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Previous:

>when your stitches does a stinkie instead of voring the genji that's been carrying the enemy team

Picking the wrong talents and heroics should be considered throwing, cyberbullying and terrorism.

fuck garrosh

Xth for stop allowing people to place directly into Platinum, Diamond or Master with little or no prior ranked experience, it shits up the ladder

Here is your lord and savior

>day after garrosh nerfs
>everyones letting him through bans
>people still run up to garrosh who arent warriors
>get flung into enemies and still die
You can nerf garrosh all you want, but the problem was the player base

>tfw you're losing handily but Sonya picks leap and solo heal li li picks water dragon

Repost!

Here are some fun things you can do with Garrosh for those of you who think he is now literal shit tier after 1 day of (not actually) playing him.

1) Hit enemies a little closer to you (use on-release for his Q), take one step forward and then toss them the moment the icon appears.

2) If you're having trouble hitting the specific distances, take Body Check at level 1, punch them, THEN walk up to them and throw them. The range on it is actually surprisingly generous. Bonus points for Double Up at level 13.

3) If your team is on point with engages, take Warlord's Challenge, Q them, then walk up to them and R them before throwing them.

4) Take Decimate, Q, R, then throw them. Then continue R'ing them.

5) Play him like a normal tank! He takes low damage at lower health, can bodyblock decently, can interrupt channels, stun and lock down divers, and generally soak up all the damage, especially with his 5% health buff.
Bonus points: Warbreaker at level 1 now gives you a 5 second stun now. Hitting it is harder sure, but that's half the CD most tanks have!

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blizzard should make diamond top 1%, plat top 10%, gold top 30%, rest in silver/bronze

Reminder that there is no statistical difference between Q, E, and even W builds on Alexstrasza, and nearly all her power is in her base kit and arguing about talent selections is fruitless.

>Can now make a squad of a medic, Siege tank, Marine, Firebat, and Ghost
Neat. If only we could replace the ghost with something cooler like a Reaper.

>play mommy
>lose
so it's that easy, huh?

She is only losing to get tied up and abused.
Deathwing got her hooked on it.

What talents are you picking? Alex playing is all about proper talents.

I'm really surprised they haven't done a reaper, I'm guessing they scrapped it for Hanzo or Genji because of course they would do that.

How is /hotsg/ spending their Christmas? I'm going to be talking about Alexstrasza's talents and why your build fucking sucks

Well, there's overlap that's why. I expect there to be a Reaper Junkrat skin eventually.

all alexstraza players need to be gassed

Friendly Reminder to stand in Mommy's circle for milkies!

What is she saying?

...

Give me a quick rundown on the dreadlords. Vari, Mal'Ganis, Balnazzar, Tichondrious - are there more? No post-WotLK lore, please.

Hahaha that's fucking retarded.

>Was D4
>Now D5

Last few days have been full of shitters for me as well.

But she's fun :(

...

>116 games on Alex alone already

>playing losing streaks
Mommy NO

>Thinking 116 games is a lot

>d5
nani

Oh god dat firebat voice..

WE WUZ FIREBATZ AND SHIEEEEEEET

I want to hon hon my baguette into your french pussy iyob

>I love it when I'm Ana and throw my W.

Firebats are just criminals with flamethrowers strapped to their bodies

makes sense

>when an Ana uses it too early

>omitting her abs from the image
literally why?

REMOVE MOMMY POSTERS

Remove? But we just got started!

I just got Alex and won 3 straight with her.
probably just really sucks.

True if big.

>tfw Firebat is finally here
How long I've waited

>2.75sec silence
Can I use this image yet?

>negative wr at every mmr
hm

This latest patch fucking ruined what little fun was left in this game.

Why are you guys still subjecting yourselves to it?

You know Actiblizz hates your guts, right?

t. garroshfag

>Tfw love Kel'thuzad but pretty shit at him
>Don't want to be a cancer upon teammates while trying to git gud with such a squishy hero
Existence is painful.

lvl 1800 guy on my team
>still has no fuckin clue whatsoever how the game works
fucking mindless qm drones

why not just spam bot games until you get a feel for his mechanics
the rest is mostly just spacing, map awareness, rotations, etc

I know your pain.

>Come back after a couple months
>Junkrat blows me over his gate

I'm talking about the "2018" gameplay "update."

The game is just literally 'LoL for Blizzdrones' now.

