I definitely think he should be classified as one.
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Heroes of the Storm |OT| Pretty sure that Abathur is AFK
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Familienoberhauptvogel
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Watching too, he usually doesn't get this salty. Probably takes this more serious.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Mcintyre has been streaming a lot of it too.
Wait is he playing against his teammate?
Wait is he playing against his teammate?
Dog Problems
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Thanks for the replies. Might buy that starter bundle if I find myself really getting into the game.
Yep he's against Kaeyoh. Was last game too. I assume there must be some rule or at least attempt to keep teammates off of the same teams.
LOL, his "bitch" rant was gold.
Everyone who loves competitive heroes and everyone else who just loves watching games on Twitch is missing out on this. sogood.gif
I hope it lasts. Feels like if they are all getting equivalently salty like Dread was earlier it's gonna be hard to maintain without more and more new blood.
Finally the rank one has come back to my smurf account. Not without a weird bug doe:
It said I had 0 points to next rank. I was freaking out, but...
Feels good man. I had bonus all the way up to rank 1 this time which made it a little easier than last. My MMR had also climbed as well though.
EDIT: Double postarino. I ain't apologizin'!
It said I had 0 points to next rank. I was freaking out, but...
Feels good man. I had bonus all the way up to rank 1 this time which made it a little easier than last. My MMR had also climbed as well though.
EDIT: Double postarino. I ain't apologizin'!
Da real fuq is your most HL wins are with Zera? I have literally never seen you play him. Congratumalations!
He sucks to play in QM. I've played him in our groups a few times, but like Milly says, you get countered by Tassadar or a 3 tank game randomly. Then you just have a bad laner with a good ult. I'm not that great on him, decent at best, he's just stupid good when teams go with the double mage comp. I was better when the double bomb build was the only build.
We only played 4 or 5 games today and I did two the other night. Been about the same for me, minus two games we played earlier.
Got paired with an Uther and Nazeebo duo who BM'd the whole team from level 1 because someone got ganked early...then they started feeding themselves. Then we got paired with C9's tank and one of his buddies and Caff was gonna tank...someone blind picks Stitches second pick and it spiraled out of control. KingCaff's buddy BM'd Proto in tells after the game ROFL. Seemed like swell guys /s
Just played a single game of HL for the night. Went well, had a good Muradin and decent Li Li/Zera on the team vs a team that first picked Nova and didn't take a tank.
Good lord dat Kael tho. Empowered Es are so satisfying now. Throw out phoenix, W, D,E, Q? Pop goes the melee!
Good lord dat Kael tho. Empowered Es are so satisfying now. Throw out phoenix, W, D,E, Q? Pop goes the melee!
With a 47% win rate, yeah, maybe.
Most of the games we played tonight have been a one-sided stomp one way or the other.
I watched our game with KingCaffeine. We all played badly tbh. He rotated to help you get stacks, while the other team rotated to delete us, and his Sylv friend face tanked hydralisks. Somehow, me turning in 5 gems for weavers 7 seconds earlier would have miraculously won us the game when 5 heroes and a boss were pounding on our Core. Not KC getting ganked trying to turn in gems, solo, late game, and against a Zag and Zera. PJSalt
Lava and I got ROFLstomped tonight by a Kerri, Anub, Uther, Zera and Jaina. The professionals on our team (Naz, Malf, and Tyrande) didn't know how to a) notice the entire opposing team missing, repeatedly b) not wipe when we're level 8 vs their 10 c) soak two lanes on BHB to get to 10 d) use cleanse, and the beat goes on da da dum da dum da da.
But Kael, question, y u no wipe with us at a heroic disadvantage to save a wall? But Kael, how u have 4x everyone else's XP soak? But Kael, y u only do 27k hero damage to the opposing Jaina's 32k? And only 3 deaths? When we're getting rocked 3-25? /rant
Well, it's official. I'm a rank 10 scrub...
for now.
jaundicejuice
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I'm such a mediocre abathur, I feel sorry for the teams I queue with, sort of.
Onward and upward. You'd have been a few higher if we hadn't done so bad in those early placement games.
Yeah it was him. I was watching us on stream while playing. To be fair to proto he and the chat pretty much bitched about everyone on the team that wasn't he and his buddy, but that's normal for Twitch. Milly was in the chat BMing us too lol.
At one point Biceps - the real one - whispered him and said "haha ur playing with poopies".
