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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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WonderRade
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Did the rewards for the preseason already go live?
played one unranked draft. lost because we had one stun against an all in illidan comp, even though we made a really good show of it, had a huge comback but then got wrecked by lvl 20 poly bomb and lost on one late game team fight.
The good thing was that nobody was super fucking toxic which was suprising to me, i wonder if it holds true for ranked draft.
Maybe an upside of lots of people going over to OW is that all the toxic douches went too?
Yes, I got credit for hitting rank 10 and got both mounts, which is pretty sweet because I was only rank 10 for like a week before dropping down.
The good thing was that nobody was super fucking toxic which was suprising to me, i wonder if it holds true for ranked draft.
Maybe an upside of lots of people going over to OW is that all the toxic douches went too?
Yes, I got credit for hitting rank 10 and got both mounts, which is pretty sweet because I was only rank 10 for like a week before dropping down.
WonderRade
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Hmm, it didnt look like i got anything. I thought they said your scores before that first reset would count, as I hit like rank 16.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Speaking of, he's out going back to start on his masters degree.
Did we ever hear why they kicked Tazza?
Played Medivh. Portals are weird, definitely need to turn off quick cast to use them...or at least I will. It doesn't go to max range like you'd expect, it goes precisely where you click. In a way that makes sense, but on the other hand you'd also assume you have positioned at the range you want it already? I dunno.
Owl form is slow af, but it's useful. Wave clear non-existent. W is good but hit or miss. Polybomb is actually pretty good cause of the low cooldown.
EDIT: Paging Familie. Glaurung on stream just now: "I hate playing Thrall dude, I'm so bad at him".
Owl form is slow af, but it's useful. Wave clear non-existent. W is good but hit or miss. Polybomb is actually pretty good cause of the low cooldown.
EDIT: Paging Familie. Glaurung on stream just now: "I hate playing Thrall dude, I'm so bad at him".
You don't always, but most of the time you do because it gives you the most leverage. That's also how most of the skills in this game work. They go max range. The only similar alternative I can think of is Anub's burrow that you end at a spot in the line...it's different in the portal in that you have to re-tap it, but still. Most things go their max distance when activated.
EDIT: also we need to teach you how to quote with the person's name/post # attached so it highlights lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Chromie is awesome, rocking a healthy 52% winrate with her over 30 or so games. Now only if it weren't for tracer.
Man I missed it and I even have the stream running in the background. Glad he learned his lesson.
He was relevant when Zag was, as a counter in lane but now Chen is an even better laner.
Mobius Loop default would hinder the oneshot build, which I'm not a fan of, but baseline it'd make her too good.
That's too much work when multiquoting when editing cause you dont want to double post!
He signed onto another venture, split seems amicable
Gonna be interesting to see how nvt moves forward w/o him
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
With Zixz leaving competitive hots, Fan now really is all that's left of C9Vortex
I don't think it'd make her too good, not with her dumpster tier winrate and inherent design issues.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Isn't hotsgaf against winrates being the end all be all argument?
Chromies issue is that there are just too many counters for her in HoTS imo. I don't see inherent design issues with her, she's a fun hero with rewarding mechanics. Also not the most skill intensive.
Level 7 is a tradeoff tier that is hampered by HoTS incessant need for waveclear, mobius Loop combined with Dragon's Eye would be dumb.
I'm not against winrates being used. I find them valuable.
I just think certain heroes are obvious exceptions to that rule insofar as determining their relative power level. Some heroes just aren't going to be well used by a lot of randoms, but when coordinated they become godlike.
I just think certain heroes are obvious exceptions to that rule insofar as determining their relative power level. Some heroes just aren't going to be well used by a lot of randoms, but when coordinated they become godlike.
Yes. That doesn't mean that they're not useful when making a point (this point being: She came out bad and while better now, is still bad.)
Have Dragon's Eye increase the cooldown or something then. You can build her #s and other talents around a shorter W.
Muradin, Uther, and Nazeebo exemplify this- first two great in 5s, not 1-2s, opposite for Nazeebo.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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That sounds more reasonable but that's basically just further retooling her numbers at that point. You have to be careful to not make her too spammy though. Bronze Talons already makes one spam the Q whenever possible when you aren't already Q'ing blindly for scouting.
