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Where's Illidan Edition

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>Feb 6 – Mar 5
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first for best girl

i play butcher btw but i also play alarak now

1st for protoss

Mei is a fat pig with man hands

I love Lunara!

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Tyrael and Femablo are the best and I want reddit to fuck off

how 2 get out of bronze???
i'm in 50/50 WL hell

Sounds like you're in the right place then.

stop being shit

Play more, I guess. I placed in Bronze before and now I'm in Upper Bronze (ie. Plat). Did the same shit I did before.

we're not here to take part
we're here to take over

>buying mounts

>falling for the ranked meme

I want Dunktrain to crush my skull with his thighs.

I only play vs AI because I play video games for fun, not to prove anything to anyone don't @ me

He couldn't crush anything with those thighs, too jelly, not enough muscle. He could choke you in them, though.

my dream cast for blizzcon is gilly and grubby

make it happen blizz

i know this is ironic but a different moba paragon actually balanced around pve because there were ps4fags that only played the pve mode
they though it was just team death match

>not doing placements for armored mount that triggers qmbabs

They already casted together during the last blizzcon user.

You'd know fag

When?

There's a reason why the servers were shut down and that's a big one

Gaz skin

You can only marry and stay faithful to one for the rest of your life, left or right?

I would.

yeah at separate desks

ez

assuming they stay faithful as well then left

Alex is healthy enough as she is that there is no need to further exaggerate her curves

jaina would need to lose the 12 pack

Not even a question

do not disrespect me.

whatever happened to Dread?

Is that Bastion?

He's working on something else right now behind the scenes and can't comment on what it is but he and Gilly are "excited to work on something we are super passionate about". Hope it's something cool.

>bastion XV-88 skin
I'll settle for it

God, this actually pains me reading this. Overshitters need to please go.

why is demonic auriel a legendary while sakura aurial does the same amount of stuff and is an epic

Is naisha's memento still the best talent on level 1?

I want to make Alexstrasza the mother of my children

Alexstrasza is shit.

do you suppose alexstrasza would lactate actual milk or pure life energy

for the same reason zag's 1600 and 400 skin have the same amount of features
they just had to slap the 1600 tag on enough things
and what they thought people would pay that much for

murky announcer
abathur announcer

that sort of thing

that little line of drool sells it

>tfw zagaras 1600 skin was one of the two skins i bought pre 2.0

>Team is mad in lobby
>Team is mad at start of game
>Team is mad while the game is going on
>We're winning
>They're still mad
>We won
>They're still mad

that bambam's mom?

Johanna loli is cute and fun and she tries her best to tank for you!

Learn how the game works. Bronze is the place for people who don't know shit about the game.

Chromie could use more skins

Plat is also that place too. I'm still losing at pick lobbies in plat.

That doesn't magically make the other four people playing the game learn how it works.

pull people up with your superior game knowledge
learning by seeing what others do is an effective method

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People are ungrateful shits. I had some people legit leave the game just seconds away from winning.

>>We won
>>They're still mad
implying there can't be frustrating wins and satisfying losses

loss and win is irrelevant to the experience of the game and I do not enjoy winning with a gazlowe hammer comp because it just validated those shitters

so fuck you buddy

>hotfix nerf Maiev because she's too good
>still too good

>hello team, play safe, we have a shit comp
>lmao this is QM who the fuck cares play ranked if you wanna win faggot
>feeds entire game

nice, my fault for qm i guess

Just qm bro :)

How do I use this ult properly?

Use it as if you are using ice block for your ally but can't cancel it. Make sure whenever you cast it on them they won't immediately die after by hitting them with a perfectly timed heal.

like cocoon, put the support/biggest threat in it during a team fight or a channel
can also be used on chase to allow your team to catch up

Game knowledge isn't an absolute thing. Dia is the top 7%, which means IIRC plat 3 and above is still easily the top 15% of the playerbase. They'll still make mistakes and do stupid things, but they're not the same kind or frequency of mistakes as those made by people in gold, or in silver et cetera.

