>miss because no thinking
>do no damage
>lose
>she's still easy though
hmmm
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>>188094889
having to hit your spells does not make a hero less braindead
aiming properly is not thinking
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Why do I keep dying as Xul? Like, a million deaths.

Games have been lasting thirty years and I end up with double digits deaths. I feel like I should be considering suicide.
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>>188095107
You think he's more durable than he is and go into teamfights you can't win too much

or

You splitpush too hard, tunnel vision too deep into enemy territory without any map awareness, get rotated on, and die
>>
>moba
>thinking
Babs?

>>188095107
Yeah, that's bad. You want to clear the wave then look to rotate and clear another lane and/or gank with E. Map awareness is important, especially if they have shit that'll be looking to gank you.

>butcher
>zera, nova, valeera
>kerrigan
>whatever
Look at the map. Determine whether or not you're able to safely push the wave. Sometimes you'll literally just want to sit on your hands within experience range or even at the allied towers and wait. It's shit but preferable to dying.
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>>188095107
you are pushing lanes all the way up to enemy forts without looking at minimap and then being suprised when the 3 enemies who weren't showing on map pop out of a bush
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>>188094558
>curious as to what the other team picks
Malf
Greymane
Jaina
Johanna
Zagara

After he first picked we got a Garry, Naz, Morales, and I went Anub.
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>>188095230
>>188095251
>>188095259
It is mainly teamfights, actually. I feel surprisingly useless in them.

Oh well. He's finally level 9 and I can stop.
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>>188097539
>4 mages vs 4 mage killers
Lel
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How fast is the climb in HL, I got placed in gold 4 with an adjustment of 5?
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>>188098363
Wrong image, but I guess since all I'm doing is throwing a pity party, it is good enough.
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>>188097539
why are you stopping at level 9? why not go to 10? or stopping at 5?
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>>188101741
I am playing whatever is closest to level up usually. When Xul hits 9, he pops down halfway to the bottom of the list.
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Man blizzard really loves horsefuckers don't they?

Even the next ranked mounts have nexus tramp stamps.
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>>188102836
This triggers my hyper ocd autism
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>>188102836
>>188103794
i understand
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>>188099639
I don't know how they handle new placements since I was playing ranked since season 1, but I think it depends on the uncertainty of the system for what it thinks your rank 'should' be. Win more than you lose, or vise versa and uncertainty increases.

But heroes has a trashcan mmr system so take that with a grain of salt. I started in diamond after the first season ended, and hover around plat1/Dia3
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>>188095051
Only half true.

You have to think when you're aiming when you first start out. After awhile though, it becomes an unconscious skill. This is especially true of ming's Q. Either sufficiently fast forethought and target prediction, or experienced muscle memory makes a huge difference in a fight.
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>be gold shitter
>person A says to B "oh wow i've been watching your stream all night long"
>B is apparently a fairly popular gurl streamer
who gives a shit about some goldshit ranked play? are people that desperate to see tits?
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>>188105797
i mean if you want to watch skillful competitive high-level streams hots is like the complete opposite of the game you should be looking for
>>
>No broken hero
Bliz I want Akam now!
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Is there a list of heroes linking similarities with ones from other mobas? I used to play a lot of dota 2 but it has a heinous amount of spics.
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>>188106840
>No naked hero
Bliz I want Tyrande now!
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>>188109740
Diablo is naked
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Ok so I have a question. I'm new and been playing a lot of Uther and I really want this Judgement skin.

I understand you can only buy gems with real game money and not the shards needed to unlock the skin. Do the shards come from loot boxes?
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>>188109230
>coming to hots to be rid of spics
anon...
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>>188110041
>Do the shards come from loot boxes?
Yes
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>>188109889
Not naked enough!
He needs a BDD flopping everywhere
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>>188109230
stiches is a pudge but with 10% of the damage and no actual slows or stuns
all the supports are dazzle-tier "just sit back and be a healbot lmao"
tracer is weaver
zuljin is huskar but with longer range, lower damage, and less ability to dive in and go man-mode to initiate-fights/ganks (but he gets shallow grave as an ult)
raynor is a basically ranged wraith king -- you can play him with only your right mouse button and no keyboard

azmodan is kind of like tinker with the constant globally pushing all the enemy's lanes while they can do nothing about it
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>>188075180
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>>188077313
Ranked is not worth it if your aren't at least diamond. You will be picking to counter the enemies and the rest of your team will be picking three assassins no matter what.
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>>188105797
It depends, do you have nice tits.
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How the hell do you counter toad nazeebo? The dude just shits out damage on a 5 second cool down in a huge area. He has great wave clear, lane sustain, push. There is like no drawback in picking nazeebo, just like dehaka
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>>188110172
It's WAY worse in Dota. It's not hyperbole to say that 80% of matches on PerUS East are at LEAST 50% South Americans.

