Heroes of the Storm

Tenks

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As long as you don't fight on talent tiers (4/7/10/13/16/20) you can really pick a fight rather easily as long as you get good positioning to open the fight. Even some talent tiers are more important than others. Most notable 10, 16 and 20 each generally convey a rather large power spike. But some heroes get spikes elsewhere. But if you're so far behind that you're down almost two tiers the game properly punishes you completely messing up at some point in time.
 

The Master

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For those who were wondering, you can hat Misha as Abathur and it makes Hivemind pretty ridiculous since there are always two targets getting the benefit.
 

The Master

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Anyone want to get a group together try team league? I think it'd be fun to consistently queue as 5 and work on different comps/strategies. I'm always in the rerolled channel when I'm on if anyone is up for it.
 

Nidhogg

Molten Core Raider
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I just made it to hero league, so far 3 wins in, need 20 to place. I'll let you know after I'm done!
Nidhogg#1588
 

Arch

Lord Nagafen Raider
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I'd be up for that (or duo queue in HL) give me some times and I'll be on. I've been spending gaming time in D3 and occasionally Hearthstone but don't mind cutting back on those. Archaleus#1384 (pretty sure you are already on my list but just in case).
 

nevergone

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Just finished my placements, landed in rank 12.
I'm not sure exactly how shitty that is, but ranked seems to be just as full of trolls as QM (and any other MOBA for that matter).
There's a 50/50 chance of someone on the team absolutely imploding if anyone makes a mistake, resulting in catastrophic failure in team cohesion.
I guess that's how this genre works, though.
 

Arch

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TS looked sloppy against MG, MG almost pulled those out. C9 looking dominant as hell but this AUS team is a big ?

Also, shoutout to TheMaster, had a great time last night in duo queue.
 

skribble

Golden Knight of the Realm
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Just finished my placements, landed in rank 12.
I'm not sure exactly how shitty that is, but ranked seems to be just as full of trolls as QM (and any other MOBA for that matter).
There's a 50/50 chance of someone on the team absolutely imploding if anyone makes a mistake, resulting in catastrophic failure in team cohesion.
I guess that's how this genre works, though.
I hate the players who give up after one lost objective or set of ganks. The amount of games people have typed "its over" or "gg" just because we lost one objective or died is unreal. Or the toxicity straight after the draft if someone picks a hero the whiners don't agree with.

I just mute early now, no need to listen to that shit all match.
 

brekk

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I hate the players who give up after one lost objective or set of ganks. The amount of games people have typed "its over" or "gg" just because we lost one objective or died is unreal. Or the toxicity straight after the draft if someone picks a hero the whiners don't agree with.
Especially since late game with the slow respawn is when things can go really bad regardless of situation. I've been on a team down 4 levels very late, we then got an objective and some how 4 of 5 dead, and rushed their base before they could respawn.

Compared to Dota or LoL, it may not be likely, but its not over until its over, late turnarounds are possible.
 

slippery

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Every time Artosis and Tasteless cast a match I cry. Especially because they get the better matches. It's so fucking bad, why in the world would you get casters who don't even play the fucking game. It's so blatantly obvious they have no idea what is actually happening. You have a good crew of HoTS casters who support your game, work hard, know what's going on, and cast really well. Yet here you are shitting on them bringing in people who have no clue
 

The Master

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Every time Artosis and Tasteless cast a match I cry. Especially because they get the better matches. It's so fucking bad, why in the world would you get casters who don't even play the fucking game. It's so blatantly obvious they have no idea what is actually happening. You have a good crew of HoTS casters who support your game, work hard, know what's going on, and cast really well. Yet here you are shitting on them bringing in people who have no clue
ZP talked about how this shouldn't happen in his stream like a month ago. I'd be curious to hear his thoughts now that it happened.

Yeah Arch, it was fun!
 

Chysamere

FF14 Free Company Master
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I remember some chic casting HoTS and thinking "This is the first time I've seen a) a chic good at casting and b) a chic casting that was clearly better at the technical aspects of the game than the male co-casting with her"
 

slippery

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Probably Gillyweed. She's there casting as well, but she generally gets the worst of the matches. I think she's a really good caster. She definitely knows what she's talking about, she also researches the teams and stuff a lot.
 

Pyros

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Yeah don't know why Artosis and Tasteless were casting, they don't even cast the korean games I think it's those other guys that also do SC2 GSL that cast the korean hots games(at least they sound the same). I mean I'm all for them getting the fuck out of SC2 and casting other stuff since SC2 is on lifesupport(should be better the next few months until it dies again I guess) but they need to actually work on it before they cast serious shit. That or at least put them with someone who actually knows what's going on instead of together, so they don't sound so stupid.
 

Arch

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I generally like Gilly, she knows her shit and is usually better than most of the casters but she was so bad last night, not sure what the deal was.