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What's New? :
>Winter Veil 2017
>Celebrate the coolest holiday in the Nexus with new Skins, a Quest, and more!
>Ends January 8th
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>Stealth rework, Laning changes, Performance-based MMR, Laning updates, and more!
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>Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder
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>Hanzo, Master Assassin
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Fuck overwatch

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waifus are forever

I want to fuck Lyob

scatter build a best

>Every game since the patch is either you stomp them or they stomp you.

yeah the patch shot people all over the place
thankfully they're reverting all the wonky placements

hopefully

>4/10 of my placements were under 10 minutes
honestly i'm surprised I thought the tower changes would have made the game even longer

repost

reeeeee

What if they released a character who could attack WHILE MOVING?

>shitters have to relearn the game
>they refuse so the team that has less idiots who read patch notes wins
>not to mention the MMR fuck up with PBMM
game works as intended
it will level out in the coming weeks

I understand trying to block Tracer and Lucio from your memory, user, but you can't live like this.

>release tracer
>passive is that she can attack while moving
>"ah! what a novel and cool concept for a hero. Her passive will clearly help set her apart from other assassins."
>6 overwatch heroes later

what if we add a character that can attack before moving

elf is clearly master race

don't you mean 30 assassins later

Mephisto WHEN

FUCK OVERMEME

Maybe in 2019. At most we'll get 2 diablo heroes next year and they are Belial and Imperius

There'll be tons of fun overwatch heroes though ;)

I legitimately hope we'll get Moira. She could fit very snugly into HotS as a main healer with leeching properties.

guys don't worry at some point they'll run out of overwatch heroes

also they can't make widowmaker and roadhog because a widowmaker skin exists for nova and roadhog is literally just stitches so that's two more crossed off the list

I actually wonder how many degenerates would have picked Li Li if she was on the list

I'm curious as to the stats behind Hero releases. Like, Genji and D.va relative to, say, Cassia.

>tfw spider never ever

>andariel never ever

anduin when

never because uther exists

There's also Overwatch heroes that fundamentally cannot fit into HotS due to dimensional attributes. For example, Pharah and Orisa. How the fug would Orisa's shield work in HotS? Total nonsense.
I also see Symmetra as supremely unlikely, since Teleporter cannot fit into HotS at all.

So, just started trying hanzo out, am I right in thinking that dragonstrike is pretty mediocre and that dragon arrow is one of the best multi purpose ults around?

>Tracer
>Lucio (10 damage/sec)
>???

league of legends have two different abilities that are basally Orisa's shield, it can work alright in a moba. Phara would be weird though

You are very correct. Dragonstrike is basically something the entire team has to work around and set up for. It's like playing Last Rites to Tormented Souls: it's not fundamentally bad, but everything else about Hanzo plays to Dragon Arrow's strengths.

Same notion.

>Generous radius
>Fast global projectile
>Barely have to move out of basic attack range for the medium level stun

Basically treat it like Sonya's Leap, without actually going in.

Dragonstrike would be okay if you had teammates that work for it, or maps with tons of terrain in the way (see Cursed Hollow), but it's main problems are the 2s windup time + minimum range.

Let's see.
>Zarya
Shoots while standing
>Lucio
Shoots while moving! Overlaps Tracer!
>Genji
Shoots while standing, but can move during the later half of his attack animation
>Ana
Shoots while standing.
>Junkrat
Shoots while standing.
>Hanzo
Shoots while standing.

Lucio doesn't even do damage lmao

I think what he meant was just the general high mobility all of them have with very little weaknesses except for maybe ana and zarya.

If you want to climb fast use Valeera, they are comparing the stats with old Valeera stats from the last season giving you massive personal points.

They're resetting everything tomorrow m80

They are probably going to keep using the old data.

!

one is a paladin and one is a priest

>We will be resetting the Hero and Team League records (including placement matches) of any affected accounts.
Not for everyone.

If Anduin gets in as the generic priest rep and not Velen I'm going to cry

post autismos getting what they deserve

...

I STAND READY
*woosh*
*tumbles into the shadows*
DIE DIE DIE
*tumbles away*

why is Valla such an edgelord

>Hype up Baal as the next hero
>Baal reveal video starts
>Duriel swipes the screen away
>"Looking for Baal?"
>It's actually a Duriel release

Make it happen blizzard

I didnt know how much i actually wanted this.

Where are my Dragon Knight skins ????

>ACTUALLY getting trolled by NotBelial
Reddit for you

How do I win games when most of the time my team is intent on fighting 3v5s constantly

the only thing i really want from diablo is iron maiden for xul

Hanzo is fucking awful

its cute when girls try to act tough

You just suck it up, and requeue again.

I genuinely want to wringe the neck of any dipshit teammate that spams "gg" in chat 2 minutes in because 2 people died doing something stupid

this is literally one of the most comeback friendly multiplayer games fucking ever

>abathur nerfed thanks to lane changes
Buffs when?

