Reality is that game which was here first will always be better ,DotA will always be better then LoL , and LoL will always be much better than Heroes of the storm
Not sure why that would be the case. There are board games that are better than Monopoly, even if Monopoly is older.
It's interesting to me that you prefer Blizzard's art and gameplay in HS over LoR but not in HOTs over LoL. HOTs is a better game that LoL in my opinion, but even if you like LoL more, you have to admit that the Blizzard gameplay, art, music, and humor is superior.
My request is, if anyone knows community sites like hearthpwn, but for LoR. Also, if you already play LoR, slide me your Riot tag and i will gladly add you.
I am happy for you that you found a CCG that you genuinely enjoy.
My 2 cents, with a "Powerhouse" name as Riot games, I feel like they could have done SO MUCH more with their "animated" cards. It's honestly a joke, also LoR spell's card art and the card itself has an absolutely boring tone to it. It's hard to explain, but it just feels lazy to me.
The Champion's card arts are definitely top notch though. This is coming from someone who plays HS and LoR religiously.
I am happy for you that you found a CCG that you genuinely enjoy.
My 2 cents, with a "Powerhouse" name as Riot games, I feel like they could have done SO MUCH more with their "animated" cards. It's honestly a joke, also LoR spell's card art and the card itself has an absolutely boring tone to it. It's hard to explain, but it just feels lazy to me.
The Champion's card arts are definitely top notch though. This is coming from someone who plays HS and LoR religiously.
I absolutely know what you mean. I see it like this: In terms of aesthetics nothing beats HS golden cards. But also nothing is more expensive than they are. LoR "golden" cards are only a tiny visual upgrade, but they basically come for free and as i understand, having a specific card in "golden" makes all copies of it so. After some time you can have a fully golden collection in LoR. LoR non-golden cards are a lot more beautiful than HS non-golden cards tho, for me.
About the spell cards: You mean simply the card art or how it is animated when you cast/prepare a spell? Or how it looks when the spell is released? The latter looks nice to me.
tbh i did try it after i read this forum and its not about being new game i understand ur opinion but the difference is literally this game gives u the skill over the random luck i love hearthstone and its playstyle but my problem with it is i cant pay anymore and didn't have time to farm like crazy and ended up DE my cards to make viable deck to climb with but in the end it just need alot of money and still good luck but runestone gives u great things like one of the things i like about it that it makes u craft ur own legendary or epic ...etc which is something hearthstone missing and simply runestone is what u want hearthstone to be like :D
Reality is that game which was here first will always be better ,DotA will always be better then LoL , and LoL will always be much better than Heroes of the storm
Not sure why that would be the case. There are board games that are better than Monopoly, even if Monopoly is older.
It's interesting to me that you prefer Blizzard's art and gameplay in HS over LoR but not in HOTs over LoL. HOTs is a better game that LoL in my opinion, but even if you like LoL more, you have to admit that the Blizzard gameplay, art, music, and humor is superior.
I agree that the artworks , music especially and humor which is sometimes really funny is superior in comparison to all other games and game developing companies.
If you want to laugh play hearthstone naxx adventure and go for challenge with paladin :) at the start u laugh and at the end u will cry laughin
It's just different. I'm not enjoy all that much when I need to take actions on my opponents turn and when my turn isn't fully mine, that's why HS or, let's say, TESL (RIP) would always be better games for me rather than LoR or MTGA. Also as a viewer it's way more easier to watch HS streams, I would never watch LoR stream. Visually HS looks way better (except for the cute guys in the corner of a screen and champions level up animations). Sounds and voices are probably better in LoR (at least in russian version), but who cares about that, I play muted 90% of the time. In terms of economy LoR is of course a lot more generous, but i'm F2P in HS since I started at GvG and still have no big problems with being F2P. Game modes, I would say, equal - HS have an amazing arena mode (I know my opinion will be unpopular, but for me it's the best game mode in the game) and Runeterra's expedition mode forces players to have synergistic decks, and that totally ruins spirit of "everything can happen" and "find a way to make everything useful, even if its garbage". Runeterra, at the same time, have a tournament mode, which I want from HS for years. I don't care about Warcraft as much as I don't care about LoL, so lore was never a factor for me. Deckbuilding isn't important for me at all and it's nice that in Runeterra you can netdeck best players decks straight from the client. Overall, I would play LoR instead of HS only if Blizzard made economy system so greedy that it would be impossible to be F2P for me or if they make games even longer, like control only meta or something like that. It's far from that point. It's nice that we have a game to keep Blizzard not relaxed though. Both games have their pros and cons, but LoR should be compared with games of its subgenre, like MTGA, not with HS, or it will come down to subgenre preferences (and maybe the money aspect) every time.
