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Fanart of Ying being an evil bitch when?

first for 3 posts early

Yeah I know, thread was dead as shit anyway so I just said fuck it.

who is the best character and why is it Fernando

newfags should not make new threads

Newfags should be taken out back and f*cked

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>6K hp
>Shields & Shield Cards
>Self appointed Knighthood
>Tank/Flanker

Whats not to like?

>flanker
what did he mean by this?

That's not Grohk, Ying, or Bomb King. But Fernando is dope.

>Not chasing down squishies with your leaf blower

i
what?
how

also
>one-shots every squishy on a bad team

That's not dragon of much speed and multikills

drogoz is a godshield braker, but i can't get any kills with him. how do?

I love this game. What's the best thing to do though? Save the gold for cards or just keep it stocked for whatever comes around in the future?

Get Propel 4 and Wyrm Jets and play him like a sturdier Evie. Also get good with the spit combo to use it to clear points or a nade around corners

If you haven't bought the founder's pack, just focus on getting all the champs through gold purchasing, then just use the money to buy the loadout cards that you want.
Hell, you could even spend the free gold on simple skin items.

Learn to aim and flank like a madman. Propel 4 and lung capacity 1 are key, and from there you have some freedom. Want to double your wombo combo? Get masterful 4. Better flight? Rain of fire 4, wyrm 2, let the jets refill as you fall amd you can turn them on again just as you hit the ground to coast super fast. You can also spec for shield breaking, but thats not really my style. I usually go for anyone but the tank unless the tank is all that remains.

At the rate of gold accumilation, you will get a refund on hero price at more or less level 5. By then you should decide whether you like to hero to invest in cards and skin or move on if you hated it

Guys I've a cuestiĆ³n: is the game striktly played on Steam servers? I can't log into steam, my router has those ports closed

also his rockets are slow as fuck. that is one of the reasons i dislike him atm.

I did buy the founder's pack. Figured it wouldn't hurt paying for something that actually gave me interest in playing more of. That being said, I'll see what I can get for my main. Cards, right?

You can run Paladins through the Hi-Rez launcher like you can Smite. Playing it through Steam is just a convenience option, shit like the game updating through Steam and such instead of Hi-Rez's clunky launcher.

Leading targets is easy, even moreso when most of these hues eiither dont move at all or run in a straight line. You can also win most point blank trades if you drop down behind someone. Skye especially can't kill you before you 2 shot her.

Great to know, friend!

Yeah, cards would be the main thing you buy right now. They cost 1200 each.

i'll try to learn him. thanks for the help

Do you happen to know how high a level for a character gets? Currently 6. Highest I have seen was 8. I'll have to see what cards are available to her. Tend to land hits easily, but if there's something that better rewards me for healing, I'm all for it.

propel IV, masterful IV, lung capacity, condescension II, whatever
master getting double fire spits when people clump up near the objective, remember to spit it over nerdnando's and barik's shields
rocket the fuck up in the air if you get flanked or just feel like raining death from above, but don't stick around in the air if they have viktor, cassie, or androxus. also androxus is pretty much your hard counter. try to fight him on the ground as much as possible because if he nether steps upwards you're never hitting him without fire spit. just fly over the enemy and go for bombing runs, get a few fire spits from behind and fly back. it's really all about fire spit, that's your strongest tool as drogoz because it's such a huge aoe and it has good knockback

>Drogoz with Morale Boost II

I've heard the max character level is 25.
And for a healing based Ying build, you should focus on getting cards that lower the CD on illusions and how long the illusions hang around, plus the card that creates another illusion if you dimensional link to an illusion that's about to die.

>the card that creates another illusion if you dimensional link to an illusion that's about to die
Rewind. That card is damn near mandatory in ALL Ying builds.

