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>D.Va spotlight
youtu.be/HlrAD_fkZ74

>Nexus Challenge 2.0 Oni Genji skin, Policeman D.Va, loot boxes, and more in Overwatch and HotS
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/nexuschallenge20/
youtu.be/Bv2t9lwC7lk

>Megabundles Announced All players will be able to unlock up to 20 heroes for FREE
>Promotion ends May 22nd, 2017
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/megabundles

>D.Va Hero Announced
youtu.be/UgJLvtx5PzI
>Heroes of the Storm 2.0 Now LIVE
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20
>Genji Hero Announced; Now LIVE
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/genji
youtu.be/-SJgvzPRFEI
>Hamamura Battleground Announced; Now LIVE
us.battle.net/heroes/en/battlegrounds/hanamura
youtu.be/Dq5-18Vt-c0

>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>How to get good at anything in life
youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs

>Official Community Resources, Guides, and Tips
us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/

>Current Weekly Sale
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>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20766461/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20766460

>Pleb List
>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
robogrub.com/tierlist

>Where can I find you Li Li mains?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

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Bets?

What's in the welcome bundle again?

Why are you telling lies?

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i want to eviscerate her hymen

please come and bless me blizzjew

I like Tyrande, Tyrael and Zagara

Which one should I buy and why?

Answer me or else.

>hymen
she was literally a girl gladiator theres no way u can even fit your noodle in her

Hero you already have and a Horse

DAILY REMINDER

You're too late.

shoo shoo blizz jew

here it is

I just got a legendary yellow fart cloud, congrats me bois.

the fuck is this

>the OP STILL hasn't been cleaned up
if you're going to post your shit thread early at least bother cleaning up the OP

>400 shards
Hell yeah.

Not Zagara.

Or what?

or else don't bother posting your shit thread early

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>johanna is literally Magnus with RP as a baseline skill

wew lad.

we fucking ew.

There's nothing you can do about it faggot.

make johanna great again! with a girl's haircut and lewd skins

Xth for Li Li a CUTE!

>Feel like playing Leoric
>QM Leoric
>Solo queue against ETC and 4 mages
>Cannot do a single fucking thing except W ETC and hope my team can take care of themselves

Who the fuck is in charge of quality control over there, because they're fucking garbage at their job. Leoric isn't a fucking Warrior, he's a Bruiser, you dense fucks.

next hero = Garrosh, multiclass

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>tfw furfags got nerfed back to the shitter where they belong

That would be Blizzard not knowing their own fucking heroes, and general unwillingness to understand the non-generic bullshit meta picks. They don't give a fuck about Rexxar, Gazlowe or Nova over there.

>that could be your head

no more orc niggers

Thrall is more of an orc nigger than Garrosh, though.

Azerothian Orcs are literal Americanized niggers driven mad by bloodlust and the desire to kill and rape and steal.

Draenor Orcs are noble, hard-working Africans who want their homeland and people to prosper.

Shut up Jaina, get back to the breeding stable

Dabu.

>pick tank, team near me
>single out a lost li ming
>team disappeared and is now 2 lanes over

>pick healer
>team walks into the middle of their 5 one by one

>pick assassin
>our tank runs into 5 by himself

I don't get it. I'm not looking for pros, just not mental retardation in every match.

What's Sylvanas's role exactly? I might be an overbabby but I still want to improve

>artanis drops his beam ult on an unoccupied hero that just walks away
>again
>and again
>and again and again

>all those filters and photoshop

every cosplay pic ive seen is doctored to shit

She shuts down minions, mercs and structures so her team can destroy them.

I made that Alarak meme a few days ago and then wanted to make this after seeing that angry Illidan a few times

>can't handle banter
>shit banter
>passive aggressive faggotry
>enjoy your loss
>there's no point let them win

Everyone in this video should be shot

slut

>takes a hero out of the fight
>again
>and again
>and again and again

>people compliment your play

valeera or varian

i've played both and think both are incredibly fun, and i think varian would be best for ranked but i love pubstomping and valeera seems right for that

what do

you missed iron dawn user, heroes III was a nice touch

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But here's the twist
>it's a split pushing sylvanas who was leaving anyway
*gasp*

the enemy team can't leave you unchecked or else you shut down an entire lane
get mercs
spit arrow into teamfights and hide in the back

It's not that good. It has no damage or real stun attatched to it. It's good for dragging runners back into a teamfight and generating aggro on her and that's it.
It's not bad, but it's not crazy good either.

Johanna shines at being a traditional tank, especially with her level 4 talent that gives her a load of health back, paired up with her Trait which purges soft CC effects. The downside is she doesn't do a lot of damage. But hey, that's what Greymane and Valera and so on are for.

varian does both though

this is true.

Freezing and pushing lanes if left uncontested, and immensely buffing the amount of damage a pushing objective can do by disabling the buildings and minions after the objective is won.

For example, you get a full zerg rush going on Braxis, you send Sylvanas to go push with the zerg, she disables everything in their way, so they take less damage via disabling towers/forts. Alternatively if nobody is around to help you push with them and they still pose a threat to you to go in and support the zerg alone, start working on the opposite lane, she doesn't need minions to tank turrets for her, she can just disable and take out buildings alone. Her E is her escape obviously.

In teamfights, she's some medium damage, but mostly great for her team-wide vulnerability at 16. In a fight she's more debuffing support fire.

10000 years of being raped by maiev and her qt sentinels sounds pretty good to me

0% winrate on hanamura over nine games.

Blizzard insisting on keeping something unanimously hated in the game.

