Avilio on Ruby’s buff: “Basically, they’ve made it so that you have to pick Ruby in the gold tier now.”

I don’t know, it’s like I’m on a roll today. Against CyberHero… How should I put it? I played really poorly. [Against Team Yandex], at least I fulfilled my role.

The biggest change... I really like Balmond. He’s become super strong, actually. But I still need to get used to him, to play with him. I think Balmond is going to take off.

Basically, they’ve set it up now so that you have to pick Ruby in Gold. But they nerfed her heal, and so far no one understands how to handle other players’ Golders. Let’s say I were to face Granger, for example. He’ll wipe out all my health—I won’t even be able to get near the pack—he’ll just keep poking at me because I don’t have a healer right now on Ruby. She’s such a controversial hero right now; we need to test her out. That’s probably why they didn’t pick her.

We tested Obsidian, but her laning phase is actually very weak. Plus, it’s hard to deal damage with her. She’s a hero without a dash—the movement speed boost is just a passive; it’s not a dash. It’s very hard to deal damage with her; you have to buy “Trinity” first just to get any damage at all. That’s why she’s not really relevant right now—it’s hard to catch heroes with her dash. Take Harit, for example—he just presses his dash and that’s it.