Who am I? Opening words. Top

"I'm not the best, I'm not the worst, but I try really hard." You can check his videos and streams at



"If you're not a superstar pro-gamer why should we believe what you say??"

Well you shouldn't. Take everything I say, chew it a little and then decide what you want to swallow. Never just blindly take someones advice, use your own brain to judge what is worth taking and what should be ignored. A great advice for life in general.



I hope you enjoy my guide and I apologize for any grammar errors, I'm sure there are some.



EDIT: Thank you all for your support! 500k views, 50 upvotes and Featured in the weekly staff picks. All of this makes me extremely happy. :) <3



Note: Hi all! I plan on updating the guide for hots 2.0 when I have the time for testing and all that good stuff.



Updated for heroes 2.0: (The quick-builds for talents above)

Introducing Murky, King of the Sea, Death

Builds. Few words about the builds shown above.

Abilities

Talents

Gameplay - Well what should I do??

Still in progress, not updated yet

(These sections of the guide have some valuable information, but are still missing a lot) Murlocs, Eggs and You (mostly updated, still missing some maps, but other parts than maps should be fine now)



. I'm DakMonkeyz. Nice to meet you. I used to play HoN and I moved to playing Dota2 after that. I've been playing Heroes of the Storm for a while and I like it quite a lot. I'd like to quote my favorite e-sports commentator Sean Day[9] Plott:You can check his videos and streams at www.day9.tv Well you shouldn't. Take everything I say, chew it a little and then decide what you want to swallow. Never just blindly take someones advice, use your own brain to judge what is worth taking and what should be ignored. A great advice for life in general.I hope you enjoy my guide and I apologize for any grammar errors, I'm sure there are some.(These sections of the guide have some valuable information, but are still missing a lot)

Introducing Murky, King of the Sea, Death Top

Murky



Backstory:

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If that was unclear, maybe this will explain it better.

Pros & Cons

Pros Good lane clearing, pushing and split-pushing capabilities

Great team-fight presence

Good ganker with Octo-Grab

Amazing health regen

Can clear giant and bruiser mercenary camps from level 1 with Egg Hunt

Can almost always be in action due to 5 second respawn time with Spawn Egg

Good at solo-laning against most matchups

Can instantly clear undead camps in mines, small garden terror camps and small pirate camps with Pufferfish Slime

Never runs out of mana, never needs to hearth back to fountain

Murloc, King of the Sea, Death

Cons Really squishy

His damage ability Pufferfish

Considered a troll hero by a large portion of community, affecting teamspirit a bit negatively

Definitely a strange hero and harder to be useful than many other heroes

Drops all coins/spider tokens on death, even when respawning from Spawn Egg



. is a weird hero to play. Murky is easy to kill, but Murky has to be killed 4 times in order for it to be as rewarding experience-wise as killing any other hero. Murky doesn't seem like a huge threat, but if he (or she? or it?) is underestimated, it can lead to the demise of his enemies. Murky is a fun hero to play and rather annoying to play against.Mrgglglbrlg rmrmgllg mrggggm. Mrrglglgy, mgllglgl mgggrrmgll MRGGGLGLLM! Mrrggllgggllggll mrrglrlg mrrg mrrg mrrrg.If that was unclear, maybe this will explain it better.

Builds. Few words about the builds shown above. Top

I'd like to mention here that none of the builds shown are absolute. There is no one-way to build. The builds can be used as a base, but you need to adapt to every game and change talents when needed. The level 13 talents are great examples of a talents that always change depending on the enemy team lineup.





Build 1: Fighting Slapper, the all-rounder build



Build #1 is a very standard build, focuses using slime and smacking with your fishy. Time to Krill Slime Black Lagoon Black Lagoon Slime Toxic Buildup Fish Oil





Build 2: Slimy King of the Sea, 1v1 build



Build #2 is mainly focused on bursting one target with Octo-Grab



The Octo-Grab

Slime Pufferfish Octo-Grab Slime

Deals 3359damage at level 20.