The clans join>everything

>I don't get it. I'm not looking for pros, just not mental retardation in every match

This 100%
I can't get mad at someone for having a bad game, but I can get mad at someone for being a brainless retard

Basic game sense is something outta this world for those people, insane

Abathur being complex or hard is just a meme. But people sure act as they're masterminds standing in base being half useless and get real bratty if you don't win the game for them.

varian

>only relevant brown orc
>not one of those roided green orcs
>still stronger than any orc

Garrosh was truly the savior we needed

you shoot the tower and kill it before minions spawn

>Poly Bomb their entire team at a shrine on Infernal (Thanks Samuro Clones!)
>GJ Medivh
>Sick ult Medivh

Actually here's a slightly different version of it
It calms my autism, I feel better about this one

>win the game for THEM
>not abbey winning the game for YOU

Every time I face a new hero I have to learn like ten different things about their talents and skills and shit.

How hard is it to let me click on their portrait and see their shit?

Largely useless on about 75% of the maps currently on rotation. She's an amazing lane pusher and sieger but if you end up on a map where those abilities mean jack shit and Teamfight is much more important then you kind of begin to understand why Quick Match is bullshit.

On a side note: Fuck Hanamura. You are just a shitty poorly balanced Towers of Doom clone with repurposed assets.

>Tfw 3 of your main chars are on free rotation

Just doing the nexus thingy, my dailies, and see yall niggers next week!

this
plus dont get ganked, is probably the hardest part for new players because map awareness

new user here, if im going fury spec on varian, ive ben enjoying speccing for that stupid parry uptime, is this a decent build on him?

heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/varian#o1U7

can they just gut Sonya and Varian so solo queue isn't god awful

1) Hit tab
2) Click on the Talents tab
3) ???
4) Come on now.

How so? in Towers of Doom she can easily bounce from tower to tower making your enemies life a living hell to reclaim them

in Hana she can solo mercs who give lots of XP

Is more about having a team with solid frontline and damage to support you on team fights more than anything

Am I retarded or is it not possible to make heroes show hero names on top of them instead of player names

how the fuck is she holding that sword?

I just want MM not to pair up our team with one with a goddamn support choice in it and double invis heroes.
I would also like our own team to stop wandering about, alone, in the jungle, presumably with "FREE FEED" signs on, for 20 minutes, but I am aware I am asking the impossible. People who actually know to aim for the visual distortions with their skill shots? Now I'm just living in dreamland.

>if im going fury spec

for what purpose

I think she's asking who dropped this broken sword and admonishing the crowd not to litter the forest.

when im not needed to go shield spec, it seems to work better for a dps setup. what would you suggest?

go arms spec

The getting ganked part is absolutely whats wrecked me lately, after looking up the effective build and strategies I've learned how to shut down / push the lanes, and solo capture merc camps. But then I get found and bursted down in a hot second, usually the Wail isnt fast enough to get me out.

I really like the hero but I want to make sure I'm useful, so... Lately I've been playing with friends but they're experienced, maybe I should go up against the AI more by myself to practice?

I wish Blizzard would take steps to teach players shit like, oh I dunno "There's no need to walk around looking for a fight, because that only leads to terrible trades most of the time. Instead consider soaking properly, then defaulting to doing mercs when absolutely nobody is on the map and walking around by yourself is far too risky unless you can safely get behind a nearby allied wall." and whatnot.

Like really basic shit like that, that could be easily taught to players. They NEED to break this bullshit fucking delusion that people have where they believe they need to charge at somebody just because they're the only ones present on a mini-map or something.

IF they did this, and IF they added more rules to QM which they can do now that we have so many more players, and IF they actually fixed their MMR algorithm for Ranked modes, this game would be in a massively better spot. Start the player teaching campaign, and actively fix the flaws in your modes, you stupid fucks.

arms, but double tonks are prretty strong, maybe not at the the level you play atm

Well what's getting you the most is the enemy rotating to you. Bots don't rotate. Playing in AI is sort of moot then.

what would a good build for that look like? i just feel so kitable and like i dont do nearly as much damage
i am indeed shit at this game so probably quite low in mmr.

the AI is not good at sniping you out, its basicly

>do i see all enemies capable of killing me on the minimap?
>if no need to be safe
>if yes where are they do i have an escape route
>if yes push

repeat ad infinitum

Got everyone else. Who should I get?

I'd just like people to learn that they don't have to run headfirst at an objective when it is a 1v4 and that losing one objective is better than losing one objective and feeding them 3 kills

Rexxar

Varian

Imo Cassia > Varian >Dehaka, but since Cassia/Dehaka are F2P you might as well try them to see if you like them

Don't play her so much as a splitpusher. Her escape is not good enough to get out of sticky situations when you find yourself overextended behind enemy lines.

Push with a buddy and watch your map.

I'd also like for people to learn that bosses are generally worthless if you don't feel so pressured by them, and that it's okay to lose a fort if it means you're trading up elsewhere.

I really want people to be taught shit like this somehow.

>some retards keep dodging hero draft because they don't pick shit in the countdown
>get long queues afterward
>relog
>get into queue again
>get hero draft 20 seconds later

>play dehaka first time
>tongue booty all game
>have 3 health bars
>COLLECT ESSENCE

elites do sometimes

...

I feel like Probius is a cross between Murky and Gazlowe but better than either of them.

In other news who will you ultimately miss when this game is just a memory?

>tfw the shield procs just right and you go from 1hp to triple kill with artanis

>1600x900

how does it feel to be poor?

from fun to least fun

varian>medivh>dehaka=samuro=rexxar>tyrael>cassia

from useful to least useful

varian>cassia>dehaka>rexxar>tyrael>samuro>medivh