I think it's interesting that the one thing people seem to prefer with LoR is that they give away more stuff. Otherwise, it's basically the same game with a few slightly different mechanics/rules. It didn't take me long to port my HS strategies for aggro, combo, and control over to LoR. The ideas are very similar. So, yeah, I liked LoR just fine...just like I like HS. But why start from scratch in a new, similar card game when I already have a large collection in this one?
I notice the same thing. It's a little more nuanced here on hearthpwn where people have genuine gripes with the meta, but read the comments sections of any general gaming website and it's pretty clear that people just want free stuff. And the fact that other CCGs offer it doesn't speak to their benevolence; it's just the realization that they have to offer something to attract players because they're not providing a superior product.
Yeah, that's how i thought of HS for over a decade. That it's by far the superior product. Then, the first time i check a concurring product, i realized that i was wrong (or at least, that HS WAS the very best indeed, but has fallen off now).
Hearthstone has only existed for seven years buddy. Little hard to like something for over a decade when it wont reach a decade for another 3 years.
That aside, in LoR, the top 5 cards are all used in at least 70% of decks, and there are over 130 cards that see 2% play or less. That's over 20%.
And if you think all decks are viable you arent playing at a very high rank. Most of Runeterra's meta is aggro bullshit.
Guess "YOU" never reached that far in LOR - game is not aggro meta at all, it's just not stupid like HS with many cards that remove all boards and play by itself alone in their own turns. LOR has a health meta mixed with aggro /tempo and spells and many decks with a mix between both. I'm not also a Legend here but Master there too. you can't complain about aggro in a card game dude, be smart.
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Just wanted to give a short feedback. It took me until now (so about 4 months) to complete (yes, every single card there is) my collection and all the progress roads the game offers. Note, that you wont need the whole collection, it is easily possible to have all relevant decks with about 65% collection completion. Yesterday i reached Masters for the first time, which is the highest league in the game.
The resources needed to craft cards continue accumulating, even after the collection is full, so, given one continues playing regularly, it is basically granted that one can craft every card of the new expansions right at release. The next expansion will hit in about 2 weeks, so if anyone is interested after reading this, now is a good time to start. I can even offer coaching of the basics until you get the gist of it, since the combat system is quite complex (including a lot of mindgames being possible, due to the interactivity between the two opponents in combat phase).
Cheers, hope to see you in the game. Add me under a3b2c1 #5685 on the server EUW (EU West).
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Do you have any site to netdeck good runeterra decks? I'm always find horrible sites with horrible lists. I like the game but don't have the same patience to deckbuilding there like i have in years of HS and still has in HS.
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Do you have any site to netdeck good runeterra decks? I'm always find horrible sites with horrible lists. I like the game but don't have the same patience to deckbuilding there like i have in years of HS and still has in HS.
Also, check the following Youtube content creators, they are all very high Masters players (besides Swim, but if you play LoR you should watch Swim) and their vids are super instructional.
Alanzq
BruisedByGod
Swim
MajiinBae
Personally i prefer Alanzq over everyone else in terms of skill and how much you can learn from his vids.
Also: Where are you playing? EU? NA? Gief tag plx :)
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Do you have any site to netdeck good runeterra decks? I'm always find horrible sites with horrible lists. I like the game but don't have the same patience to deckbuilding there like i have in years of HS and still has in HS.
Also, check the following Youtube content creators, they are all very high Masters players (besides Swim, but if you play LoR you should watch Swim) and their vids are super instructional.
Alanzq
BruisedByGod
Swim
MajiinBae
Personally i prefer Alanzq over everyone else in terms of skill and how much you can learn from his vids.
Also: Where are you playing? EU? NA? Gief tag plx :)
I play in Salty America xD I will see it some stuff...the swimstrim it's awesome thanks for the site.
I was considering leaving Hearthstone for a different game but felt like building a collection would be a huge chore, thanks for the insight!
And when I say leaving I really mean leaving, at least until another expansion comes out. Blizzard just keeps making the same mistakes when it comes to balancing in standard and with the new core set the amount of deckbuilding possibilities has dried up substantially. It feels like sh*t when every time you try something new you just get beat down by tier 1 meta decks and the money/dust spent on your cards feels like a waste. Every expansion I think 'maybe this deck will work if I get that legendary' and spend some money on packs, only to realize that the best decks have already been made and everyone else is playing those. Leaves such a bad taste when you feel your money is wasted like that.
I already love League of Legends but seeing the champions in a card game seemed kind of weird to me. I'm definitely going to give it a try!
I play so many card games... It started with YuGiOh as a kid, which I picked up again senior year of High School. That year I got my first smart phone and installed Hearthstone.
In 2020 I wasn't playing much HS, and one of my favorite LoL Champs got put into LoR with one of my favorite Regions (Bilgewater) and I downloaded that to try it out, and I fell in love. A few months later, I started watching people play Commander (an MTG Format) to kill time at work and now I play that too.
