Why would anyone pick Kerrigan?

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isn’t she kind of a meme. name one thing about her you would want on your team that can’t be supplied by someone basic like Illidan or Alarak :expressionless:

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I believe this is a repost.

Please stop lyras.

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She is a garbage mishmash of everything. There are burst mages, bruisers, self sustaining assassins, and a plethora of CC on various heroes that accomplishes far more far easier than she does.

Of course, the forum warriors that call themselves “master” but are gold or the equivalent rank in other better, more serious MOBA’s would tell you she is great but always fail to say what exactly she is great against.

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I would say kerrigan and alarak could overlap with their combo but kerrigan does not lose power after death and her pve and clear speed is miles ahead of alarak.
Kerrigan combo should become easier to land but done wrongly she could trump alarak easily.

As for illidan, kerrigan has better clear speed , wayyy better damage and aoe.
She beats illidan early game by a mile but to be honest almost everyone beats illidan early on.

Kerrigan deserves buffs, but make no mistake, she was reworked to be playable by any monkey pushing Q blindly twice and she got to 60+% wr twice until she got beat back to this state.
Even with how she is right now she could easily come back to OP state merely by reverting her previous nerfs without touching her combo. Same thing with nova btw.

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Not just that, at this point you can call it spamming:

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I wholeheartedly agree and am well aware of it. To be honest while it was fun rampaging with her just after post rework I felt people’s pain. Been on that end before.

I don’t want her combo to be “easier”. I want it to be so skill landing it is REWARDED. Not as it currently is where every Magoo with a modicum of skill can simply…step to the right or left. Or the ever popular running back into her. Usually it doesn’t even matter on the timing in this particular instance. You can time it with anticipation of their juke and they still can juke it. It is too exploitable.

I also wasn’t specifically comparing her to Illidan, but rather saying that other heroes do what she does only better.

Nova I want spruced up too but yes, Nova is hard to balance well.

I’m curious Mac, what is your opinion of current Valla and Tychus?

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It’s extremely annoying as well.

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Your image is broken Alias, might wanna check the link.

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Are you using privacy badger? as it blocks the discord cdn domain, you have to open the image in a seperate tab, or unblock it.

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just because I stumbled upon a good formula doesn’t make it spam :expressionless:

please leave the thread if you do not wish to discuss kerrigan. reporting the OP will only result in it being restored by the mods, and a negative mark on your permanent forum record :expressionless:

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The same thing with only minor differences being made again and again is spam Lyras.

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Oh okay that fixed it, thanks.

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Besides, the big fluffy moose I have on my desk says for you to stop.

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You…I like you.

TWENTY KARAKTOR!

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It can still be spam if you simply over use it to the point of it not being funny anymore. There is absolutely nothing constructive in the OP.

If you want to discuss kerrigan, explain why kerrigan is bad, OP, boring, broken or whatever in more detail. And for that, we already have a few threads that were bumped about an hour ago (before your post)… So if you were trying to state something because they showed up. Its a failure aswel, as the bumps are for a reason removed…

At least with Hailfall he did post some issues directly. Even if incorrect those posts had some value at starting a discussion. And he got banned aswel.

So yes, your threads are spam.

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I have not tested the new tychus and i was already finding him pretty good with his prior changes if you had good jukes.

I find valla too strong considering she can do everything a dps is expected to but blizz has, imho, the tendency to make generalist heroes better than the rest of the cast.
Valla shares the same issue with greymane and hanzo.

Right now kerrigan looks a lot like taunt varian.
If you combo someone and you have people to follow up on it you can delete something fast.
But between an easier to avoid combo and reduced numbers it is hard for people on lower end of the ranks to enjoy that aspect of her.

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  1. chain cc. “someone basic” might not even have 1 form of hard cc (alarak) but Kerrigan can bring 2.
  2. Her… caparace. Are you staring at her thorax? Skinergy is a legit thing in HotS, so clearly having the right hero, in the right outright with the right mount with the right banner/spray and right announcement makes all the difference. clearly players that don’t do well with Kerrigan have a terrible sense of fashion. Accessorize her better, she’s a Queen! -,-
  3. PVE durability. Some of the “basic” picks only have self-healing, but kerrigan actually makes herself more durable in the lane.
  4. A lightning rod. Heroes that deal a lot of damage dont’ want that damage dealt back to them, so they need someone else to take the damage for them. Teams can have equal healing/damage, but how it gets spread out determines who wins the fight/objective/map. Kerrigan will generally attract a lot of that damage, which is damage someone else isn’t taking instead.
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  1. Clones count as 5 stacks on her lvl 4 Q quest; so obv now she’s a counter to those heroes :open_mouth:

Ah man, I totally went past 1. I guess I’m terrible at this sort thing :frowning:
/s

Big issue for Kerri is that she has tank-like qualities, but isn’t a tank (and not even really a bruiser.) However, not all tanks are equally up to the task either so it’s almost like there’s some sort of capacity for players to align certain hero picks to get certain qualities that aren’t always defined by some sort of external list or “meta”. hm… :thinking: something… about synergy…:brain: :flashlight:

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