#107 - Into the Nexus: “Title”

• Garrett • Kyle 

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Chromie Talk: Mini Strategy

31.3% Hero League Win Rate (all Leagues)

32.5% Quick Match Win Rate (all Leagues)

• Heavy Artillery (Closest Comparison is Nova)

• Thin Powerful Skill Shot
• No Movement Speed
• Hero Delete Roll
• Extremely Combo Dependant

• Learn your timings for both Temporal Loop and Time Trap
• Dragon Breath then Sandblast
• No Lane (or Objective) clear
• If you’re missing lane clear or objective control, Slowing Sands might help, but is fickle
• Bronze Talons can also help, but you’re breaking her core contribution, deleting one person

• Body Light (apply the same rules as nova)

• You only get one

• Murky
• Lost Vikings
• Nova
• Zeratul
• Cho’Gall
• Abathur
• Chromie

• We’ve been que-ing with Frost Bro’ing to great Success
• Que with Chaotic loud (and Durable) front liners

• Tips

• Use Time Trap to intercept and scout incoming ganks.
• Roam, get kills from outside of sight. Don’t get stuck solo laning.
• Spam that Sand Blast in chokes and team fights

• Dragon Breath build will be better for the delete
• Overdrive at 16.

• Take the level 20 Past and Future Me regardless of your spec

Links

• http://www.heroesnexus.com/talent-calculator/79-chromie?filter-ptr=1#PBA
• http://www.hotslogs.com/Sitewide/HeroDetails?Hero=Chromie

Buffs

These are all with at Home Play in mind. Pros will be affected by Regen Globe talents more because they farm multiple lanes.

Kerrigan

• CD reductions on both Ults. Seeing a lot more Ultralisk at least in QM.

Raynor

• Berserk was removed and the changes to Seasoned Marksman make it weaker if you were amazing at farming before. But we think Marksman is now better for average players and the change to Executioner is great for Jimmy.

Zeratul

• Regen Master buff (+500 health on completion) and Season Marksman’s change.

Brightwing

• While the duration of Polymorph has been slightly reduced, the buffs to the Slow, Cooldown, and Mana cost make this ability seem even stronger than before.

Li Li

• She has legit Cleanse now! Herbal Cleanse wasn’t controllable enough. Also Safety Spring is a constant Fast Feet bonus now.
• Many Li Li main’s loved Herbal Cleanse at 16 and will see this as a nerf.

Uther

• Much like BW’s Polymorph, the duration of Hammer of Justice was slightly decreased but it has a shorter CD and costs less Mana.

Anub’arak

• Talked a lot about Anub last week. How does he feel in the live game Kyle?

Johanna

• Shield amount on Iron Skin was significantly increased. Apparently the scaling changes from November brought the power of this Trait down below where the devs intended.
• Regeneration Master might give some Talent Diversity at level 1.
• Blessed Momentum is a blow for her Ultimates

Leoric

• Health and Regen buff. Reanimation was brought in line with the updated version of Regen Master
• Sadly, I would prefer the Health increase over the death decrease

Rexxar

• Hunter-Gatherer. Rexx gains 600 Health.
• Misha will now chase into Bushes even when sight is lost.
• No Stun duration nerf.

Stitches

• Bonus health and movement speed increase after completing Hungry for More’s Quest.

Tyrael

• Health/Regen buff
• Angelic Momentum removed from Heroics. His damage has not been fixed since scaling.

Nerfs

Falstad

• Level 4’s Power Throw was combined w/ Secret Weapon at lv.7. Can’t get range increase with BOOMerang.
• Level 4 is now a required survivability pick. Static Shield was moved to 4. Meaning earlier in the game if you’re getting hit by Lightning Rod Falstad will be harder to kill than before.
• Quick Match Nerf: First Air Removed

Kael’thas

• Leave Sun King’s Fury alone! JUST LEAVE IT ALONE!

Gazlowe

• Seems to be affected more than other heroes by the Stun duration reduction.

Xul

• Bone Prison not receiving any buffs to offset the duration decrease. Actually an additional nerf to the duration of Amplify Damage (though makes sense considering it should match the duration of the ability.).
• On the plus side, he’s an Executioner Machine

Rehgar

• Stormcaller Talent is way harder to get your mana discount. No buff to Earthbind Totem to offset the duration reduction.

Chen

• By popular vote this is a nerf.
• But really a buff unless you were amazing at getting regen globes

Diablo

• Shadow Charge is a lot harder to use. No buff to Apocalypse to offset duration reduction.
• If you are ahead, particularly at 16 you movement will dominate the game.

Rework

Li-Ming

• Tal Rasha’s elements can now scale to a 20% ability power bonus 5% at a time as long as you don’t chain the same ability twice. (Meaning you cast all 4 abilities and then it resets on the next cast)
• Temporal Flux now gradually slows enemies caught in it up to a max of 60% (previously a flat 40%). This is a buff over the previous 40% max.

Arthas

• Talked a lot about him last episode. How is he feeling ME?

Muradin

• Lots of new talents/changes.
• Stun Duration Reduced, Stoneform healing reduced.
• Better Talent Diversity at Level 1 and 16.

Zagara

• Swarm Momentum: Basic Attacks now reduce Basic Ability cooldowns by 0.75 seconds instead of 0.5. Like all others, no more reduction to Heroic or Trait.
• This has lead to a huge increase in Swarm Momentum Nydus worm.

Dustin Browder Tweets!

Garden Terror’s AA 3 shotting Chromie is intended

More SC heroes on the way

Quick match does not try to make mirror match ups

Level 20 Grandmasters Skins?

Uther’s shield will not loose it’s self cast capability

Trailers are back, but still won’t come out for all heroes

Team is watching Chromie closely

Balance team is thinking about how to help ban diversity
Leaving Hero League Draft does not affect your MMR, only your rank

Dustin Browder mains Lunara (Hes level 15, Pink Masters skin)

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Emails

Pretzul

If we have time, this is a great question

Since there are now four mages in the game we can guarantee that each team will have the opportunity to pick at least one mage during the first round of picks if they so choose. In what circumstances would you pick each mage, and why? Similarly, when would you ban a specific mage to avoid playing against it?

Outro

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