Rafaam is NOT Okay | Firebat Battlegrounds

[@CommunistPanda7]

I like when Bob says “YOUR minions really pulled their weight” as Rafaam, cause I imagine he’s saying it sarcastically in protest of my broken stolen minions

[@stephenkohl9789]

CommunistPanda look Rafaam was paid by you beneficiary to steal your minions so your minions economy would not collaspes; then he was blamed so you wouldnt be murdered in the streets with your heirs. Rafaam in turns owns sarcasm 1 currently and part of the black market economy.

[@FedeArgentina]

fuck commies and fuck pandas..

[@dadonutinator]

congrats blizz, you nerfed 4 mid tier heroes but not brann and then you managed to add someone even stronger than brann...

[@erantblowig3047]

I feel like they always want one or two very very very OP heroes so that people play more just for getting a chance at one of the heroes and having fun with an easy win also this would increase incentive to buy enough packs for the 3 hero choosing option.

[@Krakersonik]

@@erantblowig3047 of course it's thought out. They are not idiots.

[@MAHuber13]

I like your position as top tier hero... I think I will TAKE IT.

[@dadonutinator]

@@erantblowig3047 i understand but when certain heroes are totally outclassed (finley vs edwin), it makes those heroes unplayable and a waste of potential enjoyment

[@AnimeReference]

Patchwerk was rank 1 and Rat King was rank 3 (by win rate). Akazamzarak couldn't lose if you were lucky enough. I don't think AFK needed the nerf, she's was rank 8 and not very interactive. The new heroes are all great and really change your strategy in the game unlike some of the other heroes. Patches have been on point.

[@jkid1134]

There’s a lot of different things they could do about Rafaam. They could make the hero power cost more, or make the minions you get not sell for anything, or make it only steal if you attacked and destroyed the first minion, or make the hero power require you to sacrifice a minion, or a bunch of other things that Blizzard will DEFINITELY not do for at least a month.

[@bobby4389]

On baby make it 2 coins so that incase you get a minion you don’t like you can’t sell it and get your gold back

[@frozen_spider]

Making it cost 2 would completely kill the hero though

[@lifetake3103]

@@frozen_spider you're still buying a minion your opponent bought for 2

[@TheShizzlemop]

@@frozen_spider what no. not at all you're dumb.

[@frozen_spider]

@@lifetake3103 Yes, but early game that way too much to pay for a near-random minion, and later a minion would almost definitely be the one you don't need

[@Nardah100]

played curator, rafam stole my amalgam round 2, ended up losing at top 2 entirely because the stolen amalgam was giga buffed

[@BlakaneezGuy]

Should've played around it Kappa

[@Mr_Spaghetti]

Nardah100 was that two days ago? if so, might have been me as rafam 😎

[@MrDrProfessorMidget]

saaaaaaame

[@kl16863]

LOL I DID THIS TODAY LMFAO. Did it die to a 2/1 murloc tidecaller

[@ryantoscano9739]

I did that during my last Rafam run and it felt incredibly dirty. You get to be the curator, one of the best hero's in the game, as well as continue to steal minions for the rest of the game.

[@Kleshumara]

We only get the highlights on KZbin, of course - but still, Rafaam is ridiculously good at the moment, especially in getting you through the early game so easily that you have time to level up and find the good stuff at the end.

[@DatMageDoe]

I think the worst part of Rafaam is that Rafaam requires only one dummy to go nuts - one guy to leave their Lightfang at the front, or a crucial buffer. And because these valuable minions are usually placed near the front to pop Shields, it is actively punishing regular, optimal play. Then you have a Lightfang, Brann, or useful buffer, and can start scaling to the moon.

[@EstellammaSS]

Unless the rafaam got a zap and start sniping bran every game..

[@DatMageDoe]

@@EstellammaSS Yeah, but Zapp comes really late unless Rafaam turbos to 5 and gets a lucky triple/goes to 6.

[@Eoccdb]

People can also see who there fighting. If they wanted to be optimal, they would move who attacks first

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

Even not-dummies are still forced to feed him a minion that's guaranteed to break him even if he doesn't want it.

[@LoserHands]

People feeding Rafaam has got to be frustrating. Granted, the earlier the feed--where it's more likely the result of jobbers--the greater the advantage. But punishing optimal play? No way. You see who you are fighting; if you do "optimal" stuff without knowing why you should eat pp and die. Points for Blizz exposing wannabe Spikes. Never seen such imaginatively bankrupt competitors than in Blizz games like HS ladder and Overwatch. Same decks, same comps, same strats. Shit is wild!

[@Tingdere14]

Liking the 'Default Description'

[@VinniePaul91]

Mistakes, always pick zapp with Rafaam to farm lightfangs and branns.

