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>Ana Amari, Veteran Sniper announced; Now LIVE!
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xth for why does cassia's e look and feel like shit

why do blizzard sponsor these ugly dogs?

Bronze to GM challenge starts here

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waifu poll

Cassia is best girl after Chromie

>Try Rain of Destruction meme build on Gul'Dan
>Every moment I think of using my ult I realize that it'll do jackshit in the situation
Fix/replace this shitstain ult already, Blizz.

I'm pretty sure that's impossible unless you have friends who will queue when you queue and throw if they're on the enemy team or if you play religiously.

at least its an actual girl this time and not some mentally ill abomination

You can do it!

I've only seen it taken twice and they were both immediately stunned/killed out of the cast, sort of like when Kael'thas takes Pyro.

>no Brightwing in the poll

Look user you truly asked for it
I won't stop stalking you untill you agree to have some fun time with me cutie

>0 votes in the waifu poll

At least Pyro actually does something after 1.5 seconds.

what is even the point of Ana's sleep dart, it's a stun that's interrupted as soon as the target takes damage so it's useless in teamfights, and is a useless self-peel since she should never be in a 1v1 situation or laning alone

the best scenario is putting to sleep one of the backline or their healer, again something that should never happen because it would mean Ana is severely out of position

>no Zagara in the poll

RIP Johanna you will be missed

You already have my B.net info nigga just add me damn

also, to add to that, once you get good at HotS I would recommend just getting a smurf account if you want to get to Grand Master faster.

I'm gonna guess you're the kind of idiot who thinks Malf should always be taking Tranqulity as well? What an idiot. Blink Heal and Emerald Wind are both good that have their own uses when applicable. Blink Heal shouldn't be taken against a team that has hard CC, for instance.

She's different but not much worse right?

>Abathur vs Tyrande episode

What does a top tier Medivh player look like?

Could he be as useful as a decent Tyrande?

Only if you answer my question are you a qt boy ;) ?

He's probably the guy from the last thread that was arguing about her viability in quick match. She's fine, in fact better against melee heavy teams.

brightwing is a boy

Nope, ult lost damage, new talents suck, new quest suck, she could regen half of her health in a minute before, now she can't. Laws of Hope got an overall nerf because of passive regen and the regen master talent got removed.

Pick stitches and Dehaka for waveclear and self sustain, don't Jo even on QM.

medivh's kit is built around playmaking
tyrande has a single playmaking tool: her stun (or stun+D)

you must be retarded if you think tyrande has the potential to be more useful than medivh

shitting out 100k hero damage or being a good duelist doesn't good as being useful either

must be at least 50% humanoid on default skin to enter

Imagine having Bolt of the Storm but up all the time. Imagine just protecting all damage for one character during a fight. Imagine having Void Prison. There is a reason why teams ban Medivh whenever they know someone on the enemy team can play him.

But that's wrong
I was once

Hammer seems like a fine pick on volskaya

I won again, up to 394 rank points to Bronze 4

how so?

Area control. If you have a team that can guard her, you own the point hard.

there is nothing i hate more in my games than chromie with her disgusting laughs and gnome sounds

>D.va the Destroyer not included
>have to wait until Junkrat maybe to get a good D.va skin

So are all patches going forward going to have one cool new skins and then 30 skins that are just shitty recolors of shitty skins?

probably
buy gems goy

>dva the destroyer didn't come out with Ana
Explain blizzard

I thought that after her release, this general would be overflowing Ana lewds. Dissapointed

who is the best hots player in the world

Because hotsg is full of shitters with no taste

probably some gook

people probably buy more stuff if it's spaced out
which also helps people avoid getting bored

Is there any point of getting gems besides for the stimpacks?

> I was once
what happened?

uhh maybe the discounted/featured top shelf stuff, like the 10k heroes or 1600 skins/mounts
otherwise nah just buy the monthly/yearly stim

...

>loves valeera
>hates Chromie's voice
How shitty your taste can be?

went crazy

>You will never be the nephalim hired to save a cute panda.
>You will never be curious about Anub's trap-making art. His efficacy within the cocoons unwitnessed by his own eyes.

>ult lost damage
and gained a 50% slow

>sonya will never squeeze my dick with her thighs

>sonya will never make me squeeze her dick with my thighs

I love crazy qt boys you are just making me harder user, let me pound your boipucci

Shut the fuck up you deranged faggot, go be gay somewhere else!!

cool gameplay

It was never her main point though, if you wanted a character with a slow why not pick the rock cow? If you want self sustain why not pick stitches? What she has to offer now that any other character doesn't do better?

is eye of horus anything except retard protection?
Only use for it seems to be "this asshat is getting ganked because he overextended or didnt watch the minimap" it has shit damage unlike novas triple meme and both locks down the caster so it cant be used freely
Why the fuck are all the ones im getting on my team choosing it over nanoboost
Im even only queing for dumb combos with it like malth ming or genji

>not even any cleavage
Are we really that pathetic we'll give views to a girl who won't even get her babs out?

