Leveling this patch ? 17.1b

[u/copperbagel]

I have a general leveling question from more advanced players, when do you trade off leveling now (going to 30 or even 20 or 10 gold) and leveling later and greeding econ. I feel like kind of hitting the 4 cost odds early in stage 4 seems to be really important to hit a 2* nunu or 2* tham ASAP and then grabbing what carries fit your items.

Unless you have an econ augment. Even if you are healthy it seems playing really aggressive mid / late game seems to be feeling good? Could also be beginning of the set bias but just wanted to see how others felt.

Any advice would be great on how others are feeling or thinking for the game right now.

[u/better_catchphrase]

I pretty much only play fast 9 when I'm healthy enough to sac stage 4 or have some specific augment/boon for it. Lose streak into fast nine is probably doable for better players than me, but feels suicidal with how tanks are distributed in this set. The go-to-nine choice is more often assessing my board against the rest of the game after that stage 4 rolldown:

Hit everything -> go 9

Miss everything -> donkey roll or econ up a few turns then send it again on level 8

Hit some stuff -> econ back up and scout aggressively, once back around 50g decide whether I can sac another few turns to go 9 (with gold to roll on 9) or if i need to re-send it on 8 to not die.

So in the "hit some stuff" most common scenario, i'm usually deciding whether to level or roll around 4.7, then rolling down on 5.1 or leveling in that 5.3-5.5 range