Quote (sMACKTRiCKz @ Jul 15 2013 03:32pm)
Casual isn't even a real mode. You don't need any last hit ability or lane control, because you can just grab a few levels then run around ganking. Even if someone is getting every lasthit and playing perfectly in lane, if you gank their teammates a few times you get so much gold you don't even need to farm at all. It's just dumb and promotes people running around as 5 like retards with no repercussions.
For example, in a normal game if enemy team commits 5 heroes to a gank, and ends up killing 2 supports, it's often a tradeoff. If the team's carry is farming and maybe takes a tower in return, it isn't really worth it for the enemy to kill those 2 supports because they only gain like ~500 gold as a team split among many heroes whereas the other team's carry gets around ~1.2k from freefarming for 2 mins and last hitting a tower. In casual mode, if this happens the team that ganks the 2 supports gets like 1k gold and can buy much more items and snowball out of control. It's just a mode that even less balanced than normal mode HoN, and that's saying quite alot.
not necessarily true
controlling the lane is still valuable
you take away their chance for gold by denying and have the lane in the position you want
making it harder to get ganked because you are closer to the tower
but the whole snowball effect is true
gank a couple times and you have all your core while the other team doesnt
have anything to stop you with