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Master the Basics: Controls. Being able to adeptly control your character will lead to success in Heroes of the Storm. Unfortunately, many players overlook the options and intricacies available to them in that regard. You might not even realize all the tricks you can pull off using the control system in the game.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert. That's the first thing I want to say here. But I have been playing MOBAs for a long time, and there are some things about this one in particular that may help new players to know. I'm going to offer my personal take on the game and the various components; your experience may differ. For starters, the four different roles each hero can have are a bit misleading, but in general, they are what you expect. I'll list a few heroes for each role, BUT I will not go in depth on every hero for every role; this is a starter's guide, not a guide to heroes like Tychus and Chen. If you want to customize your hero a bit more, you'll unlock color variants at Hero Levels 7 and 8 in your profile.
Mount variants unlock at 6 and 9. For additional mounts or skins, you'll need to pay gold coins or real money, depending on the item in question. Gold gain is a touchy subject right now, but you'll get 500g for each hero you level to 5, and additional bonuses at Player Levels 2 and 4 (1000g), and again at 8 and 10 (2000g).
You can save it for a hero you like, a mount, or a Master Skin (10,000g, unlocked at Hero Level 10). Warriors are the strong, durable heroes. They have higher health pools than the other roles, tend to gain health regeneration at a higher rate on leveling, and have skills suited to being in the thick of battle.
Best front line 'tanks':Stitches, Arthas. Powerful health regeneration, talents and skills to keep you on your target, and self healing to keep you in the fight while sustaining heavy damage. My Favorite: Muradin! He's INCREDIBLY disruptive in team fights, and if you practice enough, you can get very good at positioning enemies for your team. Assassins are focused entirely on damage. They may have some utility skills, but your job is to dish out as much damage to enemy heroes as possible.
Some of them have very low health pools, and if a hero is listed as 'Very Hard,' it goes doubly for an Assassin. Best damage dealers:Valla, Raynor. Very simple to pick up, but exception sustained damage. You'll put serious dents in the enemy team simply auto attacking at the back of fights. They both have access to a stun/interrupt, and have a good skillset for the role. My Favorite: Illidan.
He's extremely difficult to learn, and I see a lot of max-level players who still aren't very good with him, but it's very satisfying when you play him well. His damage doesn't take off until later, and he's very fragile, but it's incredibly rewarding to learn.
Support heroes are usually focused on shielding and healing. The degree to which they heal you vs. Provide utility varies pretty greatly. They have a large mana pool and a good deal of regeneration to keep you casting. You want to stay out of danger and keep your allies alive and protected. You can't support anyone if you're dead, right?. Best Healers:Malfurion, Rehgar, Uther.
Each of them can dish out insane amounts of healing power. You'll also find these heroes have good offensive skills to protect your allies as well, keeping the enemy at bay. My Favorite: Brightwing. Doesn't technically have a direct, active heal unless it (?) talents for it, but the mobility and disabling abilities Brightwing has makes it a hero that can into god tier with a little practice. Specialists are weird.
You can look at them as a group and say, 'OK, well, most of them are based on siege damage, right?' But that's not entirely true. The best way I can describe Specialists would be 'heroes Blizzard didn't want to make a new label for.' They have summons, debuffs, skills with bonuses against minions and buildings, that sort of thing.
For now, think of them as siege heroes. Best Siege Damage Heroes:Azmodan, Sgt. They both have the potential to end the game on their own if left alone (you won't be), but do so in different ways. Hammer is all about auto attacking from long range, and Azmodan relies on armies of summoned demons. Some Exceptions.:Nazeebo is an awesome hero, especially for a new player.
He really doesn't belong in the Specialist category, as he's much more akin to an Assassin based on his skillset. The thing is, all of his abilities are area of effect, rather than targeted, so he can't, strictly speaking, send his spiders or frogs at one person in a fight, but he is a very strong hero in team fights. Murky is - well, just leave him for now.
He has a very strange playstyle and will often be a hindrance to your team unless you're making plays alone. My Favorite: Sgt. She excels at besieging a base, yes, but her damage is absolutely deadly in 5v5 fights. If your team can protect you, you'll whittle down every hero that walks within your big circle of doom and keep driving them out, making her effective at zoning out enemy heroes as well. Tips:. Get your heroes' levels to 4 at least. You'll unlock all of the talents this way, and many heroes really, really need the deeper talents to function properly.
