Hey, left some silence towards the end of the episode on accident. Added some time stamps to the description so you can easily skip it. I cut the section out in premiere and never pressed delete. My bad.
@@ammakko As far as I'm aware, Pally has pretty much just showed the game he planned on recording. Unless the game is toxic enough, and he won't show that one, which he proceeds to note in the video itself.
Pally, you forgot the most important talent about Alarak. He is voiced by actor John de Lancie. De Lancie played Q in Star Trek and Jane's flight controller father in Breaking Bad.
He's also Discord, some sort of chaos dragon (very reminiscent of Q's character) in the My Little Pony tv show, which Blizzard has paid homage to through the name of Alarak's q (and possibly a talent name, but I can't remember).
As a Murky main, I love when an Alarak takes Rite of Rakshire, assuming he's gonna stack off you, and he just wastes cooldowns because by then, Murky is slippery.
Fun fact : Alarak is voiced by John De Lancie, who also voiced Discord in the TV show : My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic. So certain of his voice line and talent named are inspired by that last character ;)
I haven't played this game in ages, but Alarak was my favourite character. And the A-Z series brought back a lot of nostalgia. Thank you. Will definitely continue watching.
👏👏👏 thank you Holly! Also, last year i was watching a HOTS tournament, and there was this match were a team was doing a Deadly Charge Alarak + Lightbomb Anduin. It. Was. Naughty. I guess that was my fun fact about Alarak!
I'm a level 700 alarak otp, and I've actually experienced a weird bug with him. I was using deadly charge, got Mei wall'd mid air, when the wall wore off i literally got stuck inside outside the map. It was the funniest thing ever, i had to die and lose all my stacks to get out. Yeah.
I think how attack-move works is that when you click somewhere, the game registers the click on the enemy that the attack move would have sent your character to. So when you attack-move and click somewhere you are actually clicking on an enemy and therefore sending your character to that enemy.
Pally playing Alarak like a god for the video. Was not expecting to see a match like this after hearing your reaction to him being next in the Abathur video. Good shit dude.
I know it's not the main feature of the video, but whenever i see Pallys' webcam at the beginning or any part of the video, i just can't help but admire that beautiful long hair he has and i hope he never cuts it short cause it looks absolutely amazing.~ Also, keep up all the great entertaining work u do Pally!~
I’ve barely ever used E build even when it was popular. I’m glad Q build is finally becoming popular, it’s always been so satisfying to do just 1000 damage to someone and silence them so fast you can just see the panic set into their movements
Legendary Alarak video by MF pally! For me either I have an Amazing game with him or a devastating game with alarak, either way one of my absolute favorites in the game.
I mean, Blizzard is in deep shit now after the Sexual Harassment lawsuit came out. People are having a mass exodus to FF XIV from WoW. Players getting upset in all their other IPs. Wouldn’t surprise me if Blizzard will pull the plug on HoTS and focus on their last 2 cash cows Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 after this.
Great work with those series, dude, thanks for the effort! I find these very helpful even if not pure guides, as well as entertaining, even if an year later or so. I play only a few characters (yes, still :) ) and learning about the rest, even if I saw them plenty of games in action, is great.
Pally, this is awesome seeing A-Z again and watching you have a good time in this game. This is the dream! Keep up the amazing work! Super claps to Holly for her help!
Could you help me with alarak deadly charge. I don't know what setting i have used but when I am trading auto attack and use deadly charge very close to enemy i cancel deadly charge and continue trading auto attack. Please help me.
Hey Pally, when I was learning Alarak (and I was still really rusty lol), I played a game against you. You were Gazlowe and we got into a lil 1v1 at one point and I missed all of my abilities and I was so embarrassed lol
Thank you Pally for explaining the bug with Deadly Charge! I use the same left clicks to aa that you do and I've never understood why charge didn't work! Now I do.
Alarak has always been my favorite mage along with Zeratul and seeing you pick the AA safety build was satisfying. My highest sadism count was 223 thanks to a Murky and TLV in the same game.
If this is the last a-z i will have a huge hole in my heart. Thank you to holly 👏🏼Hope you can at least keep this up for HOTS. I dont want to give up the tgn days and you are pretty much the final streamer that brings me great joy from watching hots :)
👏👏👏👏 for Holly!! I suck at Alarak but this video makes me want to try again. I predict it will last exactly the one game where I realise I really truly can’t play this character:)
Alarak is a character that can ambush and destroy an entire enemy team. Also can get solo'd by murky, haha. Great character, one of my all time favorites!
