♥ A - Z SGT. Hammer - Heroes of the Storm (HotS Gameplay)

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[@poppybranton458]

The patented MFPallytime A-Z tutorial method explained. Step 1 - explain the talent changes, and let people know which talents used to be awesome but are now nerfed facefirst into the ground. Step 2 - pick those talents. Step 3 - Hilarity ensues. Loving the series Pally, shine on you crazy diamond!

[@StoicForce]

That Chromie was great! Also, in my opinion, Napalm was the heroic to go for this game, as it has a much shorter cooldown than B.F.G., provided area denial on the control and choke points, and it would have given you a lot more control in taking Valeera out of stealth.

[@jonw7937]

Agreed, plus it would have been WAAAAAY more useful in clearing the zerg rush. Plus his idea of just using BFG to cover points literally does nothing if your team is just getting bullied off the point constantly and the enemy just has to walk off of it for half a second..... There's really no reason to even take that talent anymore imo. It's good for executions, but you get infinitely more work out of Napalm in almost every single instance, even when BFG still did damage to structures.

[@doomdude3034]

But across map abilities are so fun

[@azurblueknights]

@@jonw7937 Except in this case Napalm's only use would have been as a stealth denial tool for Valeera. Lets face it, Napalm is still a joke for area denial or poke because its damage is so low regardless of how spammable it is. Napalm has been a fairly weak ability ever since they redid the personal hero scaling system. Very few heroes in the game even feel Napalms initial damage or DoT. I suppose it could have been decent at clearing the zerg waves, but Graduating Range with sitting far back would have worked better. Napalm almost requires its level 20 upgrade before it becomes anything resembling a threat.

[@jonw7937]

Of course, but even at level 10 he's going to get WAAAAY more work out of Napalm than he ever will with BFG. In this particular instance it would mainly be for stealth denial, but could still use it to burn down buildings a bit quicker as well.

[@CalciumChief]

I never liked BFG. You need to reach that level 20 to get meme strat and that doesn't always work. Meanwhile, napalm is super spammable, good for pushing, great for area denial and comes online at level 10.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

the meme strat doesn't even work anymore, it's just stupid. Only point in ever taking BFG now is if your team really needs some big burst at specific times (combo?) or just the extra long range poke to contest some map objectives from afar. VERY SITUATIONAL, can work sometimes... Napalm is clearly much better for general utility and damage.

[@CalciumChief]

@@Jonjon13Jonjon13 I know the meme strat doesn't work now, but didn't like it even when it did work. Would much rather siege the towers and drop some fire on it every few seconds than try to get into that one sweet spot to hit a fort, a keep and core before enemy team kills me.

[@azurblueknights]

The BFG should be used as an execute tool. This is what the ability was kind of "shoe-horned" into after they buffed its damage by a significant amount way back when. And with the sheer number of heroes in the game capable of a rapid disengage when wounded, a well placed BFG can cut off their retreat long enough for your team to catch up or outright kill the fleeing foe. Napalm's issue is that, while it is super spammable, it doesn't become a good area denial tool until level 20, if you opt for its upgrade. Both its direct damage and DoT component are barely a tickle against a vast majority of the hero roster, and that has been true ever since they redid the hero scaling system.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

@@CalciumChief Yeah, I was on the same boat even before too.

[@jacksonmckay7583]

Level 20 upgrade to bfg should've been that once missle projectile comes into contact with enemy heroes it deals contact dmg damage while also exploding and dealing 5% maximum health as dmg

[@JodyBarber]

Protect the hammer. Win game.

[@phish0324]

I wasn't sure if you'd be continuing the series after the news a few weeks ago. I want you to know I'm really happy you seem to be pressing forward with this series and hopefully hots content in general. I look forward to see your channel evolve with the changes but the positivity and character you bring to this game and its community is a wonderful thing to watch.

