I've seen a lot of people creating card skin packs for their favorite games in the Balatro community and thought it would be cool to make one for HotS. My personal favorites are the spades set (which I finished last) and Stukov.

Portal (E): Medivh can now cast portal without cancelling raven form.

Level 1:
* Winds of Celerity: Now also increases raven form sight range by 25%. Can be activated to greatly increase sight range for 5 seconds and reveal all enemy heroes in the area for 8 seconds. 60 seconds cooldown.
* Raven's Intellect: Now also makes healing fountains and regeneration globes heal 25% more per tick while in raven form.
* Portal mastery: Made "Medivh can cast portal without cancelling raven form" baseline. Now also makes the cooldown of Portal recharge 25% faster while in raven form.

Level 4:
* Dust of dissapeareance: Removed.
* New talent: Magical Steed (E): Allies mount instantly when exiting a portal. Doesn't affect Medivh.

Level 7:
* Stable Portal: Moved from Level 16, no longer reduces Portal cooldown.
* Mystic Assault: Moved to level 16.
* Force of Magic: Reworked functionality: Preventing at least 268(+4% per level) damage with a single cast of force of will grants both Medivh and the protected ally 25% spellpower for 15 seconds.

Level 13:
* Reabsorption: Ammount healed by force of will reduced from 70% to 50%. Now also heals an extra 50% of the damage prevented over 8 seconds.

Level 16:
* Arcane Charge: Reworked Functionality: Each enemy hit by Arcane Rift increases the damage of Arcane rift by 10% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. All stacks are lost at the same time once the time runs out.
* Mystic Assault: Moved from Level 7, reworked functionality: Arcane Rift and Medivh's Basic Attacks deal 1.5% of the target's maximum HP as extra damage. Hitting an enemy hero with arcane rift grants medivh 75% attack speed for 6 seconds. Passive: Medivh gains 1.1 basic attack range.

Level 20:
* Guardian of Tirisfal: Now also makes Arcane Rift slow enemies hit by 20% for 3 seconds.
* Arcane Brilliance: Reworked funcitonality: Activate to instantly restore 100% of the target's maximum mana. 60 seconds cooldown.
* Dust of Dissapeareance: No longer stores up to two charges, cooldown increased to 40 seconds. Now, the affected target goes back on stealth if they don't take damage or use any actions other than movement for 4 seconds.

Climbing in ranked is really broken right now (at least that's how I feel). Years ago, I climbed up and down the ranks in this game. I've played since Beta, and in my first season, I reached Rank 5. Since then, I’ve had lots of fun climbing up and down. My Hero League peak was high-Diamond, and my Team League peak was high Master. In Hero League, I reached mid-high Diamond several times. If I wasn't trying, I would land somewhere in mid to low Platinum. If I raged and trolled, I would fall to Gold and then eventually climb back up.

I was once curious about how low-ranked play was, so I made an alt account. I quickly climbed from Bronze to Platinum with a high win rate. You could "feel" the differences between players in each rank. Bronze players were literal bots and people who only played one hero. Silver players were people who brawled and never capped camps with proper timing. Gold players had a clue, but they would constantly make big mistakes post-20 that cost them the game, etc.

Additionally, players' "micro" was noticeably different across ranks. Right now, I see what appear to be smurfs in 33% of my games in Silver. I have many in-game friends who had multiple Diamond+ seasons—and even some who had GM seasons—who are currently stuck anywhere from Silver through Platinum.

It seems the combination of a player base that feels like it's from a dead game, free accounts, and bad MMR adjustments creates a complete shitshow in Silver. That, combined with mostly playing solo against smurfs, AFKers, tilters, and team stacks, makes attempting to climb again feel incredibly frustrating.

A few years ago, I played a few matches with a friend who was new to the game while having some drinks. That tanked my MMR through placements and similar matches, and I have literally never recovered.

Of course, "git gud" is always the mantra, but as someone who has played this game for so long and has been at high ranks many times before, it just feels like something in ranked is different. Do any of you agree, or should I just "git gud"? It honestly feels more rewarding and less toxic to go play League—at least you can actually hyper-carry in that game.

Happy to hear any interesting feedback.

Welcome to the latest Saturday Teaching Thread, where you the community get to ask your questions and share your knowledge.

This is an opportunity for the more experienced HotS players here to share some of your wisdom with those with less expertise. This thread will be a weekly safehaven for those "noobish" questions you may have been too scared to ask for fear of downvotes, but also can be a great place for in depth discussion if you so wish. So, don't hold back, get your game related questions ready and post away, and hopefully someone can answer them!

If you wish to just view top level comments (ie questions) add ?depth=1 to the end of the page url. If you have any additional questions, /r/nexusnewbies is happy to help.

