Every game the same, consisting of at least one or several of the following heroes:
- Spectre, Kunkka, Necrophos, Witch Doctor, Nature’s Prophet, Chaos Knight, Weaver and so on…
Heroes buying one or more HoTs, basically being unkillable, as even a hyper farmed PA with 1,5K+ crits can’t bring them down in time before a BKB runs out.
Right now, you almost always get punished for picking heroes that are not strictly in the meta. Never ever have I experienced such a stale meta. And Valve hypes up a patch a week before release that basically changed nothing.
People still pick the same heroes, buy tons of HoTs and just get hyper tanky.
So, are we supposed to wait until that Ring Master shit gets released in 6 months or so?
lost 5 games recently with one of the following in my team:
alch mid
ember mid
hoodwink mid
sf carry
another sf carrypeople picking out of meta became an auto lose nowadays,
especially with 40% win rate heroes
even pudge 5 hiding in trees is better than picking ember/sfI feel.like the biggest nerf is teamwork, whichever side can manage to coordinate, usually wins. For example, just finished a game where our AM gave up 15 or 20 minutes in and basically never fought with the rest of us the rest of the game. He never even went HG. We managed to win it and the other side had a specter. I will say CK laning does seem a bit too good still, so there could be some baby nerfs that would be nice. But overall, teamwork is key.
I am hopeful that the top pro teams at ESL major will show how to break the meta.
Holy fuck another entitled redditor complaining about “stale meta”
Gaimin managed to end games in 20mins in a “stale meta”, so stop complaining and start getting good. If your team can coordinate well and play well then games can be easy even if u dont pick the “meta heroes”
Plus the nerfs have already shown their effects with the changes in win rates across most heroes, so please fuck off and start getting good instead of complaining non stop
yep, it’s getting more and more depressing. Have to play Spectre, WK or someting like that every fucking game to be able to win. Any other core picks are just getting insta punished. Also, if you don’t buy Nullifier you get wrecked, always. Feels so horrible playing this game atm.