[@Kwiatekbe]

I completely agree with everything you've said. If Activision Blizzard chooses to end HOTS in the future it will be a shame, but it will have introduced me to a few KZbinrs that I've grown attached to. Pally is the primary one though, and I plan to continue following his content no matter where it ends up.

[@Draeckon]

Yeeeeeah, I'm with Pally. I'd rather wait a few minutes for a decent-ish team than play in clown-fiesta games. At least while I'm waiting in queue, I can do other things and have the game in the background - can't really do that in draft modes, where the character you wanted to play could get banned or stolen by someone else.

[@LesbianWitchAcademia]

The problem i've had with HotS is that I wait 20 minutes to play with clown fiesta 5 assassin teams. The matchmaking system is so beyond broken that there's literally no saving qm at this point. All the actual good players have moved to draft and ranked, leaving qm to be this cesspool all the time.

[@creldest]

In theory I agree with you. Unfortunately, I realized I basically stopped playing when those changes were implemented. With the combination of extremely long queue times for assassins and bonus xp for tanks/supports, it seemed like a waste to play anything besides tanks and healers. It got boring fast since I hate healing QM (bunch of suicidal babies trying to stick forks in electrical sockets) and tanks are less fun for me than assassins. Hence, I just didn't play qm. As an aside, I primarily play tanks in ranked/draft since I know I can carry with them even if it's less fun, leaving QM as my traditional avenue for assassin play. I have no idea whether this is common or not among players, but yeah. I don't mind clown fiestas if I actually end up playing.

[@shanedestroyer]

here's hoping for some checkboxes, that way those wanting quick games can get their clown fiestas or normal games and those wanting normal games can get them all the time

[@cysenscarlet5205]

QM is supposed to be a quick match. if you wanted a good comp, you should have played draft mode. I hated the queue times. There are not enough players to support and the queue times would have gotten worse. Even if you have a tank and a healer, it is still a QM clown fiesta game. Draft mode still exists to fill the need for a player that thinks team comp is holding them back.

[@jefffinney678]

I like playing tanks in qm appt easier to carry with someone like muradin imo but I hardly ever play qm anymore

[@Kkiare]

the chromie at 12:34 Legitimately had me laughing for several minutes

[@jonw7937]

HAHA yeah man! That's gotta be super annoying to that Valeera XD

[@TheBoogerJames]

Graduating range is one of the biggest trap talents in the game. That extra range is worthless vs being able to re-position slightly without having to leave siege mode. Also, you used your Z a lot for travelling and then didn't have it for teamfights and that KT blew you up. If you use your E (with unstoppable talent) you can then Z away without getting frozen or pulled. (edit: spelling)

[@cultistofdarkness1661]

Yea that's true but there is a VERY rare situation where extra range means more auto attacks because when you move you can't attack

[@Ghally]

The extra range is about forcing bursty assassins to stop harrassing you because they actually have to take damage for a reasonable amount of time. Not only that but its super effective against melee heroes who need to walk the entire range of your AA to hit you. Another benefit is that you get more poke power, more safety, and youre able to focus a wider selection of enemy team members due to you probably having range over the entire teamfight. The extra range is far from worthless compared to anything. *Or*, you can have an extremely agile 40% movement speed, which lets you dodge abseloutely nothing. The only viable reason to pick hover siege mode is if you picked up ambush at level 1 or unless the stars allign to give you some enemy heroes that somehow benefit the talent pick.

[@TheBoogerJames]

​@@Ghally I think it has its uses, but is way overused. Hover siege mode is not about avoidance, its about being able to hit what you want to hit. If something is even slightly out of your range the longer range means nothing. Being able to move 2 inches to hit that thing you want is great. Being able to get a couple extra shots off is ok I guess. Being able to move in seige mode to support your team's pushing the lane I think is even better.

[@azurblueknights]

A good Sgt. Hammer uses her surroundings to keep the enemy at bay. Graduating Range makes this a whole lot easier by allowing Hammer to hide behind a wider array of terrain. It also means your front line allies don't have to fight so close to Hammer and risk the enemy team from getting close enough to scare her off. Hover Siege was only moderately useful before it got nerfed in her rework. Since her rework, Graduating Range is almost always the go-to talent, especially when coupled with Barricade and/or Entrenched. Entrenched just by itself provides Hammer with a modicum of safety far larger than Hover Siege ever will.