>>188109230
I don't have a list but since I played Dota for like 4 years before I quit I can do it for you. I'll prioritize playstyle over actual mechanics if they borrow some shit from other heroes.

>Alarak = plays like Earth Spirit with actual burst
>Cassia = plays like Luna, Lich ult
>Gul'Dan = Pugna as a spell DPS hero
>Kael'Thas = simplified Invoker, plays like Quas/Exort Eul's burst build
>Illidan = Ember Spirit, ult is like Spirit Breaker Q but way faster
>Lunara = Viper but not as boring
>Malthael = Death Prophet
>Nova = shitty Bounty Hunter
>Raynor = Sniper but less obnoxious
>Samuro = Phantom Lancer
>Butcher = Ursa
>Tracer = Weaver
>Valeera = Riki
>Varian = Legion Commander, especially with Taunt build
>Zeratul = QoP's kit, but has stealth and Chronosphere/Song of the Siren hybrid as an ult
>Zul'Jin = Huskar
>Anub'Arak = Sand King, has Bane nightmare as an ult
>Artanis = tanky Venge
>Arthas = plays like Tidehunter
>Chen = Brewmaster
>Dehaka = tanky Batrider
>Diablo = plays like Tusk
>ETC = tanky Enigma
>Garrosh = Axe/Tiny hybrid
>Johanna = plays like Centaur/Slardar
>Leoric = Undying, has better Tusk Q as an ult
>Rexxar = Lone Druid
>Sonya = plays like Clockwerk but actually does significant damage all game and can self-sustain
>Stitches = Pudge
>Kharazim = Juggernaut, he's technically a support but does damage
>Lt. Morales = Io/Wisp. Medivac is like Io ult if it could bring your whole team.
>Tyrande = Mirana, arrow is global but doesn't stun. Can heal allies but is not a strong healer.
>Uther = Omniknight with DK stun and Ravage.
>Azmodan = Nature's Prophet
>Murky = Bristleback
>Nazeebo = Warlock with better damage outside of ult, no damage share mechanic
>The Lost Vikings = shitty Meepo
>Xul = lategame Naga, one of his ults is literally Poison Nova, in name too
>Zagara = Broodmother with global teleports
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how do i trigger a hero's loadout voiceline?
i had zagara's "cum to mama" line selected but she never said anything
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>>188114078
X
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>>188114078
there's a dedicated keybind but I replaced all of mine with the different pings
just hold down X and drag left
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>>188114012
>Kael'Thas
>plays like Quas/Exort Eul's burst build
what the fuck are you on about
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>>188113912
Walk around his toads and hit him with ranged AA's.
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>>188114265
His E is like tornado but how it works with his Q/W is a lot closer to the Eul's combo. KT's E doesn't have enormous initiation range like Invoker's even by HotS standards, and it only hits one target, 3 if you buff it. It's a lot more like skillshot Eul's than tornado.
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>>188114386
it's nothing like euls or tornado it's just a 1s stun with tornado graphics
are you gonna tell me falstad is like razor because of lightning rod
and kt plays nothing like invoker, he just stays back in fights, pokes with his spells, sometimes stuns someone out of position and bursts them down with his team
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>>188114583
who fucking cares, why are you so up in arms about this
you gonna flip out because I said Cassia plays like Luna even though she doesn't have a blind or Lich ult too?
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i mean you said you'd prioritize playstyle over mechancis but he doesnt play like invoker at all, he just kinda looks like him
same for lunara, varian, chen, garrosh, kharazim, tyrande, azmodan, nazeebo

most of these comparisons are just based on "they have one ability kind of like a dota ability" even if the hero's playstyle is completely different
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>>188115312
lunara does huge damage via dots
varian is a beefy manfighter that can taunt people
chen's W->E combo is functionally identical to Brew's Q, evasive brawler is a non-RNG take on Brew's passive, and his three spirits shit is extremely similar to Brew's
Garrosh has a fucking AoE self-taunt, a spin attack, and is pretty fucking tanky. His toss is almost identical to Tiny's.
Kharazim does a bunch of autoattack damage, crits about once every three hits, runs people down, can AoE heal, and has an ult where he disappears and assrapes people for a few seconds
Tyrande and Mirana both have long-range skillshots that do more damage the longer they fly and also have good burst and autoattack damage output
Azmodan is a global-presence splitpusher through and through
Nazeebo's entire shtick in teamfights is wombo comboing people with AoE assrape and a giant summon