Yeah, Johanna's main point was doing loads of fucking damage with her less picked ultimate.

why do nerds give these sluts money when they could just get ladies of the night and actually get something for their money

Same thing she did before, wave clear. She also fucks melee comps hard now with that lvl 7 and 13 talent. Blinded by the Light is fucking insane at 20 as well.

wasnt jo's main thing always being a fuckhuge hp bar that can eat damage for days alongside that nice draw in ability

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probably a chestlet

Set up
Self peel
Interupts

>matchmaker decides it hates me
>every fucking match today I get teammates that can't do basic shit like lane or do the objective
>get a level 20 jim laner on my team
>every enemy team is full of mvp pro tryhards
>wind up losing like 15 fucking games in a row in a blowouts
I feel like I've been put on a secret blacklist over at blizzard HQ

same here bud, just broke a 16 loss streak.

truly the end times

Does she at least enlarge the actual game after the loading screen?

yea she did

>tfw like 15-2
>knew I should've dodged one
>other loss was extremely close
Pretty okay so far.

Just checked and ye, looks like.

what's the consensus on this update? ana good or shit? same for the new map and jo's rework

Are you being retarded on purpose? The point was to kill escaping characters on low life, thanks to the nerf, the damage simply isn't enough, and since you still doesn't do enough damage to kill on your own you have to wait for your teammates to reach your location, which by that time the slow is already gone.

Many people latch onto streamers because they act as virtual friends that treat the loneliness and stress in the viewer's life. Female streamers offer that along with the complicated feelings dudes on the internet have with women, for some guys there's this belief that this will be the closest they'll ever get to having a girlfriend who loves them that they can love back (via donations). The argument that they could just watch porn or find a working girl doesn't quite apply here as these things only simulate sex, not female companionship in the literal meaning of the word.

tl;dr Niggas be lonely, sad af.

had same thin last week went on a 14 game loss streak and dropped down 2 brackets in HL.

Now I'm on a 6 Game winning streak again and currently Higher in HL than I started last week.

>when you go on a lose streak because you want to play shitty heroes
>reminds yourself why they're so shitty
no wonder nobody else picks trash like tychus or chen. didn't they used to be decent? yeesh

Blinded by the light is a level 20 talent, of course it's strong. Nowhere as strong as good character's talents though.

Also level 7 talents compete with blessed momentum which is incredibly important for her.

Not anymore. Passive HP regen does a direct damage reduction because it's automatic, without regen master (which obviously means less 500 HP) and laws of hope she is a lot squishier.

then I don't see the problem. Probably still wouldn't watch her because female streamers are usually even less entertaining and passionate than male streamers but at least she has some integrity.

I usually go on loss streaks then win streaks with characters I think are shit, turns out *I* was shit.

meant to be to as well

Ah I wasnt aware, Ive only played like 10-15 games as jo and the last one was well over 6 months ago
I take it the patch changes shit on her?

>tfw 6/12 Brightwing skins
t-thanks blizzard

>mfw bads can't solosupport with ana

literally just hit your Q lmao

how is her throughput assuming decent accuracy
I thought it felt rather okay on the PTR

>8/15 lili
>7/12 chen
>7/14 kharazim
>6/9 chogall skins
>5/8 tlv skins
>all of them are 5 or under

The issue is Ana has nothing for herself besides her grenade which she doesn't want to be using on herself.

throw the grenade first and her heals get amazing

They shit a lot on her survivability, which makes you wonder what's the point of taking a tank that can't self sustain. The removal of regen master, coupled with the nerf on laws of hope (from 10 HP per secont to 1.5) means she has less 40+ HP regen per second, that accounts to about 2400 less healing per minute without taking into account the level scaling of the old laws of hope (4% per level).

The removal of regen master also makes laws of hope active less useful because her max HP is not lower.

The new talents aren't in good spots either, one of them is in competition with blessed momentum. They nerfed the initial damage of her aoe burning, you now need at least 3 AAs on heroes to do just as much damage, of course without her self sustain I don't see her auto-attacking that often.

The last new talents go into the same tier as imposing presence which makes you decide between some small self sustain and a aoe CC.

They also nerfed the falling sword damage and gave it a 50% slow, because the point of the ult was to kill escaping low HP characters, you now need your team to kill those, and by the time they reach you, the slow is gone.

Found this old screenshot, immediately relived the pain

I've been able to keep even with most other supports I'm matched against except Stukov, grenade first and you're golden. I've typically been taking the sleep dart quest at 1 which ramps up massively at 16 when you're taking sharpshooter and each pierce is healing for a fuckton

You have to position yourself really well with her, she has more range than most enemy abilities. The biggest threat to Ana is honestly a Nova just poking her down and running away repeatedly

literally how

>nothing but double support comps since ana's release
no, no, nooooooooooooooo

Was he attempting to be afk?

Look at the enemy team
>dehaka, chen, tass, xul and morales
>no damage whatsoever
>Xul as specialist instead of the assassin god Nazebo
>enemy team full of punching bags for the monk
They had no change, it would be an absolute trainwreck if that sonya were any good.

I love Li Li.
I would love to go on an adventure with her and her drunken uncle Chen.

I want to watch as she gets pissed on by Chen then takes out all her frustration on me by calling me a faggot and slapping me.

I love Li Li.

>be me
>see you low health
>press Q
>you dodge it
???

You're right that no Regen Master is devastating for Johanna. Shield Glare at 16 is pretty much mandatory if you aren't rocking double healer/tank.