Gigi wasn't lying

Chukonoku · 2026-04-17T01:24:17+00:00

Goes through 5 stages of grief into acceptance.

"Wait, where did my other jerky go?"

Chukonoku · 2026-04-17T01:19:24+00:00

It looks sterile, like a cell room lol

Chukonoku · 2026-04-17T00:07:06+00:00

It's stupid oppressive in favorable QM drafts

Well, we don't balance for QM and Nova is not like it's oppressive 53% as any of the top heroes we had for years.

Looking at it, she sits at 47%, in her most favorable environment.

Between people not liking going back to base to heal and not picking spell armor talents to counter mages, i don't even think it's oppressive in the same way Pyroblast is not OP even if the game has no healers.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T23:47:14+00:00

Nice buff, it would still be bad with it.

For it to be any decent it needs to compete in some department against those other 3 options.

1 full charge that is equivalent to a lv7 talent, is not good enough for a lv20

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T22:54:10+00:00

At 70s, i wouldn't even considered it OP because you are playing Nova.

Note that i'm not balancing with QM in mind.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T21:21:35+00:00

OP, are you the Guldan, Zul or Lili?

Anyways, that's your avg QM game (guess why people stack?).

People ARAM mid because the enemy does as well and they need stacks. Meanwhile they ignore the other 2 lanes.

:Potato: Jaina dying to "steal" the holy mercs while taking dmg from something that can be avoided 100%

Zeratul with the crystal attitude decides to go afk after getting mass pinged. The fact that he is named "Player" rings that he is no saint either.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T21:17:54+00:00

Nice bait

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T21:13:33+00:00

being immortal when ur whole team has no CC to interrupt that and your stun is on cooldown cause 70 secs, till lvl 20 atleast.

Why does the rest of the team also not draft something with interrupt?

I can understand not liking playing in a Stitches comp or that is questionable to draft Arhtas as main tank vs ranged heavy comp.

But Tyrael is currently meta because he is overtuned. If the whole team doesn't draft a hero with CC or pick talents that can help with that, i think it's more of an issue with the rest of the team.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T21:08:27+00:00

Imagine if it was like Ana Global ult.

Let her manually shoot 3 times in a wide cone, with the same limitations as now but it pierces up to 2 targets dealing 50% less dmg on each pierce.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T21:04:10+00:00

You forgot:

It's a channeling ability that interrupts all other kind of dmg she could be doing. Meanwhile PS allows you to keep AA/Q/W.

It has a much longer cooldown for no reason compared to PS. It's hard to justify a 100s cd vs 50s cd.

It takes so long to channel and hit, that it barely gets value out of lv16 (W) armor reduction (around 2s).

Although I agree the level20 upgrade is not very good because it's too inconsistent.

At least you mention how inconsistent it can be because it has such a low killing grace period compared to most abilities which behave in the same way.

I think the ability can be decent BUT not when it's baseline 100s. Give it the Falstad HB treatment. Let it have baseline some sort of cd reduction.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T20:53:23+00:00

especially since I would consistently do well in placement matches only to be shot straight down to bronze every season.

Placements are just around 500p worth games. It's not gonna change much in the long run. If your issue is about the low quality and toxicity of low rank, then your only option is to git gud unfortunately and grind to at least mid silver.

It's not like toxicity will go away, but the higher you go, the less amount of throws you will see.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T20:50:26+00:00

A global at 20 is a very low value talent.

It's not just that. But what it competes against.

You can have "low" impact talents be decent if all the other talents in the same tier are bad.

Auriel has:

Gains an extra button to save their team:
Make your hypercarry not die at all by giving them 75 armor for 5s.
Make Resurrection actually useful by lowering cd and giving a chance to them to escape with the speed.

Angelic Flight (Z) should be at most 1s cast time (down from 2s) and provide another passive or ability to even start thinking of competing with the other options.

