What/who do you read/watch to learn HoTs?

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I mostly only played QM as I mostly played casually, but recently have been entertaining the idea of starting Hero League (yea I know about the recent queue times).

So, what do you read or who do you watch to know what’s up in the meta and why? Preference to reading, and if streamers, preferably ones who comment on what they’re doing and why.

Draft picking would be great as well.

For reference, I stopped playing around Maiev release and came back around a week before Imperius.
They reworked a lot of heroes (wow, finally, Raynor), changed some maps and apparently Specialist isn’t a thing anymore (last one was Probius almost 2 years ago and reworked a lot of them)? They changed exp and structures again recently?

What’s the difference between Hero League and Team League now that I can enter solo in both?

Thanks.

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I like “NotParadox”

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If your new to drafting period i suggest unranked draft. This mode mirrors HL draft style as in whatever order you appear in the draft is when you have to pick.

Typically the 1st picks are high priority heroes for the map or that are just good in general. You’ll likely see azmo, malganis, KT and Orphea banned in the 1st banning phase. After the first picks the 3rd banning phase comes in where either a counter pick or dening a tank/healer is being banned.

Difference between HL and TL is drafting style. HL as mentioned above is an in order draft where TL anyone can lock a hero no matter what position they are on the draft lists.

Whenever they offically merge HL and TL i believe the drafting style will follow TL as it is now.

Counter picks and bans are important. Example blinds from joh, lili, artanis. you want to pick a blind vs AA or ban one out if your team has AA heroes. Or pick/ban %damage if you have 2 tanks.

Mostly in lower leagues people just pick whatever so dont be suprised to end up with no healer or main tank.

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The random people I play with. I never watch streams, whether to learn or enjoyment. I just play the game. You’ll learn plenty assuming you’re the type to learn from your mistakes and what not, unlike 95% of the playerbase. Use the time you’re dead to observe teammates or check talents while trying to get a feel for how effective they are over the course of games.

Yeah. The towers give 50% less exp, which is 250 exp for the fort towers. Cant remember what keep towers give.

Forts and keeps no longer give exp, but instead give 20% additional passive experience per fort/keep taken down. It takes about 5 minutes for a destroyed fort/keep to give the experience it used to give. A destroyed fort also gives a catapult every third wave.

TL is a hogwash as far as I’m concerned. People can boost their ranked points by queueing with friends on smurf accounts. And the games can be determined by one side being properly coordinated going for specific super comps and what not.

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McIntyre is also decent, but a little less polished than NotParadox. He is currently going through a number of heroes with a “Do This, Not That” series.

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I take more time to read some heroes kit and try to find use is all talents or skill.
I really like to run tests on heroes to find certain things about them or their limits , to validate or refute ideas i may have about the games.

An interesting one i found a while ago was not all hero start match their true performances regarding skills.

Some heroes deal more damage then the skill description shows.

I also analyse my own play alot , to see where i messed up so that next time i play properly. It does teache you alot about our own flaws l
As players .

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I don’t follow a lot of HOTS players, but the two I tend to learn from the most would probably be NotParadox and LeonBlack.

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I try to come up with builds myself just to see if I can make one best suited to my weird playstyle but I don’t do it much anymore. I do look up builds from time to time, watch a guide video, and learn from my own mistakes by watching replays when I have the time.

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I watch my games so I judge every stupid mistake I do.

It works for me.

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I do that too, but I’m hypercritical about myself. Practice makes prefect.

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Watching as many different top players who takes ranked seriously is probably the best idea to get all different point of views.

Some streamers to watch: crisheroes, hasuobs, menehots, zaelia, fanhots.

There is a korean guy that is #1 HL&TL who streams quite often named astray205.

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I rank up from silver to gold by doing so. Also, try to remember why you make those mistake so you can avoid it next time.

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Self reflection and learning from your mistakes, this is heresy. :rage:

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If "practice makes perfect "… And if “nobody is perfect” … Why do we practice :frowning_with_open_mouth:?

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I watch my own replays time to time to see what went wrong, what was the play, or just watch them to learn from my own or my enemys mistake.

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“HotS wtf” is the way to go:


6:00 watch this and youll do like a boss.
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Only nubs improve. Real pros blame the team/system.

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Was that really the case before HGC? :thinking:

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Drafting:
Hotslogs
Heroescounters < if you are a beginner
Builds:
Icyveins / tentonhammer / heroeshearth
Gameplay:
Notpharadox > pro matches
Try to play at least 2 heroes of tank / dps / healer. (Not only for filling but you understand those rolles)
And ofcourse is someone in your team is doing really good things, take a look at him

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I won’t recommend Icyviens simply because of how some of the information is pretty inaccurate, false and sometimes can be outdated to the point it doesn’t go with the current meta.

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