Lets do a drafting game

Your a coordinated team of 5. Your about to enter a tournement (your player or coach whatever you seem more valid)

Rules: You have 5 players. They can be anything you want. They know how to play their role
But they can only play their top 4 heroes.
(It are fictional players)
Wich heroes would you choose for each member? And wich role

1st player: tank main
Anub’Arak , Garrosh, Muradin, ETC

2nd player: off laner
Arthas Fenix Leoric Thrall

3th healer:
Ana , Alexstrasza , Stucov , Tyrande

4th: dmg dealer
Raynor, Jaina, Greymane, Hanzo

5th: Flexible
Abathur Zarya , Mephisto, Sylvanas

If anyone has questions about my draft. Plz feel free!

It’s Stukov, not Stucov.

2nd time you corrected me on that mistake!
Will I ever learn

Go and fix it, God Damn it.

They can play 4 top heroes from role, what I choose for them, not their top heroes overall?

it can be 4 random heroes.
I just gave them a name for my own ordering

Tanks: Tyrael, Johanna, Diablo, Stitches
Off laner: Dekaha, Imperius, Falstad, Rexxar
Healer: Stukov, Anduin, Deckard, Malfurion
DPS: Li Ming, Tracer, Orphea, Jaina
Flexible: Medivh, Zeratul, Alarak, Junkrat

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I see you favor more divecomps!

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4 is tough, especially for DPS and flexible roles.

Was gonna try to fit Raynor, Valla, Maiev, Tassadar, Thrall, Leoric, Blaze, Zarya, Abathur, Genji, Hanzo, Gul’dan, KTZ, Kerrigan in there too.

I play the tank, so I’m pretty set on the tanks, and the healers are what I like to interact with as the tank. The other roles can be more open ended.

I think I’ve a good balance of dive and poke here, for example
Dive: Tyrael, Imperius, Malfurion, Tracer, Medivh
Poke: Johanna, Dehaka, Anduin, Li Ming, Junkrat

Also have to consider maps, like how OP Rexxar is on Dragon Shire, Johanna on Tomb of the Spider Queen, or Deckard on Volskaya.
And combos like Zeratul Void Prison into Diablo Apocalypse.

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If I’m in the mood to be a dirty meta slave:
1: Anub’arak
2: Arthas
3: Ana
4: Raynor
5: Abathur

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4 is awfull! But that makes it the more of a challenge!! Especially with syneryie counters and maps. I also concidered dive heroes, but decided 5o play it safer. You have a strong draft tho

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Are we doing Ana nano boosting Raynor now? :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Arthas + Raynor is good, but I’d probably take Tyrande as the healer in this composition, and a mage or melee assassin rather than Abathur. If you want to keep the Aba, go Tracer or Valla instead of Raynor. And if you want keep the Ana, replace Aba with a mage.

i would have to have more than 4. No tournament for me :frowning:

Nano Anub is pretty insane tbh

Is there anything better than nano boosted RIP-Tire or Eternal Feast?

Lets say other teames have the same handicap

This is actually deeper than most people realize at first glance. I think my proposal above is a decent first attempt, but not ideal, because you also have to consider the bans and what you can take away from your opponent.

This would be especially interesting if each team already knows all the options of the other team, which would make the initial 4 bans very interesting. Have to do some game theory calculations to force the enemy team into bad picks for one role, and have them be forced to early pick the bad pick or end up being unable to play that role at all.

For example, let’s say your team’s healer plays Ana , Malfurion , Stukov , Tyrande; the other team’s healer plays Stukov, Anduin, Deckard, Malfurion.

They first ban Tyrande. Now you know they have first pick. Do you choose to deny them Stukov, Malfurion, or both? Let’s say both of them get banned out too. Now you’re forced into playing Ana, and you have the option to force them into Anduin or Deckard.

Now let’s say both of you have Li Ming in your draft. They can first pick Li Ming to deny you the Ana + Li Ming synergy, since they know you’re already forced into Ana. So maybe you’d have to ban Li Ming yourself in the first round.

The strategies for drafting here can actually get quite deep.

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Nano Endless Nades

I would just be limited in how much excitement I could bring. There are lots of amazing comps that I’d like to make possible, which would be the fun for me, but they use a lot of heroes.

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This ought to be a popular thread while ranked playerz wait on their 30 min queues.

Alright let’s see here

My team would be as follows
Our tank main would have
Diablo, Johanna, Anub arak and Muridin
My reasoning being between these four pretty much all the bases are covered for the different strategies, Murdin and Johanna for defensive hunkering down and enabling less mobile and Anub and Diablo for offensive

2nd Player: My bruiser
I want this fellow to have Varian, Imperius Dehaka and Artanis
My reasoning here is two fold, once again this makes sure all the bases are covered for aggressive front line and more tanky front line but also I made sure to include Dehaka for global maps as if it comes to light something like warhead junction or Blackhearts bay)
Also I’ve found IMperius can be a great CC in the right hands and has versatility of his own.

Assassin Player 1.
Okay so before I go on I’m going to stress here that i’m not going to specailize my assassins, both of them are going to be able to fill ranged assassin and melee assassin that way if the oppurtunity for double mage or a map that favours a very melee centeric comp arises it’s doable
So assassin player 1 Will have access to
Zaratuel, Valeera, Li Ming and Sgt Hammer
Now note I specified these two sets of Melee vs Ranged assassins because I am of the opinion that to make a Sgt Hammer work your second assassin should be a bit more, not tanky but, well more duable then Valeera and Zaratuel for sure as you’ll see in

Assassin Player 2
Xul, Kerrigan, Abatheur and Jaina
Now 1 thing to note, you’ve got to have an abatheur in your back pocket for a pro team, too effective to not go with. Other then that nothing else to really note.

Support Main
This one is just to finalize everything, make sure it al works together so here we go
Ana, Anduin, Deckard and BW
Nothing really to say they are poten
This is really a combination of a few things, Anduin’s ultimates are obviously helpful and his output is good, Ana’s nano could be great for numerous things and she’s just… Ana
De is great for setting things up and brightwing once again global movement and the amount of tank busting she can give with her upgraded polymorph is insane.

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Which. The word is spelled “w, H, i, c, h”

You know that this is useless without knowing the enemy team right?
I could chose Garrosh, Arthas and stukov for a lock down that guarantees a kill but the eny team might have an anduin rendering the combo much less effective.