Drogoz is more fun with nimble 3

is masterful really that good? ive been using thrill of the hunt IV to keep that crazy damage chain going

does masterful reduce the cooldown if you shoot the fire spit or do you have to specifically hit them with the fire spit

today in math:
with decimate 4 and wrecker 1(or just wrecker 2), a drogoz will leave a baseline nando/makoa shield with 150 health after barrage. barik's is removed for free with just wrecker 1

It resets on the wombo, but only once every 5 seconds. Usually 2 points is enough to maximize what it does.

Let's just hope your teammates go with that and not just pick Aggression.

it's really good. pretty much how I achieve scores like this. the cooldown is 8 seconds, and masterful IV reduces it by 4 for every enemy you hit, so you can tag two or more enemies on the objective with it, more often than not they will rush back to it after being knocked off, and you can spit again, doing 2000 damage in three seconds. the internal cooldown isn't that long, and you should basically be spamming it every chance you get

the big thing i like about drogoz is that absolutely no one is safe from him or his ult

Wew, thats a lot of id's in the gdoc..

a lot of things can cuck his ult, and androxus is basically made to counter him

>playing cassie
>fernando chasing me
>kill him anyway because lmao 2 knockbacks and a dash

Fuck Yings illusions

you can fuck androxus with your fist
also his ult is useless against you

>Killing a Drogoz before he can ult

You'll never kill andy with your ult if he has los on you while you start it, ,and if he changes his nether steps directions you shouldn't be able to hit him. A good Androxus will make playing drogoz hell. Thankfully, theres less good androxus players than there are kinessa players

The Kings own personal Harem.

Why does buck feel so useless sometimes? I mean, i get his kit and all but sometimes its just that he doesnt do anything..

*flies up into the air
*dodges u three times*
*does a 360 and shoots u dead(
pssh nothin personell kid...

Even with his shotgun getting fixed this patch and making him more dangerous as a result, Buck is still ultimately the weakest flanker. He has personal sustain core to his kit, which no other flanker naturally has, but it's not enough to justify his lackluster damage.

TOP NOTCH KINESSA RIGHT THERE

You're just a bad player. Buck is the best flanker after they tightened his spread and now he can 3 shot half the cast.

He can crit, and does so often for 900 some damage. Nobody has the dps to put him down in time 1v1 bar maybe Nando and Ruckus. He's gonna get toned down further and is the best flanker at the moment.

>kinessa: wonder why buck doesn't kill cassie
>buck: wonder why kinessa exists

>its an enemy kinessa does nothing but use mines and make moving near any objective an exercise in annoyances

this champion does fucking nothing but be annoying as fuck and otherwise contribute fuck all else in damage and objective time what the fuck man fix her

Free skins

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There are no random crits in this game and to score that 900 headshot, he needs to net and plant his barrel in the face of the opponent. Sure you can rush down with your 3+1K health but any body mobile enough will activate their movement skill or keep you at a distance.

You did him a freebie cause it doesn't cost him his ult bar. Should have waited a second before he does it.

>steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=768037287
Can you unlock a skin if you don't have the character yet?

Thats what i figured and im having the same deal with him. One game he seems unstoppable with his utility and damage and the other hes just a nothing. Also what i feel about it is that his net needs a bit of buff, the cooldown on it seems too big and maybe his ult needs a bit more responsive time for duels matter, the time he gets his 2nd shotgun out and until you start shooting a lot of time passes.. Maybe its just me

note: getting a skin for a hero you haven't unlocked yet will unlock the hero for free.

Yes, and it'll unlock the character when you do.

shieeet

yes, it will unlock the hero for free also

>Jolt IV Bomb King on Fish Market

That feels...
SOO GOOOOOD.

Where the fuck is the button for evie skin?

yeah i had trouble with that too. You gotta register for their shitty site, click the captha and then click the 'click here for your key' banner that looks like an ad.

Yeah i made the account and im logged in but i still see the same page, nothing new was added

Seriously, wheres the captcha and all? I dont get it

this:
Skye skin unlocked her for me.

