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What's New? :
>Ana Amari, Veteran Sniper announced; Now on PTR!
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>Current Weekly Brawl
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>tfw too scared for ranked

just play and don't worry too much about individual games
or don't if it stressed you out idk it's a game we hopefully all play for fun

>about individual games

Yeah, who cares, I guess

>tfw depressed
>"lol just be happy"

are you too scared to play Vs. AI, quick match or unranked
also depression is more apathy than sadness
like you're sad you just don't care

>get over 15 kills, over 100,000 siege and hero damage and multiple camps on Zul'jin
>Stiches gets the MVP
>only thing it says is he soaked damage
>he died 10 times
What in the blueberry FUCK

thats like a regular day for zuljin buddy boy

you guys watch any of the hots streamers?

I had that. But I figured that QM had become worse and there wasn't anything to worry about with HL.

>tfw too inteligent for this game

grubby is good

>Last pick need a tank.
>Garrosh still available, never picked him in HL.
>Fuck it and pick him.
>Throwing people everywhere, taunting people into oblivion.

Jesus, no wonder he gets banned all the time. Also why do all the Garrosh's I play with take that shitty spin ult, taunt is so fucking good.

>that shitty spin

Grubby is the Kripp of HotS. Most popular, but only shitters love them and they just outnumber everybody. No one at high levels gives a flying fuck about Grubby or Kripp in their respective games. It is representative of how shit of a player you are if you like either.

She was dead, even without the shitty spin. Hell if you had taunt you just taunt her as she's standing next to the wall.

Grubby is literally the most relaxed twitch streamer I've seen and constantly explains why he does something and what the optimal play is in any situation. There are obviously other streamers that play at higher levels or even tournament players but they don't give the same amount of reasoning for their plays as grubby does.

also grubby isn't a salty sack of shit like kripp is

>twin blades varian is literally the fastest hero bar lvl 20 lunara with her Z

I am not able to smartcast that throw.

>didnn't drop your spray
c'mon son step it up

He knows a lot and is a good watch.

Not sure what fucking else you want you autist.

THICCLORD MOMMY!

>Lucio boost

She stares at you the entire time youre playing.

I made 3 builds for 3 heroes I don't really play. Rate m8s.

Malfurion:
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/malfurion#hES5

Zagara:
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/zagara#gnLa

Nova:
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/nova#hYAQ

Why does blizz do this to my penis. First Tyrande, then li-ming now jaina

c-can i have the sauce on that, pretty please user?

how does valeeera have a shitzillion more cc than zeratul but she's dumpster tier compared to him

Too lazy to color this.
Might make more in the future if I feel autistic enough

>literal semen demon skin
>next to no porn of it

Artist is John Doe, it's /ss/ with Anduin. I'd post an Imgur but I don't know how this general reacts to full lewds

>boring mary sue ripoff vs the original
ftfy

>but I don't know how this general reacts to full lewds

Zul'jin is the batman (dark Knight 3) f heroes. He will sacrifice to win the game and people will call him lol noob no matter what .

Because zeratul has phenomenal disengage and one of the strongest, if not the best, ults in the game.

you know the rules, get to work

Just being honest user, I don't wanna post porn of Jaina getting ass blasted if people aren't chill with it.

Thank you

That's the joke,user

If the art is good, im down for anything

I pride myself in my Jaina collection

I don't get it, I cant tell if the chad is a figure of praise or ridicule

A figure of an overused maymay.

I've never watched them, but if they don't shill for shitty organized crime fronts then they have another leg up on kripp there too.

>tfw burn the insects but still lose

looking forward to all the fun I'm about to have

>those names

>double digit levels
>against dedicated smurfs
Cute, show results.

If your team ist retarded you win.
Like how should you lose, every shitter can spot nova and valeeera, only problem is butcher and you dont have any AA heros so lili is just whatever.

>braxis hold out 3 times in a row on QM
why is this happening

>Melee20xx
>Tsundered
>onlyvaleera
>onlynova
>truehate

spicy game

Wait what did kripp do? I use to watch his d3 shit

So are they never going to play HL?

>not carrying with all that siege damage
Step it up bro.

>OnlyNova
like literally why nova she's so fucking boring

>Went into Weekly brawl with 3 Li-Mings on my team and a Murky on theirs
Well that was amusing.

>dreadlord jaina will never suck your soul through your penis

Why live?

where are the hot pictures of tyrande?

>Veleera is garbage in organized play
>runs rampant in quick mode
>despite ruining an entire mode they refuse to gut or change her
If one part of you game is bad, then all of it is bad. No one likes this hero. She's only the way she is so faggots from Hearthstone have something to do.

Actually do something with the hero's design instead of just leaving her there and doing nothing

Why the fuck is there ALWAYS a Valeera on the other team?

