HotS: How To Bruise Samuro

[@radioactivewalrus5978]

Omg I'm the hammer I didn't even realize it was you lol. That was a frustrating game our macro really wasn't great ggs!

[@ThingWub]

GG!!! You had me frustrated during the early laning part of the game. I thought you were going to just march down top lane to our core haha

[@anastasiumircea]

The hearth trick was q->b->shift+d. Nice videos, enjoying your guides

[@ThingWub]

That's right. I personally liked it better with that trick compared to the buffs he got to compensate for losing his trick

[@cristian6555]

As a veteran player, I've never liked Samuro, but I was forced to try him in ARAM a month ago and OMG this hero is at a different level. Movement speed, clear and sustain. This hero is can carry like no other in the lower brackets. I feel like he is a bit overturned.

[@ladygeneveve3805]

Hahahhahahahahahahahhahaha

[@ThingWub]

You feel like he is a bi overtuned because he is a bit overtuned haha.

[@sadchiefanakin1496]

Probably his only downside is his lack of damage outside of basic attacks and bladestorm

[@thebravedrag0n]

Just posted on Heroes subreddit what this video did for me. currently 14-2. Lets see how far I can push it.

[@ThingWub]

Holy cow that's a good record!! I just checked the reddit. They are mad at Samuro, not you haha. Keep pushing it!

[@phlopsi3586]

As an Abathur player, I want to point out a very strong talent synergy, if you play Abathur + Samuro. Abathur should take the following talents: 1) Pressurized Glands: "Increases the range of Symbiote's Spike Burst by 25% and decreases the cooldown by 1 second." 4) Adrenal Overload: "Heroic Symbiote hosts gain 25% increased Attack Speed." 16) Envenomed Spikes: "Abathur's Symbiote's Spike Burst also Slows enemy Movement Speed by 40% for 2 seconds." Samuro should take the following talents: 7) Burning Blade: "Critical Strikes from Samuro and Mirror Images deal an additional 50% of their Basic Attack damage as Spell Damage to the target and nearby enemies." 16) Merciless Strikes: "Samuro's Basic Attacks against Stunned, Rooted, or Slowed enemies are always Critical Strikes." This talent combination allows you to deal more damage than if Samuro had picked "Harsh Winds" @ 16. Not only do you deal at least 40% increased damage on average (I calculated that myself), but Abathur also slows the enemy, making it nigh impossible to escape from Samuro, ensuring he lands his basic attacks more consistently. If you have any other heroes on your team who can slow the enemy, as well, even better, but Abathur is enough to make "Merciless Strikes" the talent of choice. I wouldn't recommend doing this with a random Abathur, unless you explain this to them and they agree to play along with you. I have seen lots of Abathur's as Samuro in QM who are very uncooperative and just do their own thing, instead of going for the strategy with better winning chances. Good luck and have fun!

[@ZiggyStarDirt-fm9ul]

Wish they gave samuro a goose skin

[@ThingWub]

That would be lovely haha. So many missed opportunities by blizzard

[@guid0_98]

Hi wub, will you also cover Blaze as bruiser? I noticed he’s not on your diagram but he’s one of the best solo laner (if not the best) imo

[@ThingWub]

I am not going to be covering him in this series. I do however agree that he is very good at offlaning. My reasoning for not putting him in the How To Bruise Series is because I wanted to make 1 video per hero for my "How To". Blaze Is in the Warrior role so I felt it was better for him to be put in the How To Tank series verse the How To Bruise series. I might try to make a video showcasing how blaze can be a solo laner though. Time will tell

[@guid0_98]

@@ThingWub I see, looking forward to it 👍🏻

[@Pokezero97]

Time for my friends to call me a rat again since this character now makes sense lmao.

[@ThingWub]

I'll start, rat

[@Pokezero97]

@ThingWub All four of them agreed, but we won so they forgave me lol.

[@tanmad21]

Trying to learn this hero, this is so helpful!

[@Trasherke]

fun fact, Samuro identifies as they/them

[@andrey700100]

His wave clear is not bad at level 7, with the aoe auto attack

[@ThingWub]

That's an excellent point and one that I wanted to add in the video but forgot

[@EvilPapagali666]

Im far from being even good with the hero, but to me this aoe lv7 is there for those who use the other R, if you pick tornado and this talent sounds like a big waste like those heroes you can pick two different armor talents

[@andrey700100]

@@EvilPapagali666 actually the dmg output from aoe talent is better than the dmg output from the other talents. making all of them all worse than burning blade stat wise, and if you really want to change it, you would probably want the other lvl 7 talent for illusion master since it reduces the cooldown of the clones.... The aoe is by far the best cuz it is also applied to any enemy, minions and camps... Phantom pain only apply to heroes and the dmg is not better than burning blade And the crushing blow need about 8 consecutive hits to deal the same dmg as burning blade

[@andrey700100]

@@EvilPapagali666 and also tornado is not fast enough to double soak like a hogger or ragnaros can clean wave, burning blade helps him to keep pushed, since his rotation is fast

[@EvilPapagali666]

@@andrey700100 Are you really sure aoe deals more dmg than crushing blow? If so dont make any sense to crushing blow for even exist.. Remember that crushing blow stacks 3x and reduces de cd of W wich gives more aa and of course more +30% dmg crits. Sure you need to stack a bit but its what Samuro does right he dont have a burst capacity at all, he just annoy people with thousand aa's. Tornado at 10 already kill all minions except the three of front, those need 1 aa each wich can be perfomed by the clones or our minions. Im just ulting on waves then annoying people with constant dmg, its working but im really curious if there is a better playstyle without IM 300% IQ (im doing E talents)

[@dovakindva8461]

Samuro is my least favourite hero to play against. Seriously, he can clear almost any neg effects with one button, and if he has aba's hat this hero is just not fun to confront

[@ThingWub]

I totally agree. His kit is too strong with having 3 get out of jail free cards

[@blackstar_1069]

Wub-chan u r da bestest :3

[@ThingWub]

no u da best

[@blackstar_1069]

@@ThingWub 😻

[@dragonlloux]

How do you play against a good Samuro? He is soooo slippery, and you can really outsoak/Outlane a hero that is very fast and clear a whole wave in 3-4 seconds

[@cristian6555]

In skirmishes, he's weak point is aoe damage, if the clones die he is in trouble because of the small hit point pool. In a macro game you'll need a good soaker to keep up with Samuro, something like Dehaka or Leoric. He will still clear faster, but he's impact will be smaller and less effective in team fights.

[@phlopsi3586]

If you can't kill Samuro, go for his team. Simple as that. The weakness of every good Samuro in QM is that he's likely matched with worse teammates to balance the hidden match making rank that player has.

[@andrey700100]

If samuro is going to team fights, use aoe dmg, he is a beast at fighting at 1v1 or even 1v2 but at actual team fights 5v5 he took way too much dmg If samuro is laning a Lot, Just get Simeone that can also clear wave well and keep soaking with him

[@ThingWub]

Others have made great points in their replies. If I had to give 1 tip to use verses a Samuro would be to just ignore him. Samuro's feed off of annoying their opponent... DON'T LET HIM!!! He wants to waste your time by making you think that you can kill him but you can't. Rotate as a team and don't chase the rabbit ez

[@soak_king]

Just ignore him and try to win teamfights. Samuro is only good at split pushing, trading on the lane and space creating. But when it comes to 5v5 for boss or obj, he really sucks.