damn that sucks How are the two new heroes? Hanzo was annoying that last game but we won pretty hard
Jason Smith
Hanzo is a lot like Genji where a good one will ruin your day, but bad ones are dead weight.
Alexstrasza is a good support with an ult level trait, but she's got some blaring weaknesses that make her hard to draft around.
Firebat is the best hero they've released in a very long time. Going to be S tier tank.
Jaxon Rogers
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Zachary Gomez
Which one is the best heroic talent?
Leo Jones
Combustion is the default pick, Bunker is better when you have coordinated teams or you just need the armor and/or a 2k health damage buffer.
Benjamin Lee
You pick bunker when you have an easy divetarget on your team. You put down a bunker for them to get a semi iceblock
Isaac Gray
Does bunker cleanse debuffs?
Matthew Sanders
probably combustion if only because it's easier to use
Elijah Turner
Sure, if they click it. Like I said, coordinated teams.
Yes.
Kayden Davis
Prepare for a surge junkrats feeding trying to destroy all healing fountains.
Grayson Hughes
but why tho
David Martinez
why junkrat in particular just had a ming walk top and take ours for free level 1 on dragon shire though
Julian Moore
reminder that everyone on my team should follow me and only do what I'm doing since I have perfect strats that cannot fail
Austin Allen
Grubby did it with 6.5k people watching.
Adam Kelly
Junkrat can get over the walls and destroy all of them.
Isaiah Edwards
>tfw your placement matches are against silver 4/5 and bronze 1 I'm a scrub ;~;
Evan Perez
Blaze looks incredibly fun. He's def a day 1 buy for me
Brandon Parker
Combust. AOE slow, damage. Bunker can't survive a max range Li Ming combo and probably gets 1 shot by Chromie too.
>inb4 he's too good against Genji/Tracer >inb4 he gets nerfed to ETC levels of uselessness damage-wise because of it.
Bentley Flores
I want to hold Lili's paw.
Nicholas Barnes
this ana told me to not die after she got caught out and i tried to help aaaaaaaa i'm so tilted rn also because sylv picked first and was showing kael originally but then switched so i didn't ban aaaaaaaaa thanks for reading my blog post
also EarthBody that confused the shit out of me as it came up in game
Isaiah Turner
All Medivh players need a disco Medivh skin. WE ALL NEED THIS.
Nathaniel Jones
>need to spend 50 dollary doos if i want the valla skin I'm gonna buy 25 loot boxes i swear I'M GONNA DO IT
Jason Brooks
never get a hero day 1.
It's gonna get tweaked and you are gonna need to readjust. fuck that noise
Justin Carter
>be varian vs jo >take shattering throw >she takes """indestructible""" at level 20 >massive damage explosion every time she hits 1hp I know it sucks but feels so good man
Jason Sanders
>"Need a light?" when you choose Blaze in draft day one buy
Juan Parker
Change is life.
Jose Sanders
>Enemy team has Illidong as first two picks >Teammate hovers over Leoric >Please don't pick Leoric, Illidan kicks his ass 9 times out of 10 >"No he doesn't" >Enemy team proceeds to draft no Warriors and double Support, then shits on us early game PVE and late game teamfights
why suddently are plenty bad players who only say: "sorry, im bad" ? its for the holidays?
Aaron Perry
>join HL >mid low gold match >tomb of the spider queen >user 1: "ban valeera" >user 2: "we got first pick and youre 1st to pick, pick her" *bans etc* >user 1: "i dont play her, asking for a ban is not as asking for a pick even if we have first pick" *picks another shit* >enemy team picks her >user 1: *autistic screeching* the whole match Who was in the wrong here?
Landon Ramirez
you for assuming someone was going to play her
Hudson Scott
So Blaze looks like a hot tank and all but CYDEA WHEN?
Charles Hall
I wasnt banning, I ended up picking support and solo laning for 3 minutes because lol no rotation, and I legit want to know these things if I ever want to climb out of this hell
Elijah Gonzalez
Uh, the fellow who left her open after first pick said he didn't play her.
>gold >rotations You can climb with anything but you'll probably get the most results playing something with siege, waveclear and sustain.
Joshua Baker
If they're good, players that are decent at RTS games.
If they're shit.. your average throwtard.
Jason Cruz
>Tyrael and Diablo on the team >Both spend the entire game refusing to frontline and just running behind the team, neither initiate even when it's a 5v3 WHY
Asher Kelly
>oh woops you won one game too many so we put your mmr through the roof, surely you'll be able to carry these retards with 20% less mmr than you against a team of people with your mmr or higher :)
Mason Ortiz
I see.
Well, that was an annoying match. Probably would've won in Kael'thas was Plat last season >1300 master this season >44% wr and currently d3 They couldn't really fight us at any stage in the game but vikings kept things afloat.
Levi Long
i do. i picked them up when 2.0 came out and thought they would be fun to play since they're so unconventional and different from every other character in the game. victories hinge on your teammates abilities to adequately form a deathball and distracting from your vikings as they soak.
Tyler Garcia
>Embarrass myself on someone else's stream with my play
John Garcia
I've had that happen a bunch of times, actually. Similar to pic related where it hurt too much to go back and watch/clip it.
are you the Lucio that got grubbed the other day
Ryder Taylor
Once you realise that Longboat is a meme and Play Again is just an infinite ratting engine, they're very fun to play You just choke the enemy out of map resources by having two vikings constantly pushing, one constantly picking up camps and objectives etc.
Mason Nelson
>spoiler No, but it wasn't that bad because the streamer "blamed" someone else instead of me for the loss.
Lincoln Lewis
>tfw had an 8 game winstreak over the last 2 days >tfw started playing tonight
Forced 50 is totally not a thing, right guys?