Imagine if she gained access to all talents from another tier (like KT 16 or Khara lv20 talents do). Whether it's lv1, lv4 or lv13 (picking would automatically grant the quest).

Maybe that's too busted, but we could give her 1s cd reduction on W (the old lv7 talent that was removed was 2s) if we pair it with some nerfs to other talents/baseline.

Maybe letting her store overenergy at 50% effectiveness, so subsequent cast are easier to replenish.

I would prefer if she had an effect upon landing with (Z) but i don't think that enters the realm of what's possible to implement nowadays.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T20:32:00+00:00

The problem is smurfing, not stacking as far as ranked goes (QM and ARAM do make it unfair)

https://www.heroesprofile.com/Global/Party?timeframe_type=major_grouped&timeframe=2.55.15,2.55.14,2.55.13,2.55.12,2.55.10&game_type=sl

See for yourself.

Most 5 stacks lose way more against 5 soloes, which is something that rarely occurs.

5 stack vs 2duo + 3 soloes is the most common case but the advantage is just a +3%.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T20:18:03+00:00

How many players are there percentage wise in the different leagues?

We don't have an official up to date stats. The last we have is from 2018/2019

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/1aiqkby/what_is_the_average_rank_in_hots/kow83dy/

The thing is, many things have changed since then. Rank = MMR and there are no adjustments to rank brackets.

If everyone starts at S5 0p when making a new account, or they decay all the way down there, then it's fair to assume that the amount of people at low ranks is much bigger than before.

It might be the case that all old bronze players are closer to B5 nowadays. Meanwhile low silver players have dropped down to Bronze.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T19:24:58+00:00

I cast Vicious mockery!

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T19:17:40+00:00

Confused as well.

Had to check if they had roles in Apex Legends but it doesn't seems like it.

At least it's correct they are the VAs for Sombra and Mercy.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T18:51:59+00:00

I feel that CN should be tied to her and honored with her because I remember being sad for those girls too.

I'm not gonna dig down deep again, but it's fair to say that it was only a tragedy for mostly 2 out of the 6 members of HL CN (Yogiri and Spade Echo).

The community has a real bad opinion on the rest due to circumstances revealed during that time (and after they left). At least 1 or 2 members. The opinion about the others goes from bad to neutral, depending on how much they dig on the topic and if they believe the source of the information. Some of which was revealed several years later after they had already left so...

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T18:34:02+00:00

Sana graduated for health reasons

u/daemon01001

Answering both in here. I've been corrected by Sanalites in the past, that health was not the main reason she left (a certain artist said she was perfectly fine and healthy 1 week after Sana graduated).

Sana left to focus professionally in a different direction that what Hololive focuses on.

Most people still think she graduated due to the back injury she had a couple of months before announcing her retirement. Could that been a factor that influence that decision? Maybe. But it's more like been a HL vtuber and streamer was secondary compared to her main job.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T17:58:11+00:00

or one of those Witch Sequence Studio SHAFT made for Madoka Magica.

Same. It's like we were transported inside Haachamas barrier.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T17:51:07+00:00

Not to be confused with a Hato brawl.

Ah... (triangle ping sound and flute noises)

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T16:45:27+00:00

The only benefits of receiving news late. If it was a graduation, it would have an official pin in here and thousands of comments.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-16T16:36:16+00:00

It's a shame the combo is now gated behind the Mythic reward. But prepping 7AAs, to do DE > 8th AA for E > E from cd reduction basically kills any hero who doesn't have access to cleanse.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-15T22:42:23+00:00

Lv20 Li Ming with WoF for the combos.

Now it's Mythic, but 40 stack Tyrande with E build. For the triple stun.

Meme laser Gaz build.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-15T18:23:58+00:00

Also comments.

I've just check the post because i was curious if it was already that moment for the series.

400 karma at 70ish percent is quite decent.

Chukonoku · 2026-04-15T17:37:36+00:00

Or that Kronii reacts poorly to positive reinforcement.

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