like this isn't fucking HoN where Magebane is LITERALLY Anti-Mage and Witch Hunter is LITERALLY Lion and whatever the fuck because Blizzard wanted their own coherent versions of Dota's kits, and I'm trying to answer the question the best I can given that context as someone who has experience with Dota
that's the last response you get from me, stop being pedantic jesus christ
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>>188115735
waifufag, should probably cut off his dick and stop masturbating to videogames
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>>188115792
viper is a big tanky asshole who singles out one guy, says "fuck you", and slows him to death
lunara is a squishy gnat who flits around the edge of a fight poisoning everybody and doing lots of damage over time. they're both poison-themed but their playstyles are nothing alike
tiny jumps on heroes and does shitloads of melee burst damage
his and garrosh's tosses are cosmetically similar but he very rarely uses it for the same purposes except for cheeky level 1 cliff nonsense
nazeebo's giant summon is a relatively minor part of his teamfight presence. warlock is all about the golem, but for nazeebo it's a minor side dish next to the main dish of spamming his damage spells
i'll give you chen and azmo i guess

i stand by my claim that most of these comparisons are just based on shit looking similar though. it's like if I asked for beer recommendations and you named ones with similar label colors to the one I liked instead of going by taste
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>>188115801
Why would a man cut off his dick before stopping to masturbate.
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>>188113912
>/bronzeg/ unironically having trouble dodging the literal slowest skillshots ingame
What the fuck
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>>188116383
a lot of loyalty for a hired perv
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>>188116467
It doesn't matter what I am, what does matter is what I do while I intently stare at jiggling tits.
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>>188099639
You could make it to master from right now if you play a bunch and aren't actually gold.
Assuming you got placed where you belong, you're fucked. You might possibly have a chance to get into plat if you get lucky. Your adjustment says you're about gold 2 I think.
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>>188116657
After that post now I'm at my promo for moving to g3 and the current adjust is 16.
I know I'm not making masters maybe diamond next season but I have nothing to do for the next two days so I'm hopping I can eak out the plat bear in time.
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>>188116450
One on one they are easy to dodge

In teamfights you are guaranteed to have those toads keep landing over and over.
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>>188117035
Oh, ya. You got plat, not sure about diamond. What's your tag?
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>>188117196
Maybe if you stand directly Infront of him or have the reflexes of a toad yourself.
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>>188110041
Ok same guy here and what is this game's loot system
>get some chests from leveling up and leveling heroes
>get like 30 shards combined
>Judgement Uther is 1600 shards
>got Primeevil Diablo from a box
I mean its nice I got Diablo but still
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>>188090864
>#1: Actual new hero (but this never happens ever)

I got both Cassia and Genji out of normal chests on their release day. What are the fucking odds.

Should've invested in some trusts or something.
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>>188118024
if a lootbox gives you a duplicate of an item you already have you get 1/5th-1/4th the shard price of the item instead, so the longer you go an and the more chests you open the more shards you'll get from chests
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>>188118125
Oh alright that sounds a lot better. Guess I better grind then
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>>188118234
They pile up quickly simply because there's really not much to buy, since you'll get most things from boxes anyway.
t. 15k shards
I only bought the blue cloud. I am going to buy dreadlord Jaina, though, that's my new favorite skin.
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>>188114012
>>Xul = lategame Naga, one of his ults is literally Poison Nova, in name too

is this dude for real ? looks like you havent played diablo 2.. teenagers these days
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>wanted to get the goblin Chromie skin
>hear she's being gutted soon
Ah suffering my old friend
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>>188118349
It's a flat buff if you're not shit.
>better talents
>Even if you don't get any combo q, you do more damage just landing one every 15 seconds, so that's like a 20% hit rate if you're constantly poking.
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How do people play this god awful unbalanced shit heap of a game? Too many broken heroes to ban and can only ban 1 before first pick

HotS needs to just fuck off already
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>>188118349
The only thing being nerfed on her is her Q and honestly its not even her best damage skill, in my opinion

I usually go the dragons breath build
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>>188118594
desu every hero in hots is underpowered
instead of nerfing the broken ones they just need to buff the shit out of everything else
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What the fuck is that talent that AAs reveal enemies for 4 seconds good for? I takes 4 seconds for zera a nova to cloak anyway so it's fucking useless
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>>188118669
it takes 3 seconds for stealth
those reveal talents are a must when you are against stealths faggot
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>>188118669
"doing damage reveals enemies" effects, whether they're lunara/tracer/malfurion/tyrande, are useless vs stealth because damaging stealthies reveals them anyways
the point is that it gives vision when people juke into a bush or run out of range of you
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>>188118660
>malthael
>kaelthas
>genji
>anubarak
>butcher
>big broken faggot skeleton releasing soon
yeah no every hero is underpowered, that's why you see so many Sgt Hammers and Tyraels right? cause the game is balanced around the worst heroes, not the flavor of the month shit chute that's new patches nowadays
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tyrande's is especially useless though since her owl gives vision in an aoe anyways
it should really reveal in its whole vision range, or have a talent to do so.
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>>188118825
yes i think every hero should be as impactful and game-changing as those ones
this game would be a lot better if teamfights ended with everyone dead like 5x sooner than they actually do.
fights are too slow, eveyrone lives too long, healing is too good,
cc durations are too short to kill people during a stun duration without 3+ heroes focus firing and/or chain-stunning

