#355 - Into the Nexus: “Plat-eau”
• Garrett • Kyle • NotParadox or Guest
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Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
Plat-Tastic Adventures in Bromance continue!
Icefury Wand is now meta - 53.1% percent win-rate
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People don't want to play Tank & Support because they can't Lane Clear
WarSage: For me the biggest impediment to playing Tank/Healer is the awful feeling of being unable to clear waves. The single most-significant aspect of gameplay that I see people fail at in my matches is soak. The number of times I've watched players run right past a pile of XP because they're so focused on the next teamfight or mercenary camp... the amount of players who sit around on a beacon doing nothing during an objective while XP vanishes into the breeze five seconds away from them... ugh, I can't stand it.
The issue is most egregious when playing healers, because there are no healers with decent clear. Amongst tanks there are at least Johanna, Blaze, and Stitches, all of whom can knock out minions decently quickly. But the fastest-clearing healer is Rehgar, and he is not good at it. Besides him you've got, what, dps-build Kharazim? Alex isn't too horrible at it if she catches the wave while it's in a straight line? Brightwing clear is really slow but at least she can warp in afterwards?
13 Tanks | 3 Lane Clear?
Blaze, Johanna, Stitches
16 Healers| 0 Lane Clear?
Rehgar’s okay… Brightwing is slow but incentivized to clear. Kharazim build for damage?
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CCL Enters Playoffs
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Lupus
What happened to Dehaka? I'm an offlane main and, although I love the dinosaur mostly in coordinated play where he gets the most value for me, it seems this meta isn't too kind to him. He suffers vs D.V.A, Gaz, and against the two in vogue DPS picks of Cassia and Tychus.
Even still, it seems like he'd at least be powerful because of his global when timed well, despite not being amazing at double soaking. But his buffs haven't seemed to move the needle enough to approach a good winrate.
Are we all crazy and in need of shaking up the essence of how we play Dehaka, or do we just need to bide our time till the backline-dive & double soak off-laner meta subsides?
I see Dehaka as a map-pick Hero. overperforms on Towers and Volskaya.
Valkamer
[ITN Question] What New Years Resolutions/Goals does ITN have? Which ones have been given up now seven days in? Which ones have the best likelihood of surviving the year?
[ITN Question] Kyle mentioned 19-21 Jan for his predicted patch date. I am curious as to why this number and not next week... cough Kyle Belial cough
[ITN Question] Name three Overwatch characters that you would never want to join the Nexus with a one sentence only (do not go over) reason why they should be banished from this realm.
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Personal Stuff
Garrett
Kyle
Daxx
What if the Big News from BlizzcOnline is the rework of the progression system!!! But.. It's a hots battle pass! What does it look like? Could explain the no Christmas/Holiday Event. Pair the Events to Ranked Seasons to earn the rewards by leveling your heroes and the purchased battle pass could tie into boosts. We could even put "easy" heroes in their to help new players add to their roster. If you could create/develop one in Hots how would it work?
Sage
For the next show - how about an ARAM strat guide? I have been playing mostly ARAM the past two seasons and the Patreon games have switched to ARAM. I think some people may benefit from an explanation/strat discussion. Here are my notes/suggestions (please include your comments)
• Try not to fight in advance of minions
○ Minions soak damage
• Don’t forget to kill enemy minions
○ Get XP and make it easier to hit them
• Good builds are different than SL/UR/QM
○ Stacking talents often payoff
• Generally: Mage > AA
○ More burst dmg
• Stay behind your tanks
○ Advance too far and you are easy pickens
• Don’t fight under enemy towers
○ Even more important in ARAM
• Always pickup globes
○ Always grab globes in lane - some free healing, maybe you don’t need it, but your teammates might
○ Persistent globes - save globes for more of a team, don't use them singularly
§ Take them so your enemy cannot
• Time your wells
○ Make sure you are using them, but don’t waste them
• Team Composition can be more varied
○ Double Support can work
§ Need damage
○ Triple tank can work
§ Too much for enemy team to kill through
• Careful with Dive
○ Go in alone - you dead
○ Wait for allies
• Later kills matter much more than early kills
○ Get talent advantage
• Most people play too impatient focusing on killing heroes
○ Patience can win out
• Most games go over level 20
• Core does not regen so wawtch the backdoor! Tier List is different
○ No Abathur or Lost Vikings
○ Deckard strong - bigger pots and auto refill pots
○ Samuro weak
○ Chromie slow OP
○ Li Ming OP
○ Kaelthas OP
○ Butcher needs help to get meat
○ Melee assassins need to be careful and opportunistic
○ Nazeebo tough to stack lvl l20
○ Var twin blade wasted mostly