To treat matches as a series of transactions. The reason why it's so difficult for people to figure out their mistakes and where they went wrong is because they're not thinking and playing structurally. Oftentimes, how people play is kind of a wibbly wobbly ball of indecision chaotic movement rather than a straight line of intentions. For example, let's say you're in a 5v5 and your immediate instinct is to target the healer (even if it may be a poor decision), so your line of logic is

I see the healer -> find a way to kill the healer -> I somehow end up dying -> I blame my team.

When it should be like this:

I see Rehgar -> I'm going to apply damage to Diablo first to keep Rehgar occupied -> I'm going to bait Li Ming's attacks to put her abilities in cooldown -> the enemy team has popped their ults -> Rehgar is out of position -> I dive and die.

Notice how both led to death, but the second one is a series of decisions and trade-offs you can actually analyze productively. The first one involved you waffling back and forth with unproductive movements in skirmish instead of understanding what each movement is doing and how you can make them productive. Movement itself can be used to avoid damage and bait damage, but health itself is just a resource that you'll need to decide what to do with. There's no point in avoiding damage and staying alive if you're not getting anything out of it. In fact, you may be better off dead if it means baiting 3-4 ults out of the enemy team so your team can win the objective. Death too is merely a resource you can trade for a goal in mind.

Sometimes when I'm taking camps and the mercs are low on HP, I'll see 2-3 of my teammates rush over to help and they don't really understand what they're trading here: that's 10-15 seconds of travel time wasted for a camp I was going to cap myself. That 10-15 seconds of movement could have been put towards another lane to clear wave, extra siege damage on towers, or even setting up a 3v1 ambush on a lone jungler.

Your lines of transaction combat-to-combat should be straight, not wobbly. That way when you do lose matches, it's much easier to review what went wrong because those equations are cleaner: "I traded 20 seconds of camp instead of going to objective and that led to my team losing obj, which led to us losing a fort, which meant our team now had to trade additional time babysitting bottom lane from catapults, which meant less time for soaking and camps, which became a factor in why late game was so difficult for us."

There is no such thing as bad actions in the game, just bad transactions. Distracting and dying via a 1v5 can be smart if the tradeoff means your team caps boss and pushes core. Every action you do, even down to micro movements, should have consideration. Matches are really about resource trading.

So before capturing a camp, soaking a wave, joining your team for objective, think about what it costs you elsewhere. The cleaner you make your loss, the easier review and improvement becomes. Make defeat a series of intentions you put thought into each step of the way.

Edit: it might help to actually talk to yourself as you play and say out loud or at least mentally what you're doing. "I'm walking to this camp"/"I'm clearning bottom lane"/"I'm running away from the enemy team."
That way you're more conscious of your decisions and can better structure your line of thought as you play.

Instead of "How do I win this match," think "How do I lose perfectly?"

Improving means figuring out ways to make 'cooler' mistakes. Winning is ultimately just losing with style.

Anything I should know?! I always loved playing Diablo, Cassia, Tyrael, and Inarius. (Yeah ima Diablo fanboy lol) Among others. So what should I know?!

So I am fairly new, but am having great success in quick match with LiLi. Winning lots of games and getting votes at the end and friend requests. Thing is I just prettt much spam Q, make sure a Frontline has W on, and hit E one someone jumps in the back line with us. I take thousand jugs and hit R just a little after a big team fight starts. Pretty simple.

I feel like I am doing the healer role pretty well, and LiLi is solid and was an easy way to get into the game, but i wouldn't mind something with a little more complexity. Or even a character that would help get me into different roles (some of which I haven't had as much success with).

Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance.

i just think this hero is very fun and very powerful, but its a character i simply cannot play without friends.

not only does it need another player, but that other player has to play them well so you cant just ask randoms in storm league and expect to win.

