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first for lizards

I want to protect Fernando's smile!

This frontline isn't fun, funline when

Ying is ____

A good healer with a range that is always longer than you'd like to be on the recieving end of but a shorter one than you'd like to be giving

>Not playing Turret Dwarf, Rock Milf, or Chain Turtle

Chain turtle's losing CC immunity on his ult next patch.
Enjoy being rooted.

Rooted while Tyra throws a Fire Bomb under your feet.
Enjoy your turtle soup!

god frontlines are such a joke in this game
I mean it's nice that they aren't steamrollers if you somehow manage to get two of them instead of three damages and a flank, but goddamn is it hard to make it fun to play them as a character. Especially since Nando's shield doesn't work if you go backwards.

I'll drag all of you down with me

Tyra's firebomb has no friendly fire.
Except on her. Go figure, right?

>pick Torvald
>opponents frontline kept a distance so I couldn't attack
>by the end of the match 2 of them had Wrecker 3, another 2 had Caut 3
>tfw couldn't even get close to the point because I'd get shredded even while Recharging with ying right behind me

>enemy Torvald
>two-thirds of your team pick bulldozer

>characters are CC immune universally while ulting
>even Cassie is CC immune and her ult doesn't do shit
>glow yellow = you cannot be CC'd is easy to understand
>except for this one LMAO
sausage hirest

they need to scrap the frontline concept and make a bruiser role or something

Buck and Tyra glow yellow during ult and you can CC them all you want.

>Inara rides her horse side-saddle

C U T E

Finally decided to play Inara. Wow, that was definitely the least amount of fun I've ever had playing this game.

>characters are CC immune universally while ulting
Tyra player here

Bullshit

>characters are CC immune universally while ulting
>BARRAGE INCO-
>*hooks*

Hook doesn't count as CC in Hirez's book, I think you can still get hooked during Makoa's ultimate currently. It's only things that resilience counters.

u can't

>Cockblocking with walls and blasting squishies
>Not fun

you can't hook cassie or makoa, and totemic ward prevents it. it's cc

>Blasting squishies
>With 675 DPS only at close range with no way to increase it

I blocked a bomb king ult, still wasn't having fun

>And 50% damage reduction with massive stone boobs.

Eh, then don't play Inara then, it's not much unless you are creative with the wall.

Cause she's garbage.

50% damage reduction doesn't mean you're going to blast squishies, it means you're both going to shoot uselessly at each other and neither one of you is actually going to die.

Might as well just replace everyone's guns with foam dart guns.

boobs XD

>god frontlines are such a joke in this game
>Pick Makoa
>Pick the lego for the extra hook damage
>Oneshot squishies
Wow so hard

>characters are CC immune universally while ulting
You can still stun Grover/Vik/Tyra/Xiao Xuan while they ult

>oneshot
there's already a containment game for this cancer

To avoid griefing.

I was exaggerating but getting hooked while against a competent team means you are dead 100% of the time.
>Hear the hook sound
>Inmediately look at your big fat tank and proceed to shoot blindly
>Everyone gets free credits.

When will Inara get a r63 Ymir skin?

>get a hook/get hooked
>BRs and cykas don't capitalize on it
we're not playing the same game mate

But that's at least a 1v2 or more. No tank should be able to win a 1v1 just with a hook.

>Characters that are CC-immune while ulting:
>Makoa
>Androxus (FOR SOME FUCKING REASON EVEN THOUGH HE SHOULDN'T BE)
>Bomb King
>Cassie
>Drogoz
>Fernando
>Grohk
>Inara
>Ruckus

Grover and Makoa are slightly strange in that they can be Pip-chickened during their ults, but it doesn't cancel them. It feels like Makoa's chicken duration is also half as long during ult.

You don't understand my pain user
3k elo is literally hell, everyone knows how to duel properly and where/what to do, and if you lose the first teamfight means you already lost the point.
Also lots of 5-man stacks of pro teams warming up before their shitty tourneys

I do actually. I'm 2.8k and stuck in a limbo since I'm not good enough to win against the autists and not bad enough to lose against the BRs.

>(FOR SOME FUCKING REASON EVEN THOUGH HE SHOULDN'T BE)

Most androxus ult in the air anyways. I doubt people would CC him in the air unless it's a really good Makoa and if he ults in front of you, you are dead pretty fast.

Well too bad homo

Not everyone can land the hook reliably. Unless they're on the other team.
That's understandable, but

I instantly quit the match if the other team is using Maeve. There has never in the history of multiplayer gaming been a more broken character.

Wow, what a pussy.

>whining about Maeve after the gutting she got in last patch

>Most androxus ult in the air anyways. I doubt people would CC him in the air

exactly

if you hook out of the sky you DESERVE to kill him

But nope, CC immunity because ???