i mean pro games get fucking 2 minute teamfights with 0 deaths

blizz went way too far in the direction of "dying without getting to respond is unfun, so we'll just make it so nobody ever dies"
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>>188119016
gtfo with your dota logic, the game snowballs WAY too fucking hard especially being objective based. If someone can combo me from full to nil health faster than chromie, kaelthas or stacked butcher I'll take a fat shit in a box and hand deliver it to the CEO of Blizz myself
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>>188118825
>kaethas
>broken
You really really don't know do you?

He's been nerfed a total of... 4 times since his release. 4 massive nerfs.
>Ignite + Chain Bomb removed
>Ignite + Flamethrower removed
>Chain Bomb removed
>Sun King's Fury removed
That's not even counting things like the scaling changes or the removal of bolt.
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>>188119139
Yet his aoe damage is better than chromies since it hits twice, has skillshot CC and an ult that kills most assassins and supports outright
Maybe just like kelthuzad he's just fucking broken from theory and will never be otherwise unless he gets gutted and is unplayable. Blizz is way, way worse at balancing than Riot and I didn't know it could be possible.
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>pyroblast
>good
oh it's a bronze qm player complaining about the silver who stomped him last game, i see
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>>188119348
there are so many counters to pyroblast
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>>188119404
Kaelthas is the hero most rewarded by one key press in the game. I guess it's stupid to ask for balance for a party game, leave it to the real moba
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>>188119348
Eh, riot is balancing their heroes by just making them all the same.
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>>188119404
which ability are you talking about
because pyroblast is fine desu
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>>188119793
>riot balancing
>every hero is identical and does shit damage, but if you're two items ahead, you one shot people
Bravo
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>>188119906
>two item advantage
imagine being level 13 when the enemy team is 8
like, where they can't even show on the map
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wasn't the league stat that a 10% gold advantage at 20 minutes leads to a 90% chance to win
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>>188120112
I'm not sure, but even slight leads can snowball out of control, especially now.
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>>188119016
I play this game specifically because of those reasons
I fucking hated league and dotas 2 second fights
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Was Tyrande added to the stealth shitter approved list of shitter heroes to shit up QM? The worst part is most of them go owl build and get rewarded because they get comboed with another stealth shitter that scouts for them allowing to the shitty owl for 20% into stealth burst combo.
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>>188118594
Don't want to play the rest of the mobas, so hots turns out to be the least bad moba.
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I hate Chromie so goddamn much
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>>188118758
Similar to the Indigestion talent of Stitches. The retchling gives you vision and you can hook enemies easier.
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>>188119132
This is the mistake dota players make, they try to balance hots without thinking about the power of the objectives because dota has none.
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>>188122557
Kelthuzad is a hero ripped straight from the likes of Dota so enjoy the game while you can. Uninstalling this piece of shit.
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>>188122712
So long, don't come back.
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>>188122825
"There's fun in inherent inbalance!"
"he wuz a boss n sheet"
This upcoming patch will be the best thing to ever happen, it's actually giving me the push to quit putting myself through this fucking wringer.
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>>188122557
As a Dota player I feel like the objectives are too strong.

You can lose every single team fight, get one objective late game and win on some maps.
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>>188123501
thats whats happening to me lately on some maps , like 10-15 minutes him suddendly the enemy team manages to kill all of us and take objetive 2 times (despite not taking a single fort in the whole game)
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>>188123790
Don't get me wrong it's not enough to make me outright hate HoTS by itself. But it's definitely annoying when it happens and you feel helpless.

I find it happening less and less as I climb the leagues so that's a good thing at least.
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>>188123790
Early game leads mean pretty much nothing in this game unless you really push hard for objectives and even then it doesn't guarantee you win. The problem is simply that early deaths don't mean anything, if you kill someone before 15 min you can maybe start sieging a fort / keep but he will be back up to defend it in pretty much no time. Add to this that your death timer is tied to your level. So if someone retarded on your team gets caught while you're ahead they're out for way longer than an enemy hero if caught him while ahead.
I have lost so many games where my team was just rofl-stomping for 10-15 minutes with a score of 20-3 and then one person gets caught because lel why group when we're ahead. This leads to the remaining 4 people going all in on the objective because lel we were ahead all the time, should be an easy win again right? Completely ignoring that the talent advantage is gone. This leads to 1 or 2 people dying, so we're down defending with 3-4 against the objective the enemy team won. Repeat above step again because people can't accept that early lead doesn't translate to an item advantage like in other mobas and just lose because of staggered deaths lead to never being able to 5v5 team fight ever.
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>>188124558
>death timer is tied to your level
didn't knew that
for some reason i used to think it was "the more you die the longer it takes you respawn"
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>>188124742
Death timers:
1 15 sec
2 16 sec
3 17 sec
4 18 sec
5 19 sec
6 20 sec
7 21 sec
8 22 sec
9 23 sec
10 24 sec
11 26 sec
12 29 sec
13 32 sec
14 36 sec
15 40 sec
16 44 sec
17 50 sec
18 56 sec
19 62 sec
20+ 65 sec