Build 3: Soap-bubbles are pretty, Survival build



The good old Safety Bubble Slippery When Wet Rejuvenating Bubble Big Tuna Kahuna





Build 4: Get back under your bridge Murky, Split-push & wombocombo build



This build is highly situational, you can try this build out, if you have some good setup for wombo combos such as E.T.C. Mosh Pit Gazlowe Grav-O-Bomb 3000



This build can also be considered a trollish splitpush build. Strategy: push as much as possible and use March of the Murlocs Safety Bubble





. Build #1 is a very standard build, focuses using slime and smacking with your fishy.is awesome, but if you are having hard time autoattacking or catching some mobile heroes with, it can be changed foris one of the most undervalued talents in the game, but it can be extremely helpful with this kind of-spam build. If you are having hard time autoattacking enemies, consider changingtoas well.Build #2 is mainly focused on bursting one target with-combo. This build trades some of the sustained damage of the slimy build #1 for a bigger burst. This build is great for ganking and when you want to kill one of the enemy teams squishier targets, like a pesky ranged assassin or the enemy healer.The-combo:->->->Deals 3359damage at level 20.The good oldbuild. This used to be the go-to build for most Murky players back in the days. Nowadays this has fallen a bit from the meta, but still has its uses. If you want to bump up your survivability while nerfing your damage this is a solid build for it.andmakes you surprisingly hard to kill. I still sometimes use this build in Blackhearts Bay to give my coins some extra protection. If your team is lacking front liners, this build allows you to make up for it.. a little bit at least.This build is highly situational, you can try this build out, if you have some good setup for wombo combos such asor, but remember that wombo combos need to be timed well and requires some coordination from the team, so better do those with your friends instead of randoms.This build can also be considered a trollish splitpush build. Strategy: push as much as possible and useagainst the enemy buildings. Escape withwhen enemies come to stop your split-push. Can be funny in some quick matches, prepare to be hated by your team tho. ;)

Abilities Top

Talents Top

Gameplay - Well what should I do?? Top

Early game



Go place your Spawn Egg Nova Zeratul Genji



When you throw Pufferfish Pufferfish Slime Pufferfish Slime A Fishy Deal Pufferfish



Remember that you shouldn't mindlessly feed, especially in the early game. even when you respawn fast from your egg, you still give 25% experience to the enemy. The experience gained from killing Murky adds up fast. If you must die, die for a good reason, or at least for some reason. Finding a balance of when it's appropriate to die and when you shouldn't dive and die comes from experience.



When you get 2 (or 3 on some maps) stacks of A Fishy Deal Egg Hunt A Fishy Deal



If you took Egg Hunt



You can and you should harass melee heroes as much as possible with Slime Slime



Soaking experience is extremely important during the early game and if you can squeeze a mercenary camp while soaking it can be absolutely huge! The experience war in the early game can win you the game, if your team gets level 10 before the enemy team because you knew how to get the best experience lead, your team has a great advantage while fighting over objectives.





Mid Game



Split-push/soak exp, Clear jungle mercenaries, Split-push/soak exp. Gank and kill with puffer-octo combo, split-push/soak exp, BUT don't get caught in the idea of doing nothing except split-pushing. If an objective spawns, go there. If your team needs you, be there for them. When a teamfight starts, command your legion and claim victory. There are times when you can ignore objectives and go for experience/split-push, but you should talk and coordinate with your team before you ignore objectives.



So Murky hasn't always been the best at clearing jungle camps. Nowadays with Egg Hunt





Late Game



Pretty much the same as Mid game, but working with your team and being there for teamfights becomes even more important. This is the time you can really combo people down. You need to be present when the teamfight starts. Place down your egg somewhere relatively safe, but still close to where the teamfight is happening. (Your egg should be placed before the actual fight starts, otherwise you waste time and make your team fight 4v5 while you're running around placing the egg.) Before the teamfight starts choose a high-priority target and after the fight starts go Pufferfish



Who is the high-priority target?

High priority target might be the enemy healer or some nasty dps like Kael'thas Genji



