BreakyCPK is the biggest joke of a caster. He hasn't gotten better in his 4 odd years of casting. If anything, he's gotten worse while still saying the exact same things over and over. Also, just look at the stream quality / spectator value of a competitive HoN game and compare it to Dota2 with DotaTV, million dollar prize pools, great casters, and 100k+ stream viewers and you'll quickly see just how little S2 is willing to do for their game.

Funny you mention the MK by the way. The point where heroes like MK were just running rampant mid and raping all the traditional heroes with very little effort was the point HoN starting to become stale and unenjoyable for me. You literally have to play perfect on a SS, Hag, or almost any traditional Dota port hero against heroes like MK or DW mid or you just lose the lane. That means you pretty much have to dodge all their spells, get every rune, and land perfect harass. If you get hit by 1 combo, lose 1 rune, or make a mistake harassing and take too much damage, you've lost. It's just dumb and rewards poor play from bad players with no real repercussions.

Breaky just isn't interesting at all. I noticed toward the end of hon's relevance he took to screaming a lot more and just trying to be more excitable in general.
Also, see this video of him emulating moonmeander to cater to his audience:
http://youtu.be/VKx-K2cHEXA

MK is what I most frequently cite as my most hated part of this game. No other hero has that kind of ability to escape on command (q away, w away, e then w away, even up cliffs)
Also, the fact that he does so much burst that isn't situational (see pebbles: he does a good bit of burst early on with his combo, but it is based entirely on his positioning. you can't get the full combo damage without proper positioning), you can kill a 500 hp or w/e SS from the other side of the river by just Qing through the creep.
One momentary lapse in focus is enough to die and lose the lane to MK. Also good luck trying to control the rune (even though s2 made that semi-irrelevant with the new rune system)

Although there is nothing more satisfying than wrecking an MK picker

This post was edited by Ectasy on Aug 8 2013 06:11pm

New rune system is such a joke I don't even want to give it credibility by arguing about why it's bad.

I agree crushing a MK is satisfying though. It's pretty doable considering lots of people who play that hero are really bad and just want to get a higher winrate than they deserve. They make enough mistakes for them to somehow die or get completely out cs'd. It's really quite dumb how everything about him is perfect though. He has two escapes, a great combo to insta-kill anyone early game, crazy mobility with his ulti to gank lanes if he's losing mid or just to control runes, and he also scales well into late game with his stat gain, agility primary attribute, and the fact his first skill scales with auto-attack damage and how he can escape or disable people easily with his rock / vault skills.

This post was edited by sMACKTRiCKz on Aug 8 2013 06:19pm

Can be done, but in an equal match of skill it's pretty significantly hard.
It's a bad idea to play almost any fragile hero mid now, with additions like MK and Solstice. Solstice isn't really overpowered or anything, but if you play a fragile hero and he gets a charge off on you, you're done (he jungles, in case you didn't know. Charge is somewhat similar to legio, but with a ~1s stun at the end)
Of course you can still avoid getting gayed by Solstice, but you have to play sooo conservatively you might as well just play something beefier (or just a hero with an s2 escape)

This post was edited by Ectasy on Aug 8 2013 06:29pm

Doesn't sound very fun to me. One of my favorite parts of the game was squishy ranged vs squishy ranged mid matchups, which had a very high skill cap and were overall really exciting since they required you to focus on so many things at once. Now it seems like you can just pick a tanky melee S2 hero, run to mid with stout shield + hatchet, get easy last hits, get free runes or refreshment runes, tank most spells without having to worry too much about small positioning errors, and combo anyone down without having to set up much harass or anything. It just seems like the game is so much more 1-dimensional now, though I could be wrong since I haven't seen most of the latest patches.

I think S2 is making a shit ton of money if they can afford to hire a new staff to work on a new game.

So despite us thinking HoN is a pile, S2 is doing quite well for themselves growing their company.

holy shit, smack did u see navi games? pudge was sick!
gonna mby watch msi now, trixi notail era and whoever else

Dendi makes pudge look so OP. 2nd game was really meh by Na'vi so I went to bed.

lol those fountain hooks

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WHOEVER ISN'T WATCHING THIS IS A RETARD