How to draft against a Diablo?

General Discussion
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You draft against an ETC by picking CC. You draft against an Anubarak by picking physical damage. You draft against Arthas by picking slows and roots. You draft against Garrosh by picking long ranged heroes and Medivh. You draft against Muradin by picking hard engage. You draft against a Malganis by picking CC and slows.

How do you draft against a Diablo? He’s literally good against everyone. You can’t kite him since he can slam you against a wall if you try. You can’t all-in him because he’ll flip you back. You can’t pick anyone long ranged since his Q range is large and can flip a backline into their team. You CC or slow him and he’s still going to slam and flip you. You can throw or hook him but he can Q someone on your team to get out. He’s good against both squishies and bruisers alike.

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garrosh counters him
he cant engage with Q without dying if garrosh saving his E for the right moment
and garrosh unstoppable after throw so he cant push him away

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Valla through AA build.

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For Draft?

  • Any HP% DPSers are good.
  • Heroes with Unstoppable can really hinder big D, especially if you can bait it out with someone like Joh.
  • Heroes with knockback or CC - Auriel is really good at knocking a Diablo away from a charged teammate. Big D is usually aiming for walls - which puts him into good positioning for Auriel to return the favor.
  • Heroes with traps - Diablo’s CC is susceptible to all other forms of CC. Play Junkrat, bait Diablo into Steel Trap (stand in proximity, so when he Q’s, he gets caught), nuke and repeat.

For Gameplay

  • Stay away from walls - watch your positioning. It’s easier than you think to position yourself far enough away from a wall.
  • Learn to kite big D - his only engage is Q - kite him away from walls.
  • Watch Diablo’s soul count. You even get a loud ding when he gets to 100.
    **0-40: Diablo is weak and you can take him down fairly easily.
    **40-60: Diablo is equivalent to most tanks, treat him as such.
    **60+: Diablo becomes very sturdy - beware. Treat him like a Cho’gall.
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A classic counter for any dive tanks is Kharazim

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Lunara and raynor work surprisingly well if you know what your doing .

Garrosh and muradin can give him a hard time too.

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hotslogs[.]com/Sitewide/HeroDetails?Hero=Diablo

looks like, surprisingly, zul’jin is diab’s worst enemy. i can understand arthas (slow and/or root him so he can’t charge anyone) or varian (blow him up with a YYYAAAAHHHH if he dives or walks up to steal one of your teammates) but i’m not sure about ZJ. maybe because taz’dingo can allow ZJ to trade if he gets flipped into certain death?

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I think it also has to do with the fact that Diablo is a super easy target for Zul’jin to stack his passive on.

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Roots and slows work well against him, as does allies with shielding mechanics such as Medivh or Zarya. Any hero that wants to build stacks off a slow, large body like Azmo or Chromie will end up punishing the rest of his team pretty hard.

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That’s right. Let him drive and drop 7SS on him.

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I like tychus. He has good escape for a ranged dps w % dmg options. His trait hurts so much as diablo as well

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Almost anything you would do against dive plus percent damage

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Mathael’s Last Rite.

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Ban. There’s a reason he’s banned all the time.

Some maps you should just ban him in the first place so you don’t have to bother dealing with him. If a map has way too many walls around the objective, or you’re playing against higher level players, you just need to get rid of him completely. There’s too many ways to make a mistake against him and lose a teammate for free.

Or become a Zeratul god and destroy everyone. Your choice.

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Garosh, Tychus, Malthael, Artanis, Imperius?, Mephisto, Stukov, Zarya?, Medivh, Leoric, Kharazim, Johanna, Azmodan, Arthas?

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Garrosh malganis tychus malthael arthas stop picking 3 ranged squishies and take a second frontline.

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Garrosh is the best to counter Diablo

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AA build is really bad tho

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Diablo dives, Dehaka grabs him, garrash throws him.

diablo will fear the dive.

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Tychus and maltheal both delete dibbles. Absolutely destroy him/her. 0 souls, 100 souls, it doesn’t matter.