HOTS guide collections - Page 5

Immersion_

United Kingdom794 Posts

March 22 2017 20:31 GMT

#81

They need to just make Vorpal baseline at this point, it would win at lvl 13 and it's at lvl 1...

The new Zeratul is really cool but his talent diversity is terrible, got to be among the worst in the game now. I hope Rewind doesn't get removed one day but it's hard to see how you can compete with it.

karazax

United States3737 Posts

March 28 2017 16:33 GMT

#82

karazax

United States3737 Posts

April 02 2017 23:41 GMT

#83

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Solo Laning Guide by Ryoma

karazax

United States3737 Posts

April 03 2017 19:30 GMT

#84

Dignitas explains zoning control with Kael'thas and Tyrande

karazax

United States3737 Posts

April 20 2017 14:04 GMT

#85

This is an old video from 2015 so the build and meta comments aren't valid, but it's still a good guide on proper ranged assassin positioning

karazax

United States3737 Posts

April 21 2017 15:10 GMT

#86

Markwerf wrote up a guide a while back that still applies for the most part. Here is a paraphrased version for the current meta:

Many compositions are possible but the general solid composition that you see played most in almost every high level game is the following:

1 tank
1 full support
1 ranged damage
1 melee assassin/tank/off tank/bruiser
1 other

Basically it comes down to having at least 2 front liners, 1 of them a tank with the other often more damage/cc focused and then a healer and ranged damage to help out with the last spot being anything. Naturally you can find exceptions to this composition, but this is the standard.

Draft towards this composition as well as possible, this means it's helpful to fill out the (near) mandatory roles like a tank and full support in time so the last player isn't forced into a narrow selection. After all this player may be terrible at this role, refuse or not even realize he has to draft it so check what he intends to do before you pick.

One very common 'mistake' in hero league is to overdraft ranged damage. The traditional 'carry' role from other MOBA's is extremely popular and usually over drafted and prioritized too highly. In recent high level pro games for example there was almost no game where 3 ranged damage heroes were drafted. Don't draft this role too much, it really limits your choices. Three ranged dps, 1 tank, 1 healer is tough to win with, and even taking the second ranged dps makes some teams hardly work anymore (like abathur for example).

Often in hero league the players think 1 tank, 1 support and the rest can be anything is good. Picking an off-support or off-tank/bruiser can help make a balanced comp that you can't always count on random team mates to do.

Besides composition there are a few other qualities you want to keep in check and often want to balance on your team:

waveclear. Getting xp and keeping lanes from being pushed is always helpful though it depends on the map, three lane maps need more than two lane for example, and some objectives can be dealt with by waveclear (tomb of the spider queen/infernal shrines for example). Solo supports are usually mediocre at best at this so you want to make sure to get enough with the other roles.
solo laners. Almost no matter the map you need 1 or 2 heroes that can solo well to make sure to keep presence in every lane early. Later in the game there are often situations where you want 1 hero to split off to quickly depush a lane and get some experience. These heroes ideally have some sort of escape and decent waveclear.
ganking/initiation. Having some form of ganking or initation/chase tools within your team is great, this can punish heroes for straying off alone where they might otherwise retreat too easily. A common mistake however is to overdraft this, a team with only ganking heroes tends to lack in waveclear or solo heroes.
stun/cc. Closely related to the previous point, some sort of stun is often mandatory especially as there are many channeled abilities you want to interrupt and you want to be able to punish heroes for getting too deep.
mercing. This is very map dependant but it's often great to have a hero that can merc well.

CavalierGuest

United States1 Post

April 29 2017 19:07 GMT

#87

Hey, I have an up-to-date guide for every warrior except Zarya and Cho. Some of them are linked and some of them aren't, the complete list is here.

Zarya should be out within the next two weeks, so it'll just be Cho missing. Will post again when I get that up.

EsportsJohn

United States4883 Posts

April 30 2017 01:22 GMT

#88

Cool stuff, thanks for posting!

<3 Zarya, looking forward to it.

karazax

United States3737 Posts

April 30 2017 16:14 GMT

#89

All of CavalierGuest's guides have been added.
This guide collection is now linked on the New Player Guide that is pinned on the right side of the HOTS Reddit guide that I am maintaining (which I didn't name, it's actually more of a Guide and Resource Collection for players of all skill levels).

karazax

United States3737 Posts

May 08 2017 15:07 GMT

#90

New KT guide by Mene