In other words, fucking group at 10+ as teamfights become more important, and NEVER SPLIT 15+ because that's when death timers get super long and you can't afford that much downtime.
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>>188118594
Even though this game forever deemed to suck Dota2 masterlord's big juicy cock of success.

I must admit it, I play hots because it takes SHORTER than Dota2.

I mean 30-60 min for a game can be much while with good 5 player you can smash the shit of 5 casual le meme hotsshits.
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Have I beaten the only constant meme ?
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>enemy is backdooring my healing fountain in the first 5 min
Now that is just foul play, how desperate can you get?
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>>188125

I miss the time you could literally back door the Fort with a Zag or Abby and just slip away.
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>>188123501
That's the point of hots. It's team based objective play, not a death match. While kills do help, chasing only frags and not using them to your advantage rarely wins you the game and that's how it should be.
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>>188125409
>team league
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>>188125425
No rules in hl and war, boy
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>>188063074
In fairness, being able to just do lotto shots all game because mana is a fucking joke is stupid. I agree that shitters should get shit on for being shit, but having to Touhou all game just because the enemy has a Chromie is just annoying.
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>>188126723
I thought it was more like an unspoken rule.
It's just in bad taste is all
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>>188093791
It's neat to see the design process, but I'm a little worried because the team meeting part of the video implied most of the people who worked on him in HotS had little/no relation with Kelthuzad beforehand.
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>>188127148
A majority of these guys worked on WC3?
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explain to me why people keep picking jaina in HL when both KT and Guldan are free
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>>188128038
They can't wait for Tuesday.
Waifufags.
I'm both, but I like winning so I pick Valla instead.
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>>188128038
i find Kael and gul'dan gameplay boring , sadly i like them as characters more than Jaina
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>>188114012
I do like Rexxar, got him for free thankfully. Pretty much lone druid on easy mode. Might have to try Chen, brewmaster is one my favorites.
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>>188106840
>No broken hero
But anon, Genji has been out for months now!
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>>188128038
Jaina synergizes better with more heroes
It just so happens that KT and Gul'dan are both easier to play and less punishing. On Tuesday that changes.
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>>188106840
>>No broken hero
thank again fagboy
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>Abathur gets a level 20 talent that his slap a instant kill
How much more play would Abathur see?
>>188129415
>Genji
>Broken
Get good you fucking scrub
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>>188129776
>100% pickrate HGC
>100% pick/ban in HL at all levels
yeah he's shit lol
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>>188130005
That doesn't mean he is broken scrub.
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>>188129776
i already play it a lot in QM
i can't push back a few heroes so guess i shouldn't go HL with him
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>alright time to play some hots
>firstpick tracer
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>>188130934
>alright time to play some hots
>nova picker
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>>188130981
>>188130934
>hero league loads up
>BRhuehue123: i pick zarya
>he does
>lose
>BRhuehue123: fkn shit teem jajaja
>9 deaths 12k damage, 9k shielding
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>>188130934
>alright time to play some hots
>perma siege mode Hammer on my team against Genji, Illidan, Kerrigan, and Stitches
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>>188131721
That sounds like a really shitty team tbqhwyf.
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>>188130934
>alright time to play some hots
>first pick Jo
>second pick zul'jin
>zul'jin player bans Anub'arak when the enemy team has Kael'thas and Sylvanas
>Zul'jin then proceeds to flame Johanna the entire game when every single engagement he just focuses Muradin while saying it's because he needs to build up more stacks, fucker even when full on Trait build.
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>>188129683
>Cursed Hollow
>Not banning abathur

Bronze must be fun
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>>188130934
>tfw want to play some HL
>tfw first person instalocks valeera
>tfw it's me
keep getting mad with your srz byznis game son
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>>188132050
>zul'jin player bans Anub'arak when the enemy team has Kael'thas and Sylvanas
I don't see the issue here
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>>188129415
Pick malfurion, alarak or stukov.