>muh comeback
>with the same idiots in your team who can't stop feeding
Maybe if you could replace those players with someone else

>"I'm done"

>when people start getting pessimistic in chat immediately

all thats going to do is fucking put you and all your teammates on tilt and make everyone lose because you stop playing and caring and focus entirely on shitting down everyones throats

shut the fuck up, shittalk when the loss is confirmed at 20 minutes if you need to

why would you buff an already good hero ? (he was buffed this patch too)

is zagara's infest worth a damn now with the minion changes? hotslogs meme says it's getting pretty damn high winrates

>(he was buffed this patch too)
Only for bad Abathurs who get caught out giving them a slightly higher chance of getting back to safety

That sucks but alright

What, exactly, are you talking about?

The tiny health buff

... was given to his scarabs, not his body. Thus, it's a general buff, unless you're saying you don't make use of his scarabs.

I just can't read

It's still fuck all

Can anyone give me a good Vala build?

I've been trying the AA one but if you can't auto then you're fucked, the Q build seems weak and the W build left you with no mana at all.

>the Q build seems weak
kek

all valla builds are viable

stop trying to 1v1 people

So I have to use her like a passive faggot to get the best of her builds? really?

>Q build seems weak
it's just her best build for soloQ, you can 1v1 easily, depush, do camps faster, and burst someone in teamfights.

you need to stop peeling at actually work with your team

>squishy as fuck ranged carry
I mean you play her however you want
but would recommend learning the Q build for reasons

Jaina p-please cover yourself

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anybody encounter the morales rocket ult bug?

Is Nazeebo still having perma 40% spell armor

No, it was fixed with the patch yesterday.

no was fix

If you mean passive faggot as in "not faceplanting every enemy hero that steps into your fov," then yes.

If you want a lane bully, take something like Greyman. He has the same AA, doesn't die to a light breeze if you step a bit too far forward, and can finish off the enemy laner if they take a bit too much damage with cocktail on the gate/walls.

>Ranked placements
>Usually constantly place mid-platinum.
>Ally captain hovers KT, no tanks present, and naturally I'm the only support.
>W/e, let's make this work.
>Last-pick last second swaps to stitches against a comp uniquely suited to fucking him over.
>Loadscreen is full of silver portraits on my end and golds on the other.
>Team captain KT, naturally, has 10 deaths by 12 minutes from Valeera pickoffs, Uther gangbangs, allied stitches picking his nose at the enemy mercenary camps.

Come the fuck on, I'm picking ranked to AVOID quick match horribad matchmaking.

You skipped D.Va, where they made "move while shooting" literally one of her only benefits apart from splash damage and dropping dead immediately when de-meched.

>Jaina before pick: What do we need ?
>Sustain range
>Goes Jaina after we've picked Chromie
>There's people that think double Mage is okay

Bets ? I'm ready to kill myself

>tfw I started yesterday
>got the malthael plum warden skin in my first elite crate
:^)

>double mage
>against nova and wolfman
you lost. i bet your varian goes twinblades too

Master is also pure garbage, ppl don't even know how to soak now. Can't wait until they purge these gold shitters.

just hope that chromie and jaina are at least good at their characters and the nova lives up to the stereotype and you'll be fine

Is twinblades varian shit?
I just started playing him since he's free this week and I've only tried protection and arms so far

I did forget DVa. She shoots while moving in mech form, but slowed, and with a unique shooting mechanic. And she shoots while standing out of mech.

eh it's generally not the most difficult thing to draft/play around
quite good against people willing to overextend and slap fight you though

sort of like butcher

let me put it to you this way

twinblades makes you do a job you aren't supposed to ever do

He's only okay (not great) if either LITERALLY ignored and allowed to free-boss or the team has no stuns or slows whatsoever.

twin memes isn't as shit as people make out, it's just there are much better melee assassins and he's infinitely more valuable as a tank

can anyone recommend a couple heroes for each role that are always good picks?
I want to build up a decent base pool

>first 4 picks zero wave clear, zero camp clear, zero teamfight on mines
>lose
i hate this shit map

I feel like Lucio and Stukov are pretty good for support. I don't really play much else if I can avoid it

>tfw QM gives you artanis vs the enemy getting ETC but then the enemy lili and mathael are bunga and take last rites and water dragon letting you swing for game lategame
I almost feel bad for their ETC because he was godlike, but at least my win rate with alarak isnt sub 40 anymore

>Winblades Varian
>Passive Anub all game
>We kill Stukov and Nova on 2nd shrine
>Posture around shrine not doing it whole time
>Allow Stukov and Nova to get back to the shrine
>They win it
>These people were all Diamond 3+ last season

"We don't want stealth to become useless, guys. :("

>Valeera teleports behind you, strips your armor, and obliterates you for 75% of your health.
>You're a fucking tank.

>Assassin: Greymane, Valla are always good
>Tank: ETC, Muradin, Garrosh
>Support: Rehgar, Uther, Lucio, Brightwing; Stukov is good if you have another support with cleanse usually
>Spec: Sylvanas, Zagara, Nazeebo