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On September 10 2018 12:37 alpenrahm wrote: btw daunt. when are you gonna update your hl 101
Probably never. I’m not TL staff anymore. More importantly, and until recently, I basically hadn’t played the game for over 2 years. Not only are there two years worth of heroes who I don’t really understand, but pretty much every other hero has been changed significantly as well. For example, I have about 1,000 games with Zeratul, but I barely recognize him anymore. Yeah, the cleave build is there, but everything else is different. It would take me a long time to get fully up to speed with all of the maps, heroes, and meta such that I could competently update the guide to bring it current. And really, the only stuff that’s missing is the meta-centric. The basic principles in the guide still hold true and are still incredibly relevant.
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On September 10 2018 19:05 Ej_ wrote: Tyrael has awful laning. Eh, it's not that bad for a warrior. And it certainly isn't bad enough to outweigh his teamfight utility.
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On September 10 2018 23:48 xDaunt wrote:Eh, it's not that bad for a warrior. And it certainly isn't bad enough to outweigh his teamfight utility. In a game with Dehaka, Blaze. Yrel and Leoric, it is terrible. He can't match the offlane clear. So he always has to main tank, which pidgeonholes the team into all-in melee comp.
Hard engage is also quite shit into many meta heroes.
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On September 11 2018 00:10 Ej_ wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2018 23:48 xDaunt wrote:On September 10 2018 19:05 Ej_ wrote: Tyrael has awful laning. Eh, it's not that bad for a warrior. And it certainly isn't bad enough to outweigh his teamfight utility. In a game with Dehaka, Blaze. Yrel and Leoric, it is terrible. He can't match the offlane clear. So he always has to main tank, which pidgeonholes the team into all-in melee comp. Hard engage is also quite shit into many meta heroes. I understand the concept of hard engage being problematic against certain heroes, but I don't understand why taking Tyrael necessarily forces an all melee team or even forces a team to use Tyrael in a one-warrior comp.
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Who else thinks mephisto is broken right now?
edit: to re-iterate, some one that knows how to play mephisto, can clearly show why he's broken.
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On September 11 2018 20:39 ShoCkeyy wrote: Who else thinks mephisto is broken right now?
edit: to re-iterate, some one that knows how to play mephisto, can clearly show why he's broken.
I agree. He is super busted. I'm only a QM hero, but whichever team has Mephisto tends to win, as long as the player has any skill whatsoever on the hero. His shade allows him to dive and deal crazy damage with no drawback... he shades right out of stuns and CC. His global damage ultimate is insanely overpowered, punishes an entire team if any 1 hero is low. Just check out the first 2m40s of this video: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/491978-hots-wp-and-funny-moments?page=11#202
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I started playing hero league, and despite going 8-2 in placement matches, I got dropped into Gold 5 because of my complete mmr decay. I’ve been winning about 80% of my games since then and have moved up to gold 3, but it has been a slog and I’m not getting any skill bonus. What exactly do I have to do move up faster?
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You shouldn't have any MMR decay at this point.
See the post here:
Q: So there is no MMR decay for players that don't play HL over seasons? So if a player quit playing say...a year ago, and comes back say....6 months from today. Their MMR wouldn't have been decaying over that period?
A: That is correct I completely understand your concerns, and they are things we continuously consider. With a feature like this, we'd like to see the impact of it and evaluate all the data before we iterate on it further to ensure we can make as informed a decision as possible. As always we look at the community feedback as well as measure the impact of these changes to make sure we are providing the best possible experience for all players across the community. Thank you again for your feedback.
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On September 12 2018 22:46 xDaunt wrote: I started playing hero league, and despite going 8-2 in placement matches, I got dropped into Gold 5 because of my complete mmr decay. I’ve been winning about 80% of my games since then and have moved up to gold 3, but it has been a slog and I’m not getting any skill bonus. What exactly do I have to do move up faster?
Have you played since they converted over to the leagues instead of the numerics? I went 2-8 and got placed into Plat 4, but had 10 games from the first preseason league years ago that I assume calibrated me higher.
