Why do Chen users use storm earth fire?

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Isn’t this a throwing heroic considering it moves and acts the same as tlv(the lost Vikings?)

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it does enough damage to oneshot people and can be used to clear all stagger no matter how much you have.

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No it doesn’t.

STF pandas cannot be controlled individually. You give a command, and they ALL follow it.

Also, it gives you three brand new health bars. So it’s a good way to get out of trouble.

But it doesn’t act like TLV at all.

Only problem is, Polybomb will CC you for 12 seconds.

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Also saves you from nukes that you would otherwise die to / unable to Fortifying Brew yourself out of on low HP, it’s a get out of jail card vs Pyroblast for example.

A nice cleanse as well, for things like Temporal Loop, as long as you can time it right.

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You cant dive with it as effective anymore now tho. It got nerfed last time they made a patch with him in it.

So now when all 3 clones dies Chen dies too.

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Didn’t Chen always die when all his triplets died?

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No not before the nerf.

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That’s weird, I can’t find any mention of that.

I seem to remember him always dying when his triplets died. It would have been OP otherwise.

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I remember this as well that when all 3 pandas dies, then Chen will also die. That’s why a good Chen was always terrifying, because he is the tankiest bruiser, but when you think you got him, he just presses R and get away with it, maybe even kills you. :joy:

To answer OP’s question, because it’s a good teamfight heroic. Chen is one of the heroes, who has two great heroics to choose from.

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V20.2, Patch notes 2016-09-27
It was a part of his rework back in late 2016, before the baseline spirts only had 50% of Chen’s health and only had 2 abilities, one too cause the spirts to jump away from one another, and the other to cause them all to jump at one point and slow targets hit.
The old heroic upgrade only caused it to spawn a spirt when Chen used an ability for 4 seconds at a time.
So in exchange for the panda’s being stronger, they removed his second life bar mechanic.

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Oh, I see it. I completely missed it the first time. I was looking for notes on Lvl 10, but it was written at the start.

Hero Updates

Abilities

  • Storm, Earth, Fire (R)
    • New Functionality:
      • If all 3 Spirits die, Chen is killed
      • Spirit Health increased from 50 to 75% of Chen’s maximum Health
      • Each Spirit grants Chen a special ability:
        • Storm (Q): Increases the Movement Speed of your Spirits by 50% for 5 seconds
        • Earth (W): Fire and Earth Spirits leap at the target, slowing enemies in a large area by 70% for 1.5 seconds
        • Fire (E): Increase the Basic Attack speed of your Spirits by 100% for 5 seconds
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Personally, I prefer to take the barrel. With its help, thou can save not only thyself, but also own teammates.

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I don’t get why people love Storm, Earth and Fire so much. Keg is just better in my opinion. You can disrupt or isolate enemies easily with it. The only set up it needs is to be in kick range too. I get the stagger value with SEF and it does deal decent damage but keg is my pick.

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