My ego was almost crushed but then I remembered the golden rule - we didn't lose because of me, it was everyone else. I can't be expected to carry every pro player I get matched with, rite? /s
Seems like it's the first and the last map I play every day.
In the karmic universe, the try hard (not KingCaff, the one who grouped with him) who bm'd Proto got kicked from SEL league tonight because he went 1-7. Back to plebe status with the rest of us
The SEL league has been a good time today. Highly recommended.
Here's the ladder: http://league.ixdl.net/ladders/sel/. The yung McIntyre in 5th place after day 3.
Here's the ladder: http://league.ixdl.net/ladders/sel/. The yung McIntyre in 5th place after day 3.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Dreadnaught just started yesterday and was off to a bad start.
One skill of Azmodan requires last hits to power it up,
Abathur's locusts and spells only get EXP, if they last hit (unless they are in Abathur's sight range)
Nova's Tripple Tap fast reload, but that does not concern minions.
I guess there are more, I do not know about.
Aquavelvaman
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Kerrigan's q resets when you last hit. If you spec q for her second talent then you get your mana back too. Makes for a very efficient but micro-heavy wave clear.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Not mine
I just got the Earthbreaker skin and now hellhammer. Oh well that skin is sick with the red skin.
dmosher
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You'll be fine, I got placed at 9 after the 20 matches and managed to get back to Rank 1 last night.
The most noticeable difference since the HL queueing change in the Rexxar patch is that most of the Rank 1 people on my friends list have moved to Team League or Quick Match instead of HL. This might explain why there are now so many new people in ~3k mmr hero league games in the last week
Quas and Massan streaming HOTS today. Wonder why these folks waited til now to try out the game? I guess League's summer split did just end so Quas makes sense now I spose.
In theory you'd be the very type of player who'd notice the biggest difference because you'll no longer be the odd man out or one of the odd men out in a 3-1-1. Most everyone you encounter should be solo or duo at best now on both sides so the matchmaking should in theory be more fair solo players across both teams since it's not attempting to pair huge groups with possibly disparate MMRs.
In theory you'd be the very type of player who'd notice the biggest difference because you'll no longer be the odd man out or one of the odd men out in a 3-1-1. Most everyone you encounter should be solo or duo at best now on both sides so the matchmaking should in theory be more fair solo players across both teams since it's not attempting to pair huge groups with possibly disparate MMRs.
Well you shouldn't be matched with parties of 4, now.
And members of those parties of 4 could have wildly different MMRs
So instead of having 2 teams with similar average MMRs, there now is a better chance, that all players are close in terms of MMR.
Hoping that the MMR actually reflects skill, it should be an improvement, at least long term.
dmosher
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My placement matches were a mixed bag but the overall feel I got was that the matchmaker really didn't do a good job ensuring close games. They were stomp or be stomped :|
I only play solo queue HL now as well and the thing I notice is that the people who duo queue still think they can have as much impact as a trio or quad stack did prior to the changes; this generally leads to pretty crappy behaviour :[
Why is that? Sorry I don't know who that is. I'm assuming professional LoL player?
You'll be fine, I got placed at 9 after the 20 matches and managed to get back to Rank 1 last night.
The most noticeable difference since the HL queueing change in the Rexxar patch is that most of the Rank 1 people on my friends list have moved to Team League or Quick Match instead of HL. This might explain why there are now so many new people in ~3k mmr hero league games in the last week
Yeah, thanks. I guess if I managed to grind from rank 50 to 1 before the reset then it shouldn't be too different this time around. Except...
...this was my general experience as well! Before the rank reset -- and I may be remembering this through partially rose-coloured glasses -- at least some matches would play out evenly until one side makes one or more mistakes late game which costs them the match. Now, so far, it feels like Heroes of the (CC) Stomp. Acknowledging that 20 placement matches are a tiny sample size.
Oh well. Onwards!
Sonya apparently just got banned out in the Enter the Storm tournament in the NaVi vs ATN match.
Last night I did 3 solo games. 2 were stompy-ish on my side vs teams that were either bad or just didn't understand how to deal with Hammer on BoE, and 1 was a stomp on us because we had a Kael'Thas that died about 5s into any engagement because he'd just run in there.
Last night I did 3 solo games. 2 were stompy-ish on my side vs teams that were either bad or just didn't understand how to deal with Hammer on BoE, and 1 was a stomp on us because we had a Kael'Thas that died about 5s into any engagement because he'd just run in there.
Whoops, you're right. I meant the rank reset.
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