🧪 Early Information on the October 2019 HOTM (Kingston)

[FraVit93]

@Red_Sun

We disagree on the point of being unbalanced or OP. I think he’s an up-to-date hero and thought for the future mechanics of the game. New powerful heroes will be launched at the events, the classic heroes will be updated by the costumes, perhaps in the near future the first generation of HOTM will follow the same path.

As far as my opinion is concerned we shouldn’t ask for overperforming heroes with the assumption that there will be another wave of powercreep with the new event heroes and skins.

It simply isn’t farsighted.

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@Red_Sun

Kingston’s current beta configuration makes it less effective than Zeline, imagine if she gets an update with costumes (that’s perfectly feasible).

Kingston have an improved effect over Zeline: his attack debuff works as Athena’s special and I don’t think that it would be reasonable to put such effects to cover the whole team.
We already had a sniper that would have affected the whole team and it were rightly balanced:

• Magni: Defense buff is applied to nearby allies instead of all allies

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@Red_Sun

Kingston’s current beta configuration makes it less effective than Zeline, imagine if she gets an update with costumes (that’s perfectly feasible).

This is possible even for Kingston.

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@Red_Sun

The game is evolving and its heroes, old and new, follow this trend. I do not think it’s effective to try to “cripple” a hero before launch because we think he’s too powerful. In the previous form, he is just one step ahead of Zeline, who I think is more than natural in the perspective of future releases. Achieving a good HOTM is a lot easier than an event hero, although it is also difficult.

Id say he were toe to toe with Zeline.
He is immune to burning damage, his maximum damage output doesn’t lower with fewer targets, his status aliment is stronger, he empower green’s mana generation bonus… but he doesn’t dispel or deals extra damage against ice.

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@Red_Sun

As for the challenge, I do not think lowering my squad will fit into it. It is much more satisfying to use the heroes that we strive to achieve and leave at the most, against teams of the same parity or higher, leveling us with the best. For me, this is challenging, not simulating hyposufficiency. But opinion is something very personal, each one has his own.

I suggested this to who I figured were a player in search of challenges, if this were not the case then I’m sorry.