The 7 tier just isn't exciting you're basically choosing between
- waveclear talent
- offensive talent
- defensive talent
an inherent design criticism for chromie could be that it is very hard to adjust her w/o tipping over in one direction w/r/t how they built her kit and the way she plays
i feel like you could argue that she doesn't do enough damage (in the sense of why set her up instead of kael or li mang) but I haven't played her yet
i feel like you could argue that she doesn't do enough damage (in the sense of why set her up instead of kael or li mang) but I haven't played her yet
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I remembered correctly on hitting rank 18 pre reset. Got my pleb wolf.
Grats man! No shame in pleb wolf. It's when you have no wolf at all that one should feel shame. trolololol
Not sure on this Medivh still. That movement speed is sooooooooo fuckin slow. Like you cannot afford to go to an off lane from your team because you'll never get back. He can change a team fight in a hurry, though.
Not sure on this Medivh still. That movement speed is sooooooooo fuckin slow. Like you cannot afford to go to an off lane from your team because you'll never get back. He can change a team fight in a hurry, though.
scoobs
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I mean what do you expect exactly? The money is only in the major tournaments and those are all won by asian teams, so everyone else has no way to make a living. The Heroes esports scene is basically only for those that are in it for the fun of it. Its not a job.
Alpha Centauri
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Didn't play any ranked, but wanted to test how Medivh would stack up against my mage play. I consider myself a more-than-competent KT. high win-rate, level 18, preseason rank 1 player, et cetera. I go HAM on ppl.
I have never felt more worthless to a team until I played against Medivh. I tried verdent spheres build. I tried convection build. Whatever I did, he just shielded his entire team. He practically laughed at my KT and took his lunch money. These are brand new Medivhs, it will be crazy once these people get even more experience.
I'm glad blizz didn't nerf KT, they just put an extremely hard counter into the meta. I don't think I need to ban KT every match anymore in ranked. I'm really excited.
I have never felt more worthless to a team until I played against Medivh. I tried verdent spheres build. I tried convection build. Whatever I did, he just shielded his entire team. He practically laughed at my KT and took his lunch money. These are brand new Medivhs, it will be crazy once these people get even more experience.
I'm glad blizz didn't nerf KT, they just put an extremely hard counter into the meta. I don't think I need to ban KT every match anymore in ranked. I'm really excited.
Yeah, I was gonna say that earlier.
Went up against KT as Medivh. He went pyroblast for some unknown reason. LOL @ that ult each time he cast it. KT combo isn't a huge problem thanks to the shields. It's nice to see someone countering him hard that isn't a dive hero, to be honest.
Went up against KT as Medivh. He went pyroblast for some unknown reason. LOL @ that ult each time he cast it. KT combo isn't a huge problem thanks to the shields. It's nice to see someone countering him hard that isn't a dive hero, to be honest.
Shame.
Shame.
Shame.
Kappa.
Is Medivh a must for TL right now then?
edit: Trikslyr thinks Chromie's in a good spot right now. *headexplodes*
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Plenty shame in pleb wolf. I should have made rank 10 if I tried but frustration got the better of me.
you realize that's the guy who mained murky and artanis and I'd argue she isn't in an awful spot.
Medivh rocking a 24% win rate right now. Only 320 ish games played of course, but humorous none the less. From watching Grubbys videos it's clear he's capable of some really hilarious individual mechanical plays - but translating that into actual wins seems hard. You might just be better off with Tassadar in hero league.
scoobs
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I forgot he was even released. I haven't seen him in a single game yet. This is easily going to be top 3 least played hero, which is a shame for such an iconic character.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Gotta feel bad for the other team there
TL and QM winrates will be the important metrics. That's about what people expected for HL.
I didn't expect less than minimum wage, that's for sure.
And Wiz and his partner got the first grand masters in NA.
So I recently got back into this game and started playing some Quick Match this morning and played and won this 30-minute game and we get to the score screen aaaannnndddd no XP or Gold awarded. I have the replay and everything and I also couldn't queue for about a minute after the game ended, this happened to anyone else? What the fuck Blizzard?
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