What are some heroes that are some non-standard but pretty good split pushers?
Ill start.
Hogger is fairly decent at it. Hes got enough aoe to clear a wave at a reasonable speed and his high health combined with about a 1/3d of the map worth of unstoppable dashes means youll never be able to really stop him. The only downside being his structure damage isnt very good but sometimes that dosent matter on bigger maps where you can get a big wave to run with.
Since her rework, D Va is very strong in split soaking and split pushing.
Once she hits lvl 4, Lunara can be a very effective split pusher. Her poison dealing 125% increased dmg allows her to split push effectively. On top of it all, her wisp can give her vision of ppl coming for a gank enabling her to escape before it’s too late. Eventually the enemy team requires to deal with her which requires a minimum of 2 heroes since she is a powerful duelist.
Yeah for sure. Could even take leaping strike for a crazy good escape.
Thornwood vine with the lvl 4 is basically one shot a wave. Lunara can do some fantastic waveclear.
I don’t know if this is good enough for split pushing per-se, but I have found that Kerrigan has surprisingly decent waveclear. W+E explosion, finish of the rest with ravages and the AoE auto splash on 1. Also torrasque at 20. But I’d say that comes up too late to really make a difference.
Orphea with ravenous hunger can also absolutely demolish waves.
Downside of both is limited structure damage potential. But works fine for split soaking.
It depends on how you’re describing a split pusher.
In my mind a split pusher is a hero that can do some serious siege damage if left unattended like Azmodan or Zagara.
AA heroes tend to have high structure damage since unlike enemies heroes they don’t move and don’t have any dangerous abilities to murder you with, and often won’t even attack you if you’re not just running into them willy nilly. But that’s also the problem, they need to push in with a wave and have a strict timer on how long they can attack structures before they get targeted.
Zul’jin is a risky one but dude can chip away at towers like no one’s business if he feels safe enough to pop rage and let D drain away his HP.
Raynor is pretty good at it since he has decent single target damage for structures, good wave clear and both of his ults are very significant for taking down forts since Hyperion deals large burst damage and banshee can provide additional DPS and even tank it for you.
There’s plenty of heroes with wave clear that can easily soak 2+ lanes but when it comes to splitpushing they’re not as much of a threat.
Nazeebo’s structure damage isn’t even that significant in the early game, though he can chunk towers if he blows all his cooldowns.
Split pushers for me have both great waveclear and structure damage.
Greymane, Zagara, Probius, Lunara and Samuro.
I would consider taking this talent only if another Split pusher is lacking, since it competes with Insatiable on the same tier.
Her wave clear isn’t that bad without ravenous hunger. She can easily clear a wave with one cycle of her abilities after level 7.
Since she also is an excellent Duellant, I don’t have the the problem to solo lane with her.
Leoric with Vitality, Kneel Peasants and Ominous Wraith can just go back and forth between 2 lanes repeatedly without even having to mount up. And he clears them fairly fast.
On Tomb of the Spider Queen he doesn’t necessarily even need Ominous Wraith for top+mid split pushing.
I take that solo laner split pushing role when I’m probius. Waveclearing is in a matter of seconds and you have infinite mana. I end up mid game also clearing camps too while on my way to lanes.
medivh after he gets his lvl 20 talent that instakills minions
I would like to know what is standard for you, before I can answer what is non-standard…
Where is our mastermind: Hammer?!
It’s more a ‘if I know I’m going to be split pushing’ talent for me. Doesn’t really help with the pushing, but it does benefit from it.
But yes. Definitely an off meta choice. Only reason I choose it is to see how high I can stack the quest in QM.
Nova with bribe, exploding Q and precision strike. Wouldn’t recommend playing too much though since you’re likely going to get flamed and reported by every 36 stack QM Nazeebo.
Strange split pushers
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Leoric, zagara, dva
How are these strange split pushers?
I remember a HL game from many years ago. Our Nova player was err, unusual and split pushed on Volskya the whole game. The funny thing is it worked as the enemy team didn’t rotate to kill her like they would a more obvious threat like Murky.
Well Nova is for sure the last Hero I would consider being a split pusher. Many Healer can get considered viable in this situation.
(But nonetheless, a Healer should stay with the team in most of the cases)
She’s not the best at it and I won’t write down more than 5.
Greymane’s max dps is 290 whike Stg. Hammer is 168.
Even with Hammer’s Maelstrom Rounds lvl 1, which is the worst talent, it doesn’t come near the best split pushers.
Just heroes that most people would expect to be a good split pusher. Kinda like how yrel and etc can be ok healers someones but that’s not what they are particularly known for.
malganis with:
lv 4 Echo of Doom (and extra AoE at the end of his W AoE)
lv7 Spreading Plague (burning AoE talent)
can deal with waves way better than people would expect malganis too!
and it gets better at 16 if he takes Plague Bats (which makes his W cast a cone of damage)