[@Jonjon13Jonjon13]

@@TheBoogerJames I think the hover is so slow, and the graduating range is so short... that both talents feel really underwhelming, specially compared to what they used to be. Hover gives you a little bit of reposition, works well with the stealth lvl1 (can move in stealth, and also while you're repositioning you get stealth back so you crit again), but for dodging shit is utterly useless. Also if the fight is really moving away, you'll still have to get out of siege to really catch up, so it's useless there too. Graduating range gives you a little bit more of range, it's kinda useful in some situations but it's not that big of a range anymore... So it mostly works only for actual siege situations (defending or attacking a keep) or for PVE, while in PVP fights the fact that you're a complete sitting duck is probably gonna mean you'll get poked hard and have to reposition, losing all the range anyway... I guess it's better for the game that these talents aren't so integral to hammer anymore, so other talents can be considered, but it feels so bad compared to the awesome talents that were before ;_;

[@equestrianrosie]

Love Sgt. Hammer, she’s my main. Whole bunch of little things go into playing her effective, easy to make mistakes. More splash on first talent against stealthies is great for knocking them out of stealth. I used to choose graduating range religiously, but once they nerfed it, ive found hover siege mode my go-to every game. Micro positioning against a KTZ is very useful. Also, siege mode moving to trait was tricky to get used to initially but its so much more intuitive in the longrun. Love love love this hero! As long as chromie isn’t against you. Early game SUCKS if she is. Kinda same if facing Guldan. Love the vid, pally!

[@Slebonson]

Agree totally....

[@gearhead417]

God do I hate that they rolled back the roll requirements. Having a tank and healer make the game so much more fun and allows for better play.

[@ToraxReborn]

Not really. 5 assassins team makes you to pull exceptional play if you want to make it past 1:1 kdr.

[@cysenscarlet5205]

Draft mode still exists.

[@shonnew]

@@ToraxReborn You get a 5 assassin team and the other team gets a stun city or well put together team then those plays become pretty much null and void in reality.

[@ToraxReborn]

@@shonnew depends. It'll make you play like a pro. Otherwise yeah don't bother arguing. No one like a casual.

[@shonnew]

@@ToraxReborn Yeah, I've seen some pro Specialist, Tanks, and Supports, but no pro player team would go full assassin because in reality you will get stunned and killed. Similar case if you have 5 Assassins vs a half decent team with even the inkling of skill or coordination and lord help you get a team full of CC, Roots, and Silence, because you would need a loot of luck, the team not being functional, and the your team being coordinated.

[@darkopz]

Pally, the queues were not giving good teams. They were giving decent comps with very very low skill players. It was the worst experience in my 2.5 years playing this game. I had never seen players this unskilled before. And it’s ok for them to play, but they shouldn’t getting matched up with people with higher skills just because they picked Healer. My win rate dropped 10% due to that week of “good team comp.” 62 to 52%. And it wasn’t because the comps were good, it was because we got stomped on 10 minutes flat due to people having no competency.

[@kwagmier82]

If I recall correctly, before the structure damage was removed... the orbiting bfg could also be lined up vertically to hit all keeps on some maps. so secret agent hammer could sneak in and get it going to essentially backdoor.

[@JetLagVSKenji]

You kept mentioning not having a tank but you had one on your team all game!

[@dosilysmith8520]

I haven't play SGT Hammer in so long ..... she was called Corporeal Punishment

[@hellfrozenphoenix13]

Glad to see you still at it Pally. I do hope you keep at it vut have some back up games. Loving the divinity gameplay so far and ill make sure to watch everything you put out. If i dislike it, ill just leave it running on mute for you. Love ya Pally!