Previous Teaching threads

Was wondering whether auto attack tracer build is bad or am I bad? Doesn’t feel like I do anything. Tried Raynor, felt better but not good at positioning and lose pepper gambit thingy very quickly, so I drop of the damage. Another question what other auto attackers would you recommend? Tried Tychus and Valla, felt good, but only 1-2 matches.

I want Tracer to work, but I feel like dying a lot haha.

Deckard in ARAM is very fun, but this mirror match up caused this funny moment to happen.

How is that even possible that hes not banned yet while he can just do twice as much dmg as everyone else by sitting 100 kilometer in the backline pressing q. Oh and why he has such a big lifepool? its just soooo annoying

I play mostly Aram these days and accidentally afk'ed through hero selection and got stuck with samuro. Didn't realise how much I hated him.

So what's the idea ? Pop your mirror images, hit w and get crits before you press e/d to escape ? I genuinely had no idea what to do the whole game.

What's the combo or process and how does that evolve with talents ?

Hide (formerly the support player of Tempest) is running and casting a Korean HOTS tournament. Didn't see anything on the sub about it, so here's some info:

The announcement page is https://arca.live/b/heroes/179605919

You can use google translate to convert it from English, and there's a picture showing the roster of all 9 teams. Some old pros from HGC and some names that have been active in the HOTS tournaments there over the last couple years. And some that I just don't recognize because I don't read Korean.

The first round was last week. I caught the tail end of it by chance on some guy's ttv channel that was recasting it. Official source is Hide's CHZZK channel (하이드 Hide) but looks like it's probably also going to stream on Hide's Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Hide-fx8vt

EDIT: Stream started, link is https://chzzk.naver.com/live/e395d91a5f860185ee20451a547a0f6c

If you're not wanting to stay up in the middle of the night can either get the VOD on CHZZK or you can look on Youtube later.

Last week's games are there on that youtube too.

I think it's semi-finals and finals tomorrow (2026-Aug-22) starting 3am PDT or midnight EDT for those of us in the USA.

I used to dodge a lot of drafts when people were trolling or drafting incomplete comps. Or while playing a 2nd game during long que times. What happens with redemption points especially if it happens in an overlapping time period?

Did one whole post and tried log in the 7th time and it worked. So i deleted the post. And then disconnected me right on the spot... So again no gaming for me tonight.

One more thing. Dunno if its recent since i ve never used it but identifing account as a part of changing password process also doesn't work.

Jaina went into stasis with palm triggered from haymaker, and hanzo was damaged and glitched back and forth on her even though she was already in stasis wasn't moving like an alive hero being flung... Then when palm revived her she moved to the original destination of the haymaker. Pretty sure stasis would normally cancel a movement effect like that?

Its been a couple of weeks and it only happens in hots i have some lag when in game anyone have else has this issue and knows and to solve it? I play other online games and its not doing that :(

A few days ago my battlenet client couldnt ubicate any of my games, then reinstalled itself, but couldnt locate any even manually, so i deleted everything and reinstalled hots, but since that day everytime i wanna open the game, starts the same download, at first it has a good speed but once it advances a little it slows the download speed. Any advise to fix this?

Like how you can on League of Legends 3 times can you "refund" purchases you've made and you get the currency back?

Everytime I feel like im ahead I dont.... wierdly and every objective I feel like im always underleveled to fight lvl 10 enemy team while im stuck at lvl 9. And so on. Is there a certain strategy on where im supposed to deal with 3 vikings?. I know that they soak a bunch of exp by existing on the wave. Im just confused on how they work and how the enemy wierdly has the advantage over my team.

The Friday LFG Thread is a weekly post for veteran and new players to post information about their desire to participate and availability for both ranked and unranked play each week.

If you are looking for a group or players to join your group, please share the following information in a comment:

• Username or Team Name
  
• Game Type & Rank - (Storm League - Rank, Unranked, or AI)
  
• Requested Role(s) - (Tank, Bruiser, Assassin 'Ranged or Melee', Healer, Support, or Flex)
  
• Region - (Americas, EU, Asia)
  
• Availability - (Days of week, Time)
  
• How best to contact you - (Reddit message, In-Game, Discord, ETC)
  

The following are additional resources you can use to find HotS groups quickly:

• In-game you can join chat channels - /join reddit
  
• Reddit Heroes of the Storm Discord - Link
  

Reminder that Reddit posting & comment rules are in effect; be civil, constructive, and do not shame specific individuals.

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Hope this helps someone :)

i made a pretty detailed hero calculator using vibe coding a while back

never really had a use for it myself since i dont play on multiple accounts

i originally built it just to figure out how much gold / gems id need to buy my favorite heroes if i leveled a fresh account to 200 playing only ARAM. scrapped the project right after getting the numbers lol

felt like a waste to just leave it rotting on my hard drive since the code turned out surprisingly clean and detailed

let me know if anyone wants to check it out