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next hero edition

>What's new?
Zul'jin (the Warcraft version, not the WoW version) teased by HotS' development team
twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/811262455074594816 (embed)

>Which heroes should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation and see who you like. Don't buy heroes just to get into ranked. It's not worth it.

>Where do I find you Odin-without-Master-Assassin-talenting faggots?
/join Veeky Forums

>Current weekly brawl:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20401307/heroes-brawl-of-the-week-the-mines-reopen-december-16-2016-12-15-2016

>Latest patch notes:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20407399/heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-20-2016-12-20-2016

>Official site, general news:
us.battle.net/heroes/en
heroesnexus.com

>Hero rankings, various statistics, talent calculator:
hotslogs.com/Default
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator

>For new players:
youtube.com/watch?v=wPk004vsjuE

>Tips and other useful resources:
heroesofthestorm.github.io/tips

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First for Fenix Dragoon

Second for cute lesbians.

>valeera OP
shit general

*ugly dykes

when should I pick / not pick Hammer?

When you want your team to babysit you.

Who do we think the next non WC hero will be and when will they arrive?

outside hero league, never
literally never
she requires a lot of babysitting, specific maps, specific comps
if you're in hero league, might as well pick chromie and do the same, but more safely

after valeera and maiev

Jealous Widowmaker is jealous.

i meant outside team league

First for Zul'jin's sweaty thighs

>character drawn completely off model
>still gets me hard
Guess y autism wasn't that bad after all.

Thicc Tracer is best Tracer

It's what exactly makes it that much hotter.

>takes worst girl and makes her fat

lmao why

I can deal with the shit manly accent
I can deal with the nearly too much fat
But the fucking pig tails are the last straw.

welcome to my jam

Xth for Jaina, the Frost Mage!

youtube.com/watch?v=_dehv-Kqeqs

This cardstone character will never be added to HoTS.

When is Rag going to be 10k dollaridoos?

cutest mage

tomorrow

Good thing she's not a hs character then, huh?

>Valeera
>Garona
>Edwin
>Vanessa

Any other potential rogue heroes?

Taoshi
Maiev

...

>infernal shrines HL
>team is losing and getting mad at each other
>constantly blaming each other but not me
>am auriel with shit healing compared to their kharazim but ignore me
>should've picked my nigga rehgar

feels bad man

Complete 100% balanced hero

Maybe you are just amazing.

You need to believe in yourself more!

Post summa dat Troll music, mon

youtube.com/watch?v=u7uY5OYGm34

That's Srey's match history, and also quick match.

How long does it take skins to go on sale? For instance Deputy Valla just came out. Will it be on sale in like 6 months?

Legendary skins might go on sale like twice a year. That's about it. Other skins more often but generally speaking skin sale rotation is weekly.

why would I need my team to babysit me? to guard against ganks or something?

>Stomp early game
>Get absolutely stomped late game
Every single fucking game

Hammer is a pick that requires a draft focused around peeling for you and making sure you get the most uptime so you can do damage, defend from ganks, escort you to objectives, etc.

Also depends on rank.

Oh look red fiery skin #1983572093420938120

Fucking get some creativity Blizzard jesus christ

All because some nigger shits on your team get cocky and overextend or go 1v3 after the enemy team hits 13 or 16.

Fuck, throws in this game are so real.

Hey, what are Ragnaro Quick Match queues like?

>that mmr

Good grief.

Reminder of reddit karma-whoring sell-out rats: reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4mh256/theres_a_guy_on_Veeky Forums_who_has_accurately_leaked/

reddit.com/user/SSJ5Gogetenks
>ponyfucker

They are in this thread RIGHT NOW!

youtube.com/watch?v=O7TklQTeuSE

youtube.com/watch?v=J0kK1zvoEOk

YO IS THAT KNACK

WE DID IT BAYBEE

huh, I've been doing really well as Hammer in HL, mostly just with map awareness and repositioning myself often

I guess I really am in a shit bracket then

thanks for the info user

She's a completely obscure comic book character. Nobody cared or even knew about her before blizzard decided to add her as the rogue hero to cardstone.

I've been using youtube.com/watch?v=cw2XzHasURU for Troll Warlord in Dota, I'm guessing it will work fine for Zul'jin

Only the Rogue with the most class, friend.

