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Shining Judgment Edition

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Mermaid hero when?

>Gundam Tyrael
The downside is you have to play tyrael

Tyrael is fantastic, git gud
clips twitch tv/ExuberantPuzzledFennelTBTacoLeft

Superior water snek eventually.

Tyrael is the best!!!

when the fuck did they remove garrosh throw?

Weeks ago

>master dehaka icon instead of master tyrael icon

you had one job

All this angel posting

What's wrong, mortal?
Are you frightened by the presence of higher beings?

>when you start winning too much

Does Gundam Tyrael burn red when using Judgment? I need to know.

would you rather have it be d.va posting?

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blue

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damn that sucks
How are the two new heroes? Hanzo was annoying that last game but we won pretty hard

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.

...

Which one is the best heroic talent?

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.

You pick bunker when you have an easy divetarget on your team. You put down a bunker for them to get a semi iceblock

Does bunker cleanse debuffs?

probably combustion if only because it's easier to use

Sure, if they click it. Like I said, coordinated teams.

Yes.

Prepare for a surge junkrats feeding trying to destroy all healing fountains.

but why tho

why junkrat in particular
just had a ming walk top and take ours for free level 1 on dragon shire though

reminder that everyone on my team should follow me and only do what I'm doing since I have perfect strats that cannot fail

Grubby did it with 6.5k people watching.

Junkrat can get over the walls and destroy all of them.

>tfw your placement matches are against silver 4/5 and bronze 1
I'm a scrub ;~;

Blaze looks incredibly fun. He's def a day 1 buy for me

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.

I want to hold Lili's paw.

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

All Medivh players need a disco Medivh skin. WE ALL NEED THIS.

>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

never get a hero day 1.

It's gonna get tweaked and you are gonna need to readjust. fuck that noise

>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

>"Need a light?" when you choose Blaze in draft
day
one
buy

Change is life.

>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 won't these stupid fuckers ever listen

ESSENCE

Blizzard writers desperately need a thesaurus.

>Essence, Essence, Essence
>Unity Unity Unity
>Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid

Who plays Vikings anyways

>justice justice justice

RTS players

why suddently are plenty bad players who only say: "sorry, im bad" ? its for the holidays?

>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?

you for assuming someone was going to play her

So Blaze looks like a hot tank and all but
CYDEA
WHEN?

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

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.

If they're good, players that are decent at RTS games.

If they're shit.. your average throwtard.

>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

>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 :)

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.

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.

>Embarrass myself on someone else's stream with my play

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

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.

>spoiler
No, but it wasn't that bad because the streamer "blamed" someone else instead of me for the loss.

>tfw had an 8 game winstreak over the last 2 days
>tfw started playing tonight

Forced 50 is totally not a thing, right guys?

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.

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

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

>Blaze's dance
>not disco inferno
rate

How much of Cho'galls damage is armor useful against?
Leveling a murky and wondering if the AA talent is worth it vs Cho.

>We will never have a hero voiced by Chris Farley.

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

>Chris Farley will never voice an Ogre
>Shrek was written with Farley in mind

what would be the strongest team of 5 of the same hero?

5 sonyas

Probably Sonya or Rehgar.

Probably sonya or arthas.

>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?

This game is easy to fuck up while playing its very fast paced
Don't be a spurglord and make the best of it

5 morales

just stun her whirlwind bro xd

>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.

+1 leddit upvote to this post.

pls fucking remove sonya thx blizz

>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.

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.

>eternal circle jerk
wew
e
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>rotated 90 degrees
>took a picture of your monitor with your fucking cellphone

>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 ;~;

>> DEATHWING

>second heroic
shit m8

>Veeky Forums

I shit post on Veeky Forums on my laptop in between games, bite me

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

alt tab exists retard
2 monitors exist retard

>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.

Diamond is such a weird place right now.

>bump into high GM in d4
>legit new player at d1

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

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

Lost Vikings.

how do you know it isnt just matching you with 9 equal mmr players and you just had a bad game?

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.