In conclusion



Things you should do as Murky Split-push / soak experience

Clear mercenary camps in the jungle

Gank with your puffer-octo combo

Burst down high-priority targets with your puffer-octo combo in teamfights

Assist your team with objectives



. Go place your. Try to place the egg in a spot where it's close enough to your lane, but safe from your enemies. Be extremely careful with the positioning when playing againstor any hero that can somehow sneak past your tower and safely escape after killing your egg.When you throwyou can run on top of it to make it harder for the enemy-players to target your fishy. If the enemies are pushing wild useandto clear the minions, if the enemies are not pushing wild, use yourandto push wild. If you tooktalent, try to get as many killing blows as possible withRemember that you shouldn't mindlessly feed, especially in the early game. even when you respawn fast from your egg, you still give 25% experience to the enemy. The experience gained from killing Murky adds up fast. If you must die, die for a good reason, or at least for some reason. Finding a balance of when it's appropriate to die and when you shouldn't dive and die comes from experience.When you get 2 (or 3 on some maps) stacks of, go steal enemy siege mercenaries. (If you sacrificedforIf you tookgo clear all mercenary camps you possibly can. However, if you are solo lane, try to clear the wave from your lane, then run quickly to the mercenary camp, clear it and run back to clear the next wave from the lane so you won't lose experience fight against the enemy team. Usually it's around level 4 when you can clear mercs quick enough to do this, if you are not solo lane, you can clear mercenaries as soon as they spawn, even if you are level 1.You can and you should harass melee heroes as much as possible with. Try to hit the enemy and minions at the same time to maximize the effectiveness of. If you do this well, your enemies have to fall back to take a sip of their well or you wasted their healers precious early game mana, which is just as good.Soaking experience is extremely important during the early game and if you can squeeze a mercenary camp while soaking it can be absolutely huge! The experience war in the early game can win you the game, if your team gets level 10 before the enemy team because you knew how to get the best experience lead, your team has a great advantage while fighting over objectives.Split-push/soak exp, Clear jungle mercenaries, Split-push/soak exp. Gank and kill with puffer-octo combo, split-push/soak exp,If an objective spawns, go there. If your team needs you, be there for them. When a teamfight starts, command your legion and claim victory. There are times when you can ignore objectives and go for experience/split-push, but you should talk and coordinate with your team before you ignore objectives.So Murky hasn't always been the best at clearing jungle camps. Nowadays withyou can and you should clear any non-boss camp at any point of the game. Clearing mercenaries is great experience and great way to pressure the enemy team, if you can time some mercenary camps in a way that they start beating your enemies towers at the same time as an objective spawns, well that's just win-win for you regardless of what the enemies decide to do.Pretty much the same as Mid game, but working with your team and being there for teamfights becomes even more important. This is the time you can really combo people down. You need to be present when the teamfight starts. Place down your egg somewhere relatively safe, but still close to where the teamfight is happening. (Your egg should be placed before the actual fight starts, otherwise you waste time and make your team fight 4v5 while you're running around placing the egg.) Before the teamfight starts choose a high-priority target and after the fight starts go-combo them down.High priority target might be the enemy healer or some nasty dps like. When you are choosing the target, think what would ruin the enemy teams plans completely. Are they totally dependant on someone healing them and keeping them alive, or do they have nice self-sustain? Is the enemy teams damage output mostly coming from one particular damage dealer? Does someone of the enemy team have abilities that tend to wreck your teams plans? Can you lock down and kill some high mobility and high damage hero () with your stun? After choosing the target, think to yourself: "Is this target squishy enough? Can I and/or my team nuke him down during my combo or is he going to survive?" If you decide that the target is squishy enough, you have your high priority target selected and you can combo him in teamfights. Usually the target is the enemy healer or assassin, or in some cases melee warrior bruiser type hero and in most games there is 2-4 good and 1-2 great targets for your combo.Things you should do asthroughout the game:

Murlocs, Eggs and You Top

Egg facts

Which came first, The murloc or the egg?



Spawn Egg Murky

Some information about the egg: Having an egg on the ground reduces your respawn time to 5 seconds.

When laying a new egg, your old egg disappears after your casting time of Spawn Egg

Killing the egg gives 75% experience of normal hero kill experience.

Killing murky gives 25% experience of normal hero kill experience. (This isn't affected by murky having an egg in the ground. Murky always gives 25% of normal experience, with egg and without egg .)

.) Egg gives little vision around it, this vision is "flying vision" and can see over bushes and walls.

Vision of the egg is about the same as vision of minions.

If your egg is destroyed, you are revealed to enemies for 15 seconds.

Killing the egg triggers 15 seconds cooldown on Spawn Egg

note that this is still under construction! I will add more to this, when I can :)

How to play the easter egg game

Having a Murky



That being said, don't give them that experience for free. :)





One of the first things you should practice as a Murky Spawn Egg



For example:

If an objective spawns at the top of the map and your egg is at the bottom of the map, you want to go place an egg closer to the top first and then go to the objective. If you don't do this and you die, you will waste loads and loads of time running all across the map back to the fight and your team has maybe lost the fight 4v5 during that time.



What this means is that you have to be faster to the objectives than any other hero, because other heroes can just mount up and run to the objective, you need time for placing the egg.



When you see enemy heroes swarm towards an area your egg is at, you should change the spot of the egg as soon as possible. Good map awareness is the key to good egg placing.





Hiding your egg in the fountain (please, don't):

There's not many reasons to place your egg in to your fountain. The only one I can think of is that the enemy is pushing your keep or core and you need to defend.



