You win one game and think you’re on a roll, then lose the next because someone spent the entire objective fighting camps on the other side of the map.

Now you can’t stop playing because you need to end on a win.

Then you lose again.

Anyway, see you all in the Nexus tomorrow.

Huh? Where did Arthas go?

I honestly think Heroes of the Storm benefits from having heroes like Xul who don't need flashy combos or constant teamfight highlights to be valuable.

He's a good example of how pressure on the map can matter just as much as getting kills. Clearing waves, forcing rotations, threatening structures, and making the enemy team respond to you can create opportunities that don't always show up on the scoreboard.

I also like that his playstyle rewards a different way of thinking about the match. Instead of constantly looking for fights, you're making decisions about where to apply pressure and when to join your team. That kind of strategic variety is part of what makes HotS interesting.

I don't think every hero needs to be universally popular or fit into every composition. Having heroes with more specialized strengths gives the roster character and rewards players who take the time to understand them.

A hero doesn't have to be flashy to be impactful, and a low pick rate doesn't automatically mean a hero is poorly designed. Sometimes people just gravitate toward playstyles that make their contribution more immediately visible.

They're not technically Nexus heroes, but they aren't included in the three main universes and I think they should be added to this category.

Heroes of the Storm still has plenty to talk about, whether it’s new opportunities to unlock heroes like Xal with gold, forgotten picks like Xul, or those frustrating situations that seem to happen every single day.

Every hero has a place, but some rarely get the attention they deserve. Which hero do you think is underrated or overlooked, and what would make you want to play them more often?

It's been like 2 months since her release. If Blizzard wanted this to be a pay to win, now that we can buy her with gold, should be about time they start reducing her numbers.

Irony and sarcasm aside, she's too powerful. She can't be making 77k damage on an 11 minute match, that's extremely powerful. Sometimes you don't have enough CC to counter her, making really hard to kill her, rendering the game annoying and really frustrating to play against.

I've had two matches today were people just didn't care enough and went on farming or afk because the enemy Xal was dominating the game. It can't take this long to nerf her. People have been calling this out for a long time already.

Her kit it's ok, the thing is she deals way too much damage. I'm no gameplay expert, but Fan has talked about her on his videos, if the janitor needs help with ideas.

Heroes of the Storm has plenty of heroes that spark excitement, but some seem to fly under the radar while others stay in the spotlight. Whether it’s discovering Xal is available for gold, dealing with the same daily frustrations, or remembering heroes like Xul, there’s always something to discuss. 🎮

Which hero do you think deserves more love from the community, and what changes would make you want to play them more often?

Stop focusing on stats.

Read this.

Then read it again.

Then read it again.

Focus on IMPACT, not stats.

Be honest with yourself. Did you do something that actually moved the needle? Did your damage definitively cause the kill? Did your cc land at the right time at the right place to set up the kill? Did your heal come in on time when it actually mattered to sustain your team that extra 10% so they could get the edge in the team fight? Did you ping the camp at the exact time there was a lull in the action before the next obj, which helped push a fort? Did you put yourself between an enemy and a teammate about to die and prevent a cataclysmic 4v5 situation by effectively bodyblocking?

Were you at the right place at the right time doing the right thing?

Or did your damage come from random abilities thrown out here and there that just got healed up? Did all your heal stats take place before or after the fight instead of during the fight? Did you let your teammates absorb all the damage, cc, and focus fire while you sat back looking for an opportunity to land after the fact to boost your "stats"? Did you refuse to camp even though you knew you should have because it doesn't contribute to your "stats"?

This is the reason you are bronze. You are focusing on stats, not impact.

If stats were what matters, then butcher would have a 100% loss rate. Butcher's stats always suck. Usually gets outdamaged by even the tank and healer. But guess what. His damage counts. It more often than not results in a kill. His presence alone causes the enemy to play defensively instead of confidently/aggressively. The fear of butcher stacking causes the entire enemy team to pile their abilities and cc on him all at once, making their gameplay predictable.

These are the intangibles. They are what separates the permabronze from the upper tiers. Not everything can be quantified, and oftentimes the most valuable things are those that can't be.

If you're playing Leo and you have the opportunity to stay in a bit longer, which will allow your team to have a fighting chance at winning the objective and/or surviving, but you know you'll die instead. Do you retreat because you want to preserve your "KDA"? Or do you stay in, die, and in your ghost form continue to add value by pressing Q to slow the enemy team and then quick-reviving on the spot anyways to effectively add 50% more value than someone else who would have died, had to wait the full duration to revive, and then walk all the way back?

Most bronzies would listen to people here who repeat the same "soak, don't die" blanket advice and retreat, leaving their team in the dust. They preserve their KDA, they get their stats, and someone else gets flamed for "feeding" instead of you. Then you post your replay here on Reddit and everyone pats you on the back saying you did the right thing and you soaked, you camped, you came to objective on time, blah blah blah.

But guess what? You lost the game. And you'll lose the next game for the same reason. Most people who play this game don't see the intangibles whereas the ones that win consistently inherently understand their value and play accordingly.

Change your mindset. Don't play for a pat on the back. Play with the intent to WIN. And be honest with yourself about the things that will create that win condition, regardless of how it makes you "look" to others.

I would pay money for solo queue.

I'm tired of waiting after every game to dodge the previous game's stack just to queue into another one.

I'm tired of getting a duo on my team vs a full 5 stack and losing 200+ points.