I am so goddamn sick of fucking rogues

>Veleera is garbage in organized play
>runs rampant in quick mode

What is every stealth hero in a nutshell?
Heres a tip: shitters cant spot the blue shimmer, thats why they arent played in TL.

have you tried LITERALLY just walking away from the shimmer

>onlyvaleera
Its ok to report these types of people right? Go the fuck back to Hearthstone you autists

because it triggers autists like you

I'd normally say "get gud" but the problem with Valeera is that she's way too forgiving if you get caught. The fact she can reenter stealth that easily after being exposed, when none of the other stealth champions work like that, is what makes her the pub stomper she is.

Retards can fuck up on her then just slip away. They need to retool her more toward her CC and utility apposed to full damage so she can be good in actual play and not just a meme hero.

?
it's practically a free win if I queue into one of those retards
even funnier when they're last pick and leave their team without a support

Because you keep picking stealth heroes yourself.

>have a Malth
>he split pushes and does camps all game
>won't show up to objectives
>we lose every golem
>keeps dying while splitting
>despite him doing nothing but splitting I have more siege damage than him
>enemy Valeera is running rampant
>Malth is never there to kick her out of stealth
One fucking autist can completely ruin a game

if you have a literal mental illness centered around the ranked mode of a video game you need to stop playing the fucking video game, retard

why does d.va's mouth move like a muppet

a hero who gets 15 kills and 0 assists is a lot worse off than one who shows up to every fight, gets 0 kills and 30 assists

the mvp calculation weights kills and assists as having the exact same value except for abathur/tlv

>play a lot of Uther
>want the judgement skin
>only 800 shards
>haven't been getting any shards or duplicates lately
Normally I'd be against it but why can I just buy the damn skin.

>can one shot most carries
but that's wrong

>he split pushes and does camps all game
this is what furion is supposed to do i'm pretty sure?
did he at least kill a lane of barracks

I made this for you guys.

So when we deleting Chromie from the game?

Thanks.

no problem, I just got my first wacom and I want to practice to get used to drawing with it. I'll be back tomorrow if it's alright with you guys

>approach teamfight
>assassin with a charge/leap clicks on me
>65s in the shadowrealm and then a 15s walk back to the lane

How do you play ranged casters after level 16?

Dont be a shitter.

Or have an actual frontline.
But the above applies to that aswell.

stand out of click range of the people who can solokill you, idiot

have better positioning.

always make sure to have some warm bodies or terrain between you and your enemies

this means also constantly being on the look out for ganks

you also have to have extra special good positioning in team fights. youre not tanky like sonya, you cant just spin around your enemies. for example if you are playing jaina, you need to constantly do ability -> move -> ability -> move to make sure youre not helping your enemy keep you pinned down

its difficult, but rewarding. good mages are some of the most impactful and deadly players in the game

not ganks but flanks*, like for when an enemy tries to go around your frontline and get you from the side

depends
on a lot of things

space/position better is all I can really say without knowing/seeing more

Prediction. You gotta k now where enemies could come from and will likely come from based on the info you know. Wow you saw 3 bot and you're pushed in mid and now they're gone? Hmm gee wonder if they're gonna show up behind you

>mute surprise Nova pick on my team
>win game because enemy team is too fucking retarded to deal with her
>"See Nova works, bitches"

I hate it when Nova players get carried by their teams/enemy stupidity and feel validated, would rather lose desu

was it really the nova that got carried tho

when you only see one footprint in the sand, it's because nova's cloaked and she saved u

>be in bronze 5 because I threw QM to lvl 5 games and placements for shits and gigs
>see enemy team and my team
>nova is a great pick here and they're bronze
>try to communicate with some shitter but he never says anything except random bitching
>go 50-20-0
>cheerfully say, "hey sometimes nova fits the draft." don't deal in absolutes
>austist rages
I mean, whose story is more likely.

had a game similar to this when I did smurf placements with butcher, allied chat just blew up the moment I hovered him

>load screen
>low silver
ughh such a fresh game

what map and what draft and what pick order

Braxis, 3rd pick

I was 4th pick solo Warrior D.Va, Li Ming and Alarak were our first two picks versus their Valla, Kaelthas, and Naz

I mean, this is Gold 3 and its really fucking sad how I see Silver 1 Novas and Valeeras in our game still destroying people. It's sad that they work here a lot more often than not

>Valeera tries to hide in a bush.
>Pull her into me and throw her into my team.
>Taunt her before she can disappear.

They are just so obvious though.

>low health
>back off of fight
>see Valeera vanish and her little shimmer beelining straight for me
>gets a frostbolt in the face
>big meaty CoC roots her in place

So painfully obvious how stealthers play in low mmr, and it's even worse watching your team do nothing about it. There are some rare games though that your team knows what to do, and Nova/Valeera hunting becomes a recreational pastime

>Tassadar drafted on our team to counterpick Valeera and reveals her constantly
>Valeera just fucking stands still everytime, until she realizes the entire team is about to collapse on her

>Tass last pick
>No other healer

That's Silver for ya

>Inb4 Unga Bunga

am I a freak for finding Braxis fun?

>D.Va solo tank

Nah, Braxis IS fun.

Braxis is okay. It's not my favorite map, but I don't mind it.