Even if there's a nasty zeratul always egg-hunting, you don't need to put your egg into your fountain. Be clever with your egg in these cases. Go place your egg to the mid-lane if you are at bottom-lane and zeratul is trying to find your egg or whatever. :)



If zeratul (or any other hero) likes to egg-hunt a lot, don't give up and place it to the fountain. Try to outplay them and have them waste as much time as possible hunting your egg.



Remember to spam place fake eggs from Egg Hunt





Dealing with Egg-Hunters:

One of the things I love to do against nasty egg-hunters is to go straight back to the egg-hunter after you have respawned from your egg. This should give the egg-hunter a pretty good idea of what direction your egg is at. After that, go place a new egg in a totally different direction and watch the egg-hunter go look around for nothing. It's kinda like giving false directions to them.



Ambushing egg-hunters:

Now, if you know that zeratul or nova is trying to locate your egg, place your egg somewhere they will find it and take a buddy with you and wait for them to come and ambush them. Best case scenario your egg survives and the egg-hunter doesn't.



Ambushing the egg hunters and using your egg as a bait is fairly easy after level 10, even if you are alone. Place your egg into a place where whomever is trying to find it has to go to a tower/keep/both -range and as soon as they come: Slime Pufferfish Octo-Grab Slime





In conlcusion:

Switch the place of your egg often depending of where you go. Be aware of what's happening around the map. Don't give up and lose the egg-game before it starts.



WARNING: BELOW ARE THE EGG MAPS, I HAVEN'T GONE THROUGH THEM AND HAVEN'T UPDATED THESE FOR HOTS 2.0 (might still contain some good info)



Treasure Maps

Here's some egg placements for you

Green = Good spot to lay an egg.

Yellow = Good/decent spot IF the mercenary camp has been taken / if there's no objectives near the area.

Red = a decent spot to lay an egg. Use these if you can't use some other color.

White = Special place, you can find explanation of these with each map.



When you are placing your egg and there's a watchtower nearby, be careful. Watchtowers can see to bushes around them, your egg is not safe inside the circle that is watchtowers vision.



Note that all of the maps are for later in the game. Early in the game you can most often hide your egg at the safety provided by your outer towers and forts.



Blackheart's Bay

Most action in Blackheart's Bay happens around Blackheart and the chests. Best hiding spots are in the northern part of the map. Blackheart's Bay is annoying map for Murky already with coins being dropped on death and not many places to hide your egg only adds problems to that.

Siege giant camps are ok spots to hide, when bottom lane is pushed to the middle of the lane or beyond that.

Aggressive Siege camps are ok if the lane is pushed to their keep and they are defending and not at blackheart.

My favourite spots on this map are around all three of the Bruiser Knight camps.

Cursed Hollow

Nice map for egg placement. Plenty of spots to hide your egg relatively near objectives.

Bushes next to siege giants are only good as aggressive spots when pushing keeps/core

Some of the red dots are pretty close to watchtowers, be careful not to place your egg in watch tower radius.

White dots are surprisingly good spots for aggressive and defensive play and they are outside of minions vision. When people hunt for your egg, they check bushes and common hiding spots, but most often not from the sides of the lanes. However, heroes that happen to run through the lane can easily spot your "hidden" egg.

Dragon Shire

As you might have noticed, I didn't mark any green spots on this map. That's because there's no good places to hide an egg.

There's 4 spots marked as red, hidden in the hedgerows. Those would be fine places to hide an egg, but unfortunately those are well known hiding places and checked often by enemies.

White spots are for the times that shrines are active. Those spots are also outside of creep vision, not that it matters in this case.

Best spots to hide an egg this map is bottom Bruiser Knights camps bushes and top shrine.

Garden of Terror

Plenty of room to hide an egg here. Staying aware of enemy movements and alternating spots where you hide the egg can make life easy for you.

Bushes at the sides of top and bottom lane are good spots to hide an egg, when the enemy isn't pushing those lanes.

Dots in the jungle are good spots, but when they are trying to find your egg, those are the places they look first.

Mercenary camps in this map do not provide that much safety for the egg and are relatively bad place to hide the egg compared to other maps.

Haunted Mines

This map might not look like it at first, but there's plenty of room for easter egg hunt, if you know the spots.

Be very careful with the vision of the watch towers in this map, it's easy to hide an egg to the bushes only to realize that the enemy watch tower can see it.

Mercenary camps do not provide too much help this map. If you decide to hide your egg at one of the giants camp, check the watch tower radius.

White dots in the mines are my favourite spots to hide an egg inside the mines. Mines is awesome for egg hiding, because most people don't go there when there's no skulls. Also if you have ever faced a tyrande hunting your egg in this map, mines is perfect for countering tyrandes scouting owl plays. Just remember to place the egg away from the mines before the mines open again. (Many players will go wait in the mines as soon as the countdown appears, so you will have to place a new egg fast and before the undead spawns.)

