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[Heroes of the Storm] Coronavirus can't kill HotS if it's already dead #rollsafe
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Depends on who you are facing.
I was playing as Rexxar vs Zagara, and was just dunking on her, top lane on spiders. She calls Hammer to help, i still kill Zag and get Hammer to half before i had to go drink at well.
Then a different game, was up against an Illidan and could not make a dent in him while he ignored the bear and ate my face. Repeatedly.
I mean yeah, Hanzo can just hang back and pepper Misha with Qs and AAs and bully her real good. If you try to get Misha close to him he just backs off. A lot of ranged AA heroes can bully out Misha in lane due to this.
All I can say is make liberal fucking use of Mend Pet, and pull Misha back when she's getting blasted.
For the most part it's not about bullying the other person out, it's simply about winning the lane. And you do that by Misha being unkillable and you being able to clear better than they can. Most of the time what happens is that your lane opponent will be trading into Misha and losing that trade, either health or mana or both. And Misha just heals the fuck up forever. But you also gotta keep an eye on her and reel her out when she's taking too much damage. Mend Pet heals her back to full you send her back in.
Also try and leverage the fact that you do have two bodies up there. Misha is good, yeah, but Rexxar's AAs also hit really hard and landing Q can line up for an easy stun. It depends on Hero matchup a bit though, sometimes you don't want to take too much damage on Rexxar himself.
The other last piece of advice I can give is either go Hunter-Gatherer or Animal Husbandry at 4. That makes you both THAT MUCH HARDER to kill, especially Husbandry (but it's a slower burn and more high risk high reward).
But yeah the tl;dr is just keep a close eye on Misha, try and make sure she's not taking too much free damage, micro her constantly. Alt+D will make her run back to you instantly with increased movespeed. For point contention, you just slap her on the point, have her attack whoever comes near, Rexxar soaks the lane safely.
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The lie of the year.
Rexxar is best on maps where you need point control because you can't kill Misha and he can still clear the wave relatively easily. But that doesn't mean he outright wins per se, especially if you can get on him.
I'm a big proponent of taking ranged solo laners against uncoordinated competition, or if you are comfortable that you can outskill your opponents and not get ganked. In the case of facing a Rexxar, for example, if you take a ranged solo laner that has a stacking/scaling component, even "losing" the top lane or the objective early on isn't a big deal because you are trading an early structure for a massive mid-/late-game advantage. Zul'jin is an obvious choice here, but there are others like Zag and Raynor who have talents that would otherwise not be viable who turn into tank busters if you let them stack.
Rexxar works very similarly to old Yrel in drafts - if you aren't taking the hero and the other team does, then you are generally conceding the solo lane point and either have to draft to win the 4-man or you are conceding the early game and expect to outscale your opponent later on. This is generally hard for players to understand, especially in QM (where there's no draft at all), so instead what you will see is that your team loses the early game, falls behind, and it snowballs because you don't have the tools or strategy to scale back up.
One thing I've been thinking about lately is that Blizzard maybe gave heroes too much differentiation in terms of game time power scaling, given the team experience dynamic.
The lie of the year.
There's definitely a point at which Husbandry gives you way, way more EHP than HG does, but HG is still a really good talent. I don't think one is strictly better than the other, but playstyle-wise I tend to prefer Husbandry.
The thing I like about Husbandry though is that it means you eventually become un-fucking-killable and it enables you to make some ULTRA aggressive plays because of your massive health pool. Husbandry plus Thrill of the Hunt means you can get super fucking aggro with your positioning.
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The lie of the year.
The lie of the year.
I was playing Deckard, and the beginning was a bit rough, several deaths in our team in first minutes, enemy soaking a level and half advantage going into first objective. Which we won! And every objective after! Just before first bot objective we got greedy and only 2 of us survived a push to bot lane inner walls. I go "wait for everyone then push in, don't die early" and we did it!
I think they got one of our forts maybe.
I ended up getting MVP with 1 kill, 20 assists, 0 deaths. Awww yeah, you get a potion, you get a potion, check under your seats everyone gets a potion.
Hey, they listened and stayed a while.
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we committed heinous video game crimes today and we're all going to QM jail
edit: at the very start i beelined towards their giants and start hitting them, their muradin not only SEES ME DOING THEM BUT WALKS RIGHT PAST ME AND DOES NOTHING and i just get to cap them for free
also at the very end we cap boss and get a teamwipe and i'm like "yknow we can end but i wanna get more camps.................."
i mean i didn't
but i wanted to
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i was too busy doing camps
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Wait...you're not Ducks!?
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no, but i was channeling my inner Ducks real real hard
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it's grillin' time, anyway
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75% permanent healing reduction's a real motherfucker, huh?
signed, Xul.
Because this shit keeps happening tonight.
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Just fuckin
Every game with shit like this
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Like it's a complete joke. I'd rather just play QM, where the expectation all along is that it's going to be a fucking mess. If we have a 5 stack, sure, let's draft. But other than that, fuck it. I'd rather embrace the bullshit.
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Oh that was QM and we were a 5 stack.
We did a lot of silly maeiv shenanigan comps.
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Homey that was UD and it was you and me lol
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DUCKS WE ARE AT THE CORE WHY ARE YOU AT BOT KEEP
I mean, your story, yes. I was just talking about my screencap.
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not sure how i'm meant to take the game as anything other than a giant fucking joke when this is the quality matchmaking one can expect
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YOU CALLED FOR BOT KEEP PUSH ON COMMS
Yeah but then everyone started going mid so I'm like fuck it we'll win regardless since Li-Ming isn't clearing properly.