Illidan

HotS: Combinations of Heroes

Hello and welcome to the Moba Fans! Today we will analyze powerful combinations of heroes from the free rotation.

Combinations of Free heroes in Heroes of the Storm


Gul’dan + ETC

Today we look at a normal bundle with the ETC and additional damage dealer. ETC-tank with a bunch of great control and great potential of teamwork during the game events. Gul’dan – is a good burst DPS with a high survival rate, allowing you to live a long life even under the most demanding batch. Great bunch, allowing them to combine their Ultimate, and opening up many other possibilities. For example, control on the line with full mobility and availability of the necessary damage. Map is not important.


Illidan + Li Li

Illidan

Illidan and Li Li – is not just a two heroes for a quick game. This – the best combination of “killer + healing” in the game, and I’ll explain why: Illidan itself has a lot of hp and has no control. He also has the ability to exit from difficult situations (when Q and W can be considered as such), so it will be easy to survive and provide the necessary damage as a solo player. Li Li is perfect for him, because she can heal himm all the time. Illidan is often targeted first and all burst-damage is going in him with which ussuals healer sometimes can not have the time to handle, it is impossible to say about Li Li – with the help of Ultimate + Q-skill she heal him for maximum health. This helps to longer stay in the team battle, and quietly kill enemy heroes. It is also worth mentioning the magnificent E-skill of Li Li – Breeze – which will save from autoattacks. These characters complete each other like Yin and Yang.


ETC + Zagara + Li Li

Interesting combo, with good damage and combining of Ultimates.

The main use – is the ability to control fights with ETC, do damage with the help of Li Li’s ult and deal damage with Zagara.

On the lining stage it is better to cooperate Zagara with Li Li, ETC can go anywhere alone. but in team fights they need to be together. Initiate also possible, but only when you all together.


 Sonya + Tracer

Tracer

This bunch is good with theirs Ultimates, and in general. Quick Tracer and Sonia dynamically initiate fights, quickly breaking face of opponents. The basic essence – a distraction from Sonya and damage from Tracer, since the latter is quite vulnerable. This bundle can work, in addition to conventional fights, and through their Ultimates. Clamping opponents to the ground by Sonya, makes it possible to arrange Tracer fire and throw her mine at a given point, using a maximum profite from Ult.


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HotS: Minions pt.2

In our last article we discussed some basic info about minions, today we will go a little bit deeper. We will talk about their utility, and how they can help you.

Vision from Minions

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Vision. that provided by creeps is needed for a perfect map control. When you pushed all lines, opponents can not move around the map without being exposed. This allows you and your team feel easier and start more aggressive rotation. Especially useful it becomes, if you have a team that need to gank enemies.

When you playing at a high level, team is constantly used vision that provided by creeps, for the creation of ganks. This can be achieved by creating pressure on the various lines, thus forcing the enemy to move. After determining the trajectory of the path of an enemy (for example some hero heading to clean up a large stack at the top), you can easily take advantage of it.

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Remember that minions appear on each side at the same moment, so you can predict their movements. This can be extremely useful, you can predict when new wave of creeps will appear, and save your mana for them!

Minions support

Your play around minions is quite important in the duels. One of the most basic elements for understanding that minions deal damage, and this damage can be lethal! Never underestimate their power, especially in the early game. It will not be too smart to fight with the enemy character under his creeps  without proper support. They will cause a ton of damage, if you will just stand still and let them attack you.

 

In addition, creeps not only inflict damage, they can also help you to heal yourself by the health spheres. These spheres have become extremely important. Blizzard has recently doubled healing effect, which provides by Globes.

The importance of creeps can not be underestimated. You should always watch at your position. In addition, the creeps are able to block a huge amount of Skilshots, for example, stun from Muradin or Dehaqas tongue. In addition, they can shoot down enemy heroes from horses, that are chasing after you. Creeps can save your life in certain scenarios.


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HotS: Minions pt.1

Main part of All Moba Games – Creeps

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Creeps are an integral component of the Nexus. They appear endlessly and die until the heroes are fighting over their heads. However, they should not be underestimated. Creeps are a strategic element of the game. After the patch 19.0 were serious reasons to discuss precisely this aspect of the Heroes of the Storm.

Few facts about Minions:

  1. New pack of creeps appears ever 30 sec.
  2. Creeps will attack first target that they see.
  3. Creeps priority – Enemy creeps -> Structures -> Heroes.
  4. Creeps give vision to the team.
  5. They attack power increased in 300% when they attack structures.
  6. Towers will attack minions in main priority.
  7. You receive exp for killing them.

