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Goodbye LoL. I'm playing Heroes of the Storm from now on.

Estrogen Rider··2 votes·922 views

I just picked up HotS recently. What a much better game it is, at least for me!

-Characters are far more interesting. If it's one thing I despise about LoL, it's that the champions are too generic. A lot of them couldn't get anymore complex than "you use Q as a skillshot poke, W as a steroid or another damage, E as an escape or CC, and R as a finisher." In HotS you have very interesting characters, like one that can act as a symbiote for one of your allies. That's something that LoL has never explored, even after 120 champions that have been released.

Most importantly though, no items. This means no last hitting, and no such thing as one enemy being "fed". I LOVE this. This means that turn-around plays are much easier to do, and something as small as taking a mercenary camp can dictate whether you win or lose the game no matter how far you are. One thing I hate about LoL is that if one of your enemy carry gets fed, there is really NOTHING you can do.

Don't get me wrong,t here are "carry"-based characters in HotS that are labelled as "assassins". But they won't be able to 1v5 your team.

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Cenobite Azaziel9 votes

Herm.. so you are playing a game that need no personal skill? Everyone is leveled up! Sound like a kinder garden olympics. Everyone gets a chance to be special.

By the way, you contradicted yourself. "and something as small as taking a mercenary camp can dictate whether you win or lose "

"No last hitting"

Last hitting aka farming is a micro thing you do that impacts the game. See the difference between a top laner/mid/adc with 4 kils 100 cs and a 0 kills 200 CS.

Anyway, be happy with your game.

DrCyanide1 votes

Taking the camps doesn't require you to last hit them.

In League, an equivalent example would be if after killing Dragon you needed to channel on it (like destroying a Rek'Sai tunnel) to claim the award. Makes it harder to steal the camps unless you can drive off the enemy team.

Ternt3 votes

I thought about trying it, but I looked at the gameplay videos and it seems so sluggish and boring. At least with league there are more competitive aspects than purely out picking your team or getting the "assassin" type characters. There's so much counter play in League that many people don't understand like proper builds.

khorney1 votes

It's not sluggish or boring ..... The diff is you need. Need to get the objectives or you will lose most likely . 2. Each champ fits diff roles and to counter the need for objectives getting they have champs that's some purpose is split pushing

Ternt1 votes

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It's not sluggish or boring ..... The diff is you need. Need to get the objectives or you will lose most likely . 2. Each champ fits diff roles and to counter the need for objectives getting they have champs that's some purpose is split pushing

So.. it's just like League. You need to get objectives or you lose. And each champ has specific roles, like tanks, split pushers, adcs, apcs, junglers... (sarcasm) So I definitely see your point on how the game is so different. (sarcasm)

DrCyanide2 votes

HotS is fun, but I don't think of it as a League replacement. They designed everything to avoid player frustration, which is kinda nice, but there's little sense of individual value because of it.

KirynDawn1 votes

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HotS is fun, but I don't think of it as a League replacement. They designed everything to avoid player frustration, which is kinda nice, but there's little sense of individual value because of it.

I agree

CreativeMatrix2 votes

I think people are too connected to the game they play. You can play both... it IS allowed in life! The one thing I noticed about HotS is that it's NOT a stress full game. I personally took a break from league because of the amount of stress it delivers. I play games to have fun not to be yelling at 3 year olds. League is a great game but I think they can learn a lot from Hots in terms of asthetics, UI and player management.

khorney1 votes

You can't fix league .... People will always rage they will always talk down to other players they think they are good. League is extremely easy to win at. People just don't try give up to easy because they would rather lose so someone on there team will lose

Drunk Rummate1 votes

Enjoy yourself, the HotS fad will probably be short lived as Blizzard provides very poor followup service for their games. Not to mention it just looks like a very boring design.

khorney1 votes

Smite is fun like league except more skill is required because you actually need to hit your basics and aim then . also 3rd person

DrNova1 votes

also bad.

AhhShucks1 votes

I had a lot of fun playing HOTS. I go back and play it every now and then. I like how the different maps make each game feel vastly different from the last. The team shared XP adds a lot to the game as well I think. It's nice playing a "support" character and not feeling like the weakest squishiest piece of junk in the game.

DrNova1 votes

lol. So you prefer checkers to chess. Got it.

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