No idea what you're talking about. Ammo was shit, regen globes are fun now, stealth is now good, and the camera is a null change

Don't tell me you're so retarded you thought infinite ammo killed specialists

Where the FUCK is Maiev?

In Illidan's sex dungeon.

Guess thats only fair.

Is Illidan's sex dungeon inside Maiev's sex dungeon?

No, Maiev's sex dungeon was converted to Illidan's sex dungeon where she spends all day redoing the makeup to look like Tyrande and get railed for 18 hours every Friday.

Maiev's a top, though.

Zoe added in HotS when ??

She got turned into a powerbottom for authenticity.

>things that made the game unique are bad
>taking said things out and dumbing down mechanics so 10 year olds don't whine about Nova and Samuro are good

Yeah, keep sucking that Blizz cock while you simultaneously whine about too many OW characters being added to the roster.

Mommy loves breeding sex!

They'll add a version of Zed and Yasuo first.

Then Teemo.

source?

source is me

can you post the full version then delete it like 5 minutes later

>me unga support
>team bunga

>tfw we finally have warriors for terran, protoss, and zerg

>high skill ceiling healer that needs strong cooperation to succeed
>team can not possibly be bunga ever
really gets my synapses firimg

imgur it

no

Get a tripcode, lyob.

>i'm Iyob
truly activates my almonds

forgot pic

I'll trade you

So, are you supposed to go E build or Q build on Alex? The E quest seems kinda hard to complete...

y is this a thing

Are we all Iyob now ??

>The E quest seems kinda hard to complete...
if you think this you unironically need to hover over morales instead

E build if you're cancer.
W Build is where it's at.

Always E build. Never Q.

The only good Q talent is life blossom, W talents are super shit tier.

Please post the source for Mommy, thank you.

Who is muradin for 1600 dorritos.

How did you do that? Where do you place her W? I seem to place it too far back from combat or my teammates never stay on it when its closer to the front.

EXPLAIN TO ME IN SIMPLE TERMS HOW TO PERFORM WELL WITH DIABLO

>TWINBLADES VARIAN
EVERY
FUCKING
TIME

Make them hit you instead of your teammates.

Grab their healer and place him/her between you and your friends while being protected by Medivh. Alternatively grab a dangerous assasssin and permastun him/her.

WALK UP TO PEOPLE AND SOMETIMES PRESS E! Charge should primarily be used as either a 'gotcha', an escape, or an execute; walking up to people is actually your b&b.

flip > charge

Why do you continue to play Alex in ranked when it's like 100% certain that other roles excel at the carry potential?

What characters or types of abilities do you use quick cast on? Which ones don't you? I seem to have a lot of trouble aiming 'point and click' abilities with quickcast, like Diablo's charge wrestling moves, but skillshot aimed abilities I prefer quickcast on. Does anyone else struggle with these things?

Pic unrelated

You missed Mephistroth

So don't charge then flip, walk up, flip, then charge? Does this apply even after you get the reset talent?

The last 2 games i've played as alex i've finished the E quest in under a minute 30 seconds, get it together mate

Preemptive Ws, place aggressively for your team. Don't ever us a W for you, unless it's before 7, and you're laning against someone that can kill you. Otherwise, after 7, if you need health back, just use E.

Good dragon timings, and ults. When you're ready to pop dragon, always have ult up. The "nerf" has made it easier to line them up if you're a shitter and can't aim Es. QW D QW R always.

Use your spells on cooldown.

Healing depends on the game, and if my team needs it all.

She's fun, she feels like Holy Pally to me. The other S/Tier 1 supports are boring to me. Lucio, and Stukov are braindead, Rehgar with his wolf talents are kind of fun to play aggressive, and I can't play Malf very well. I had a 70% winrate as her, now ~60%, so it's not like I'm holding my team back. It's also ranked, P3-D3, where everyone is a shitter, so it's not like my pick would make a difference.

>I can't play Malf very well.
Play full moonfire on 1,4,7 and enjoy the massive damage.

Honest thanks, greatly appreciated!!

>draws my ideal version ahegao
>blue balls me
wow rude

No reason at all to not use quick cast on every hero for every ability. Objectively mathematically better.

Wow, it's like I haven't tried that before, and failed horribly at it.

You also need to play aggressively as her. Play her like a melee assassin, especially after 7. Just go face.

If I'm bottom hero damage as her, I feel like I didn't add much, and should've just picked something else. She should always be in the middle, or even top damage.

Hit your wallbangs.