new player difficulty?

[MeneerRay]

is medium too easy? Im wondering if I should pick hard but might be too rough for a new player?

[KKDJ20]

I thought hard was way too easy tbh went straight for hell, but definitely no less than hard

[renanqi001]

The important thing for a new player would be learning how champions interact with each other, with equipment and with the meta. If you want a more casual experience, you can always tweak some difficulties down, such as how fast your players improve. Personally, I don't recommend new players being overly conservative when picking difficulty, since losing is not a bad thing. You can actually learn about how to BP and how to set up ganks from the AI.

However, for your reference, the AI blatantly cheats in hell difficulty, I do believe the devs toned it down a bit in recent patches, but the pattern is still there. It could be frustrating for a new player to be constantly beat down by the AI with one 'devilish' hand after another. (In case you don't get the irony, the AI is liable to cheat with card draw when you're open.) For seasoned players, though, cheating does not give the AI a winning chance either, just one or two kills. The hell AI is definitely and easily beatable, just maybe not for new players.

[MeneerRay]

Originally posted by KKDJ20:

I thought hard was way too easy tbh went straight for hell, but definitely no less than hard

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[MeneerRay]

Originally posted by renanqi001:

The important thing for a new player would be learning how champions interact with each other, with equipment and with the meta. If you want a more casual experience, you can always tweak some difficulties down, such as how fast your players improve. Personally, I don't recommend new players being overly conservative when picking difficulty, since losing is not a bad thing. You can actually learn about how to BP and how to set up ganks from the AI.

However, for your reference, the AI blatantly cheats in hell difficulty, I do believe the devs toned it down a bit in recent patches, but the pattern is still there. It could be frustrating for a new player to be constantly beat down by the AI with one 'devilish' hand after another. (In case you don't get the irony, the AI is liable to cheat with card draw when you're open.) For seasoned players, though, cheating does not give the AI a winning chance either, just one or two kills. The hell AI is definitely and easily beatable, just maybe not for new players.

thanks will take that one :D

[swightly]

Playing on hard and I think its a pretty good starting difficulty, youll probably lose a small amount of games trying to figure stuff out and bulldoze through the first year with good comps. But the game will pit better players on the second year if you beat the tourny with stacked talents/personal cards and many champion level heroes.

The AI can definitely still pull some ruthless ass card combos to delete your entire team if you dont pick some defensive heroes for playing on the red side. It does feel like the AI is cheating on some of my matches with how ridiculously perfect their draws and combos are when they streamroll on those games.

Also when you buy new players make sure they dont have isolationist as a trait(unless they have two traits), I lost a couple of games with my top being useless with no cards for 50 rounds until their next next trait unlock.

[CondorDrake]

Hell mode is easy as well, it just takes a little longer before you steamroll the AI

[Calisca]

I'd recommend Picking hell and then just maxing the difficulty sliders for a slightly harder experience if you wanna get fked.

[Warskull]

If you are good at card games and strategy and have enough experience with League or DotA to understand team building I would recommend going straight to hard. If you struggle with strategy or team building, medium might be the way to go.

The most recent AI update makes the AI a lot better, but you'll still probably win more than you lose once you understand the game and play on hell.

[Deadbridge]

I think adding "smart drafting" gives a nice challenge. Otherwise "Bobo the monkey" will ban heroes you havent played for very long =) Probably also hard even as a beginner. But to be honest - I think my experience of normal is serval updates back (and alot has changed since then).

When you play on hard you will be needing to look for balance updates (buffs or nerfs a hero), build some own herobuilds (3 items) and reemake thoose herobuilds when equipment is rotating, You will probably also look for some tranfers (buy and sell) before you reach the title.

[Skull]

Originally posted by Deadbridge:

I think adding "smart drafting" gives a nice challenge. Otherwise "Bobo the monkey" will ban heroes you havent played for very long =) Probably also hard even as a beginner. But to be honest - I think my experience of normal is serval updates back (and alot has changed since then).

When you play on hard you will be needing to look for balance updates (buffs or nerfs a hero), build some own herobuilds (3 items) and reemake thoose herobuilds when equipment is rotating, You will probably also look for some tranfers (buy and sell) before you reach the title.

What is smart draft? Can you explain?

[Dark All Day]

Originally posted by Skull:

Originally posted by Deadbridge:

I think adding "smart drafting" gives a nice challenge. Otherwise "Bobo the monkey" will ban heroes you havent played for very long =) Probably also hard even as a beginner. But to be honest - I think my experience of normal is serval updates back (and alot has changed since then).

When you play on hard you will be needing to look for balance updates (buffs or nerfs a hero), build some own herobuilds (3 items) and reemake thoose herobuilds when equipment is rotating, You will probably also look for some tranfers (buy and sell) before you reach the title.

What is smart draft? Can you explain?

I think he means a mod where the AI actually bans more like a competent player.