S tier: The best HS streamers for me are GrinningGoat duo, now they are too busy with their toddlers, but they have provided an excellent analysis of Arena for years and I prefer smaller content creators in general, they were definitely doing it for so long not for fame and money, but just for having a nice time and share their thoughts with a small friendly community of active Arena players. Also I just love ADWCTA's analogies, his takes like "Blizzard is a fascist company and that's not necessarily a bad thing" which totally make sense after he explains what he meant by that are so cool. A tier: When I found Tylerootd he was streaming from a laptop and had a tiny amount of viewers, it's very nice that he made a good career and I still respect him a lot, but now when he is successful it's not that interesting and I rarely watch him anymore. ShtanUdachi is always calm and has godlike Arena skills. Hotform was also super calm and pleasant to watch, too bad that he made his biggest achievement in HS very early and move on. Same for JAB, maybe he was not as nice as Hotform (no one is as nice as Hotform), but still a nice guy and he was the best midrange hunter player in the world, the archetype I like the most to this day. B tier: Thijs seems like a nice guy, when he becomes overly excited I actually believe he is excited unlike many others, but his decks are mostly not the ones I like, and, once again, stream size is an issue, I prefer when streamer is physically able to read his chat and answer if he wants to. DogDog has some insane APM skills, his transitions at BGs are work of art. Hafu is also quite strong, the moment she gain my respect the most was actually not about HS, she was preparing for streamers chess tournament and started to learn chess from scratch, she was learning rapidly and was very solid by the time the tournament started, almost at Dog's level despite Dog was playing at college and knew all the basics already. Alliestrasza is nice, with her amazing appearance I was initially afraid it would be "look at me, I'm a girl" stream, but she was not like that at all, just a normal streamer and a decent player, she is not just trying to capitalize on the fact that she looks cute. Out of those in the poll I guess Reynad was fine, he was playing good decks like Zoo and used good Russian music sometimes which was a pleasant surprise since most of the Russian music sucks, but not the songs he picked. B tier. Kolento's biggest advantage was that he was a top player, definitely some things to learn from him. B tier. I don't like that Kripp constantly mentions his food disfunction (not a big deal, I have a couple of vegan friends, but we don't promote our preferences to each other much unlike Kripp does), but he is not stupid and his BGs strategies are way easier to replicate than DogDog's. When I climbed to top-200 I was watching his YouTube videos and he was #1 at Arena multiple times so I guess he is underrated as a player, he just has kinda low APM, always praises himself and deliberately saying wrong things about how unlucky he is, which paints a wrong picture. B tier. As for Trump, I'm thankful for promoting Arena and greedy way of playing it, I suspect that crushing valuetown citizens with much faster decks was very nice for my winrate at the time. C tier. Amaz was not tryhard enough to learn from him. D tier. Forsen's streams I actively dislike, he didn't act that bad himself, but the chat is always a reflection of the streamer and despite of bringing into the world amazing Kappa song Forsen's auditory was producing mostly stupidity and copypastas. That's very common for Twitch in general, but quite rare for HS. F tier.
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S tier: The best HS streamers for me are GrinningGoat duo, now they are too busy with their toddlers, but they have provided an excellent analysis of Arena for years and I prefer smaller content creators in general, they were definitely doing it for so long not for fame and money, but just for having a nice time and share their thoughts with a small friendly community of active Arena players. Also I just love ADWCTA's analogies, his takes like "Blizzard is a fascist company and that's not necessarily a bad thing" which totally make sense after he explains what he meant by that are so cool.
A tier: When I found Tylerootd he was streaming from a laptop and had a tiny amount of viewers, it's very nice that he made a good career and I still respect him a lot, but now when he is successful it's not that interesting and I rarely watch him anymore. ShtanUdachi is always calm and has godlike Arena skills. Hotform was also super calm and pleasant to watch, too bad that he made his biggest achievement in HS very early and move on. Same for JAB, maybe he was not as nice as Hotform (no one is as nice as Hotform), but still a nice guy and he was the best midrange hunter player in the world, the archetype I like the most to this day.
B tier: Thijs seems like a nice guy, when he becomes overly excited I actually believe he is excited unlike many others, but his decks are mostly not the ones I like, and, once again, stream size is an issue, I prefer when streamer is physically able to read his chat and answer if he wants to. DogDog has some insane APM skills, his transitions at BGs are work of art. Hafu is also quite strong, the moment she gain my respect the most was actually not about HS, she was preparing for streamers chess tournament and started to learn chess from scratch, she was learning rapidly and was very solid by the time the tournament started, almost at Dog's level despite Dog was playing at college and knew all the basics already. Alliestrasza is nice, with her amazing appearance I was initially afraid it would be "look at me, I'm a girl" stream, but she was not like that at all, just a normal streamer and a decent player, she is not just trying to capitalize on the fact that she looks cute.
Out of those in the poll I guess Reynad was fine, he was playing good decks like Zoo and used good Russian music sometimes which was a pleasant surprise since most of the Russian music sucks, but not the songs he picked. B tier. Kolento's biggest advantage was that he was a top player, definitely some things to learn from him. B tier. I don't like that Kripp constantly mentions his food disfunction (not a big deal, I have a couple of vegan friends, but we don't promote our preferences to each other much unlike Kripp does), but he is not stupid and his BGs strategies are way easier to replicate than DogDog's. When I climbed to top-200 I was watching his YouTube videos and he was #1 at Arena multiple times so I guess he is underrated as a player, he just has kinda low APM, always praises himself and deliberately saying wrong things about how unlucky he is, which paints a wrong picture. B tier. As for Trump, I'm thankful for promoting Arena and greedy way of playing it, I suspect that crushing valuetown citizens with much faster decks was very nice for my winrate at the time. C tier. Amaz was not tryhard enough to learn from him. D tier. Forsen's streams I actively dislike, he didn't act that bad himself, but the chat is always a reflection of the streamer and despite of bringing into the world amazing Kappa song Forsen's auditory was producing mostly stupidity and copypastas. That's very common for Twitch in general, but quite rare for HS. F tier.
English is not my native language, so, with a high probability, mistakes were made.