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Mind & Mathobjective MOBA

Heroes of the Storm

Objective-driven MOBA with shared team XP.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION5 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    5/10

    Skillshots and rotations require hands

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    7/10

    Team-fight cooldown trading is prediction

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    3/10

    Map objectives and merc camps vary

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    7/10

    Talent picks and team comps deep

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

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Game details

Released
2015
Developer
Blizzard Entertainment
Platforms
PC, Mac
Modes
Multiplayer, Co-operative
IGDB critics
79/100
IGDB users
73/100
MOBAActionFantasyScience fiction