[@cptr3db34rd3]

I'm really glad you said what you said about qm at the beginning. Tbh I really enjoyed the change and then they reverted it. Oh well... I guess I'll return to unranked even though drafting and losing the hero you'd like to play isn't optimal u.u

[@adamn7777]

39-20 now following your builds. I actually usually play hammer a lot like this so this was pretty natural for me. I like to try to sneak an early tower with maelstrom rounds while the usual middle brawl is going on. It's not what happened this game but there's some useful talents like the thrusters one I hadn't considered before so yay for that. Led the team in XP and siege damage while doing alright hero damage so overall a success I think. Now onto a hero I am truly awful with so I hope the next one is a good learning experience for me

[@jokkepokke95]

Your team was Valeera heaven. Wish I could've played her just then.

[@Monkey21111]

I've deleted the game a few weeks ago, but I'll still gladly watch your vids. Keep it up :)

[@zachhuss5661]

When all the skilled players leave the game, these are the games you get....Love ya Pally

[@IAteTheAntiChrist]

IMO, since BFG doesn't do damage to structures, I think it should have gotten a cooldown reduction. At level 20 nerffing that back to the higher cooldown.

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

I feel so bad for pally, I feel his pain.

[@edwardjrackley]

Had a single lane brawl a few months ago. We played as 4 hammers 1 Lucio. orbital BFG with structural damage was broken beyond belief. Merry Christmas Pally

[@enricopietraroia5621]

Love the series Pally, happy holiday to you and the other Pallybros here

[@lecter7395]

I missed you Pally!

[@TheOblomoff]

I just got to disagree with not needing to bring siege to trait. What defines starcraft siege tanks is their transformation. For me that is. And trait is that thing that defines a character in any moba. Besides, one can miss an ability qwer row, but you cannot miss sieging in D button. Hated that way back when siege was on the ability row - to the point of her being unplayable for me. (and gosh darn it, thrusters are for escaping and sometimes for chasing, not for using them while you switch lanes)

[@awesomepandamonkey]

Honestly, before the changes happened, I never got any of the five assassin horror shows people are always going on about, but after they reverted the changes, it seems like it's every single game I play.

[@YasenBoyadzhiev]

Unranked is the way to go. And I think Pally is super excited to play hots now 😂

[@cameronghunterimages]

This game sums up my heroes experience, Love the game but the match-making has been soooo rough.,

[@jamesryan099]

They should rework the level 20 bfg to make it split on impact instead and shoot out smaller projectiles in all directions that are the same as the original shot but do around half damage I'd give it around 8 projectiles and also make the main shot split on each hero hit not just the first.

[@HouseDuke]

Had you picked regenerative bio steel at lvl 4, hammer would've been a lot more sustainable. But if your team doesn't know how to with Sgt.Hammer, you won't have a fun time.

[@HydraCFW]

They disabled Ragnaros lava wave in aram so couldn't they just disable BFG?

[@CalciumChief]

Cause orbital BFG would still not stop outside of ARAM. Lava wave doesn't respawn forever.

[@Nano__hots]

Why would they ?

[@TheBoogerJames]

They disabled BFG from doing structure damage because at 20 people would Orbital BFG the core and there was literally no counter-play which is not fun to play against. This is why things like Valeera's silence, Malganasis' sleep and Kael'thas' W build also need nerfed into oblivion.

[@CalciumChief]

@@TheBoogerJames I don't know why Mal'Ganis's sleep doesn't simply stop after he hits a hero with it. Flies around like normal, but as soon as he touches a hero, there's a hard stop. That way he'd have to plan a bit whom to sleep so he doesn't end up surrounded by enemy team instead of dancing around everyone. Give hims some 16/20 talent or a quest to be able to sleep 2 enemies before it stops, if you want.

