If you select maps carefully it's cake. Add in the fact that you can dodge opponents easily and you'll lose rarely. If you play in the spirit it's meant and try new maps, play vs everyone, etc then it becomes more challenging due to the randomness factor.
This is pretty much what i've been doing, so far matched up with maga twice although we didn't get to fight since I get rushed most of the time. The maps are pretty funny, some have absolutely ridiculous creeps.
Any orcs (seksi?) want to share strats to reliably survive early game as orc? I get accidentally teamed often or on low wood maps a hu or ud will roll in before I can get full casters up.
12 rivers map is really cute, I love that one. Murgul oasis makes me vomit though, that map has been on blizz's rotation waaaay too long.
Does anyone know who smurfs on top of the ladder? Any of these akas famous smurfs?
-Sunny (this dude always spawns near me and rushes me out, sadface -kd_kohl -toy0ta -mogg_maniac -sqkdv -gz. really good NE
I also noticed AlienwareOwnz still plays! The dude is almost as old as me in FFA ages :) he should FML
In solo, everything is so mathematical and predictable, players already know what to expect, it all goes down to micro. In FFA, you never know who's hiding what, and shit can be hanging for hours. It's absolutely way different in FFA.
Anyways, as long as any player in a game can ask for no obs/no stream, I think it's cool.
Honestly, I would never ever ever allow streaming of league games (or even obs except moderators), but since people are being babies and have to obs/stream, measures have to be taken.
There is absolutely no reason to watch a game live, how is replay any worse?
the fact that there are real time streams going of FML games is baffling to me. This should absolutely not be allowed, 30 min delay at least, or even 1 hour. Even 1 hour could fuck up someone if there is a stand off and they are hiding units or gold. I would trust old school people not to abuse a stream, but the league is bigger than before these days.
EboNowUDWTF, 6/11 wins on the PlayFFA ladder so far and slowly getting back into shape (mostly EZmoding with orc, but also trying some worker banshee stealing UD for more original hero combos)
I'd be curious to see stats of most used heroes in FFA, I think cl/tinker/naga/beastm/fl would be on the bottom. Bloodmage/farseer/warden aren't very common either although they are all extremely good heroes, it's just other EZ combos are much much more powerful (am/mk/pal is vastly superior to bm/mk/pal, dr/sh/tc is 10x stronger than fs/sh/tc).
He's ridiculously strong vs orc and works well if you go ground undead.
If I'm EZmoding orc (sh/tc+fs/dr/bm), playing against cl ud is a sigh of relief. tri nuke on the other hand, especially at the beginning and 6/6/6 midgame can be bloody ridiculous.
I've talked about this generally many times before, but here's something you may want to try out, especially if you are bored of reusing same hero combos every game.
There are several heroes that are quite bad and are considered a "noob" indicator (e.g. other players won't take you seriously).
Naga Beastmaster Firelord Cryptlord Tinker
You can also screw around with people's expectations (everyone expects a UD to go dk/lich/dl, hu to go mk/pal+something and orc to go tc/sh+something - these are so-called ezmode (EZ) combos).
By breaking these expectations, you make your opponents think you are shittier player, and they won't think you're too dangerous.
Of course this can also backfire. Another player might think you are easy kill and try to tome you, and if they are using an EZ combo, they will have an edge. So it's probably not the tactic you will want to use on maps where you spawn near an EZ player.
Ideally, you should have solid micro to pull this off, but more importantly be ready to manip against the EZers (remember, they have stronger heroes than you, so you want them teamed out while you look like the underdog). Get into the mind of your teammates: you have to look undeniably weak to them. They have to believe that they will beat you in 1v1. If they are using a ud tri nuke combo and you are using a naga/kotg/potm, they will consider you an easy kill, and perfect ally to team up against a nasty bm/tc/sh orc. The orc on the other hand will most likely go for the undead, who is much more dangerous with his tri nuke than naga using NE. This is perfect for you - because while they fight, you snipe for easy experience and quietly collect gold mines.
Once it comes to 1v1, your garbage hero will become a liability, and you better be ready for it. A single hero makes a huge difference in the endgame where heroes can often take out entire 100 food armies. So you have to be sure that you have significant resource/positioning/item/lvl advantage vs your non-garbage hero opponent.
This is a somewhat risky tactic that also becomes problematic if players are resisting manip and don't team the strongest person (this is often the case in low-skill games). But I think it's pretty good in certain map setups in high-level play.
Anyways, this is my contribution to hopefully adding some variety in the ffa hero combos (of which I want to see more! all games seem exactly the same with people reusing same heroes over and over = boring!!!)
I would argue that none of this matters! :) Always team up vs strongest player in game. If everyone is equal strength, team up vs:
1. Human = Orc (ezmode races) 2. UD = NE (hardmode races)
Exception to this is if HU or Orc don't use standard ezmode heroes (SH/TC for orcs, Mk/Pal for Hu), then they become hardmode too.
Top end FFA is like top poker, best heroes/best race/best micro should not have to win. You can be really bad and miss all devours/staffs and still win if you know who to team :)
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