[@perryb.2732]

Bruh

[@FieryHammer]

This is why I love Rafaam. When I played him a couple of times, I decided to go for similar strats, sell token in turn 1 and use hero power, don't level in turn 2 to use hero power etc... It's a good change that this hero can actually benefit from playing 'a bit behind' the meta and this can lead to real strength. This can be also too risky and lead to fast death, but this is the fun of it. Mid game, the hero power can either mean just a delayed 1 gold if you sell the unit, but can save you 2 if you use it and get you triples as well which really a good power burst.

[@SomersBugtopia]

Rafaam is blatantly overpowered. His hero power is genuinely godly and actively punishes players for getting ahead, not to mention the fact that it's even a gold generator and since everyone is running Murlocs, you just snowball. Like, why?

[@TriplellOnLeague]

The meta is dumb. Murlocs + poison to stronk. The only counter is deathrattle, and deathrattle is generally weak as shit unless you get lucky and get an early golden rivendere.

[@SomersBugtopia]

@@TriplellOnLeague Yeah like this is straight up boring. Amalgam is a well statted tavern tier 2 minion that benefits from most of the cards in the game mode and can consistently gain every keyword. Like how do you ever get ahead and win with any other tribal? Glad we have a new expansion I guess

[@astrielmaahes1116]

Rafaam isn't overpowered, everything else is underpowered, except brann.

[@SomersBugtopia]

@@astrielmaahes1116 Nah, Rafaam being able to yoink the tug rope on the Murloc war that everyone is fighting is too good. Being able to pick up an extra Amalgam or whatever is godly. Brann is crazy.

[@alilweeb7684]

@@astrielmaahes1116 soo hes overpowered. thats what overpowered means

[@geoffreyperry8992]

Thanks firebat, very cool!

[@FelrinKirla]

Rafaam was so unfair, he dropped frames on purpose so that we wouldn't go mad from the revelation

[@darkchiron]

King Bagurgle is the truth, man. Finding him off Primalfin Lookouts is the best thing ever.

[@Razilx18]

Yeah I said the same the moment I read the hero power.... You're guaranteed a good/great card every time you use it. He also goes against the limit of minions and can net you minions of 5/6 stars for just 1 coin each time... it's insane they thought it was balanced.

[@RemagEnagemato]

He is also basically a better Gallywix

[@jsc6x751]

Rafaam is zero risk with huge potential rewards. Guess that beta tag really isn't kidding, but still surprised it even went live, unless they're thinking about trying to get other heroes to that level of power

[@zom8680]

That Michigan J Murloc faced you 3 times in the first 7 minutes and each time he had a beeg taunt, poisonous, and divine shield and yet you still countered him. That's a "that's it I quit" reaction if I've ever seen one

[@johncarpenter5582]

Is it just me or does the junkbot death animation sound like him saying, "Oh, fuck!"

[@SkipperinoHS]

0:00 Skipperino firebaterino

[@ThatGuyYouAvoid]

Rafaam Hero Power (Cost: 1) = Get a good minion OR get a bonus gold on next turn Seems fair

[@raznaak]

Yeah, worse case scenario (if your board is not full) is that you basically get Prince Gallywix's hero power...

[@michaeljeacock]

remember when everyone put lightfang at the front as a shield popper? so many golden lightfangs for rafaam!

[@Rathial]

Rafaam isn't fair I had a game with 4 seperate amalgams lightfangs and new murloc legendary just from yoinking everything

[@LoserHands]

Rafaam looking like a broken planeswalker.

[@joristammes5311]

You can litterely steal the power of curator.

[@mannyyehh8629]

Dude I'm dead 💀🤣😂😂 firebat a goat for this

[@funsponge9099]

Im confused im like 2k lower than firebat, why arent his opponents playing around rafam at all?

[@mikebutler4189]

I massively misplayed myself down to 1 hp with all players remaining as rafaam. My first few hero powers whiffed and I kept forgetting to not put my cobalt guardian first against nefarian. I still ended up in first because of the hero power getting me so many trips. I would have gotten 7th or 8th with probably every other hero. I like him and I'll always pick him to pad my mmr but yeah, he's busted.

[@Angelo12162]

meanwhile justsayin ripping legendaries back to back

[@reevsy3]

guy got 2 golden quests in like 5 minutes

[@Kapangdazz]

rafaam is just vastly upgraded gallywix. why the hell would they make the HP only cost 1? devs really dont think when they design the game.

[@Toast_94]

I guess it's a good thing that gallywix was rotated out.

