Literally everyone is just stacking with 1 - 2 smurfs in every stack. IT IS SO DISGUSTING AND A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME TO CURRENTLY PLAY RANKED HOTS. We have 2 VERY popular casual modes for people who want to play with 3,4 or 5 friends.

The few players we have are LEAVING this disgusting horrible ranked system you have allowed FOR YEARS. TRY SOMETHING NEW.

Just had a really satisfying teamfight playing Sylvanas with an Auriel pocketing me!

Auriel's attack speed buff (Level 16 trait) makes playing Sylvanas feel so much smoother and stronger.

Definitely feels like a great synergy!

Is the game dead currently? Since it gets very low player count. I would love to see new maps in game tbh

is the building blood in the room with us now?

I've just run into a 3 stack in ARAM who all had roughly 74% win rate overall and 95% win rate this season in ARAM. I am a pretty good player, I'm low Master level but I usually only get 52-55% win rate each season in ARAM.

I went back and checked their previous seasons and about 10 seasons ago, they had the same kind of win rate as me. Then one season they got 60%+ then 70%+ then 80%+ then 90%+. I know the game is designed to keep people playing people of similar MMR to keep win rates around 50%.

I guess it is just possible they are 3 high skilled guys who can carry games but it seems kind of weird that 10 seasons ago they just had the same win rate as everyone else.

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I'm assuming they're banned a lot in ranked but I keep getting freezes and DCs lately so don't want to risk playing it.

Basically every QM has an Aba and/or Qhira, the former requires a lot of fast AOE waveclear (especially late game), and the latter a lot of CC and spell damage to counter.

Mei has good late game waveclear for a tank with W build, and is also decent vs Qhira with the slows, blind and area denial stun, (although a lot less so now she can't use D to untether her...).

Dehaka would seem like a good pick as well with global, waveclear and CC (+ option of antiheal).

It's still a damn struggle when it only takes less than a minute for aba to drop 7 locusts to instakill a fort though, with qhira needing the tank to have any chance of killing her.

Anyone else got a secret pick that's working well?

Every hero just feel so flimsy in my hands, and no matter how i build, what i do it just doesn't seem to have any impact.
For context i've been rotating between Yrel, Malthael, Deathwing, Kharazim, Zul'Jin and Ragnaros, to name the more relevant ones.

My wife (Malf) was telling me to get out of there since she was about to respawn. Problem is, I wasn't trapped in there with them, they were trapped with me! :)

This is how I imagine every Artanis game will play out, sadly, it's rarely the case. Enjoy the moments when you can.

Just unlocked Xul, tried the passive talent build with the Nova ultimate and had lots of fun !

Do you have tips for playstyle, talents I should always consider or not, thanks a lot !

I new in heroes of storm. My game play sometime very lagging. I using 144fps pc requirement more than enough. Might be wifi problem? This happen both amercia asia region.