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Yes.
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It’s luck based. But somehow always the skilled ppl are the lucky ones… 
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HotS requires personal skill but mostly teamwork, since it’s heavly based on team cooperation while other mobas usually are build around a char than can “carry” to victory with proper farm.
This can sometimes be pretty frustrating for those who play mostly solo, but also push you to find other people in game to build a decent party (and that’s not a bad thing per se even if it may require some efforts).
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Literally impossible.
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Yes, if you are better than everyone else in your games - you are going to be able to carry your games.
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Definitely this. I only play QM and some games I think we got a curb stomping comp but get destroyed. And vice versa. I notice it with enemy teams as well; sometimes there’s that one player on the enemy team who’s just not *nsync with them.
Watch me try to play KTZ some time and then tell me this game isn’t based on skill…
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A good part is based on skill. But your skill? just 10%.
If you ever want proof that skilled players perform better than unskilled players, watch one of my replays where I fail at TLV.
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Mostly based on comp/map RNG if you decide to play QM like most. Spam heroes and watch your map winrates line up more with your choices of heroes than grasp of playing the simple objectives. Because it’s also terribly balanced there’s that going for it to, your skill might be the skill to not pick trash.
Yes. skilled team wins and the other team who loses are the people from the forums who keep complaining about everything. simple~ Skill > complainers
This game bases not only on skill, but on communication and clear mind.
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Yes because the same people rise to the top of the leaderboard every season, and the same people end up in Bronze 5.
If it was based on “lucky matchmaking”, those Bronze 5’s would randomly end up in Grand Master every few seasons, which isn’t the case.
Nearly every game you lose is partly your fault for not making optimal plays.
I for one can’t break through mid-high Master because I make blunders against skilled opponents.
Small things like missing 1-2 auto attacks that would have put them on a 40 second death timer, instead they live, heal up and kill me.
Or making a wrong decision between clearing a camp or helping a teammate survive.
Only a few losses are not your fault: A disconnecting teammate present, or an obvious feeder present in the match (intentionally runs into towers and dies).
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Sometimes yes. Sometimes you’ll get trolls, tilted players and afks.
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I want to be clear here:
You not contributing ideally versus you causing your team to 100% lose a match are two different things.
I’m not sure how to word it well, but basically someone making mistakes all game long versus someone who plays perfectly except for one big mistake… that one big mistake can be what lost the game.
Now, you can argue on and on if fixing all the small mistakes would cause that big mistake not to happen… but that would also probably mean the scenario where the mistake happens cannot be setup. So you get into that.
But, really, it’s all about making the fewest mistakes possible, which I think is your real point.
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It is human nature to blame. But the best players do not blame. They let their mechanic and macro skill speak for themself.
I am stuck in Diamond not because of “idiot teammates” but because I make plenty of mistakes. I watch my replays on many days and cringe at my stupid plays.
That’s true, making as few mistakes as possible is how people rise to Grand Master. And I’m just not there skill wise, even after years of playing HotS I make stupid mistakes and therefore do not deserve to rank up.
The only constant in all of my matches is me. It is pointless to blame teammates. (Unless as people said above, some jerk afk’s on purpose, which is entirely reportable)
That’s why I get frustrated reading posts that blame Qhira, lag, matchmaking, “forced 50% win ratio”, the weather, etc… For their losses. These players should reflect on their own play.
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True, you can play by the book perfect all game but it does often come down to which side makes a mistake first (usually, a big mistake post lv16+). GM’s make extremely few if any mistakes.
Games at the highest level are so close in skill level the game might even come down to draft picks (nobody making serious in-game mistakes, but one side just forces themselves through to the core without the enemy being able to kill them - lack of damage, lack of CC, etc)
I think HotS is a complex game and it will take forever to weed out most mistakes and patterns that lead to making mistakes. Which is why it’s fun to continue playing this even after 4-5 years. The skill cap is very, very high.
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No, there’s no skill involved in this game at all.
All you have to do to win is right-click the enemy core, that will solve everything. All the other stuff that appears on your screen during a game can be safely ignored, as long as you keep right-clicking the enemy core as quickly as possible.
That title would be more appropriate and be the stuff of a more comprehensive discussion if it were writen in the Hearthstone forum.