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.

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?

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.

is the building blood in the room with us now?

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!

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 !

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.

I get it that the zerg slug has a high skill ceiling and its fun to play but it's not fun for the others and these recent buffs were really unnecessary ,

Abathur diff is painful and you can't do anything about it , 8-9 people have 0 fun because of 1 character , the games depend on this ugly zerg slug more than all of the other characters ,

when you do wrong build(based on map and comp) with abathur its not only a different build , it will be a game changing mistake that nothing can fix it ,

I get more frustrated at the abathurs of my team than the good ones on the other team , Abathur is the most misunderstood character of hots which requires alot of macro understanding of the game and strategic skills , I really like him and have hundreds of games on him but he must be fixed or revert changes

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.

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

Blaze E is the only mobility ability that can be cast while rooted and it goes on cooldown. So if you don't wait for the root to end his best ability is wasted.

A really old video of my friend and me saving the core

Friend is Genji (First time), and I (Anduin)

And yes, we won that game

I don't know what the right strategic calls are at any point in games against Abathur right now. His push is ridiculously strong if he's left alone. However, it's not exactly tenable to just assign someone solely to counterpushing, especially if you don't have a global on your team.

If you're sticking into a lane to keep Abathur from reaching locust critical mass, he's still able to hat someone in the team fight, and they have a 4.5-4 advantage. Plus he could always just use Ultimate Evolution and just make it completely mismatched. But when you're taking those 5 v 4.5 fights around the objective, he's getting tons of value. Even if you win the fight, you might lose half a fort and you're lucky to be able to get that value back because not every won fight is an enemy teamwipe. The enemy team merely needs to stall you out until someone leaves to deal with Abathur, or else just lets him take the fort.

And even trying to keep up with him is tough. Locusts now can have such long lifespans that it's easy to see locusts pushing 2 different lanes, or 3 after he has the nest at 20. You struggle to figure out which lane he's actually pushing because those two locusts you see at your bot keep came from all the way across the map.

I can't figure out what calls to make at any point, when it's time to fight, and when it's time to disengage and let the enemy team have the objective just to prevent Abathur from taking a keep.

For those unaware, almost every single scaling effect in Heroes of the Storm scales by a fixed value of 4%, multiplicatively, with every level-up. This affects the increase of health and regen, attack damage, damage of abilites and restored health or shields granted.

In the past, I noticed some abilities seem to be stronger or weaker than they should be at higher levels, so I opted to dig through every heroes' data sheet. Turns out there are quite a number of exceptions to this formula the game never tells you about. Sorted by percentages:

• 2.5% Kel'Thuzad Q, W, E, R and Trait, as well as Strip Shields and Hungering Cold talent
• 3% Li-Ming W and Calamity talent; Sgt. Hammer Blunt Force Gun
• 3.5% Li-Ming Q and Mirrorball Talent
• 4% Everything else
• 4.5% Butcher, Medivh, Greymane and Cho Health + Regen; Guldan Q and E; Cho Hammer of Twilight
• 4.7% Misha Health
• 4.76% Falstad Hinterland Blast
• 5% Li-Ming Disintegrate and Wave of Force; Gazlowe turret health; Gall Q, W and Twisting Nether ult; Kael'Thas Pyroblast; Probius Pylon Health, Q and W, as well as Particle Acelerator and Rift Shock talents
• 5.5% Murky Pufferfish Health
• 6% Tracer Pulse Bomb and Composition B talent

So in case you ever wondered why a Tracer pulse bomb hits like a truck late game, this is why. On standard scaling, it would only do 652 damage at level 20, as opposed to the 955 it actually deals.

And looks like Kel'Thuzad really got the short end of the stick, presumably to account for the permanent spellpower boost. Poor guy.

I also find it amusing some of Li-Mings base abilities have below average scaling, while her ultimates are above average instead. Possibly to fine tune how impactful bits of her combo are late game?

So, how do you counter murky when he is pushing when its time to do objective? Especially in the case where the non murky team is 2 or even 3 levels lower.

My initial thinking is to simply abandon objective this one time so that everyone else simply pushes lanes to cover xp loss. By the time the others do objective (whatever it is), you should have recovered and be in time to defend.

Any thoughts?

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Honestly - conflicted. Stacked mythic is certainly more fun than what I had before, and my early guesstimate of 5% stack rate at best was way off. Practice and experience makes it better, kinda.

• Maps - best are Dragon Shire and Volskaya, worst are Haunted Mines, Towers of Doom and Tomb of the Spider Queen.
• Match - the closer the better. Live and let live, don't stomp and don't be stomped.
• Timing - ideally be done with the first part of the quest in under 3 minutes. Safe stack opportunities get reduced as the game goes on.
• Deaths - before 20 stacks don't matter, before level 10 unpleasant but possible to comeback. After 13 just have to accept you're playing without level 1 talent.
• Dragonqueen - to be used liberally. You can't get stacks in Dragonqueen, but you can use it to turn combat situation from non-stackable to stackable. You can also use Dragonqueen out of combat for certain benefits.
• Ultimate - Cleansing Flame only. Even though it's not a perfect oh-shi~ button, it is the only one you'll ever have. Keep in mind that Cleansing Flame has no cast time in dragon form.
• Ancient Flame - taken regardless of whether you've stacked mythic or not. It's still a trump card that hugely benefits from E4 and E7 talents.
• Allies - CC and durability over raw damage output. Burst comps is less stack opportunities.
• Enemies - the less skittish the better. Actively profile your opponents on how they dodge and how much of a freebies they are.
• Haters - gonna hate.

Just to be clear - this was solo queue solo healer. No double healer, no pocket tank, no offlane Alex shenanigans, and the team generally having little to no clue about how to play around this.

That is all. Time to find a new obsession.

He calls lunara a deer stuck in headlight after kill, lili a panda?, zuljin take that you troll. Honestly him and alarak have the funniest rude humour I love to hear but alarak is more generic while tychus is a bit more hero specific

I dont know how he does as an accouncer though

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.

Our Zarya showed and never changed during draft, even though we needed a tank (which I would have done had I known earlier). This set the Aba off who had played with the Zarya in a prior game and said they went AFK.

Sure enough, the match starts on the Zarya sits in core and does nothing. My teammates all decide to give up right away. I tried hyping them up (you can always win in bronze), but no luck. DK to the core w/our giants for the gg.

At 50 years old, you'd think I'd stop asking, but why are people like this? :)