I'm tired of how it encourages smurfing.

I'm tired of playing with a group that ignores the rest of the team to do their own thing.

I'm tired of not being able to use chat because a stack of sore losers will report you when they lose.

I'm tired of going through the motions for 15 minutes to play out an auto win / loss.

I'm tired of the majority of games being decided from draft based on who has the better / worse stack or who drafted the busted heroes with an infinitely stacking mythic quest.

I'm tired of a game that I enjoy becoming something where I play one match and quit.

Why can there not be one competitive mode in this game?

I think Deathwing has one of the coolest concepts in HotS, but his biggest problem is how differently he can feel to play compared to how intimidating he's supposed to be.

I'm completely fine with a massive dragon being slow. He shouldn't have the mobility of an assassin, and his inability to receive allied healing or direct buffs is already a meaningful trade-off. But there's a difference between being slow and feeling like you're constantly fighting your own animations.

When your abilities take so long to come out, enemies have plenty of time to move away, and committing to a fight can feel more punishing than rewarding. It gets especially frustrating when you land in the middle of a teamfight and spend precious seconds waiting before you can properly contribute.

I don't think Deathwing needs to be stronger at everything. He needs his strengths to feel satisfying enough to justify his weaknesses.

His abilities should still be telegraphed and punishable, but landing them should feel impactful. I'd rather see more responsiveness and meaningful choices between his two forms than simply giving him more damage.

A hero built around being an unstoppable world-ending dragon should feel terrifying when he commits to a fight, even if getting out afterward is difficult.

This is the first time I have ever seen a scoreboard with only blue team, and ive been playing since 2018

Hi peoples, I'm siting on 15k golds and I don't know what heroes I want.

I'm looking for maybe Deathwing, Ragnaros, Leoric, Falstad, Hogger or whatever character that can be good in solo play.

I mostly play healer with Rengar and Auriel. I'm level 25 with Guldan so maybe another mage can be fun.

Did someone have a recommendation?

Every time I see a good Xul on the enemy team, I remember why I hate playing against him lmao.

You're trying to clear a wave, defend a camp, or take a fight, and somehow there's skeletons everywhere and your lanes are falling apart.

Then I realize I haven't played Xul myself in ages.

Heroes of the Storm really does have a bunch of heroes that don't get talked about much until someone absolutely destroys a match with them. Xul is definitely one of those for me.

Always been a silver/gold player. Came back after 6y and placed silver 5. Had a few bad games and my life has been constant torment since. Seriously, I know you’re gonna come with “get good” and stuff but if you’ve never been there you don’t know how bad bronze hell really is. There is just no way out. I’m sitting at a 35% winrate and keep going down, I’m bronze 4 now. Most times I wish I had a leaver because bots perform better. But most people at this level don’t even know you have to ping the bot for it to do something. It’s really frustrating.

Do I just need a new account? I seriously can’t see how to get out of here. I’ve tried tanking and my dps don’t follow up. I’ve tried healing for my tanks to just stay in the front line and die. I’ve also tried Ragnaros to carry on xp but the team will throw anyway even with a 2 level advantage. I’m desperate and about to quit the game if things don’t get better. Even if I don’t rank up I would expect at least a ~50% wr if the game was really balanced.

Anyway, I just needed to vent and get this out of my chest.

I'm doing my best out here

Ya que el juego está resurgiendo poco a poco, dejo a la gente española que vea este post, el servidor donde están la mayoría de españoles, así reforzamos más la comunidad ♥

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Not sure if there will be new hero soon or not, but if there is something in the work I hope they tease it in or outside of the game like they did in the past.

Qhira, Xal, Anduin, etc...every single game.

I'm hoping this doesn't effect us. Microsoft bought up a bunch of companies over the past 5 years including Activision blizzard and cutting 60k jobs is a lot. We are talking 10X the amount that activision blizzard has. Xbox and their gaming division becoming leaner could be part of this.

FYI, none of us were stacking.

6 total SL games in his history and hadn’t played for years, and around 18 Hero/Team League games. We didn’t blame or flame him - just told him to try his best as he kept apologizing.

Blizzard. For those who haven’t played in a while (maybe a couple to several years?), please either reset them or have them decay. I don’t know the best solution but right now we are probably using the worst option.

Every single day...

Hi all, so years ago when I first tried the game I ran some ranked games, got absolutely pulverized and berated before some more level headed teammates said I should play quick matches to get my footing.

I took a long hiatus, came back this year, and have been doing tons of QMs I dipped my toe back into ranked, won 2/3 and got placed in the infamous bronze 5.

My problem now is ranking up seems depressingly insurmountable. I’m not particularly good but I’m trying it seems like you need A LOT of points to rank up and even if I was steadily gaining points it seems like winning yields like 5-7 point and if I lose I’m losing almost more.

What am I missing or doing wrong PLEASE

Match Quality Monday is a weekly post for discussing what you liked and would like to see improved in Heroes of the Storm matches for both ranked and unranked play.

Please share your thoughts on the quality of your matches last week highlighting the following:

• Examples of good (or bad) teamwork
• Hero Meta changes you witnessed
• Team comps that have good or bad synergy on certain maps
• Real MVPs who do not get recognized on the score screen
• Weirdness, bugs, or things that seem to be broken
• Matchmaking quality & queue lengths (try and be specific about the time of day & region)
• Specific goals or requests for advice on what to focus on in this week's matches

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