Alex Klontzas

Last time i said something on you Was Hammer (and i'm still concerned about the rework). But i feel the same as Mopsio. You want to low snowball effect. I have played all Moba. HotS is the most balanced moba in snowball effect (you did a great job six months ago with xp patchs)

Snowball is not a bad thing. Yes it must be balanced. But it is nowadays. If you have 2 level behind, you can comeback. And if you play well with a nice timing, you can comeback. And if you play well before that, it's normal to snowball.

Agreed, and that's not realistically changing, we're just trying to better control situations where you get to 3+ level disparity without being able to react because you lost one objective for example and your only option is to soak or wait for the other team to make a mistake.

If you are 3+ levels down you have down more than just lose one objective. It takes significant mistakes for this to happen in a competitive game (the kind of: lets restart the scrim, this should never happen in a real game, useless to practice for)

What do you expect will happen if a team starts contesting objectives early, takes fort, loses their wave control because catas and gets frozen out of XP? They already get no structure XP basically and then also lose minion XP because of catas.

You don't get ahead by contesting early, you can get ahead by your opponent taking forts and getting themselves frozen out. Unless you get hard siege cheese and no anti-siege, how does your push threaten core until 16-20? You don't have talent leads behind them

On paper just looks like it's made to make clown fiesta games better, because people inherently value structures/objectives even if they have no inherent value. They are used to get ahead in XP economy, forts are legit better to have down now for maximizing XP differential.