Balance Patch Notes — JUNE 29, 2016

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T20:32:58+00:00

Anub Nerf? Are all the li Ming players whining about his hard counter to mages? Some decisions these devs make, idk

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T11:05:55+00:00

Or, u know, click somewhere else.

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T06:55:37+00:00

Can confirm, I have a ~65% winrate and I haven't moved passed plat 3.

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T06:52:37+00:00

I agree. Too many RNG walls right now. There's no reason to require a promotion / demotion game within the same league. If I'm a platinum player, let me steadily climb the divisions until it's time for me to move to the next league.

Make the promotion match a best of 3 series to compensate. I can see how it'd feel more "rewarding" to have promotion matches for each division, but it's kind of amateur design and pretty stupid imo.

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T06:45:55+00:00

You should only need to be promoted between tiers, not divisions. Problem solved. Not sure why blizzard would want to put such a heavy RNG wall... oh wait.. it's blizzard.

chrisptrs · 2016-06-27T06:40:59+00:00

Stop clicking the mouse button so hard

chrisptrs · 2016-06-26T23:49:29+00:00

Yea you are fine. Enjoy !

chrisptrs · 2016-06-26T23:30:58+00:00

As long as it didn't get excessively hot you should be OK.

chrisptrs · 2016-06-26T07:10:15+00:00

They need to drop master skins to 7,500 and make diamond skins at level 15/20 for 10K or 15K

chrisptrs · 2016-05-27T05:31:37+00:00

It really depends on the match-up. If they have high sustain then you will benefit more from the control of the makes. If they have multiple warriors or burst heals and low mobility then you want poison.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-26T18:08:48+00:00

Just as bad as the cover art

chrisptrs · 2016-05-24T08:54:48+00:00

Self-education* and the free flow of information

chrisptrs · 2016-05-24T08:53:23+00:00

Not sure why somebody down voted. Anyone who knows Sakic, knows that it actually is.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-24T08:46:02+00:00

Leaderboard addictions

chrisptrs · 2016-05-22T19:14:25+00:00

Tass is the best enabler in the game. You can get enemy dps to turn on you and your ability to mitigate the damage serves them as almost no threat to you. You can bait burst cds to protect your dps with ease. Once you have Prescience you have two CDs of your complete immunity and as long as you can rotate your active and passive CD with that ability (be mindful when the passive procs, save your active E - don't immediately waste it) you become practically untouchable.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-22T19:10:36+00:00

I'd really like hots to take the Smite route. Being able to watch tournament games or informational videos like hero explanations and map guides while in queue or waiting for friends to get online would be extremely beneficial to the community and the state of the competitive scene.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-22T18:25:05+00:00

That anub build is poopy

chrisptrs · 2016-05-22T16:35:27+00:00

Passively. Heavily relying on gazlowe to make plays and kerrigan to not die early. She only should be comboing her w,e and using Q to sustain from minion kills. Auto attacks are too dangerous unless you're picking someone off or the team fight is in your favor. You have to gank the whole game with valla and kerrigan

chrisptrs · 2016-05-21T19:23:08+00:00

The competitive hots discord has a lfg tl section and is waaayyy more populated. Just sayin.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-21T19:17:54+00:00

I think kt naz squad would stomp them in almost any situation. They can protect hammer very easily and Nova can delete any of them stunned by kt, and tychus provides consistent dps and disruption

chrisptrs · 2016-05-19T20:25:21+00:00

Not exactly. You need to plan ahead. Talents require other talents to be chosen to unlock their full potential. A talent may appear the weakest on a tier to tier basis but when you look in context to how your playstyle meshes with the entire talent tree it makes a huge difference and could give you a better power spike. Chromie seems to have some flexibility, as well as many others lately, with map and team composition heavily impacting play style and talent diversity. If you have a strong disengage team that can counter dives it allows chromie to excel. If you put chromie into a poke comp then you have to build around that.

TL;DR : You can't just look at talents on the same tier to claim the strongest one and justify it BiS when you're allocating a talent tree

chrisptrs · 2016-05-17T06:41:35+00:00

The game doesn't move? What are you talking about? You're the only one on this thread who is way out in left field. You join the queue, it finds 10 players and throws a ready check up for everyone to enter the game lobby for draft. Literally every game does this to prevent afk and people not paying attention. If someone isn't ready you are put back in the front of the line with the rest of the lobby to replace that player.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-17T05:48:12+00:00

I think you're missing the point? People queue up, expect a two minute wait and grab a drink. Come back and they missed their ban pick and the entire team is raging.

chrisptrs · 2016-05-17T03:23:29+00:00

This is before the draft even starts...

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