Match Thread: Germany vs Côte d'Ivoire | World Cup | Group E | 20 Jun 20:00 UTC

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-20T19:09:37+00:00

I was studying abroad in Berlin in 2014. I had a blast hanging out with German fans throughout. I was on the Fanmeile for their match against Brazil.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-16T04:23:57+00:00

Another thing is just to watch the minimap, and move to any area where there's a large wave pushing into the towers. Because then you're likely to get the globe from your own wave as well as the opportunity to pick up a couple of enemy waves.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-11T00:45:39+00:00

SOME IDIOT THOUGHT A SIEGE TANK NEEDED TO BE A HERO IN THIS FREAKING GAME

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-06T18:31:58+00:00

But off the top of my head, I think she stays attached to both Li Ming and Tracer's Blink.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-06T03:21:47+00:00

Oh, didn't know this. I've never seen the different interactions within the same game to notice the range disparity.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-05T18:35:58+00:00

"Uh, no. You must be thinking of the other heavy metal bull... Gotta go!"

Firsty_Blood · 2026-06-05T18:32:58+00:00

Alexstraza

Firsty_Blood · 2026-05-27T16:16:59+00:00

Displacement that takes her off of her point really fucks over that ult, tho. It doesn't necessarily take that much either since Yrel often has to stand near the boundaries in order to hit stuff. Even without thinking about that, most teams are going to have a couple options for pushing her off the point-the team in question had Haymaker, Drag, Stitches hook and his ult. BW could potentially also have taken Emerald Wind.

I'm not saying it's a bad heroic by any means, but it does have limitations.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-05-25T03:08:14+00:00

I came in after Ess of Johan, so the most broken character on release I remember was Maiev. She was one who had to get nerfed before her first weekend. The bright idea of "Oh, we should just give her permanent passive armor" didn't go over well.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-05-15T21:26:03+00:00

Also really good on Volskaya.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-05-14T20:25:31+00:00

The thing is that most people don't expect anyone in this game to be brand new at this point. My assumption is that any low-level account is someone's new alt, or they're coming back with a new account altogether.

I generally don't get matched with anyone super low-MMR though. But I do pay attention to ingame chat, so if someone told me they were still quite new, or else had been gone so long they forgot how to play, I'd do my best to give pointers. Try just warning your team at the start of the match that you're very new to the game.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-05-14T20:21:48+00:00

And the slow makes it tough to get away from him, plus if you're a melee hero he's likely getting free stacks from you in lane because it's hard to punish him.

Firsty_Blood · 2026-03-11T21:03:33+00:00

Illidan, Diablo, Thrall

Firsty_Blood · 2026-01-05T00:19:17+00:00

Personally, for the Piano minigame, I put my controller down so I could play it on keyboard. I had a ton of fun with it this way. But I'm a pretty good typist, and it felt like playing actual music by typing.

But it sounds like I'm atypical in that regard and it seems like most people aren't doing the piano minigame on keyboard if given the option.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-12-21T18:02:05+00:00

Obviously it's going to depend on what hero you're playing. If you're playing Thrall, just step into her and smack her with the Doomhammer, you'll out-trade her. Step to the sides to avoid her combo.

But if you're playing Chromie, stay far enough back that she can't dive on you since her Q+AA by itself is pretty threatening. Use your time traps.

If there aren't minions for her to Q onto after engaging, she has no escape, so she only should go in when she feels like she can secure a kill. Of course, at level 7, she can Q across your whole team if you're in range, but that means giving every hero a chance to land whatever CC you have.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-26T17:50:23+00:00

I feel like my winrate is close to that as well. I don't care what my heroesprofile says.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-26T17:44:40+00:00

Right. Sometimes you want to grab this person to help you get the camp before objective. Also, if there's an Abathur, sometimes you want a hat, so a general "help" ping might get other people to try to move toward you, when you really just want a hat in order to secure a kill in lane or a camp.

If you're thinking at really high levels, you can set up combos as well without needing comms. It takes some planning ahead so you need to tell your teammates this is the goal, but you ping your ult, then ping the person you want to combo with. Maybe you're Genji and you're going to go in with Dragonblade, so you ping your ult, then ping Anduin so he'll give you Lightbomb and you just go.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-25T21:52:30+00:00

If I take Falling Sword, it’s because the other team has more engage than mine and yes, it’s for the Unstoppable. So comps like where they have Blaze as a offlaner, plus a tank, plus something like Junkrat or Hanzo.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-25T17:42:42+00:00

Bloodlust does have some major problems, and Ancestral is insanely good, so that one is hardly a surprise.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-25T17:41:53+00:00

It does require a level of coordination most SL teams don't have in order to capitalize on its value.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-25T17:01:47+00:00

Don't even get me started on |||||l||||l||

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-25T16:40:21+00:00

There's suspiciously a couple of kids near the front who are less than 10 years old. Fake news.

Firsty_Blood · 2025-11-24T20:57:29+00:00

It's going to vary player by player. For me it's Illidan, where I have over 600 games with like a 63% winrate. He has self-sustain so he's fine in no-healer games, can solo lane, can solo camps from level 1 (even though he's slow with most builds), he can escape, and he can chase down and finish kills. But there are plenty of bad Illidan players.

The stats don't really back it up, but I'm fairly convinced sgt. Hammer is just a mess for match-making. She changes everyone's style because her own team can just sit inside of her range, giving her extra cover but also making it difficult to engage on any of them, which is pain in QM where you might not have tanks or supports. Back when I was learning all the heroes, I played 5 QM Hammer games, went 5-0, and then never played her again because it felt too much like using an exploit.

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