...

kinessa mains should be round up and shot

A world without drybear sounds great

maeve did not deserve this T__T

Just once I'd like an FPS game to have the balls not to include some stupid sniper rifle weapon/class/loadout/hero/whatever.

They're never fun, they're never balanced, they always attract the absolute worst kind of players.

Yes she did.

I agree, the nerf was kinda heavy

She should be in the gutter, like the guttertrash she is.

Kinessa at least isn't an instant kill on everyone. Glad they knew enough to avoid that.

What's an ezmode damage character if I'm dogshit at landing hits with Drogoz' rockets

Tyra/Viktor.
Even easier if you use aim assist like a good 80% of the pros do.

What's Tyra's best legendary?

Free Life Rip 2 is pretty good, and Hunting Party is good if your team works together well.

Mercy kill

All of them first blood for full frontal assault, hunting party to fuck people up in particular, and mercy kill for assassinating

>Even easier if you use aim assist like a good 80% of the pros do.
is this a meme

Probably, I'm just bullshitting.

>Complete with voice pack
>Set on fire effect: "I'm melting! I'm MELTING! What a world, what a-*distorts into moans of a highly sexual nature, because it's still Inara, let's be real*"

She really did

>T__T

Is this game mildly or severely unbalanced?

This game is Hi-rez tier unbalanced

mildly

It's pretty mild. Being able to customize cards and items allows you to adapt a bit.

Fucking this so hard.

The unbalancedness comes from your team.
A good character will lose with a shit team, a bad character will do better with a good team.
Pro tip, you do more damage if you're not dead half the game.

>Pro tip, you do more damage if you're not dead half the game.
This gives me an idea for a new strategy.

Playing Inara and walling yourself into a corner?

I was thinking about picking cards that increase health by like 200, but your idea is better.

Why not do both? Buy only cards that buff the wall and your survivability, just in case they get to you in spawn somehow.

If you aren't buying the CC reduction burn card against root Grover, you're wrong anyways.

I'd say that depends on the classes you mostly play. If you ask damage/flank mains they'd usually say mild, if you ask frontline/support mains they'd usually say mild with spikes into severe over a few issues.

Flankers are lowskill heroes for shitters who need ezmode instawin characters

But edgy revolver man of coming death with bells is fun

I still don't get why he's a flanker, he has 1 mobility skill. Should have just been a damage like Cassie

Agreed. They said that they were trying to avoid anyone having 1 shot kills outside of ULTs....look at us now. Also Drogoz can be 1 shot next patch so look forward to that.

because after a certain distance he does less damage than frontliners

Nerf Maeve into unusability

Some of the characters and items are pretty broken. I'd say it leans into severe especially with the shitty matchmaking.

Severe. Flankers are disgustingly broken, as are most of the damage heroes, while playing support or front line is pure misery.

People like to shit on Overwatch's TTK, which is hilarious because a good Viktor, Drogoz, Androxus or Maeve can literally delete you just by looking in your direction.

Shes honestly one of the least annoying flankers after her nerf.
If I had to rank them from least to most annoying:
Maeve / Buck / Evie / Andro = Skye


They should reinstate her excellent mobility & lower her damage.

best drogoz legendary?

Fusillade

W.Y.R.M Jets for solo do everything fun.
Fusillade if you want to rely on your team a bit more and just shit damage.
Combustible if you want enemy team to hate themselves.

So if movement speed bonuses don't stack, with nimble providing no effect during something like hustle for instance, do other abilities not stack as well? If you take a 20% reload bonus and buy Deft Hands 1, will you have 40% faster reloading or will it just cancel out and give you 20%? Or cards that give lifesteal to an ability, will those stack with life rip?

>Select your character
>Everyone on the team picks a good character
>Frontliners and Supports without even having to be the last person to pick
>Looks like a great team and I can pick something I don't normally use and try it out
>Dickfart on the other team failed to make a selection, returning to matchmaking queue

Every time.

>do kind of well with a character
I am a god

Life rip stacks, reload doesn't.

>everyone insta locks damage/flank as usual
>fuck it guess I'll go damage too
>some guy switches to a tank or healer at the last second giving no1 else time to react & change accordingly


class rework/overhaul when

Reload does stack. The cap is 60%
They really need to reduce the cost of Deft Hands though. Too expensive for what it is.

>Someone locks in as Frontline, no one is Support
>Lock in as Support
>Frontline switches away with less than 5 seconds left
>Quickly switch to damage because I'm not about to Support without a Frontliner
>Someone else switches to Frontline at the very last second

Something needs to change for sure.

Only BUCK uses it anyway.