[@Harrs2]

RAFAAAAAAAAAAM, THE SUPREME ARCHEOLOGIIIST

[@vasense4122]

My favourite hearthstone streamer

[@benjaminchen8857]

You should have replaced the music tidehunters you get them back in the pool

[@LionAzul]

Wow! [Battlegrounds Player] got Crackling shields and Poison in their Murloc comp, with King Bagurgle and then proceeded to get first place! I've never seen this happen before!

[@mindtap100]

Hes my favorite. Stealing that new battlecry merloc has been nice. Alot of people in my current ello lead with it. Alot of peeps are running merlocs and the 2/1 merloc 1/1 token is the like the best turn 1. about 50% are leading the 2/1 as there attacking minion(2 games in a row I got that minion and it was my starting minion too, I tech up and got my triples early and they were easy games . Even the token is not that bad . It sucks when you accidently triple anything by stealing a 3rd copy of a minion or token . sometimes the next tier up isnt going to help your current build . I learned windfury is good against the divine shield comps. Thanks for that tip. Ive been taking the health after poision divine shield without any thought.

[@ocha-time]

If it only worked if you killed the first minion that'd be fair at that cost, but that's hard to describe in ten words or less. As it is, it needs to be like... 2-3 mana, at least. At worst it's "Bank a gold", and at best it's getting you the best cards in your enemies' comps and triggering like 2-4 extra triples it doesn't deserve. I'm not positive how this made it through whatever beta testing they did. Like, some of the nerfs, and then THIS pushed through? They're on drugs.

[@KrocDP]

"Yo that kat play was nuts"-some dude without a face to roll

[@chrispellbois6498]

Was a rafaam in my last lobby , he ended 8th , we all fed him tokens and bad minions , only got 1 triple and i cant say if it was tavern or hero power ... But ive also played has rafaam and won easy , people not understanding how rafaam hero power works , feeding me the same minions or the good ones xD It is hard to play around him late game but not impossible either :S They need to bring other heroes to his level though

[@JebeTheGreat]

Everyone plays divine shield poison murlocs, so what's the counter? Rafaam. ..with divine shield poison murlocs.

[@RemagEnagemato]

You forgot windfury from the 1 million triples he got from stealing other minions and getting gentle megasaur

[@tegg7017]

I played afk and rafam just sniped my 4 cost minion, at this point I wonderd wy I even play afk

[@shawnwu5422]

Pepper Plays afk doesn’t supply 4 cost minions anymore...

[@tegg7017]

@@shawnwu5422 well the 3 cost minion then, feels still shit if they steal your minion that you waited 2 turns to get

[@DerZeppterdesAldi]

Actually he does not steal it, he just copy it.

[@tegg7017]

@@DerZeppterdesAldi wow big wuff

[@parallacksg]

It's not just raffam. Murlocs are way more powerful now after the most recent patch

[@tobiashorn1270]

Yeah the only weakness is nefarian. Poisonis + Shield + windfury is way to op.

[@aigg_]

Rafaa is definitely strong, but this was an EXTREMELY luck filled round. That's why it's a highlight, took him hundreds of rounds to get this much luck.

[@kingofbudokai]

"Thanks guys i really appreciate the support, that's very generous of you." Ouch. They didn't even get welcomed into the Bat Cave Team Thing. I think that might be the first time I've heard him not say it his signature way.

[@falconium9801]

They gotta make the hero power cost 2.

[@Vegas242]

Ok just from initial watching, I feel like Rafaam's hero power should cost 2 gold

[@Finigini]

Murloc Meta

[@robloxmusicvideo1]

Does sylvanas hero power trigger a deathrattle?

[@RemagEnagemato]

No.

[@sargasm169]

with each nerf this game is becoming less fun to play

[@tvftw1]

Early game: Numbers advantage Late game: Drown in Lightfangs and Branns 1 gold *This seems fine*

[@jacobdittmer5512]

while rafam is annoying... he doesn't compare to only seeing murlocs in top 3 players every game

[@feinne7652]

Let's be fair here. This game wasn't a Rafaam is OP game, but a Murloc spam with poison and divine shield is OP game.

[@TheStrongestBaka]

The thing is, if murloc spam is OP and your hero power gets you a murloc for 1 mana, your hero power is also OP.

[@RunehearthCL]

Poison murloc the game

[@Querterus]

Rafaam and amalgam are so broken they should nerv both and maybe even brann (the hero) too or give other heros a way to keep up

[@steubenbreunden]

hi dad i just broke 5000 elo. are you proud of me?

[@woop6727]

why the fuck is everyone saying rafaam op? just don't play good cards lmao

[@Spherion84]

blizzard should move toxfin in tier 5

[@wrduardo1]

"not getting megasaurs"...still sits at level 5...

[@jrsmoove4354]

Lmao

[@AShinyMamoswine]

First?