Skye is unlocked by default

rip

I AM YOUR KING

Refresh

Pic for instructions

Thats skye, not evie..

sorry

Just a heads up, barik skin is 5 wins, not 5 games

>not playing skye
>wat r u doing

For real tho skye is my bitch. I'm really liking her. Crazy dmg after flanking with hidden and you have smoke bomb to escape. Plus she has a good amount of poke.

Bomb King has my favorite overall visual design in this game. I wish he was on advertising material.

She's great, I just really want them to fix the tactical reload glitch, it works most of the time, but it's killed me on so many occaisions when it's just failed to proc.

I try to, I'm just shit at her and need a bit more practice. Her style of play and assassin-type characters in general are not my jam and Buck is the only flanker I can get any real mileage out of. But I REALLY want to do indecent things with Skye so I pick her on occasion.

>tfw can't carry a kinessa with all gold accolades and 80k healing as Ying

What do?

Kinessa is hands down the most useless piece of shit ever, even if you play her on your own, shes just so fucking useless

I saw him on the point once. I was so surprised, I almost got killed.

>2 support, 1 damage, 1 flank
>last guy picks flank at the last second

WHY. JUST FUCKING PICK IT IMMEDIATELY SO SOMEONE CAN CHANGE TO TANK

Does rejuvenate count for your own illusions as Ying?

Does anyone on eu wanna play a few games?

Test it against bots and see.

Like look at this shit. Im doing this almost every game and im only level 3 with her. I suppose I just am decent with her playstyle.

Also, anybody know any cards for her that are better than the Basic set?

Apparently a Ying can carry a team with no tank as long as the other team has a Kinessa.

>havent played overwatch since beta, too broke to buy it ever since
>see paladins, download it and play a bunch
>impressed with it since its free
>invite buddy to play with me, he plays a few rounds and then buys me overwatch out of pity
>swear that even with overwatch Ill go back and play paladins too
>after a lot of overwatch play paladins again
>it feels like absolute shit, uninstall it after a few rounds
I still think its great for a free alternative to overwatch, but that's it. is anybody actually playing it for any other reason?

I miss when people instalocked Ying instead of Kinessa.

Overwatch beta bored me in days, this hasn't.
As far as I know Overwatch hasn't changed much in terms of gameplay depth since, so I have no reason to play Overwatch over Paladins.

I genuinely think that Paladins is a much more enjoyable game than Overwatch is, despite the latter's superior polish and presentation.

I'm mostly playing it to discover new tricks and gimmicks like Drogouz going saniac when you use Propel 4 and wyrm jets. Overwatch has a nasty habit of nerfing anything that takes skill like Genji's mobility while Paladins haven't hit anything too heavily with the nerfbat despite how everyone is whining about Skye's Ult. I think there's roughly twice as much depth for a Paladin hero to explore compared to Overwatch due to having 5 abilities and 20 cards to play with that you can tweak the bonuses for.

I'm pretty sure that Paladins will end up growing faster in terms of gameplay content considering Overwatch still haven't given us Sombra or a new mode since Ana.

Paladins is basically Overwatch with way more customizable depth and more MOBA style mechanics that's also free instead of 40/50 bucks.
The only thing Overwatch has over Paladins is that it's owned by a multi-million dollar company and that it has more overall polish as of now.

>The only thing Overwatch has over Paladins is that it's owned by a multi-million dollar company and that it has more overall polish as of now.
Well that and the mountains of porn but yeah. I've never really played Blizzard games beyond 3 but Hearthstone and OW taught me that they really are good at putting out polished turds that run out of steam pretty quickly. Blackthorne was, for all intents and purposes, made by a different dev team.

Well yeah, can't forgot the literal mountains of porn that Overwatch has for every character while Paladins barely has anything but a bunch of Skye/Cassie/Ying/Pip pics. Still early days I guess.

Idk user, maybe you just need to get gud.. Also fuck pip seriously, retarded stupid shit

>only 17 kills
>using skye
you are fucking terrible
Skye has one of the lowest skill ceilings in the game