Pop silence on him when he yells in japanese.
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>>188021843
murradin
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>>188130934
>Alright time to play some hots
>Some pleb who cannot draft; "Don't worry I wlll go dps lili"
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>>188131749
We still won actually, no thanks to the Hammer
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>>188132367
Mostly because I fucked up the green text.
They had Sylvanas then they got both Kael'Thas and Chromie.
We had Zul'jin and Jo. We would have had priority at getting Anub'arak in the next round of picks but he banned the kinky beetle.
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>>188132875
Does she have brain damage?
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>>188133316
she's a woman bruh
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>big map
>pick xul
>afk push all game
>win

wew
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>>188133316
>>188133437
And yet somehow she manages to have trigger discipline
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>>188133446
>afk push
what?
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>>188133778
brainlessly clearing waves and pushing, ignoring all teamfights and objectives
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>>188133602
Will she be my waifu?
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>>188133838
that's not what afk means
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Fucking Tuesday come already.
I am so unbelievably excited for KT and Jaina. Nothing but frost mages for me.
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>>188134084
that's what afk push means
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why is tychus so fun
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>>188134112
We both know which part of Jaina you are excited about.
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>play sunday
>lose more in a single day than in a whole week
>almost always because of Nova/Jaina/Genji retards
hmmmmmm.........
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>>188134084
it's as if you attack-clicked the enemy base and went afk
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>>188135085
>no cute mage to cuddle while she reads a book in front of the fire
Earth is a shitty planet, fuck this.
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so many fucking slavs playing this game and they all suck dicks, western/eastern europe split when
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>>188135163
What a dumb image. Higher taxes are because, well, they're higher for a bunch of reasons, mainly because the government can, and lower fertility rate is due to the breakdown of the family unit, of which free state daycare (also known as American public schooling) is probably one of the biggest culprits.
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>>188135085
her dreadlord penis?
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>>188010763
Howling blast, frozen tempest, armor at 7, army of dead at 10, the other two frozen talents that freeze enemies in place.

Arthas is best played when your team trusts you and will follow up with your dive. Literally you should just be running in between as many enemies as possible, freezing them and slowing them down.

Cast army to stay alive, use death coil to self heal.

I know it sounds fucking stupid but it's a lot of just walking around the enemy with him.
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>>188135736
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Any EU wants to play quickplay? Need to level a few heroes to 5 to increase my ranked hero pool.
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>>188049512
as a fellow butcher main, losing this talent literally made me drop him from any and all considerations during draft
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>new hero comes out
>retarded overpowered for 2 weeks to get you to buy with real money, goy
>then he gets nerfed into the ground
>when he gets up to a decent playable range, everyone has moved on and he drops to 2% playrate as everyone is waiting for new champ
EVER
FUCKING
TIME
>and yet people still make a fuss over this shit
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>>188136096
yeah man garrosh was crazy overpowered until they nerfed him 2 weeks after release
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>>188136096
this literally happens once every 3-4 hero releases

it's usually only assassins that end up "OP" and require any form of nerfing
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>>188135736
Fuck off. Futafags are worse than fucking footfags.
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I'm done playing today, I went from 70% winrate to 55% and almost always for the same reasons.
Twinblade varians, shitty jaina/liming/nova/genji, reactive parry Artanis on BoE, fuck.
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>>188119348
>Blizz is way, way worse at balancing than Riot and I didn't know it could be possible.
Nah.
Riot uses balancing to enforce a business model and also balances around what looks cool on twitch or youtube highlight reels ON TOP of being massively incompetent.

Blizz is just incompetent.
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>>188136765
I see where you're coming from but I must disagree.
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>thought zarya would become meta after Garrosh release due to how good the synergy is
>tfw 25% WR with her
is suicide my only option?
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>>188137452
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>>188138010
>garrosh Zarya
>having any synergy at all
Thinking that is probably grounds for suicide, yes
They actually have negative synergy in every aspect. The only part they could possibly complement each other in is armor + shields, but that gives Zarya less energy.

What the actual fuck were you thinking, anon?
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>>188137452
There are so many dead and forgotten heroes in league they may as well say they have a 20 hero roster.
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>>188138519
That's the reason I don't want more heroes in hots, what's the point of having ten similar heroes in game.
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>>188067751
>attack move.
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>>188088913
spend your gold.
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>>188138634
It's because the way riot balances their game is fucking braindead. You shouldn't balance one category at a time.

Blizzard is at least doing the outliers more often rather than leaving them for dead.

I'd rather just have Icefrog's approach to balancing though. Once big patch every 3 months with weekly updates for the next month. With 98% of heroes played in the last International this seems to work pretty well.
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>abathur has absolutely no gamesense at all and just sits behind wall, refusing to leave to get xp regardless of safety
thanks for the losses fucking retards
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>>188139069
According to d2g icefrog hadn't been balancing for a while now.
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>>188139069
Games with less rigid hero design see higher hero representation, not necessarily a good thing.