And for good measure I have a Pokemon deck I don't play much lol.
Each card game has something different to offer imo. LoR has a lot going for it. It's crisp and clean, it feels satisfying to play and has fun, engaging mechanics. Hearthstone feels classic, and has the best game feel of any CCG I've played.
LoR however is waaaay more accessible, which a lot of people on here are framing as like, a bad thing? Like "oh people just like free stuff" - well yeah free stuff is awesome, and it makes it easier to play fun games. Hearthstone in contrast is severely inaccessible, its so damn expensive to pick up a full collection, dwarfed only by MTG Arena's awful economy. The season pass thing that provides tons of gold is a step in the right direction, but we're miles from where we should be.
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Do you have any site to netdeck good runeterra decks? I'm always find horrible sites with horrible lists. I like the game but don't have the same patience to deckbuilding there like i have in years of HS and still has in HS.
I'm a huge fan of MegaMogwai for LoR decks. He's super fun and engaging, and a really down to earth honest dude. All the other people listed in the thread are great too, he's just my personal fave for this game.
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I like HS and LoR, but being able to play every deck I want (without spending a fortune) pushes me towards LoR.
Plus, they release new cards very regularly - it keeps things fresh (and not a problem for players, because the economy is so generous).
Not sure why that would be the case. There are board games that are better than Monopoly, even if Monopoly is older.
It's interesting to me that you prefer Blizzard's art and gameplay in HS over LoR but not in HOTs over LoL. HOTs is a better game that LoL in my opinion, but even if you like LoL more, you have to admit that the Blizzard gameplay, art, music, and humor is superior.
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/
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I am happy for you that you found a CCG that you genuinely enjoy.
My 2 cents, with a "Powerhouse" name as Riot games, I feel like they could have done SO MUCH more with their "animated" cards. It's honestly a joke, also LoR spell's card art and the card itself has an absolutely boring tone to it. It's hard to explain, but it just feels lazy to me.
The Champion's card arts are definitely top notch though. This is coming from someone who plays HS and LoR religiously.
I absolutely know what you mean. I see it like this: In terms of aesthetics nothing beats HS golden cards. But also nothing is more expensive than they are. LoR "golden" cards are only a tiny visual upgrade, but they basically come for free and as i understand, having a specific card in "golden" makes all copies of it so. After some time you can have a fully golden collection in LoR. LoR non-golden cards are a lot more beautiful than HS non-golden cards tho, for me.
About the spell cards: You mean simply the card art or how it is animated when you cast/prepare a spell? Or how it looks when the spell is released? The latter looks nice to me.
Also: Are you playing on EU? Whats your tag?
tbh i did try it after i read this forum and its not about being new game i understand ur opinion but the difference is literally this game gives u the skill over the random luck i love hearthstone and its playstyle but my problem with it is i cant pay anymore and didn't have time to farm like crazy and ended up DE my cards to make viable deck to climb with but in the end it just need alot of money and still good luck but runestone gives u great things like one of the things i like about it that it makes u craft ur own legendary or epic ...etc which is something hearthstone missing and simply runestone is what u want hearthstone to be like :D
the only reason i dont leave HS is because i've spent too much time on it.... T_T
I agree that the artworks , music especially and humor which is sometimes really funny is superior in comparison to all other games and game developing companies.
If you want to laugh play hearthstone naxx adventure and go for challenge with paladin :) at the start u laugh and at the end u will cry laughin
It's just different. I'm not enjoy all that much when I need to take actions on my opponents turn and when my turn isn't fully mine, that's why HS or, let's say, TESL (RIP) would always be better games for me rather than LoR or MTGA. Also as a viewer it's way more easier to watch HS streams, I would never watch LoR stream.
Visually HS looks way better (except for the cute guys in the corner of a screen and champions level up animations). Sounds and voices are probably better in LoR (at least in russian version), but who cares about that, I play muted 90% of the time.
In terms of economy LoR is of course a lot more generous, but i'm F2P in HS since I started at GvG and still have no big problems with being F2P.
Game modes, I would say, equal - HS have an amazing arena mode (I know my opinion will be unpopular, but for me it's the best game mode in the game) and Runeterra's expedition mode forces players to have synergistic decks, and that totally ruins spirit of "everything can happen" and "find a way to make everything useful, even if its garbage". Runeterra, at the same time, have a tournament mode, which I want from HS for years.
I don't care about Warcraft as much as I don't care about LoL, so lore was never a factor for me.
Deckbuilding isn't important for me at all and it's nice that in Runeterra you can netdeck best players decks straight from the client.
Overall, I would play LoR instead of HS only if Blizzard made economy system so greedy that it would be impossible to be F2P for me or if they make games even longer, like control only meta or something like that. It's far from that point. It's nice that we have a game to keep Blizzard not relaxed though.