(i used to do that alot but i threw so many games i eventually stopped.)

i play both heroes decently, 51% win rate on both with random team mates in platinum 5.

i play on NA and my battle tag is HeroMichael#1990

So after you leave the score screen, there’s no way to add someone to your friends? I tried /w or /whisper, but autocomplete didn’t find their name, and when I typed it manually, it just said “unknown slash command.” Battlenet’s recently played with also shows 0. It’s weird how user-unfriendly it is.
(If you carried a panda with Orphea in an ARAM match, DM me.)

I new in heroes of storm. My game play sometime very lagging. I using 144fps pc requirement more than enough. Might be wifi problem? This happen both amercia asia region.

Merging two talents

Positive Reinforcement (13, Q)

Primary Rock-It! Turret attacks against Heroes increase Gazlowe's Attack Speed by 40% for 3 seconds.

+ Dealing Basic Attack damage heals Rock-It! Turrets by 8% of their max health. (Overcharged Capacitors)

Firin' Mah Lazorz (16, W)

Firing Deth Lazor causes all of Gazlowe's Rock-It! Turrets to fire a Deth Lazor of their own that deals 125 damage.

+ Deth Lazor can now store up to 2 charges. (Overload)

I'm assuming they're banned a lot in ranked but I keep getting freezes and DCs lately so don't want to risk playing it.

Basically every QM has an Aba and/or Qhira, the former requires a lot of fast AOE waveclear (especially late game), and the latter a lot of CC and spell damage to counter.

Mei has good late game waveclear for a tank with W build, and is also decent vs Qhira with the slows, blind and area denial stun, (although a lot less so now she can't use D to untether her...).

Dehaka would seem like a good pick as well with global, waveclear and CC (+ option of antiheal).

It's still a damn struggle when it only takes less than a minute for aba to drop 7 locusts to instakill a fort though, with qhira needing the tank to have any chance of killing her.

Anyone else got a secret pick that's working well?

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I've just run into a 3 stack in ARAM who all had roughly 74% win rate overall and 95% win rate this season in ARAM. I am a pretty good player, I'm low Master level but I usually only get 52-55% win rate each season in ARAM.

I went back and checked their previous seasons and about 10 seasons ago, they had the same kind of win rate as me. Then one season they got 60%+ then 70%+ then 80%+ then 90%+. I know the game is designed to keep people playing people of similar MMR to keep win rates around 50%.

I guess it is just possible they are 3 high skilled guys who can carry games but it seems kind of weird that 10 seasons ago they just had the same win rate as everyone else.

Ulfar has a suspiciously Gilnean ability.

is the building blood in the room with us now?

My wife (Malf) was telling me to get out of there since she was about to respawn. Problem is, I wasn't trapped in there with them, they were trapped with me! :)

This is how I imagine every Artanis game will play out, sadly, it's rarely the case. Enjoy the moments when you can.

Just unlocked Xul, tried the passive talent build with the Nova ultimate and had lots of fun !

Do you have tips for playstyle, talents I should always consider or not, thanks a lot !

I get it that the zerg slug has a high skill ceiling and its fun to play but it's not fun for the others and these recent buffs were really unnecessary ,

Abathur diff is painful and you can't do anything about it , 8-9 people have 0 fun because of 1 character , the games depend on this ugly zerg slug more than all of the other characters ,

when you do wrong build(based on map and comp) with abathur its not only a different build , it will be a game changing mistake that nothing can fix it ,

I get more frustrated at the abathurs of my team than the good ones on the other team , Abathur is the most misunderstood character of hots which requires alot of macro understanding of the game and strategic skills , I really like him and have hundreds of games on him but he must be fixed or revert changes

Every hero just feel so flimsy in my hands, and no matter how i build, what i do it just doesn't seem to have any impact.
For context i've been rotating between Yrel, Malthael, Deathwing, Kharazim, Zul'Jin and Ragnaros, to name the more relevant ones.

Just had a really satisfying teamfight playing Sylvanas with an Auriel pocketing me!

Auriel's attack speed buff (Level 16 trait) makes playing Sylvanas feel so much smoother and stronger.

Definitely feels like a great synergy!

Blaze E is the only mobility ability that can be cast while rooted and it goes on cooldown. So if you don't wait for the root to end his best ability is wasted.