SHUDDERWOCK = ALWAYS MURLOCS! - Hearthstone Battlegrounds 

"Soo, Shuderwock can stay at 4 for a lot of time and do pretty good" *stays in 4 one turn*

"Shudderwock on 4 is actually a viable strategy!" *shows a game in which he instantly levels to 5 the turn after he went to 4*

Kripp: "If you're missing murlocs..." Dictionary: "Psychological projection is a defense mechanism in which the human ego defends itself against unconscious impulses or qualities by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. "

Kripp does complain about taking too much damage in this video.

Intro: "You can stay at tavern four because of the hero power" Gameplay:" Immediately goes to five without waiting"

The day Kripp stops playing murlocs will probably be the end of the game itself

1:41 Skipperino the Kripperino 2:20 Skipperino to Recruiterino

Spoiler for this video: In this video, Kripp gets... second place. His previous non-first video was one video ago, in ALWAYS TAKE PACK LEADER! where he got 2nd as Kael'thas. His most recent bottom four video was 36 videos ago, in WHERE’S MY TRIPLE?? RIP TO BUG?! where he got 6th as Maiev. This game, Kripp plays murlocs. His last non-murloc video was one video ago in ALWAYS TAKE PACK LEADER! where he played beasts as Kael'thas.

Kripp had a good bit of salty moments this game. In my opinion, this game had some of his funniest salt. Let’s take a look: 4:58 6:50 (keep watching this ones really long) 7:22 9:33 14:23 15:39 19:17

Kripp doesn't say Jesus in this video. Kripp continues a demonic streak of 2 videos without saying Jesus.

Simplest way to make games 1 turn longer would be to increase health pools to 50. Otherwise, reduce damage from minions by 1 each. Tavern 1 and tokens deal 0 damage, Tavern 2 deal 1, etc. Makes early game less oppressive, but also makes it harder for some comps to kill.

Murlocs + Georges the fallen : Don't need Megosaur

But did kripp say "whats that?" to rania in this vid? I wish thered be a kripperino to help me out...

I like the idea of healing for your tavern tier at the beginning of each turn

Who would've thought? Demons actually triumphing over murlocs. That megasaur change was awesome.

kripp does not go afk in this video

... you spent one turn of tavern 4 :') so i guess shudderwock is good on tavern 3....

I like these kind of videos where Kripp explains something or tells a story like when he mentioned the guild wars ban keep up the good work bro

I’m confused, I thought shudderwock was code for pogowock, but ig mech were gone

There needs to be a Kripperino tournament, winner plays Kripp in a best of 3 on the Tube.

I don't remember who came up with it, but getting corresponding armour whenever levelling up the tavern means 20+ health if you level all the way to 6, reduces the risks of levelling up so that even if the games are still short you are still supported to attempt an end game build, and it allows for defensive counter play other than just playing tempo. It isnt even overly complicated to explain or implement so blizz wouldn't be that hesitant rather than making some convoluted confusing "once a match if u get thised or thated u ignore damage" rule or whatever

So happy you make hearthstone content. Been following you since day 1 but it's only recently that I became a die hard fan. Keep it up

30 Hp start and only deal damage with tavern tier. Also I wouldn’t mind ya boi Krip doin some more TFT videos, I very much enjoy that game lol

Hero: Exists Kripp: ALWAYS MURLOCS

Virgin intro Kripp: Shudderwock playing murlocs can actually do really well staying on tavern 4. Chad gameplay Kripp: *levels to 5 immediately*

Today's fact: The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat.

What if they make it for every time you level up it increases the damage cap by 3 and then it caps at like a max damage of 15

Kripp is a great RU-vidr and streamer no cap

Good stuff krip

Me: comes back to BGs after a few weeks and gets first place first game with midrange murloc shudderwock because it was all I was given. Latest Kripp vid: explaining how this is a strong strat

Hoping to see a George murloc game, curious if his hp would enable shield/poison murlocs well enough to be strong

three ways to extend the games could be 1) tokens that spawn in the match dont get any stars. (token spam builds gets dmg neft) 2)Your hero always only deal 1 star of dmg. 3) If a six star card only have 50% health remaining it would only deal 3 dmg. If a 4 star card would have 25% or less health it would deal 1 dmg and so on.

the fact that megasaur no longer exists makes me feel like watching murlocs again

Hey Kripp. thx for your vids. How about this Catch up mechanic? Whenever you tier up you heal for the amount of gold you spend on leveling up?