Turn all Assassin heroes into Supports

Now they attack their allies to restore health

Yeah give us large pauldrons

I hope he gets a Rasta the Rooster skin

youtube.com/watch?v=xQz0CmYQG9E

>get another fire skin
>when they could have made a Zandalari skin

I have a 19%% winrate on Varian. Out of 22 games I won like 5

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Most of these games were before the nerfs too.
I don't even pick Twin Blades that often

Know the difference between when to take Shield Wall over the stun (Speaking for Assassining of course), use Stormwind Banner more often, these are the only things I can think of.

I should only be picking Arthas in a two-tank teamcomp, right? It doesn't feel like he can solo tank.

yeah, he's trash as solo tank

Ganon?

is Raynor worth playing in HL now?

Worse than Valla,so I would say no

Yes.

Valla and Tychus are both probably better, but Raynor is easier.

Are there any assassins that don't die in 2-3 shots late game?

PROBLEMS:

AURIEL

WHY THE FUCK DO NO GOOD PLAYERS PLAY HER? OR WHY THE FUCK DO ONLY BAD PLAYERS PLAY HER? MY GOD. I JUST PLAYED AURIEL AND OUTHEALED THEIR BRIGHTWING. WE LOST BECAUSE MY TEAM GAVE UP BECAUSE WE HAD AN AURIEL. WHY THE FUCK AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS HOW TO HEAL?

ALSO

WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE, ALWAYS, FUCKING PICK THAT SHITTY TALENT "20% ATTACK SPEED". I AM PLAYING FUCKING GULDAN. I AM 34% OF HERO DAMAGE. AND YOU PICK FUCKING ATTACK SPEED?

THIRDLY

WHY THE FUCK AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO DOESN'T FEED IN THIS GAME?

FOURTHLY
WHY AM I GETTING PEOPLE WHO DIVE 1V4S EVERY FUCKING GAME?

FIFTHLY
WHY THE FUCK IS MURKY BAD?? WHY THE FUCK DID THEY NERF HIM?

SIXTHLY
WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY MAKING OVERPOWERED HEROES ON RELEASE?

SEVENTHLY
WHY THE FUCK WHEN I PLAY SUPPORT WE HAVE NO DAMAGE

EIGHTHLY
WHY HAVE I NEVER, EVER, SEEN A PERSON WHO IS NOT ABSOLUTE SHIT ON MY TEAM PLAY GAZLOWE, ZERATUL, NOVA OR MURKY? AND THEY ARE ALWAYS FUCKING ASSHOLES SWEARING AT ME!

NINETHLY
WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL PICKING MURKY? HE'S A SHITTY HERO THAT CAUSES YOU TO LOSE THE GAME.

TENTHLY
WHY THE FUCK ARE AZMODANS PUTTING BLACK POOL UNDER THE ENEMY? IT DOESNT MELT HP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

ELEVENTHLY
WHY THE FUCK IS MATCHMAKER GIVING ME THE SHITTIEST TEAMS AVAILABLE?

TWELVETHLY AND FINALLY
WHY THE FUCK CAN NOBODY IN Veeky Forums PLAY A QUICKMATCH WITHOUT PLAYING "LE FEED MURKY XDXDXD"

Take a chill pill, user.

Thrall, Raynor if his heal can go off, Ragnaros SORT of. Generally, not reall. Burst became the name of the game a long time ago. It's funny because it's gotten to the point where all Assassins need a spell shield or damage reduction when stunned and shit, but they still don't think it's a bad thing.

IM NOT FINE

WHY THE FUCK CAN NO DEVELOPER MAKE A FUCKING 2D CITY BUILDING GAME
AND ALSO


WHY THE FUCK IS THERE ZERO (0) FUCKING MODERATION IN THIS GAME? NONE. NONE AT ALL

IT'S ALL AUTOMATIC. YOU GET ENOUGH REPORTS IN A SPECIFIC CATEGORY OVER A CERTAIN TIME PERIOD - YOU GET THE MUTE. THATS ALL IT IS. SHITPOST IN THE REDDIT CHAT - YOU'LL SEE. THERE IS NOT ONE FUCKING MODERATOR IN THIS GAME. ITS ALL A MATTER OF HOPING SOMEONE PICKS UP 10 REPORTS IN AN HOUR OR THREE. THERE IS LITERALLY NO REASON TO REPORT SOMEONE FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN VERBAL ABUSE BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY THING PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY REPORT FOR.

your whole post is shit because you literally got it wrong at problem number 1

i play a lot of auriel

As long as his Hyperion is bigged and does seasoned marksman damge, yee

Valla and Tychus are usually better in most situations though

>nova just sitting in stealth watching teammate lose 1v1
>teammate dies
>nova misses snipe
>alarak kills nova
>this is diamond in hots

but was it a last pick nova when your team really needed something better?

