HoTs Battleground Tier list

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like… over a year ago?
just feels to me like how the meta on a ranked play on those maps might have changed with introductions of new heroes.

But, it is YOUR list–so if you want them, of course you can have them!

Anyhow my list:
T1: Cursed Hollow > Warhead Junction > Blackhearts Bay > Sky Temple
T2: Alterac Pass > Towers of Doom > Dragon Shire > Volskaya Foundry
T3: Infernal Shrines > Garden of Terror > Tomb of the Spider Queen
T4: Haunted Mines > Battlefield of Eternity > Braxis Holdout > Hanamura

I love playing Locust Abathur… So basically tiny and two lane maps I dislike.
And gimme those big maps where I can steal the other teams mercenaries and actually turn in for the objective!

If I ignored Abathur the list would be very, very different…

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Agreed lots of shill posts disparaging Based Heart’s Bay.

For instance.

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HAHA!
The rules of BHB are so easy to follow it become impossible to heed
and so coins are lost and games are won!
(starts to sing and dance)
:notes:Everybody there is very unkind
In Black Hearts Bay
What’s mine is yours and what’s yours is mine!
In Black Hearts Bay:notes:

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A lot of people hate that map, myself included. This doesn’t make me or others who dislike a map that you like, a “shill”.

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i don’t think you know what a shill is.

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I’m mostly on board with your list; but Alterac would be at least C-tier for me.

Why? To big (like warhead) and the objective is to far away from lanes (unlike Braxis) - if you loose the teamfights for the objective, you usually also loose the lane xp - double loss gives you a fast snowball (espacially if several teammebers died and are missing to defend, or it just takes them too long to reach the forts to defend). And even if you made it to an almost channeled objective and still loose it, you get absolutely nothing out of the invested time (unlike Braxis or Tomb, where the gems stay and don’t get resetted with each webweaver wave).
Yes, globals can help, but not evryone can play them or is smart enough to pick them.

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You know, I thought by using ridiculous terms incorrectly people would pick up on the joke. Proved wrong twice.

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I actually like BHB.
And I know that I am a minority here, but I like it because you can win it without having constant 5v5 battles like on any other map.

But I agree with Warhead being down on the list, I hate the map because of its size and that 4 objectives spawns at the same time.

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Your image is not showing the whole thing the preview feels pointless.

Here’s the full one instead:

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Seriously at least link to the image itself not to an album showing the image /rage

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