Now, on the basis of the above facts, lets proceed.

Experience

Hots Minions

The enemy creeps bring you experience, if allied hero was nearby, or if they die from the attack of the hero (spell or physical damage). The experience is overall, so the whole team has the same level. That is why it is important to gather experience from all three lines (or two, if we are talking about the eternal battle), to achieve a maximum level faster. In the initial stage of the game creeps pack gives almost as much as the murder of the hero. If your team has made five of gang and killed one enemy hero, but lost two packs with the other line, then you are in the bad situation.

Creeps are valuable, mobile containers of the EXP. At the time, when you follow the map objects and teamfight has not started yet, find the greatest concentration of creeps around and go, gather this experience. This is very important, and do not be afraid pinging for help if one of the lines is empty, and you do not get to it.

Keep your skills and let the creeps just kill each other. If enemy hero appear, then just attack him furiously. It will not allow him to receive the Exp from your pack of creeps. Methodical implementation of this technique throughout the match will result in a solid set of benefits from the experience for your team.

Siege

HOTS Creep

When you attack structures, creeps will be your shield from attacks of towers and Forts. These small units do not allow to slow down the attack speed and movement of their characters.

On the other hand you should always be wary of enemy creeps. If you see that a large bundle of creep pushes one of you line with a heroe, then focus on minions. This will help you, because forts will switch to enemy heroes.

The successful siege also leads to rewards. Taking t1 t2 tower and forts on the same line,and you will release catapult. This is completely winning line, you will force the enemy to focus on the protection.

Conclusion

Full guide about creeps is much more complex. These basic concepts will help you to get benefits from this small friends of the Nexus. Apply these tips into practice in the next matches, and you realize how useful these guys can be.


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ESL summer 2016

ESL HotS Regional

ESL Heroes of the Storm Global Championship, Summer 2016 season.

ESL summer 2016

North American Regional taking place this week and the composition of Tempo Storm (HotS team) got the right to participate. 1 June 2016, players flew to Burbank, California, to take part in competitions.

After arriving at the international airport of Los Angeles, ESL has provided to players a private transportation to the hotel. Unfortunately, many arrived in the evening, so the players had to meet with the infamous traffic of Los Angeles.

The next day, the whole team woke up early in the morning to go to the area that was set aside for ESL practice.

Make-up players at ESL

After the first game, the participants went to the photo session to ESL could choose players pictures for broadcast. This time they hired a make-up artists, probably wanted to make sure that the players look in the best way.

Finally Friday

The first day of competitive games. In previous tournaments, ESL was trying to fit everything into two days. It was uncomfortable for both players and personal, as the game went too long, and the work day was about 14 hours. To avoid this, they divided the tournament for 3 days and had planned to start the group stage on Friday.

ESL work place

Due to the fact that the game has no built-in draft mode, players have to use third-party sites. Unfortunately, this site does not work too well. Tournament administrators sent to the teams a various references to the drafts, both teams pressed it quickly, and began to wait.

ESL tach issue

After the timer counted a few hundred seconds, administrator became suspicious and went to the Naventic room , to check his guesses. What have he seen? They were sitting and waiting for another team, and their opponents do the same.

Recap

In general, the championship was exciting, if we forget all the technical flaws in the beginning. All teams played at a decent level and showed the beautiful game.

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Replays – way to improve your gameplay

Best way to learn your mistakes

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Every time, when you play Moba games you need to find ways to improve your game play. Many people thinks that to improve his skills they need more practice. But this is not the only way to the top. You may look at yourself by a different angle, and look at all your mistakes with help of the replay system.

If you are the player, which want to learn, then i highly recommended to start watch replays. When you playing it is hard to criticize your decisions and see the whole picture of the game. Right here replays will be very helpfull.

You may be shocked with things that you may missed during the match. Ability to pause the game and rewind it, that what makes replay system so great. You may analyze every target if you want. You have full control and you can find what went wrong in fight which you lost.

Start criticize yourself

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So, what you want to do, when you watch replays? There is a various things. You may look at all your death or opportunity of ganks that you missed. You may look at map timings and mistakes that you made. May see how aggressively you play, when your healer has low mana. By other words, you can look at yourself and criticize as it is a different player.

The most easy way to improve your game, by watching replays, is to watch every your death. When you see that you lost a big chunk of HP then try to understand why this happen. You was out the preferable position? Run for enemy too far, and opposite team used it?

When you see what caused your death, then you will understand what you did wrong in that situation and learn to not do it in future. Of course you could understand it in the match, but the reason why we watch replays – too see what we missed during the match.