Both games have their pros and cons, but LoR should be compared with games of its subgenre, like MTGA, not with HS, or it will come down to subgenre preferences (and maybe the money aspect) every time.
English is not my native language, so, with a high probability, mistakes were made.
Guess "YOU" never reached that far in LOR - game is not aggro meta at all, it's just not stupid like HS with many cards that remove all boards and play by itself alone in their own turns. LOR has a health meta mixed with aggro /tempo and spells and many decks with a mix between both. I'm not also a Legend here but Master there too. you can't complain about aggro in a card game dude, be smart.
runeterra is better in several aspects, especially about deck balance. The mechanics are better and, currently, there are at least 20 high-ranking competitive decks. I'll mention the ones that come to mind: aggro noxus-targon, pirate aggro, fiora shen, endure, midrange frostbite, go hard, plaza scout, zoe lee, zoe fiora, fearsome, discard jinx, nox-pil burn, warmother, soraka tahm, teemo, scargrounds...
Just wanted to give a short feedback. It took me until now (so about 4 months) to complete (yes, every single card there is) my collection and all the progress roads the game offers. Note, that you wont need the whole collection, it is easily possible to have all relevant decks with about 65% collection completion. Yesterday i reached Masters for the first time, which is the highest league in the game.
The resources needed to craft cards continue accumulating, even after the collection is full, so, given one continues playing regularly, it is basically granted that one can craft every card of the new expansions right at release. The next expansion will hit in about 2 weeks, so if anyone is interested after reading this, now is a good time to start. I can even offer coaching of the basics until you get the gist of it, since the combat system is quite complex (including a lot of mindgames being possible, due to the interactivity between the two opponents in combat phase).
Cheers, hope to see you in the game. Add me under a3b2c1 #5685 on the server EUW (EU West).
Do you have any site to netdeck good runeterra decks? I'm always find horrible sites with horrible lists. I like the game but don't have the same patience to deckbuilding there like i have in years of HS and still has in HS.
Sure thing! I use the following sites:
https://mobile.twitter.com/<wbr />runeterradex
https://twitter.com/<wbr />runeterraccg
https://www.swimstrim.com/
https://teamleviathangaming.<wbr />com/category/lor-meta/
https://twitter.com/<wbr />lortopdecks
Also, check the following Youtube content creators, they are all very high Masters players (besides Swim, but if you play LoR you should watch Swim) and their vids are super instructional.
Alanzq
BruisedByGod
Swim
MajiinBae
Personally i prefer Alanzq over everyone else in terms of skill and how much you can learn from his vids.
Also: Where are you playing? EU? NA? Gief tag plx :)
I play in Salty America
xD
I will see it some stuff...the swimstrim it's awesome thanks for the site.
I was considering leaving Hearthstone for a different game but felt like building a collection would be a huge chore, thanks for the insight!
And when I say leaving I really mean leaving, at least until another expansion comes out. Blizzard just keeps making the same mistakes when it comes to balancing in standard and with the new core set the amount of deckbuilding possibilities has dried up substantially. It feels like sh*t when every time you try something new you just get beat down by tier 1 meta decks and the money/dust spent on your cards feels like a waste. Every expansion I think 'maybe this deck will work if I get that legendary' and spend some money on packs, only to realize that the best decks have already been made and everyone else is playing those. Leaves such a bad taste when you feel your money is wasted like that.
I already love League of Legends but seeing the champions in a card game seemed kind of weird to me. I'm definitely going to give it a try!
You might check out the LoR section on Out of Cards.
I play so many card games...
It started with YuGiOh as a kid, which I picked up again senior year of High School. That year I got my first smart phone and installed Hearthstone.
In 2020 I wasn't playing much HS, and one of my favorite LoL Champs got put into LoR with one of my favorite Regions (Bilgewater) and I downloaded that to try it out, and I fell in love. A few months later, I started watching people play Commander (an MTG Format) to kill time at work and now I play that too.
And for good measure I have a Pokemon deck I don't play much lol.
Each card game has something different to offer imo. LoR has a lot going for it. It's crisp and clean, it feels satisfying to play and has fun, engaging mechanics. Hearthstone feels classic, and has the best game feel of any CCG I've played.
LoR however is waaaay more accessible, which a lot of people on here are framing as like, a bad thing? Like "oh people just like free stuff" - well yeah free stuff is awesome, and it makes it easier to play fun games. Hearthstone in contrast is severely inaccessible, its so damn expensive to pick up a full collection, dwarfed only by MTG Arena's awful economy. The season pass thing that provides tons of gold is a step in the right direction, but we're miles from where we should be.
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I'm a huge fan of MegaMogwai for LoR decks. He's super fun and engaging, and a really down to earth honest dude. All the other people listed in the thread are great too, he's just my personal fave for this game.
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