General DiscussionHow do you play Arc Warden cookie?

give me a straight forward question, because if you have no idea how to build or skill arc warden you have a long way to go.

all my replays are public and available for analysis.

to just be able to PLAY arc warden you need like 100 matches, to master him you need another 200-300

arc warden is not a hero you can pick up and learn to play over night

I think I know how to play him but I'm not proficient enough. Just want to hear some advice from you. I'll download your replays once I get my own PC. Currently playing at cafes since my laptop got stolen. I can't afford to pay the cafe owner just by watching replays. I'd rather play. Thanks by the way!

well instead of playing a match while in cafe, you can watch a game once.
you gotta make an active effort to get higher mmr, arc warden is one of the hardest ways

I usually watch pro matches, player's perspective of certain pros, etc. in youtube when I get home. Trying to grind my old account back up to 4K. I lost my game touch when I stopped for like 3 months. I think I'm okay now tho since I already gained +100mmr in 2 days. Thanks tho. Glad you answered.

ok cookie here is question , what are the good and bad match ups , like against whom you mustn't pick AW at all and against whom you must pick him to ruin their life ?

And maelstrom is better than diffusal blade on arc?

Cookie can I add you on steam?

Just
DO IT

nothing is impossible

@The Rider juggernaut and invoker was cancer for arc warden in laning stage. Invoker can be managable tho since invoker players no longer spawn forge spirits as much as they did before 7.00

cuuki halp him

it's the same shit here. People see how I stomp with meepo but they don't understand the effort it takes to actually learn the hero where you can stomp in higher MMR and grind.

You can't learn arc warden by just asking a couple of questions. You need to invest a lot of time and mmr in order to learn a hero as complex as arc warden.

If you want easy grind hero which also is relatively easy to learn, go for lycan, storm, ta, alchemist, ember. Arc is still VERY meh, unless you actually do play him a lot. To be honest, arc is also very easy to counter. The moment enemy has any kind of illusion based hero, or high mobility hero like ember/storm etc then there is absolutely nothing you can do to win, unless the enemy has huge autism.

u just walk into magnetic field and rekt the shit out of him
( slark for example)

Cookie has a lot of autist foes for sure

u have to suk cukis dik if u want to be like him

You only play him safelane now? Before it was a mid hero right?

maybe arc is back with a bit buffs and 7.04 splitpush things but he is so weak and i tell you why
-low MS/turnrate, really slow hero
-low AS
-low damage
-low armor
-you cant use dusts on your copy what makes invisibility against arc very annoying
can be countered hardly both on mid and in game
they only good thing that he can shit 1v1 on heroes like OD, tinker and probably on almost every classic mid hero and get snowball
also very good with 4-5 slots including hex

@Danishblunt
" People see how I stomp with meepo but they don't understand the effort it takes to actually learn the hero where you can stomp in higher MMR and grind."- can you stomp a game with meepo in solo que tho? that is the real question here

the thing is, i made a new playstyle for arc recently because i figured out how this patch works, it's not easy at all to counter an arc when the arc knows what you wanna do 1 step ahead of you, even before you know what you're gonna do.

but like i've said, there's no way you're gonan become an arc player without 200+ instapick matches in solo ranked and analysing at least another 100+ of high avg arc games from only the best(akuma, vaxa, lizzard etc.)

i have another 500+ games on arc, i only got the 60-90% winrates after my 100th games on other accounts

on my first account i had 20% winrate for the first 50 matches on arc.

cuki arc god

@cookie can you then please explain what you mean by "how this patch works", and why safelane ShadowBlade Arc Warden is the best answer to the meta? Especially in pubs? Thnks.

And people complained about techies. Arc warden is PURE cancer going against people who play him right.

so you did what I said in your other post about being 1 step ahead of every enemy move, analyzing what cm hero's do when such and such even happpens etc.

so tell me then, what did you figure out about this patch, other than its a 5 man meta and shrines are op and safelane is new offlane.

i'm still confuse about lvl 20 talent tree, should pick 100+ attack range or 10% cd reduction. I usually go for 10% cd when my team have no tanker.