Been playing Diablo a lot lately, decided on him for my "go-to-tank" slot.

I see on Hotslogs a lot of master league players build him offensively, which I have been doing (just matching their choices for the most part)... but I would assume a lot of those master players are playing in a well rounded, pre-made party.

I find that when my team starts to snowball, my Diablo is a massive game changer. But a lot of the time when I rush into to start the aggro and pull out one of the back liners, I'm pretty much dead within a few seconds. Is it typically stronger in HL solo ques to just build overly tanky?

Just opening a bit of a discussion since I'm in the office instead of on the road today.

Honestly Diablo is a pretty awful hero for exactly the reason you described. He can put out solid numbers but he doesn't have much sustain which is one of your primary roles as the tank.

That's about the extent I can help you regarding Diablo...if you wanted to try another tank, Muradin and Johanna are both solid choices and Tyrael is also very good in certain comps.

I pretty much go Fire Stomp build with Health Regen on soulstones, the stun ult.
I seem to have a high win rate with it in HM/QM.

https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/diablo#l06z

Been running this set up, I win about 55% in HL. I just find that lately my teams have been doing silly picks when I take the tank role. Had a Malf, Brightwing, Sgt, KT, Diablo comp the other day on a map that didn't even promote team fights (Garden) and we got ruined.



Yeah I bought Muradin a little bit ago. I'll probably learn him and just swap between Diablo/Mur when tanking based off my team composition. I find Diablo very fun to play because you can really mess up people who get out of position as long as you have an assassin with you... but if my team doesn't win a team fight quickly, I'm pretty much just going to have to stand there and die

This post was edited by TheDutchMan1443 on Jul 21 2015 07:35am

Looks the same, I guess just be more conservative with it.. I seem to have a good win pct.

That's a solid build. You may want to try "Imposing presence" at 16 depending on the enemy's comp. I also prefer Demonic Strength at 4 since it's useful in ganking. But yea, you're playing Diablo correctly in the sense that you're trying to peel apart that back line. You just have to choose your targets wisely. Also, if they are targeting YOU instead of your dps/support, I think that's a good thing.

Muradin plays his role much better than diablo