When literally any hero can pick up ADC gear and be a carry then who gives a fuck about hero diversity, every hero might as well be a skin of each other at that point.
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>get matched with pro player
>firstpicks abathur on dragon shire

yeah cool that you dont really give a shit bro but others on your team do
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>>188139789
Abathur is pretty solid on dragon shire.
>NA pros
They're all low-mid master shitters.
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>>188139872
nah it was EU, some guy from tricked esports
and I dont think aba is solid on dragon shire at all, rotations are everything on that map and with aba yours just suck
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>>188138519
>tfw they reworked urgot
>tfw it's colossally awful
Garroshfag thinks they got Garrosh's kit wrong, they haven't seen SHIT yet.
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deff id beyund ur reech :-D
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>>188139967
The most sure way to carry on dragon shire is picking Samuro, gank the one guy taking the obj alone and while your team 4vs4 the enemy team you rotate between all camps and repeat stalling the DK forever and 10-15 min after your team either gets the DK and pushes to the core or he gets stomped but the mercs push the other lanes. If you lose the DK he'll be dead quick anyway because the other team will be busy clearing to push with DK. I have a 19-2 in dragon shire this season by exclusively picking Samuro or Gazlowe when he is banned/picked.
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>>188139967
Dragon Shire is absurdly good for Aba mines.

>everything between lanes are chokepoints
>static objectives with chokepoints leading into them

He's not as good as Falstad or Dehaka or Nazeebo on Dragon Shire, but it's debatable whether Shire or Cursed Hollow is Aba's best map.
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>silenced player
>literally always an afker or feeder
report system works
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>attacking enemy keeps
>entirety of enemy team is either dead or stuck defending
>can close out the game soon
>tribute spawns
>it's a fucking 1/3 tribute no matter who gets it
>fucking half the team breaks away to get trib
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>>188128038
Jaina does F A T burst damage, Kael only has his 1 flamestrike and living bomb

If someone gets taunted/rooted Jaina will be able to shit out a lot more damage on them than Kael will
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>>188141583
its not debatable at all
it's cursed hollow since it's huge, you get the chokes, lanes are fairly static so rotations matters less and the hat matters more, objective spawn allow for easy bodysoaking and hat is great for soaking during a curse

none of this applies to dragon shire outside of having chokes (like every map, really) and thats why he's not great there
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working as intended
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Been about 8 months since I last played. What's the state of the game like now?
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>>188142458
If you play orcs you are a dork
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So what exactly is the rationale behind cho gall being an unstoppable death machine with no counters.

Le he's two heroes so its fair?
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>>188142795
Pretty balanced. You get skins and shit for free now, QM matchmaker is better than ever, lots of mobility heroes shitting up solo queue ranked, Hanamura is gone, praise be Garrosh, and Kel'thuzad coming out in two days

All and all, pretty great going into Blizzcon season.

pic related, all heroes released this year
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Playing Morales is maddening. I watched an Illidan try to 1v1 a Murky and die. This was when I was already dead to Murky because he was chasing kills.
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>>188142967
>So what exactly is the rationale behind cho gall being an unstoppable death machine with no counters.
>with no counters
Nigga just stun him.
Nigga just pick Tychus.
Nigga just pick Anubarak.
Nigga just pick literally any Giant Killer hero.
Nigga just outsoak him.


>tfw the one time you encounter him in QM you have no CC, ino %HP damage, and it's a 2-lane map/Spider Queen
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>>188142967
They are two heroes glued together that do mostly spell damage. If you CC them, you basically get double CC value. If you kill them, your 5v5 turned into a 3v5. Because they have high HP, % HP attacks are basically nukes on them, and because they are glued together they by default will have issues splitting up their team into lanes to soak properly, leaving them all open to rotating and ganking.

If your team is retarded though, then you're doomed. Cho'gall is a super pubstomper and falls apart when your team/you have brains.
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>>188143235
I forgot one.
Nigga just pick Malthael.
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>post your mfw when Baine makes it into game and not Cairne
>>
>>188144215
They're the same.
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>>188144215
>given cool ass weapon by Magni
>gives it back
what is this tauren cuckery
>>
>>188144215
Garrosh is already in the game
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Is Blizzard almost out of ideas?

What's with the back to back big name releases? I feel like we are a half dozen heroes away from literal who only territory.
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>>188144215
Baine?
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>>188145732
>garrosh
>big name
eh
>>
>>188146265
>garrosh
>not big name
lol
>>
>>188146265
literally the focal point of the game's lore for 3-4 years
>>
>>188146383
More like a plot device to justify things happening.
>>
hey this guy playing right now, TRCmakke, was the guy picking aba
>>
>>188145732
You're forgetting just how many characters blizzard has.
>>
>>188145732
I want to fuck that gnome
>>
How I fucking despise plat & diamond players. There is simply no way to describe how much pain I wish upon them and their relatives. They are the lowest form of existence.