KNACK
IS
BACK
BABYYYYYYEEEAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!

>tfw placed plat 3

am i shit

>it's possible to place lower than d3

Huh.

i placed gold 3 last season haha

I like raynor against those two, he beats them due to his trait in rangy teamfights.

>shadow a tychus and steal all his kills

Kill vs assists don't matter in this game.

>implying kill stealing matters at all in this game

back to league fag

Not him, but isn't Zul'jin going to have a talent that requires you to kill all five players on the enemy team?

Wonder if they're experimenting with the idea.

It's probably not last hit every enemy on the team.

>mommy said im helping

if i wanted to get assists id play support

More than likely not last hit, as that's kind of against the rest of the game's design in that whoever kills the enemy player does not matter, it's about the kill itself rather than who did it.

fuck off babydick bitch

Reveal every Hero on the enemy team for X? Seems pretty okay for only having to be in the general vacinity of their demise.

If you care about landing the killing blow so much, I recommend Caeadoody, wherein it actually means something.

>Nobody expects to lose a 1v1 against Rehgar

I laughed.

essentially, it's countered by good players and abathur though

>Artanis keeps meme swapping our entire team
>Malf doesnt take cleanse

>leveling rag in QM for shits
>keep getting absolutely retarded teams that never group
>keep winning games with lava splitpush, mercs, and counterpushing enemies

Damn, this dude is fun.
Winning fights for tributes by using lava wave to force an enemy to back to defend a fort from mercs I capped, and then using molten core on a nearby fort to hammer the tribute with AoE and force all the enemies to scatter is amazing.

Yes, playing overpowered heroes is "fun"

youtube.com/watch?v=vPhE-dCvwiM

Lucky you. Keep trying to get my first win of the day, and I keep getting complete fucking retards who will not stop running off alone just to (surprise) get caught and die.

Splitpushing on large maps with Lava Wave and everything, keep ending the game with least deaths, assisting most of the kills, topping every category.

But no.

Stupid piece of shit fucking Zagara won't stop fucking assaulting a fort when the whole enemy team is NOT on the mini-map, fucking Tracer keeps chasing Murky around when they have a Varian that took the stun level 4, and, again, is NOT on the mini-map, despite the fact that she's died 4 time snow to fucking Murky baits.

I can't fucking stand this playerbase, HL is no better either. It's absolutely absurd.

help, how do i get to bronze v without getting banned

just run into shit with murky or leoric

murky, build bubble, the leoric strategy gets you banned

How do I 1 v 1 as Rehgar

>q to heal
>w to zap
>e make them go not fast
>z to bite
>r to lust blood because u didnt take healslut ult

idk it is just a lot of damage for how tanky/mobile/healy he is and can 1v1 a lot of heroes

>play vs AI
>pick Diablo
>have fun
Suplex + slam never stops being hilarious and the AI never learns to stop letting you do it

>Getting pretty badly beat on Lods of ecoines
>Thrall raging in chat about how only he and Li Ming are good and the rest of us are fucking idiots
>Me on ETC and our Xul stay in lane farming so we can catch back up on levels while the entire enemy team is over committing to killing the Thrall
>Keeps going on full tilt, blaming our Auriel for not healing him and all other typical shit
>We turn the game around, get a boss and manage 3 consecutive hand ins and win
>He says he and Li Ming carried and we're all shit
>Queue up again
>He's on the enemy team duo queuing with the Li Ming
>Mfw we completely fucking stomp them and I can just imagine how autistic his rage is in the enemy team chat

Why the fuck do people get so upset over this game? Not going to pretend I don't get a bit angry at times, but I've never resorted to that kind of shit.

>when some dude on voice chat gets upset you cucked them out of mvp