[@NitroPulsar]

@@TheBoogerJames actually we have shields on core just for that reason. They were added as a response to the orbital bfg meme strat

[@Mirage7uae]

Hmmm , now thats the kind of healing mama likes

[@Evloper]

Thats totally me :D 20:22 😂😂😂

[@gregputnam7243]

You still have two rows of characters and I am new so I was not here for your last A - Z playlist but are you going to try to get that last two rows in these next couple days before the year ends?... No, that doesn't make sense so it is okay that you go over into the new year? Okay cool, and thank you for keeping this up though. I know you posted about Blizzard announcing that they are more or less giving up on HotS but thank you for continuing this

[@timothymurphy1090]

They arent giving up on hots. Just esports, fewer developers but still developing the game

[@denisvorozheikin4892]

GEEEEET THE OBJECTIVE!!!!

[@blitzidious9635]

Why don't they make graduating range baseline or part of a baseline quest?

[@DarrinSK]

I think advanced artillery is better for defending zerg jsut because of better AOE damage on your auto attacks.

[@hanswurst7023]

It's quickmatch. I do not want to wait ages until I can test out heroes or builds against human players. I don't care whether it's 5 assassins or spec or whatever - If I want a real team comp I play unranked or ranked! And if I just want a quick match, I'm happy there is the option quickmatch. I was about to stop playing the game when queue times were up to 10 min for a qm, good on blizzard to undo those changes!

[@ShiniOokami]

It's not like Napalm could've melt the Zerg wave in a few seconds :)

[@morthim]

i think sargent hammer should lose the boost, but gain much farther range while not getting better vision, so other players have to scout for her, and her movement speed bonus is mostly a head start. maybe the ability to launch herself backwards over obstacles once in a while. maybe a quest tallent choice: 1) allows you to see over obstacles; like medivh 2) allows you to see farther in a cone in front of you, but you loose some rear view 3) allows spider mines to grant vision. 4) repeated attacks on a target do bonus damage. *range limited to what it is now* she would become a jungler who has to rotate out of vulnerability.

[@Lintari]

Happy New Year to you, Pally! Hope you have great holidays!

[@Zetheseus]

i thought it would have done no structure damage because come level 20 you have a shot that just can periodically hurt the core

[@deluxeloy]

Maybe you should think about a character-specific rebind. That might really help with your old muscle memory, if the new system hasn't encroached on it yet.

[@Ghally]

You actually didnt talk about the rework last year. You never talked about it at all as a matter of fact

[@ryris1625]

00:40, yes he did

[@Halosty45]

@@ryris1625 Sure, he mentioned it there- but he didn't say what it was. I honestly didn't know Hammer came with armor or whatever on her E now or all those other talents in there.

[@Ghally]

@@ryris1625 Well yes, in this video, the same video im responding to... He said he'd talked about it before so he wasnt going to repeat it in this video. Did you watch the video before you commented that?

[@nealrivenbark2777]

SirGhallahad you are correct. He recorded the video before the rework yet he released the hammer video after the release.

[@savevsdeath]

OMG PALLY USE MAELSTROM ROUNDS!!

[@ahrenstarr6273]

You want me to put the hammer down? ~Thor Odinson A - Z Record SPOILERS 2018 A-Z Stats W & L Record Overall - 37 - 20 Assassins - 18 - 7 Warriors - 10 - 5 Supports - 6 - 5 Specialists - 3 - 5 Multi-class - 0 - 0 Wins - Abathur, Artanis, Arthas, Azmodan, Brightwing, Cassia, Chromie, Deckard, Diablo, @t. ETC, Falstad, Fenix, Genji, Hanzo, Illidan, Johanna, Junkrat, Kael'thas, Kerrigan, Kharazim, Leoric, Li-Ming, Lt. Rosa Morales, Lucio, Lunara, Maiev, Mal'Ganis, Malfurion, Mephisto, Muradin, Murky, Nova, Orphea, Ragnaros, Raynor, Rexxar Losses - Alarak, Alexstrasza, Ana, Anub'Arak, Auriel, Blaze, Chen, Dehaka, Garrosh, Gazlowe, Greymane, Gul'dan, Jaina, Kel'Thuzad, Lili, Malthael, Medivh, Nazeebo, Probius, Rehgar. Samuro, Sgt. Hammer

[@Epinephrine86]

Happy Holidays! Hope they were great! Always good to see another video from you!