Brann, Shudderwock and Furglmancer are super consistent murlock buildarounds for me. Almost always 1st or 2nd place

The change for damage should be that heroes and tokens don’t deal damage.

It's going good kripp

I think one solution for too much damage would be that: Minions that can NOT be bought from the tavern in normal cases (Tess), have no star value. So tokens created from Rat, Tidehunter, Alley cat, Microbots, Hyenas, Spiders or Plants (Adapt) wouldn't deal any damage. Winning with only tokens on board would result in only tavern tier worth of damage. Most of these token spawning minions can be found in tiers 1-3, so it would make it so that you take less damage in early game.

Thanks to you I'm 5990! Mechs OP!!

Alternative Title: Krip = "Always Murlocs"

Would increasing the cost of all the tavern tiers fix the damage issue?

Yesterday I was about to get 8th as Patchwerk. I had 5 health left and a pretty mediocre Juggler build with two Mal'gani, and then I found him. Annihilan Battlemaster. And then 3 more. Ez 1st place, great comeback mechanic, ggwp

How about adding Friendly Bartender to the BG? It is small enough change, that is not broken yet still might make a difference.

'Shudderwock murlocs is good on tavern 4' Literally spends the minimal amount of time on tier 4, epic.

“It’s a pretty big but” 0:52

0:53 Thats what he said

Kripp x Murwock confirmed

Krip: I feel like I'm being punished by trying wacky builds, because the games are to fast Also krip pre patch: if murlocs wasn't banned this game I would have forced them

What do you think about minions with "Battlecry: if you're not in winstreak heal x" where 'x' is some amount to balanced Edit: talking about it with a friend we came to the conclusion that making it a battlecry would make brann and shudder way to op. So we came up with making it "when you sell this minion, if you're not in a winstreak, heal x"

I think good idea wood be damage lock for rounds 2-10, you can get max damage equal to the turn, turn 2 - 2 max 2 dmg, turn 3 - 3max dmg up to turn 10. on turn 11 the damage unlocks and you can hit for any amount of damage. This would let you avoid getting slammed by highroll builds that can hit you for 25 on turns 8-10 if you're unlucky. This would slow the game down for about 2 turns I think.

About the damage problem. What if the damage was not based on the state of the board, but was instead equal to the turn index? Turn one: 1 damage Turn two: 2 damage Turn three: 3 damage ... This would reduce damage taken in the early game, allowing everyone to develop a build before the damage starts adding up too much.

Mb make it so tavern lvl doesn't add damage but makes it so the possible damage is capped at tavern times 3?

Primalfin moving to 4 is definitely a buff, they make it quite nice to get triples even when you don't have Brann/Primalfin

I didn't play BG's for couple of weeks, but yesrerday I played some, and I had 2 murloc games, one of them first place, the other one was second place. Stats are still op. Oh, and Kripp, you're wrong. You DO need Brann.

Poor guy. hes still in the denial phase

Wait, it's all murlocs? Always has been 👨‍🚀🔫

I think the damage problem could be solved by gaining the same amount of armor as the tavern tier you are going to. It's a very simple solution, easy to read, so it's in line with blizzards design philosophy, wouldn't make the games overlong, but just might be enough to keep you in the game for longer, if timed well, and would add some extra strategy to leveling.

Perhaps to compensate for loss of megasaur, if you trigger toxfin twice with brann or shudderwock, you should be able to give two murlocs poisonous.

Kripp won 7 out of 14 rounds this game.

5:02 sounds kinda like overwatch

I think the solution for life problem is cap max damage taken to: turn number x 2. So you wouldnt take 20 30 damage on mid turns.

a good way to deal with the problem of health would be a max damage you cant take depending on the turn of the game so you cant take 20 damage on turn 6

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUDDDDDEEEE YES THE MURLOCS THE MURLOCS THEY ARE BACK BABY! edit: GG kripp unfortunate hits but glad poisonous murlocs still have their place in the meta.

The change should be every minion deals one damage less than its tavern tier. This way you don't get token damage (rats and microbots) and games would be 2-3 turns longer. If you have a very op board you would still deal 20-25 damage but those instances would reduce by 80%.

