So there's NO restriction on which heroes you can play in SL?

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One of my team mates yesterday accidentally picked Medhiv. But his Medhiv was Lvl 1. We are no longer restricted to Lvl 5 heroes?

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Nope, no limits. SL is simply old Team League with a new paint job.

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So you can play SL in theory with like 6 heroes at lvl 3?

I’ve been getting a lot of teamates who cannot draft because they don’t own/play enough heroes.

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Player level has to be 50 or higher.

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Yes, another bad change, now trolls can troll using level 1 heroes.

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Something’s wrong then, I had a Lvl 48 in one of my last games.

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yes, and there in lies the one the core issues. you can go right into ranked games on a new hero you have never even touched before and play like crap. you dont know what you should pick for talents, how to play them effeciently, or anything else.

i would just like to insert this here since the problem has been around since TL obviously. however, they had a legit chance to change things on the merger of HL and SL to make things better for everyone.

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Must be a visual bug. You can’t queue or press ready in SL if you are under level 50.

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Requirement is 16 heroes at level 1 and an account level of 50.

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I hate this…

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So basically you must own 16 heroes, right?

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No… because the free slots count. I think you can get away with owning 4-8 heroes depending on if you have overlap with the free ones that week.

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The end is nigh!

20 doomsayers.

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If we’re approaching it with the suspicion that something isn’t working right, couldn’t the restriction be what’s bugged?

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Well, everything is physically possible. Back in the day some people were getting skins and mounts in Lost Cavern, which weren’t to be released for years (or ever).

Once in ~500 games I also see people in a QM party get a hero they didn’t queue with (nor did they even own said hero)

I guess it is possible for the client to bug and allow a level 1-49 to press Ready in Storm League but it’s unlikely. The account level is checked against the server so not even hacking it with a hex editor would help.

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Just lost a game with a 9 death Lvl 2 free rotation Orphea.

I mean, it happened a few times before but, I don’t know what’s going on right now. That’s like 6 games in a row.

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Oh I didn’t realize this.
I went and got every hero to level 5, just in case I ever feel like playing them.