Nathaniel White
Oh.
That's exactly what he did. Goose chase with one viking as the objective spawning, capturing mercenaries with another then would ult them together and smash a lane in.
Wyatt Jackson
hey i remember why i stopped playing last time the players in this game literally the worst players I've ever seen in my life in any game a diamond hots player is like a silver league player jesus christ >junkrat doesn't know he has the ability to auto attack >misses every Q >ultis after they're 5% hp and they die before he lands his suicide bomb
Benjamin Peterson
I feel like a bit of a broken record but due to QM/UD seeding people have always been able to pop right into plat-diam and it takes a very long time for them to tank out.
it's just particularly bad this season
Landon Bailey
>Blaze's dance >not disco inferno rate
Josiah Cruz
How much of Cho'galls damage is armor useful against? Leveling a murky and wondering if the AA talent is worth it vs Cho.
Nicholas Rodriguez
>We will never have a hero voiced by Chris Farley.
Austin Hill
had the opposite happen to me in LoL
>playing Xerath and notice enemy lee is a streamer >check his twitch and see him streaming the match >his twitch chat is praising me non-stop
made me main xerath when i used play LoL
Camden Barnes
>Chris Farley will never voice an Ogre >Shrek was written with Farley in mind
Brody Davis
what would be the strongest team of 5 of the same hero?
Nathaniel Parker
5 sonyas
Adam Bailey
Probably Sonya or Rehgar.
Hudson Long
Probably sonya or arthas.
Liam Scott
>Sonya has the hp and sustain of a warrior has the dps of an assassin has the camps/boss taking ability of a specialist
why is this hero allowed again?
James Harris
This game is easy to fuck up while playing its very fast paced Don't be a spurglord and make the best of it
Jaxson Wright
5 morales
Jayden Howard
just stun her whirlwind bro xd
Ian Howard
>playing junkrat at all That's a clear sign of brain damage anyways. I wouldn't lump in the regular unga bungas with shitrat players.
Wyatt Ramirez
+1 leddit upvote to this post.
pls fucking remove sonya thx blizz
Elijah Garcia
>decide against my better judgement to do placements
>Game 1 >Our bans BOTH get forefeited >my team is comprised of >instalock firstpick Gazlowe >instalock second pick vikings >instalock Tyrande >instalock Abathur >me playing Arthas
>vs >Tracer >Etc >Varian >Jaina >Lucio
>not one of my teammates speaks a single word the entire game >Vikings piles 3 in 1 lane >gazlowe dies to camps 6 times >Abathur sits in bushes in mid under enemy-controlled vision>ends with 14 deaths >the vikings was D2 >the Abathur was D5 >the Gaz was D1
This was my first placement.
First.
When people ask why I never bother with ranked, I can point to this game every single time without fail.
Caleb Gomez
the sad thing is we almost lost this game after they finally figured out they needed to cocoon me in a late game team fight and nobody on me team bothered breaking me out of it. if i wouldve lost 200 mmr after this performance i may have perma quit the game, literally dragged my team kicking and screaming to a win.
Nicholas Lewis
>eternal circle jerk wew e w
Jackson Ortiz
>rotated 90 degrees >took a picture of your monitor with your fucking cellphone
Jonathan Nelson
>tfw your first 4 placements were good, le 50% winrate (but good play even on the losses) >next 4 are utter shit, get curb stomped each time >barely want to play the last 2 and find myself in bronze or silver ;~;
Austin Edwards
>> DEATHWING
Gavin Gonzalez
>second heroic shit m8
Xavier Kelly
>Veeky Forums
Dominic Flores
I shit post on Veeky Forums on my laptop in between games, bite me
Leo Russell
You know, at seeing Q being conical, I really thought this was another Garrosh kit meme. I'm pleasantly surprised, but he seems cool yet broke
Kevin Flores
alt tab exists retard 2 monitors exist retard
Wyatt Ward
>decide against all instinct to try second placement >first ban forfeited >first pick instalock vikings
Yep. Done. Indistinguishable from quickmatch even in fucking placements. I will never touch draft modes again. This game is completely loaded with faggots that just want to try and LE MASTER TROLE eachother so they can spam "LOL U MAD" back and forth in chat. I legit fucking despise Blizzard players.
Thomas Perez
Diamond is such a weird place right now.
>bump into high GM in d4 >legit new player at d1
Jacob Robinson
so what did the other 4 players on his team do to get pulled into that match? it just found 4 lower mmr players and decided to ruin their game because the system had a winstreak to punish?
i dont buy this forced 50 meme
Christopher Rogers
it means the system used team average MMR, so if you're on a hot streak it finds an enemy team of average MMR X, then finds shitters so that your team's average MMR is also X. Since a win streak pushes your MMR up, it finds really bad people to bring the average down, thus forcing you to carry them entirely against competent enemies
Matthew Martin
Lost Vikings.
Jayden Cruz
how do you know it isnt just matching you with 9 equal mmr players and you just had a bad game?
Hunter Hughes
Because it only happens after win streaks and it has templates.
The most common is "You and 4 soft range against Butcher + A team loaded with stuns." When all other attempts to force you to lose somehow fail (e.g you manage to hypercarry like a God and overpower the MMR's attempt to force you to lose), this is where you end up.
The second is "3 range 1 support + Sonya vs 3 range, Abathur, Alarak. One of which is you"
The third is "Cho'gall Auriel + whoever vs 5 soft immobile heroes that all lack anything approaching an answer to Cho'gall and thus spend the entire game being his harem of abuse-sluts".
It's most evident in QM, less so in draft modes because it doesn't utilize the team templates. But if you play QM with any frequency and manage a win streak, it WILL be ended by one of the above.