[@ME262MKI]

The reason why BFG was changed was because... you know..., weekly brawl

[@afridge8608]

You can use w to knock the zombie wall away and then z out

[@simonchirps]

Good video Pally even though the crazy matchmaking screwed you.

[@Nade-ey8no]

This is one of those caracters that can be fun or fucking annoying, depending on who you choose.

[@TheBFGHarrison]

I quit HoTs after blizzard gave it up, more power to you for pushing through though.

[@1bluebirdz]

i don't like the new changes i strictly only play Tanks and Supports, which you'd think i'd get into games right away...but god no still 5-6 min queues(admittedly it's better then Warriors and assassins) which is not acceptable and i don't want to spend 30% of my time in HotS sitting in Queues

[@Pikachieu]

You could always change the trait button to E too lol

[@rockswe]

Apparently you can't rebind keys for individual heroes. How is that not a thing?

[@Jokervision744]

Can't win games with hammer, because of pretty much this... Its a shame, I like the theme and idea behind hammer.

[@ArioDragon]

For clearing waves you may as well pick Napalm. Who the fuck uses BFG for wave clearing? Ah right , Pally does xd

[@Shoddragon]

Unfortunately BFG was nerfed due to complaints from low skill players. In Masters and Pro play, napalm+ ultra capacitors dominated level 10 and 20 picks. The dev team has bowed down to bad players for a while so it was an unfortunate change.

[@ScrutatorCarlos]

Saddly Hammer its in bad position right now because the new heroes and the nerfs she get, but good video Pally keep going

[@TheAmazingSpiderman87]

Pally bro, normally I dont critique your play but that first death was too predictable man.

[@The_Wailing_Doom]

I felt 20:23 in my soul.

[@benjikelso9673]

I don’t understand why more people don’t play healers and tanks. Playing damage can be fun,but more often than not I find it to be way more stressful than playing a healer or a tank.

[@wraithflaire1639]

It is rarer for damage heros to be blamed for a loss then a tank and healers unless an damage hero is feeding hard. It is not rocket science to figure that out.

[@ettiennevanstaden]

That fucking team man...

[@wraithflaire1639]

Never pick mine talents when the enemy team has Rayner.

[@thegreatmanda]

I also loathe the move from E to D. One of the most frustrating things about Blizzard games is that they appear to make change decisions without actually *playing* their own games and having to deal with those changes themselves. Or caring what that feels like.

[@samikaislasalo3947]

FUCK YE I WAS WAITING FOR SRG

[@CaramonMSS]

Why Giant killer over executioner, or even mechanical know how? They had no giants to kill? It was all assassins?

[@TheZajic23]

feel your pain :D

[@darkwarlock7583]

3:10 says he likes the long que times because having a tank and healer is nice, then immediately gets a game with no tank or healers after a 10 min que time... Either give me a short que time with random heroes or long que with actual teams, you cant defend random assassins AND long que times...

[@rookiebobplayer244]

I miss first hammer.... bonus hp at talent 1 and lvl 20 being trolly

[@orquidiababo6630]

Why couldn't Blizzard just reduce BFG damage to buildings by 50 or 75% instead of simply removing it?

[@The_Wailing_Doom]

20:23 HAHA!!!

[@Sora623898]

I've been away for a while, when did Hammer's siege mode become her trait????

[@Duckeh2093]

what are those bronze movements...??? guldan....tracer... omg

[@AngraMajinu]

Tracer players, ladies and gentleman, tracer players!

[@SangoProductions213]

Huh. Just when I felt that I haven't seen you in a while.

[@gussetaf1416]

Post more hots pls

[@HarshaKaujalgi]

18 mins in and kelthuzad only had 11/30 stacks, that is so sad

[@potatomodem1079]

Finally

[@DustinFette]

I wonder if that Tracer was copying your name? haha

[@danhealy79]

Because QuickMatch.