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Don't get hung up on hero kills. They matter, but not to the degree you think. Taking out a healer during a fight is not the same as chasing a hero across the map. Try to check the experience change next time your team kills a hero; it's not that much. Defend! Don't let Azmodan, or even some random hero sit there and siege your base.
Respond to creep waves as well. It usually only takes one hero a few seconds to clear a wave and then regroup. Focus on objectives.
This is the big one. As before, people tend to get caught up on heroes, when seeds, skulls, shrines, and coins are more important. Don't be afraid to split up from your team in places like the mines. I like to get the middle camps first and work outward, so I'm not running into enemies as I make my way back toward other zombies. Mercs, mercs, mercs.
Just killed a few enemies? Get a merc camp. If you're in position, and your team is nearby, take the enemy camps instead. The mercenaries create lots of space for you to work with, and need to be addressed by your opponents.Side note regarding mercs: If someone on your team pings a boss, or suspects the enemy may be at a certain camp, react to it.
Go with the person and check. Many times, finding enemies mid-fight on a boss or knight/bruiser camp can turn the game around for you. Don't neglect lane experience. You (generally) don't need 3-4 heroes in a single lane, unless you're pushing for a specific objective. Spread out and take another lane.
HOWEVER: don't sit there blindly killing creeps either, your team will still need you. Lane experience is especially helpful when your team is down, and can't reliably teamfight for the moment. Turn around on the enemy in fights. You were forced to retreat with 60%, but you escaped. Your team is here now. Maybe you feel you need to go heal up, but don't be afraid to turn and fight.
You'll get better game sense as time goes on, and be able to more accurately gauge when you can and cannot turn a fight. This goes doubly true for ranged heroes. Try all the heroes you possibly can. Eventually you'll find one you really like, but it helps a great deal to learn what each hero does.
Supports tend to be neglected, unfortunately, but have the ability to make just as much of an impact as an assassin. They aren't all about healing you know!. Auto-walk. This is a learned skill. It's easy once you start doing it, but it's very important.
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You shouldn't be standing still most of the time. You have a brief window between your auto attacks where you can take a small step forward, and you should utilize that. It will often be the difference between getting off that last attack on a fleeing hero, or watching him escape with 10hp. Make sure to do this for objectives too (pick up seeds or skulls, don't wait for them to be stolen by an enemy). Stop looking at the scoreboard.Seriously, stop that!
Bad players will cite hero damage, healing, and (to a lesser extent) siege damage as a measure of how you're doing; this is woefully inaccurate. Example: roaming heroes like Nova, Zeratul, or merc heroes like Gazlowe will almost always be low on the experience chart. The only stats that matter are 'relevant damage/healing,' meaning, did your damage or healing have a visible impact on the fight or the push? Sure, Zagara can sit there spamming Banelings at Azmodan's minions, and they can pad stats by pushing into each other's waves; does that mean they contributed more than you while you were off taking a keep? Don't forget this, and don't let anyone discourage you based on stats. Again,.bad. players will try to use the scoreboard as a weapon.Hopefully this helps someone out there.
Feel free to share your own helpful hints and I'll add them in, or ask any questions you may have below. Go after the objectives! Yes, yes, yes. Almost each game I've lost has been because my team was chasing kills and not objectives.
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Literally, it's at the point that once I get a feel for how my team is interacting, I can predict the outcome of the match. I try to rally people, but most don't understand what's important in HoS. Even if you don't capture the objective (like in Dragon Knight,) sometimes denying it is enough. I had a game where we denied Dragon Knight ffor 18 minutes had a good team fight and then managed to grab it and win.
Thank you for posting this guide. I really hate when people try to tell you that you're not doing anything because of your low hero dmg.
If I'm a dps hero and we have no tank and I keep getting focused in fights, how am I suppose to have the highest hero dmg if I'm always dead? And the person saying this was a Rank 11.
Also, for everyone, if someone is a high rank, it doesn't mean that they are good at the game. It means that they had some pretty good teams and got carried. I still see rank 10s not focusing the Healer in the team fights.