Another 3 games as kael and another 3 wins last night. I don't get the "kt is only good at 16" talk, no, KT becomes a god at 16, its not as if a verdant sphere'd flamestrike without applying living bomb doesn't do rediculous damage before 16, especially considering its 6s cooldown. I like jaina and all cerzi, but obviously kt's poke is way better and he can still burst someone down with a combo. I'd agree jaina has slightly more survivability, although her losing sprint was huge. But kt can still just drop flamestrikes from clear across the screen while Jaina has to either extend a bit or flank if she wants to get a good blizzard. You can't afford to whiff with a blizzard. Phoenix being on 40s cooldown is just absurd, besides its damage, its great at zoning and allows me to take camps much quicker. I can solo an ogre camp, only take about 20% damage in health and then heal that up with verdant spheres and phoenix will be off of cooldown before the next team fight. Jaina takes forever to solo an ogre camp and will lose a lot more health. Need to do boss quickly?, phoenix. Enemy fort just needs a few more hits?, phoenix and run away.
Was playing with friends last night and we found a comp that is working really nice for us kt, tyreal, malfurion, and zeratul. People who pick stealth to counter kt get countered by tyreal. They are going to have to over extend by a mile to get to me making it easy for tyreal to pick them off so worst case scenario if they do get me it is still only 1 for 1. Think you're escaping with low health from kt/tyreal?, think again. If you're not in flamestrike range justice will be served upon you. KT laning with malfurion is just silly, with tons of extra mana, we out pushed an azmodan hard and whenever kt lands a gravity lapse malfurion can follow it up with a root meaning death for most heroes.