Almost lost a BHB game as Greymane because of two absolutely useless dumb fucks.

Sonya - walks around the map only for coins and depushing, team is fighting a winning fight on bruiser camp - this scumbag is hitting creeps on bot, right above the fucking bush. Fucktard misses spears whole game, ults into chests. Didn't come to fight on lvl 16 vs lvl 15 enemies. Whole game he was being asked to play with team, he dies just before lvl 20 and says that team should be grouping around him and NOW it's the team fight phase. In the end when we kill the enemies and go core, this dumb fuck is attacking a low HP bot Keep even though our creeps are really far away.

Zagara - ok this fucktard at least listens in draft, I asked to pick Zag/Leo vs Xul so he did. But like Sonya he was just doing PvE shit. Enemies are doing boss - he and Sonya are pushing bot, enemies finish boss and you'd think they would retreat, no they STAY, THEY ULT AND THEY DIE. When we went core this fucktard went turning in coins even though there were 3 keeps left.

THERE IS SIMPLY NO WAY TO JUSTIFY THESE PLAYERS. IT IS ABSURD THAT THE LAW PROHIBITS US FROM MURDERING SUCH SCUM.

On a related note, westernized Europeans & turks are the dumbest fucks in this game. I guess if you live in comfort like a faggot your brain cells just die off and you can't play this simple parody of a MOBA.
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>>187946836
lottery
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>>188147838
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>>188147838
thanks for the update
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>>188147904
Crimson Hare
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>>188142967
He has plenty of counters. He doesn't like shit that fucks up his surging dash at all (skullcracker mura, entomb on leoric) things that control the map better than his team can, or people that respect-pick shit like leo+tychus (raynor probably better in most cases even though tychus does more giantkilling damage, dat range) or just say fuck you to health-bars like last rites.

Level 26 cho, frequent high-plat / diamond, ~74% winrate on cho'gall.

If you're complaining about QM you're a retarded faggot.
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>>188147838
>DUDE JUST FORCE TEAMFIGHTS ALL THE TIME LMAO
Master league trashcan spotted. Are you even top 50 GM? If not, fuck off. This general is for professional level discussion only.
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>>188147904
a skin you already have
>>
What are some things that you do that probably make other players mad?

I only go Crossfade on Lucio.
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>>188145732
They just wanted something to hype up during con season since Nexus Challenge peeps probably stopped playing.

Chromie is cute!
>>
Should Blizzard add voice chat to hots?
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>>188147838
>Almost lost a BHB game as Greymane

Greymane is shit tier, expand your pool bronzie.
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>>188147904
Butcherlisk
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>>188147904
>>188148000
>>188148214
>>188148293

a slug i dont play
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>>188147838
BHB is the one map where you literally should not be fighting the enemy team at all unless you can help it. It you can choke them out simply by controlling the map better than your opponents. Each turnin you get gives you more access to the opposing teams camps, which gives you more coins, which gives you more experience which gives you more ability to bully enemies who have to defend vs camp pressure.

They need to take a potentially extremely risky fight against you, at a disadvantage and if they lose they give you more turnins.
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>it's another fnatic 3-0s some random fuccbois episode
>>
>picking abathur getting adrenal overload.
>valla gets hungering arrow build.
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>>188149508
you mean as she should?
valla is strong because of her mixed damage, she still hits like a truck even without AA talents on 1-7
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>>188149607
>[bronze noises]
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>>188149905
GM actually
you should virtually always take the hungering arrows talents on at least 4 and 7 because like I said, valla is strong because of her mixed damage
why put all your eggs in one basket and risk being ineffective due to blinds, nukes or getting zones out?
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>>188150151
>Mixed damage
>Mixed
Keep that shit to /pol

If you are GM on teamleague, talk after you got the fuck off of your teammate's shoulder.
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>get ai nova
>decides to do merc camp at level 4 by letting her clone tank while slowly autoing them to death
>none of my teammates ping it and I can't because I'm playing medivh

Why is the AI so goddamn retarded
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>>188150797
heroes of the storm is a team game
>>
>abathur got "No deaths while outnumbered"
Top meme

Have anyone else never seen this before?
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>>188138014
>hats in the Valve one
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>>188151523
>heroes of the storm is a team game
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>>188151947
But it is.
It's a shitload harder to carry 1v5 in Heroes than it is in League or Dota.
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>>188151947
what did he meme by this
>>
>>188151523
>Shit bronze's sez

>>188152251
Imagine 5 random teamplayer vs 5 individually high skilled guy.
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>>188152893
>>188152893
NEW THREAD
>>188152893
>>188152893
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>>188151729
It happens when two or more enemy heroes get close to him while he burrows away.
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>>188148260
They did, for friends only
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>>187997013
>kel'thuzad 8.2k stun/root/chain combo
oh i am laffin
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