Advice: Round robin on your insta nuke

[magwo]

Just Do It.

It's really really good.

[magwo]

Well I do try.

[Mercurio]

Well I do try.

LOLz.

But I know you do try magwo, you are always posting some unique thoughts on arena strats/setups (some of which don't work out so well, but do stretch the conversation). I enjoy your posts.

However, this one? Round robin your insta-nuke? ;( Um... at first glance this seems really, really silly.

Genius insights to change our opinion now, please.

[magwo]

The way I see it.. the benefits of landing all 4 EM+CL -exactly- the same time (minimize healer reaction time) are miniscule compared to the benefits of landing them in succession over roughly 0.3-0.5 seconds.

It has 2 major advantages that I find non-trivial:
Unforeseen last split second grounding totems eat only 1 or 2 of your nukes, vastly increasing your chance to kill. Warrior spell reflects reflect only 1 or 2 of your nukes. This also increases chance to kill.Some people will probably argue that this is neglible, that I need to learn how to read the opponents. However, there is so much stuff to pay attention to in a 5v5 battle, that I just don't have the mental capacity to count the seconds since the enemy shaman last dropped his grounding, or to notice that a warrior has equipped a shield. I'm usually very busy keeping myself alive in matches against real teams, so when I do decide to go for a nuke, I can't spend too much time thinking about counters.

[merujo]

i prefer arena tow's and holy priests for arenas.

[magwo]

Ha ha!

I'm just theorycrafting and trying different paths.

[heyaz]

it probably looks cool too

[Tizer]

I've got a good idea, just theorycrafting ofc.

Enter the arena with your 4 shaman and attack them using 1 shaman at a time, if you die, simply move onto the next shaman! You got 4 chances to win then! xD

[Kaynin]

Round robin on insta nuke is only good if there's grounding totems on the other side, and if so, you'll only waste one, not all of them. :P

I prefer purging before instanuking. :P