[@leonardomansilla945]

That guldan 0/9 tho

[@irishgiant5150]

So wait, the Tassadar video is going to be the bad one?

[@apathtri6229]

Hey, I play her a lot, @ kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2KZpnafpddki80 you see the mage go back in his base. IMO that was obvious he was rounding out to go get ya. Place mines across the wall on your left to have a better view of him coming up and jumping in. Also, TYVM for posting a Hammer video. I was wondering when you would do that recently. Proves you are a good content creator! GJ.

[@puniopenetrante]

HAmmer is a ranged assassin now?

[@wraithflaire1639]

I'm not surprised. Hammer is my highest level hero and the thing players complain about most often since the first time I played her is when I don't play her as an ranged assassin. Heaven forbid that an Hammer ever thinks its an good Idea to not chase team fight to actually take advantage of them to seige unimpeded.

[@onkelpappkov2666]

@@wraithflaire1639 Siege? Is there a mode for that? How dare you use that?

[@Laen81]

:D Daaamn! you have no idea how to play hammer. In away it is entertaining, but.... it hurts.

[@Laen81]

But I would like you to do series of "heroes I play bad... and maybe I will improve?".

[@dcoffinh]

Wait. Did they really revert the changes to qm??

[@dcoffinh]

I...i don't have words?

[@Calvictus360]

Seems like they made hammer to Defensive focused. When before if you knew how to position you could go full on Damage talents.

[@hentainarutofan]

Well, half of that team was brain dead

[@krakowolkusz7941]

8:18 U literally play a tank XD

[@zylowolfzan3345]

A-Z SGT. Hammer. AKA: "This is why we can't have nice things! VALEERA!"

[@Shilag]

I'm sorry Pally, but I have to disagree with you. There was not a lot of "strategy" involved in Orbital BFG at all. You sent it down any lane and then that lane was permanently yours, with constant pressure from minions and the BFG on all structures including the core with literally no counterplay. It wasn't just in ARAM. It was exceedingly frustrating to play against, and I'm glad it's gone.

[@Vektor480]

There was the strategy of shooting it vertically towards the core, so it would spend less time traveling the map and would orbit more often, hitting the core more times than it did when you shot it down a lane. You could choose between clearing waves or hitting the core more often, depending on your positioning.

[@Vektor480]

The argument isn't how hard it is, but how there was no strategy to it. Having a strategy and being hard to execute aren't the same thing.

[@onkelpappkov2666]

Overarching statement is correct, it's not fun to automatically block a lane forever. Semantic statement is incorrect. Strategy does not mean difficulty.

[@JondarKorric]

you act like Valeera is the only hero with a Silence

[@GreenPaintz]

I don't think its the silence that has him so aggravated.

[@equestrianrosie]

Eric Huls he’s stated before that its a “point and click” silence, not a skillshot. Thus why he doesn’t complain about alarak etc whose silence IS a skillshot.

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

Its a silence with relatively short cooldown thats point and click on a stealth hero with high burst dmg potential thats lasts 2.5 seconds. 1 second stun is already super long. 2.5 seconds on a silence is even worse.

[@HorusHeresy1982]

It sucked because there was no counter...

[@rinech]

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[@CloudSnakeGames]

>complains about queue times >complains when they change it back for quick queues Atleast be consistent about your complaints?? I personally would rather a shitty comp and not wait 15 minutes for a game (might as well just play UR or HL at that point).

[@platones9667]

That Kel'thuzad should be a joke lol. End of the game, has 10k dmg and only 11 STACKS omg! He should be really skilled to play a char in a winning game that bad... Trashes :D

[@adamhubbert8896]

Entertaining as always but your hammer build was terrible. Your mechanics are awesome tho. Seriously no hover siege mode?

[@Thorims]

This game was disaster

[@jonathanstudentkit]

what a bad team