Another thing that you can do, while watching replays – learn every teamfight. Look at your position, cooldowns. Your position and aggression must be at the same level as your allies has. No matter on which role you play, if your allies retreated, you must run with them.

Recap

LoL replay

Thank due to replay system, you can watch at all your decisions at a different angle. It will allow to not do the wrong decision in future matches, and improve your game play style.

Every one who want to improve his game, must give a chance to replays. Enhancement that you can get through it is incomparable with anything else. Watching replays – is the one of the most profitable ways to improve your gameplay, but unfortunately not too many people bothered to use it.


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HotS Mana tips

HotS: Mana Tips

Five ways to save mana

One of the most neglected ways to improve their game in the Heroes of the Storm is the study of the proper mana management. Too many people come to the objects completely out of mana.

Nothing hits the effectiveness of the hero as much as mana ended.If you left blank at a time when the team needs your spells, then you will doom your allies. If this happens often enough then focus on a more rational use of mana. Regardless of the hero, whom you play, the following tips will help keep your blue stripe filled the whole match.

Learn the value of spells

The first step to good mana management is knowledge about mana cost of your spells. After that, pay attention to your mana pool. When these two parameters have become known to you all that is left to do is remember them until the end of the game. Almost no one keeps track of the amount of mana and just rely on their feelings, tells how much mana he has left.

For example, you may think: “I still have a third of bars, should be enough.” But in reality, you have 120 mana, and your abilities cost 70 and 60 mana, which means that you can not use both of them! You end up yourself in a situation where you will have to wait until 10 mana restored.

Obviously, to track mana throughout the match is very hard. I recommend something that is easier. Just pay attention to the value of their skills at the start of the match. Which of the abilities of the most expensive? What stands out for its low cost? If you find answers to these questions at the beginning of the match, then the understanding of the use of spells on a specific character will improve and monitor the mana cost will be much easier.

Do not waste mana to clear the Line

Too many people believe that they must use theirs skills against each pack of creeps. There are many situations where simple auto attacks wil be enough, they will help you to keep your mana until the next object on the map.

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So ask yourself: “Do I need to kill the creeps right now, or I can wait 5-10 seconds?”. Often the answer is positive, especially in the early game, where a saved mana can create a huge difference in power.

Usually, after you kill the pack, you will just stand at the gate waiting for the next pack of creeps, and it is 10 seconds of inactivity that could be exchanged for mana.

Of course, there are reasons to clear line with spells. For example, you need to buy time for rotation or Ganks. Perhaps you want to push the tower. Or to kill the creeps quickly gather all the Exp and move on. In such cases, a waste of mana will be justified. Just remember that there are situations where autoattacks will be enough.

Stop use magic for meaningless harass

Just like a wasting of mana to kill creeps on line, harrassing enemy on line won’t be very effective. Recently I saw a Valla player that spent all his mana to pull Muradin to 15% health, just to see how he stepped back a little, and quickly returned to 100%. After that Valla came on a mission completely out of mana. While Muradin walked around the battlefield with two full strips!

This is an extreme case, but it shows the problem. Too often, players use their ability to harass the enemy, but do not achieve with this absolutely nothing. Remember that the health regeneration is free, healers often helps his allies and your Skilshot may miss. All these factors indicate that early harass is likely to be an empty waste of mana.

If you have an excess of mana, then there is nothing wrong with harass. It may help to loosen them up and make them an easy prey. Just think for what happens after you harass and make sure you’re ready for it.

Take some time to return to base

Almost every game has moments in which you can quickly run down to drink from the fountain, or fly to the base. A hard part is determining right and wrong time for this.

If we talk only about the fountains, then i must remind you that you can drink, even with a full stock of health, only to restore mana. If you know that you need more mana in the upcoming battle, when you run past the fountain, just use it. If you know that an objective will appear in another 2 minutes, then you can use the fountain now (even if you have 80% health) and it will be available again when you needed.

Return to the base can be more dangerous, but still worth it.

HotS Mana management

Remember the importance of the spheres

I can not count how often people walk pass by regeneration spheres. Players believe that these green balls are useless, if any of the talent does not strengthen them. But they are not useless!

If that does not expose you to the danger (or your teammate) then take every sphere that you can find! Each of them will give you a bit of mana and hp, but during the game the amount of resources will be enormous. Two spheres that you have ignored, could give you extra mana that would need to heal one that can win timfayt!

Conclusion

If you start to play and keep these five tips in your mind, you will become more conscious of mana management. Now you can remove the key “O” and “M” with the keyboard, because you no longer have to write “OOM” never!