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On September 13 2018 08:58 karazax wrote:You shouldn't have any MMR decay at this point. See the post here: Q: So there is no MMR decay for players that don't play HL over seasons? So if a player quit playing say...a year ago, and comes back say....6 months from today. Their MMR wouldn't have been decaying over that period?A: That is correct I completely understand your concerns, and they are things we continuously consider. With a feature like this, we'd like to see the impact of it and evaluate all the data before we iterate on it further to ensure we can make as informed a decision as possible. As always we look at the community feedback as well as measure the impact of these changes to make sure we are providing the best possible experience for all players across the community. Thank you again for your feedback. I last did hero league like 2 years ago, and was a Diamond 1 or 2 player when I stopped. Why would they drop me into Gold 5 if my MMR hadn’t completely decayed?
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As I recall they made some changes to placements quite a while back in an attempt to reduce the number of players who initially placed in the highest ranks, which reduced most former diamond/plat players rank in placement.
There were also a number of changes to ranked play at the start of the season, but I don't see any changes there that would effect someone who was previously diamond (The patch notes say that people who never played hero league are capped at gold 5 for example and quick match and other game modes no longer factor into placements).
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On September 13 2018 10:28 xDaunt wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2018 08:58 karazax wrote:You shouldn't have any MMR decay at this point. See the post here: Q: So there is no MMR decay for players that don't play HL over seasons? So if a player quit playing say...a year ago, and comes back say....6 months from today. Their MMR wouldn't have been decaying over that period?A: That is correct I completely understand your concerns, and they are things we continuously consider. With a feature like this, we'd like to see the impact of it and evaluate all the data before we iterate on it further to ensure we can make as informed a decision as possible. As always we look at the community feedback as well as measure the impact of these changes to make sure we are providing the best possible experience for all players across the community. Thank you again for your feedback. I last did hero league like 2 years ago, and was a Diamond 1 or 2 player when I stopped. Why would they drop me into Gold 5 if my MMR hadn’t completely decayed?
That is odd indeed. I mean even with some sort of soft decay, Gold 5 is reeeeally low. Have you tried contacting support? I imagine playing so low gotta make you crazy ^^
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On September 11 2018 00:10 Ej_ wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2018 23:48 xDaunt wrote:On September 10 2018 19:05 Ej_ wrote: Tyrael has awful laning. Eh, it's not that bad for a warrior. And it certainly isn't bad enough to outweigh his teamfight utility. In a game with Dehaka, Blaze. Yrel and Leoric, it is terrible. He can't match the offlane clear. So he always has to main tank, which pidgeonholes the team into all-in melee comp. Hard engage is also quite shit into many meta heroes.
Dunno about that. Imagine Tyrael and Blaze together makes your team near unkillable with bunker and sanct, so there is no biggie if you have 2 squishy backliners. And Blaze has the necessary hard CC Though I'm far from a drafting expert.
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On September 14 2018 00:37 Harris1st wrote:Show nested quote +On September 13 2018 10:28 xDaunt wrote:On September 13 2018 08:58 karazax wrote:You shouldn't have any MMR decay at this point. See the post here: Q: So there is no MMR decay for players that don't play HL over seasons? So if a player quit playing say...a year ago, and comes back say....6 months from today. Their MMR wouldn't have been decaying over that period?A: That is correct I completely understand your concerns, and they are things we continuously consider. With a feature like this, we'd like to see the impact of it and evaluate all the data before we iterate on it further to ensure we can make as informed a decision as possible. As always we look at the community feedback as well as measure the impact of these changes to make sure we are providing the best possible experience for all players across the community. Thank you again for your feedback. I last did hero league like 2 years ago, and was a Diamond 1 or 2 player when I stopped. Why would they drop me into Gold 5 if my MMR hadn’t completely decayed? That is odd indeed. I mean even with some sort of soft decay, Gold 5 is reeeeally low. Have you tried contacting support? I imagine playing so low gotta make you crazy ^^ No, didn't bother contacting support. The truth is that I could use some practice before playing back at diamond again. And I don't think that climbing up will be that hard. I'm winning pretty much every game where my team doesn't do something outright retarded like first pick Illidan (though that has happened twice). When I solo lane with someone like Artanis at this level, it just isn't fair.
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There is a new pic on twitter. Guess a new hero? Looks like the minions :D
twitter.com
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Wow, did not expect ePunks to be wrecking MM. Europe has so much more talent than what fits into HGC :o
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Apparently Mal'Ganis
Hopefully with some vampire / life leech trait like Illidan. then I can finally get away from him ^^
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Yep, though making him a tank would also work.
Should get a spotlight video pretty soon.
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