Note that if any players see you come out of the mines when there's no objectives, you should go place a new egg, because they will get suspicious.

Sky Temple

This map is Blizzards way of saying: "I'm sorry all you Murky players for the Dragon Shire and Blackheart's Bay maps. Here! Have a better map for your egg! :)"

One of the best spots to hide your egg is at the southern edge of the southern temple area. Even if your enemies go take the temple, there's a good chance they don't go south enough to have vision on the egg. Now to be clear, this doesn't mean that you should leave your egg there when your enemies control the temple, replace your egg asap.

With all of those little bushes and corners, enemies will have a hard time locating your egg.

Hide your egg and re-hide it often. Not much to say, good map.

ETA for the 3 last maps: sadface, no clue



Tomb of the Spider Queen

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Battlefield of Eternity

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Infernal Shrines

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. Having ain the game, gives the game an extra minigame, the easter egg hunt. Don't be alarmed, if one of the enemy teams members spends the whole game looking for your egg, he is most likely wasting more time on it than he should. Even if your egg gets killed and you get killed after that, you are still giving them only the same amount of experience as a normal hero killed would give.That being said, don't give them that experience for free. :)If an objective spawns at the top of the map and your egg is at the bottom of the map, you want to go place an egg closer to the top first and then go to the objective. If you don't do this and you die, you will waste loads and loads of time running all across the map back to the fight and your team has maybe lost the fight 4v5 during that time.What this means is that you have to be faster to the objectives than any other hero, because other heroes can just mount up and run to the objective,When you see enemy heroes swarm towards an area your egg is at, you should change the spot of the egg as soon as possible.There's not many reasons to place your egg in to your fountain. The only one I can think of is that the enemy is pushing your keep or core and you need to defend.Even if there's a nasty zeratul always egg-hunting, you don't need to put your egg into your fountain. Be clever with your egg in these cases. Go place your egg to the mid-lane if you are at bottom-lane and zeratul is trying to find your egg or whatever. :)If zeratul (or any other hero) likes to egg-hunt a lot, don't give up and place it to the fountain. Try to outplay them and have them waste as much time as possible hunting your egg.Remember to spam place fake eggs fromall around the map wherever you go, those only have 3 second cooldown and 2 second cast time, waste the enemies time by letting them find fake eggs, however don't waste your own time while doing so, only place eggs around the areas where you move anyways. Don't spend 15 seconds just to place an egg in a funny spot, or do if it's funny enough, but it's not really helping you win the game.One of the things I love to do against nasty egg-hunters is to go straight back to the egg-hunter after you have respawned from your egg. This should give the egg-hunter a pretty good idea of what direction your egg is at. After that, go place a new egg in a totally different direction and watch the egg-hunter go look around for nothing. It's kinda like giving false directions to them.Now, if you know that zeratul or nova is trying to locate your egg, place your egg somewhere they will find it and take a buddy with you and wait for them to come and ambush them. Best case scenario your egg survives and the egg-hunter doesn't.Ambushing the egg hunters and using your egg as a bait is fairly easy after level 10, even if you are alone. Place your egg into a place where whomever is trying to find it has to go to a tower/keep/both -range and as soon as they come:->->->(+ the tower/keep hits on top of that) = Dead egg-hunter.= Good spot to lay an egg.= Good/decent spotthe mercenary camp has been taken / if there's no objectives near the area.= a decent spot to lay an egg. Use these if you can't use some other color.= Special place, you can find explanation of these with each map.When you are placing your egg and there's a watchtower nearby, be careful. Watchtowers can see to bushes around them, your egg is not safe inside the circle that is watchtowers vision.Most action in Blackheart's Bay happens around Blackheart and the chests. Best hiding spots are in the northern part of the map. Blackheart's Bay is annoying map for Murky already with coins being dropped on death and not many places to hide your egg only adds problems to that.Nice map for egg placement. Plenty of spots to hide your egg relatively near objectives.As you might have noticed, I didn't mark any green spots on this map. That's because there's no good places to hide an egg.Plenty of room to hide an egg here. Staying aware of enemy movements and alternating spots where you hide the egg can make life easy for you.This map might not look like it at first, but there's plenty of room for easter egg hunt, if you know the spots.This map is Blizzards way of saying: "I'm sorry all you Murky players for the Dragon Shire and Blackheart's Bay maps. Here! Have a better map for your egg! :)"blablathismap is x for egg BLblAblablathismap is x for egg BLblAblablathismap is x for egg BLblA

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