They do truthfully usually know more about the game than people in lower leagues, or they have mechanical skill that got them that far, or they do things like catch soak, rotate and clear waves which is inconsistent in lower leagues and can generate the pressure to win games almost by itself.

Generally the most impactful thing you can do in shitter leagues is make sure you don't fall behind on soak or get your structures beat up by minions. Your teammates will retardfight at every opportunity and you cant change that, but you might be able to give them the ability to retardfight with an advantage. I highly recommend Zagara and Junkrat, both have strong map rotation and good waveclear, they also contribute decently to teamfights if you're not an idiot.

>play unranked
>lock in Abathur
>someone leaves
>next game pick Abathur before first bans are done
>someone leaves
When is Abathur buffed to Maiev levels?

What does /hotsg/ listen to while in game ?
youtube.com/watch?v=J41qe-TM1DY

thanks mario kart

maybe when he's inevitably reworked
wouldn't count on it tho

>>Trall is a weeabo
>>Rehgar a furry
>>Gul'dan a edgy fedora
>>Garrosh is that kid who loves Pumped up kicks
>>Rexxar is big mistake

Seriously, whats with Orcs and degeneracy?

>no Samuro

>When a tank bases their performance on damage done after dying 9 times to get that damage
I hate this shit dude. I really do, how can you be so fucking bad and think "oh well if I die a lot for these big numbers on this scoreboard that must mean I'm doing well! teehee XD"

God I should have listened to you guys about weekends. 0-3 on placements so far, with shit like azmo laser build on my team and solo support auriel.

Rexxar isn't even an orc basically. He's part ogre.

He sure is a weeb, but he is ok.

morning/early afternoon and possibly late nights on the weekdays are good. avoid evening and the dead of night (like at 1-5am) so you don't end up getting dudeweeds or alcoholics on your team

Man, fuck. My mario kart just gave me like 20 doritos and a Lucio emote pack.

>passive: 10 armor lol

>removed 3 days later
They don't even test these anymore, do they?

this is why bunker is the superior ult.

They can't test anything on ptr because noone play ptr.

>1k+ owl
is this what fun feels like?
nice behind
the testers at blizzard are probably shit at the game, so it "seems fine" for them

Why the fuck did she even have it in the first place. She is a warden, a shady assassin/guard archetype, not a tank

>2018
>Abathur cheesing keeps still works
hmmm, hotsbabs??

oops

>Team Freedom

>4 people chasing me
>enemy team still gets the tribute

The only reason I can think of is they wanted her to win against Illidan 1v1 every time.

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I like the pattern on Illi's pants. We do need luchador dibbles soon.

yes but because this is a team game and tyrande is a late game hero, you rarely get to have fun

Even with the armor I can't see her winning. No Q resets

Why the fuck does greymane even have it in the first place. He's is a worgen, a shapeshifter/werewolf archetype, not a tank.

>500 meat butcher
>isnt top hero damage

He only has it in worgen form and I believe is because of thick fur which in Warcraft means tanky

Because both were intended to be close range damage dealers without self sustain, so to compensate for not having tank sized healthpools or self sustain, they were given a bit of mitigation. It also made healing have more value on them because each point of their health was worth more.

Armor isn't meant to be exclusive to tanks, though it's rare to be a non-tank that has both armor and self sustain (Illidan is really the only example, and even then his armor isn't permanent, but linked to singular usually mutually exclusive talents on evasion, sweeping strike and dive) and even then they don't have tank hp / shields.

>because of thick fur
so you're more readily to accept "thick fur" offers more protection than a full set of night elf plate armor folded over 10k years?

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>muh numbers how come a hero that can 100-0 someone instantly not have MUH NUMBERS
fuck off pokenigger brainlet
well played melee assassins will have middle of the road damage compared to some faggot like hanzo or chromie who just shit damage on someone from 2 screens away for it to be healed up

you're just a freaking moron then