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>Last week of Nexus Challenge
Grab a friend for the worst 5 matches of your life in exchange of boxes with rigged RNG

>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/

>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

>For New Players
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE

>How to get good at everything in life
youtube.com/watch?v=SlCRfTmBSGs

>Which heroes should I buy?
Anything but Nova

>Official Community Resources, Guides, and Tips
>Talent Calculators, Statistics, Youtubers, and more
us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/

>Current Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20720246/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20766462/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20720245/

>Pleb list
robogrub.com/tierlist

>Where can I find you dota reject feeders?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

Last Episode:

THE MONKEY SAMURO SKIN IS FUCKING TRASH AND MORE OF A MEME SKIN THEN BUTCHERLISK
>tfw last two legendaries are monkey skins

Kharazim is best hero, prove me wrong

>insane mobility
>insane single target damage at all points in the game
>good burst healing
>one of the best supports for taking mercs and bosses
>literally unkillable once you get level 4
>58% winrate in the current patch

xth for limings ass

>setting up my loadout for Tychus
>change his voice line
>it always automatically reverts back to the BAD BAD MAN line

I guess he really IS a bad bad man.

2.0 was a disappointment

>Defend our Guardian
>Valla keeps fucking off to go for a kill
>Enemy ends up taking it because hardly any damage on theirs


The whole team had to yell at her several times to stop doing this. Once we finally got one we pushed hard and won.

Locked down if you don't have a punching bag, and is one of the worst supports from a support standpoint, so you'll need another.

Abathur buffs when

get cancer

REMINDER

I like it more than regular samuro desu, looks nice with nimbus cloud

Whoa now user, that sounds a little too fun.

Why don't you play your overwatch heroes with the rest of the kids.

Dva is surprisingly good at chunking immortals.

Bunny hop is best and cutest heroic.

>Why don't you pay real shekels for your overwatch heroes with the rest of the kids.

kinda want to play Xul but I don't have the gold and I have a psychological issue about using my gems

>worst support
not even close

I've only recently gotten into Kharazim. Is there a specific Ally that makes him really good? I like Air and Spirit

cock ally

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You pick based on the situation.

Brown for AA
Blue for invis
Green if the above don't apply

Air if theres a stealth
Earth if theres 2+ auto attackers
Spirit if theres not many AAs.

Tyrande is a SLUT and a RAPIST and she uses her stun to MOLEST people without any resistance.

Do not play as her.

I want to impregnate her nelf tits

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>play a game
>pick a hero
>lose

nice game overleaguewatchhotswowdotababsturds

Right, I guess that should have been pretty obvious.
Thanks lads.

He's shit anyway.

Who the FUCK thought Anub'arak was OK?
Oh sure, let's give this character innate spell armor, which conveniently covers literally any skills regardless of whether or not they are actually magic.
Give him 2 stuns while you're at it, and make one of them an excellent escape for when people actually manage to hurt him
How about a Heroic that instantly turns a 5 vs 5 into 5 vs 4? PERFECT

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

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>Li Li minus 4.8%
Was she really at 59% winrate last patch?
She didn't feel that op...

Just kill that cocoon.
Swarm was meta all the time before

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You are linking from last week, you need to change it to the current patch.

>Facing Morales Abathur and Butcher on one team.

Fucking kill me now.

Maiev is too quality for this game. Look elsewhere.

better?

Yes thank you

Cocoon Butcher kill Morales finish off Butcher.

>Malfurion in 75% of games with a positive winrate

what the fuck. What even makes him so fucking good, like none of his abilities strike me as particularly unfair/op compared to someone like auriel where not having mana means never having to worry about fights dragging on too long

>Implying we have a Zag.

We already have too many night-elves.
I want a Draenei like Velen or someone.

massive amounts of very cheap but slow healing, AOE CC, and he is the only hero in the game that can refresh allies' mana

>only 1 fem nelf
not even close to enough night elves

It's what happens when you give a strong healer a strong cc and strong clear.

If its QM there isn't much you can do but if you were in draft/rank then its your own fault for not countering it from the start.

Auriel requires your team to be aggressive.

Mall has healing, spammable vision with his flare thingy, mana for ur team, aoe root, aoe silence ult

Can get mule, cleanse, more vision.
He has everything.

I suck at dota, will i be good on this game?

Li Li is perfect

Blizz niggers better watch out if they nerf my girl again

>Implying all the other female nelf skins don't count
You also have Sylv and Valeera to fap too if you're so desperate for elf pussy.

Probably this game is casual

Now I think about it how many characters even have mule? They keep fucking removing the damn thing. It might not always be the best talent but its pretty damn useful and I hate to see it go. If it really about the theme they could easily make it fit with each franchise like peon showing up to fix it.

Quickmatch. I REALLY wish they fixed some sort of fucking filter so there's at least some semblance of balance.

Non-night elves are shit

yeah probably
can't lasthit? good news no lasthits
always feed hard and end up lowest level on your team? good news, xp is shared and the whole team is one level
always fuck up positioning and get chainstunned to death in lane? good news this game's idea of a "long" stun is 1.5s

>It might not always be the best talent but its pretty damn useful
Yeah maybe for shitters who a-click down lanes and can never hit a tower for 20 seconds.

It's as useful as Treant Protector in Dota being picked to heal T1 towers instead of using Living Armour for damage block on allied HEROES. aka. not useful in HotS

Every time I see an Abathur or whatever take that shit, I laugh for days.

