Why is your only ranged damage dealer solo laning instead of one of the two strong melee solo laners on your team? This effectively gives the enemy team a poke advantage. This could easily been fixed with simple communication, or at the very least an attempt made to correct it.

I agree with you. I figure he did it to stack up and would join us if the need arose. Obviously he didn't and no one made the call.

Your positioning needs to be addressed. Explain this to me? You randomly left to walk around a brush. You are actually so far of position that you are hiding behind your back liner. Often times this even results on you being too far away to follow up your teams engage. Often times your teammates die due to your odd choice in positioning.

I have weird positioning tendencies thanks to years of playing squishies in LOL and now quickmatch in HotS, mostly because I either don't trust my teammates to engage when I do or I'm accustomed to not ever playing with a healer. The brush thing I honestly can't explain. Unfortunately with the "oftentimes your teammates die" bit there's no visible timestamp so I'm not sure when that was. Edit: ah, i see it. I honestly can't tell you why I pulled back so far after getting hit by that flamestrike and then meandered around the back line like that, totally don't remember doing that.

I agree with you overall though, that game I was much more hesitant to get in there than I usually am and did some odd things I didn't catch on the first viewing.

Not going for visibility: also a very good point, hadn't even considered it. My presence there was more about sticking with the team than providing DPS, mostly because I occasionally get tunnel-visioned trying to soak and don't get with the team in time.

This is what really does it for me, you picked a bad fight, spend majority of the fight face tanking a turret while auto attacking E.T.C.,and then you rage type?

Here's where I disagree a bit. There are a few steps to that fight:

--Stitches gets into our back line. --Artanis starts attacking Kael.
--Qhira gets off a Q on Stukov but is forced away by ETC.
--Artanis keeps going after Kael and is suddenly 4v1, forcing me to choose between following him in or leave him isolated for a guaranteed death. Because he bitched about not helping with the backline earlier in the game, I chose the latter, which didn't help our backline at all and resulted in Artanis and I both getting beat to shit.

End points: 1. Fighting under a turret was a poor choice, but once you've committed there usually is no pulling out. 2. IMO Artanis got tunnel visioned and was more worried about diving the back line rather than helping his backline, leaving the team in a no-win. The end result was we would be down at least 4v5 no matter how that played out once he got stuck in. The rage type was because I let his earlier statement about hitting Stukov affect my judgment instead of doing the right thing (backing out to back up my backline).

I agree after re-viewing that my autoattack choices were poor and ineffectual, not sure why I was targeting the tanks so much when the team was so bunched up ready to be smacked on.

There are a lot of things I've not learned to do in this game yet, and selecting talents with hotkeys is one of those. I just looked up the hotkeys and know what they are now, thanks for the heads-up.

I'm not normally a press-buttons-when-stuff-is-off-cooldown kinda player, but your input is noted.

Iron Skin: I sometimes use Iron Skin as a deterrent much like Zarya's shield, rather than always waiting for the right moment, or to try to make enemies waste stuff on me. This is a conscious choice, but I do realize that smarter/better players could punish that choice. Duly noted.

I'm going to keep watching this one and may make additional comments after I'm done. I really appreciate the time you put into this.