What is Anchoring and how to win fights with it (HotS). 

Must have been one of his later works...

Here's a quote by him "He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious" -Sun Tzu

OH NO, I am so sorry. Yeah a simple spider would have sufficed. But hey, sometimes you need to make a mistake to learn from it. Either way, thanks so much for being a good sport about it. I think your logic was good, but yeah the higher the rank the more the tanks will be sneaky before objectives.

No problem. In real life, I train in martial arts. We take coaching all the time. Corrections are so much more valuable than praise. I can't wait to get into a game this evening and practice respecting the bush and letting go of my plans. Besides, I do not expect my HOTS games to be private.

Now this is community building

Eric Hollas the community here is cool

At least you're not trapping your allies with the zombies on teamfights

You keep saying "that diablo" and refer to this particular player as "he" when this diablo is labeled as notparadox.

TheHidalgo99 omg yeah, this is super transphobic!

What rank are you?

also, you did get it wrong... not only d.va was away from your team, hanzo wasn't there from enemies as well. so you did win 4vs4 fight. check your math skills :P

@Krixis02 "not only d.va was away from your team, hanzo wasn't there from enemies as well." True, but I figured he meant from his point of view during the game, he thought they were outnumbered but decided to engage anyways. And thanks to anchoring they got a couple quick kills. While watching the replay he knew they were 4v4, but that's just hindsight.

the first thing is just tanking/blocking, the second is luring, and the thing described in the video is trapping

evan matthews well I hang out with people in the discord I linked in the description. So that may be possible haha

Funxp always nice to see your videoes being liked :)

Honestly no idea.

only watch time matters. likes are for the users so they can see the videoes responds.

INTERACTING with a video, helps. (like or dislike helps the same). Commenting, helps. Sharing, helps :)

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1:28 , look at the minimap.

Definitely. This is important. Mura and Anub have escapes if they anchor deep, but Diablo and Garrosh have more kill potential if they anchor closer to their team. Great advice, adapt to the tank.

yep, this is just setting a trap, your description makes way more sense

What games do you play now? I may have some videos coming out from a couple other games in the future.

Haha :) Started learning Java so I dont want to play any game now. Someday ill start playing again. Best regards :)

I started playing Dreadnought in addition to HotS. Can you make some strat videos on that? I really enjoy playing the game but I know i'm terrible at it...and pickings are pretty slim even for tutorials right now -.-

xD

Krešimir Turkalj I saw where they were and didn't want to reveal my location. Tanks can also be a bit more bashful than specialists.

True! Nobody showed on map either. What a pickle. Also that naz with increased range on abilities at 1 not checking says something about the level of play here.

I believe tanks can get away with face checking bushes, since they won't have the same risk of getting burst down like a squishy would have.

class is a factor, diablo is more durable than nazeebo.

Joe Bourassa I know, but taking unnecesary damage doesn't help you and it can be avoided (easily). Edit: He could have known because they were seen below on map.

No. Anchoring = standing in a bush giving your team vision, usually as main tank

Anchoring is when a tank/bruiser positions himself (usually in a bush) where he is the hero closest to where the enemy team is most likely to come from. While it does punish face checking, it's most important aspect is granting vision and preventing your team from getting flanked. If you don't have someone anchoring a key bush and the enemy team is MIA, you have no idea if/when they're coming through that area.

anchoring refers to the action of not actually participating in anything but be in range of either engage, punish, or peeling. This is the thing you should be doing the most on tanks that lack waveclear and overall utility. It can allow you to guard rotations, protect against merc invade, or set up a merc invade. I am a tank main at masters level, and I play particularly passively (ofc unless a hard engage is offered to me), what I mean by that is for most of the game, I'll just position in bushes acting as a mobile ward. My job as a tank is for the ennemy team to see me only when it's too late (ofc teamfights are different) and to give as much information as possible so everyone can react accordingly. I only show on the minimap when We actively need to depush, or we are pushing and even then I would usually try and block the flank route if there is anyone that could flank in the ennemy team. Anchoring is particularly effective against facecheck, but not only. in skirmishes and rotation it gives you a huge advantage because the ennemy has to respect the bush otherwise you can get anyone out of position and force more damage on them than on you, you might even be capable of scaring them away from actively clearing the wave in rotation or force their tank to play very passively in the skirmish and allow your team to poke more aggressively. Anchoring is not even directly related to bushes, I would even go as far as saying that anchoring is most often times more useful when used from outside of bushes(because it is even less predictible). There is a lot of places that are outside of ennemy vision and that are not bushes. Bushes are just the easiest to play with because it is their property to block vision. also, when you are in a bush, you have vision outside of the bush, when you anchor from outside of a bush, you don't have direct vision on the ennemy and rely on your team or minions to give you the information. But for example, a very simple engage from an outside of bush anchor position with diablo is : after 16 from behind any wall and if a squishy gets close to the other side of said wall you can q him , flip him and send him back into the wall, for a massive stun that can be easily followed up by a bodyblock. tldr: anchoring is very similar to bodyblocking in that it's something every tank player needs to master and is not directly achieved by using your heroe's abilities It is just something you can do for free and that's exactly why you should do it EVERY chance you get.

notparadox is masters level. (But either this is quickmatch or the draft was really weird.) I read a lot of comment like yours from gold/plat player whenever they see masters mistake. They estimate the level of play from a mistake alone.

I noted several mistakes the enemy team made not one and there are several more.... the falstad doesn’t weave movements between his autos at all (he also goes hinterlands vs 2 heavy dive heroes and dva bomb when gust is the obvious choice. Naz had a chance to live since butcher was late on his ult, he alt W on himself instead of turning and placing it well past butcher, he can either walk straight out which would be close but at the very least he keeps butcher away. Etc could also have chose to mosh after he slides and catch butcher and diablo who are the only mosh interrupts. Stu seeing all of the above not happened should have ulted butcher away to save naz. All of the above is moot if naz throws q at the bush diablo is in. I don’t play this game anymore much but played at a GM level, I made the comment because there is a lot better instances to showcase proper tank play than this many mistakes by the enemy team here

Man you are so good at this game, you must be a grandmaster level

What you don't realise is that maybe you'd get these things right, but you fail at a lot more things.

You're really going to pretend Diablo didn't have vision of the enemy team clearing bot lane up until he was about 2 feet from the bush? And yeah, even with Naz's team right there he still died because he walked up without checking the bush from range. It doesn't matter what Naz's reason is, the reason was wrong, they screwed up and died for it.

Rewatch the video. Diablo had vision on almost the entire enemy team while he was setting this up.