Dude your so right Krip, battlegrounds is fun cuz u need to build something with random. If u can't have a small chance to build and get smashed to fast then its just a 100% game of chance and doenst feel right

You are doing very well to still enjoy half of your games. I had no fun 4 months ago so I just got rid of the game. I wasnt a good player, only having 7000mmr, but the game was waaay too much rng for me.

A possible solution for the damage problem would be to change the "tavern tier damage", by dealing only half of the damage, rounding to the smallest on odd turns So on turn one, don't add the tavern tier's damage, turn two deal 1 damage extra, turn three 1 damage, etc... until 3 damage extra for tavern 6

love u kripp

Murlocs should get scalelord on tier 6,its the dragon that gives all Murlocs divine shield. That way you still have to invest into toxifins and you cannot get plants or windfury.

What if minions only deal 1 damage for each survivor? This would also open up cards that deal face damage or just additional face damage, etc. It might also make token builds able to be strong without killing people in 2 turns.

They should reduce dmg taken from minions: - summoned from deathrattle: 0(no more rat and Ghastcoiler bullshit) -Tier I & II: 1 dmg, -Tier III & IV: 2 dmg, -Tier V & VI: 3 dmg After turn 12, you get dmg multiplier x2, so after turn 12 there would be a little bigger dmg than currently to speed up the game for remaining players. Also there should be some kind of comeback mechanic, like -1 gold to tavern upgrade cost when you loose a game, triggering after turn 5.

Make the round number (+2) the max damage you can take. Starting from 3 dmg in round 1.

Damn, the fact that he never got Brann, got like 3 Bagurgles and 2 Toxfinns the whole game, and never got Amalgadon, and still got 2nd place.

The problems that you're describing, good sir Octavian, is what happens when a game is RNG based. Sometimes what you want to do will work and other times it won't, nothing is consistent

To make games Longer you can pít those who die into the line. They would wait for another dead player/ghost and then play for survival. winner gets back to the game with 1 health. It has some issues like, would these players get to buy minions while dead? But i think it's cool

I think capping the damage would be a really good idea

do u think an introduction of a lifesteal minion could help?

we need taketoomuchdamagerino kripperino i think

ROLLTIDE!

Changing to minions deal one damage each regardless of tier plus whatever hero level might be a way to slow down the game.

Wait a min... You guys actually watch the first part and not skip the kripp

2:45 what if you had a cherry that you could save yourself from taking too much damage that that you can pop once per game

Let's just give every hero 50 health insted 40 and make Patchwerk Thicc Boi 60 health again.

Do you guys think calculating the damage by halving the minions value would make sense

2:42

Top damage: 56

-After all this nerfs? +Always..

I would like to see minions 1-2 deal 1 damage, 3-4 deal 2, 5-6 deal 3 and tokens will only deal 1 damage even if you have 7 on board and win maybe 1 damage per 2 tokens rounded down.

My idea would be remove player damage. Only minons hit u. Might have been posted I didn't look.

While you say it is not great, I still keep getting second place because of them poison muururuururururs

Some easy solutions to the 'too much damage' issue. - Higher starting life total. - Have some neutral minions that give armor when you lose. - Have a 6 star minion that gives armor on a battlecry (if you have no armor) - Nerf some of the stats of the strategies that encourage lots of 5/6 star minions that live to the end of the fight - Create a 3 or 4 star card that is really good against 5/6 star minions, making it more likely they'll die and reduce damage taken.

About taking too much dmg... how about making leveling more expensive (say it costs 2 or 3 more) or just make tokens deal 0 extra dmg. Would help at least until the late game

any hero = always murlocs

What if Blizzard made the damage you take in Battlegrounds half of your Tier and Minion star total? Could extend game enough to make this mode more fun.

Now that megasaur is gone they should bring back mackerel.

If you are pushed below 20HP before turn X then you only go to 20

I’ve been destroying with murlocs cause no one plays them

How about everyone starts with iceblock?

how about you reduce the damage from the heroes themselves? for tier 1-3 you do "1" extra damage and tier 4-6 you deal "2" damage, or increment the damage every 2 lvl tiers instead of 1. A hero lvl 6 would do 3 extra damage. the main reason to lvl up would be to get certain minions to get a decent build.

They should just increase the starting health