{"id":12445,"date":"2012-07-20T12:37:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12445"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:13:28","slug":"moba-round-up-heroes-of-newerth-is-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/gaming\/pc\/moba-round-up-heroes-of-newerth-is-a-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"MOBA Round-up: Heroes of Newerth Is A Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you’re anything like me, Heroes of Newerth<\/a><\/em> is the game you play when your League of Legends<\/a><\/em> account has been temporarily banned. Or at least, that’s how I used to feel, before I started playing HoN<\/em> consistently. Then, I noticed something unique about the world created by S2 Games<\/a>: HoN<\/em> might have the strongest support champions in the entire MOBA genre.<\/p>\n Unlike most MOBAs I’ve played, Heroes of Newerth<\/em> rewards players with a wide variety of support classes who excel at bringing a team’s synergy together. Not only are support champions crucial to any team composition in HoN<\/em>, but check this out — they’re actually fun to play.\u00a0Soraka the Starchild from League of Legends<\/em> isn’t fun to play. I don’t care how creative you think you can be with her, she simply dies over and over while barely helping in team fights. You want a champions that feels like she’s actually doing something? Check out Empath, a favorite of mine. Empath combines a unique set of abilities that allows her to drain life from champions, create walls only passable by allies, and give a passive health regeneration to every ally on the map. Oh wait, I forgot to tell you the best part of all. She can go inside champions and buff them, while she keeps using her abilities. How cool is that? For example, here’s one time that playing Empath came in handy. Playing HoN<\/em> with my brother, he chose to play a melee bruiser called Predator. Every time Predator leapt dangerously into battle, I would port myself inside him using Empath to give him increased health, attack speed, and movement speed. When my brother’s melee bruiser got low on health, I would life drain an enemy to restore his health, as I had no form of my own while inside him. Not only does using these attributes allow me to avoid dying myself, but I get to single-handedly turn my teammate into a non-stop killing machine, which feels really, really good. Try feeling that empowered with any support champion in any other MOBA game. It won’t happen, because unlike at other MOBA companies, HoN<\/em>‘s Executive Director, Pu Liu, plays support champions competitively and knows first-hand how it can suck.<\/p>\n Why would you want to spend your time as a support dying over and over? Because you want those high moments when you feel great. A good support can really pull it out in a team fight and turn it around, which gives you that gamer’s high. We want to make everyone’s favorite type of champ feel really rewarding in fights, so no matter who you play, you get that high feeling. That’s why we have champions like Empath, Rhapsody, Monarch, and Myrmidon. I was deeply involved with the creation of all of these characters because I play support. That role is very near and dear to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n