Anybody else find it ironic that The Butcher is a big hulking brute who only knows how to kill, yet he's also one of the highest skillcap heroes in the game?

>against Cassia, Valeera, Kael, Samuro, Probius
>Varian on team picks twin blade

how to throw the game at level 10, Varian style.

Well there are fucking 7+ versions of nelf skins in the game for different characters. Take your pick you elitist.
I just want representation from the one main race in the warcraft lore that doesn't have any yet.

What about in maps like Hanamura?
One time Malfurion took it there and our forts stayed in top shape all the time, the only way they would get destroyed is if the whole enemy team focused on that.
It was pretty useful I'd say.

Which Megapack should i buy? So far i own Diablo, Tracer, Jaina and Sylvanas

Would you be content with a male Draenei or do you want a waifu?
Be honest, user.

Which of those Heroes do you enjoy the most?
If you are a new player then I'd recommend Flex, it should have at least 2 characters in each class that you will like, I think.

m8, if he locks in on ANY of those then nothing can save them before they are dead.
Maybe Valeera might manage to get away.

Malthael next
Stukov/Garrosh
Ana

So far I've got Illidan, The Butcher, Valeera, Tracer and Hammer from chests. They really want me to play assassins.

>cassia blind
>valeera stun
>samuro invis/image out
>kael disable
>probius slow+run/overcharge

twinblades picker spoted

Of course I'd prefer a waifu over some old dude like Velen, but there aren't any super prominent femDraenei.
I'd still take them over another rando nightelf, human, or orc.

That's because Hanamura's a stupid map and 99% of players don't bother to push or learn the game and just a-click down lanes and follow the shining FEED HERE beacons.

When I learned shit like the Sapper camps in Towers of Doom get to attack the Core if they reached the T2 gates, suddenly I understood the map a lot better and I could reason more about what to do during every ToD game and/or what is a good or bad pick. Then there's other shit like destroying Keeps giving catapults, tower ammo mechanics, damage types, etc. Learning that shit is useful and helps immensely.

Pubs are still just aimlessly flailing about doing jackshit in Hanamura and don't understand they can empower payloads with fort and keep destructions, do camps for shittons of exp and free reveals, doing boss for core shot like ToD, and that catapults that spawn from blowing up Keeps attack the core like sapper camp when they reach the edge.

No Mengsk? Shit/10!

I think Tyrande's rework is fine they just need to do number tuning and probably need to give her more AA damage and healing to make her usable. They also need to improve some of the shitty talents like the Hunter's mark quest, Darnassian Archery and give Huntress' Fury it's wave clear back so you can pick it. She doesn't really have much versatility you basically go one build. Shadowstalk need a lot of help as well, the level 20 talent is probably a joke they put in for some reason.

They also have to make owl build quest increase the width so you can use it. There are a lot of undertuned talents and AA damage is too low. But the bones of a good rework are there, they just set her numbers too low so now you have such limited talent options and she isn't really good in the current meta.

>valeera is free this week
>i still have her at level 1
>try her in ai co-op
>i'm absolute shit with her

can't wait to get flamed for 4 straight levels when i decide to level her.

Why does enemy payload shoot two missiles but ours shoots one

Why is enemy allowed to contest the payload while invisible forever? There's no way to counter this, you have to be able to click on an enemy to attack them and you can't click on invisible

This game sucks

>not muting your team

its just qm who cares

How do I know which of the enemy team is healer so I can kill them first?

Post your face when you block DVAs self destruct with Varian

Payloads an extra missile for how many forts your enemy destroyed

Use AoE

u sux

look for the one who is healing

>tfw you place higher than a lot of people will ever be in their lives

makes you think

Start combos with W not Q, you dodo head.

Xul doesn't have any aoe except for his ult

look for the one that moves like a gay

If you have a skill that doesn't require clicking on an enemy, then use it on the shimmer you see

If you don't have a skill like that and your team is blind, then you're shit out of luck

Yuriel is prominent. She was centre stage in WoD at least.

what about E

>decide to level abathur in qm
>expect it be hell
>tfw pushing lanes all game
>tfw cloning a hero to join in team fights
This is way more fun than I expected and I actually won 6 of the 8 matches. Guess he just has a bad reputation like hammer because so many people in qm are terrible with them.

>What is Xul's Q
Also, just don't play just a shitty champ.

His cleave is an aoe, so is his scythe throw. I use the scythe throw to reveal.

Is the way to press Valeera just press all the buttons until either they die or I need to run away

all her shit seems super low cooldown

>press valeera

I meant play I don't think this game is like FE: fates where you get to press characters

Yeah I feel like if they add any draenei it'd be Yrel, but I still feel that it's unlikely or at least far away.
Have no idea about the abilities to differentiate her though.

But that's targeted. you need to know where the enemy is first and they're invisible

How to play Abathur good so that I can play as him to prevent others from ruining games by picking him?

>NE skins

Name just one.

I wish. I'd spend all my time petting Misha

stealth isn't complete invisibility, there's a shimmer that becomes easy to spot once you're used to it

the only exceptions are valeera and samuro don't have a shimmer during the 1st second of their stealth but afterwards there's a shimmer as usual

Strictly looking at value the heroes in the Assassin pack are worth more gold.

doesnt the tutorial cover this

Use symbiote on minoins and your locusts to keep lanes pushed and clone the highest damage hero for team fights. It's worked pretty well for me.