Paly I'm very glad to see that you're happy in life that everything is going well and that you're okay. You've always been one of the most heartwarming. And wonderful TH-camrs out there with such a big heart stay amazing. I'm also so grateful that you found somebody that makes you happy❤
THANK YOU HOLLY FOR ALL YOU DID AND CONTINUE TO DOO! "I have seen a better healer in my days" lol :) Great video series! Love learning more about MOBAS
Claps for Holly. Does anyone remember the HotS championship game where the Alarak player combo’d the entire team into a corner with Telekinesis-Discord-Lightning surge? His entire team jumped in as Alarak used Counterstrike to survive. They ended up killing the entire team, while Alarak walked away with 2 hp. THAT was the best play i ever saw
I've basically been playing Alarak of The Storm for the last 2 years or so. I don't play ranked. I'm that asshole that spams their main in QM all day. Best hero in the game.
*Mmmm...* Acceptable. People take Quick Match too seriously for what it is (Chaos), so play whoever you like as much as you like. When people are stubborn and inflexible in Ranked, where tensions are high and team composition is a lot more important, those are who could be considered the "assholes". You're fine.
@@StoicForce People definitely take QM too seriously. I was referring to the fact a lot of people use QM to learn a new hero or to practice one they aren't very good with. So they're already at a disadvantage and then they run into the 300+ Alarak that spams him all day and that's what makes me the asshole.
@@lifeforms7423 Hey, good to know I'm not the only person that does this. Lol. I play ranked occasionally, but I mostly QM Alarak. And it's possible that his voice lines are part of the love I have for him.
I myself tried making alarak work in QM for a long time, but in my opinion he just does not work most of the time. He worked here, because this melee build is a tank/bruiser killer and the enemy had 3 of those without any assasins. But in QM, you often get 4 assasins, so this melee build does not work. His momentum build should be the ideal for that, but you almost always die vs so many assasins, which just puts you out of the game.
@@oguzcanoguz5977 Yeah, if the enemy team has heavy frontline, the Q build is the way to go. It really pops off at 16 when you have 190+ Sadism. If the enemy team is full of squishy assassins, it's W build for sure. I have a 60%+ win rate with Alarak in QM though, so you can definitely carry games with him. It's just really hard to do if you team doesn't have any wave clear or mercs, because you aren't helping either of those things. You just gotta build your sadism for the late game and then know which hero on the enemy team to pick off. You land one combo and you win the team fight for your team and hopefully end the game. Deadly Charge at 20 allows Alarak to one shot almost every hero in the game in one combo if you have the Sadism for it late game. Also - Pure Malice at 13 is a requirement as far as I am concerned for QM. Your team mates are guaranteed to feed you sadism and it's a quick way to get back into killing range if you die and reset your sadism late. I sometimes won't even take Rak'shir in games we're stomping because I know Pure Malice is such a bailout if shit gets ugly.
Claps for Holly. God this hero takes a lot of practice to get a feel for. 2-0 now after getting my timing back with him. I really like this build and it's gonna be my go to one with some variations on the 13 talent because they're all good.
So Pally your takedown stack up to 30 that’s it blades of the high lord and pure malice also caps at 40 and show of force is 20 rite of rekshire is an infinite number you can go forever for getting stack so your build will cap at 190 also the other 16 talent that gives you a massive aa damage bonus is super helpful
Alarak is my first main got me through a lot of games, I quite for lol in the end, but Im gonna come back (inspired by the return of this series) my first and only lvl 15. I always go discord strike quest, getting that triple hit is so rewarding
Pally, the bug you are experiencing with Deadly Charge is not a bug, it is the interaction with attack move. Because you using attack move, the game issues the attack command on the closest target. When this happens, that command makes you charge to it. If you notice in your official bug report, you can dashing to the attack move target, it is not random nor does it have anything to do with walls.
My Main alongside Deathwing. With his help i climbed up to master, it was such a fun ride !^^ Hadn't Time for Hots since November, because Shadowlands kept me busy xD
My best advice for hitting Lightning talent is try to hit minions or buildings behind the hero you want to hit. Thats the best way to stack that talent.
In the level 13 debate, Pure Malice is great for comebacks, Blade of the Highlord is safer, but capped and Rite is a risky winmore talent that can help you utterly dominate, but also won't do much if you can't get it going
Hey, left some silence towards the end of the episode on accident. Added some time stamps to the description so you can easily skip it. I cut the section out in premiere and never pressed delete. My bad.
My favorite piece of trivia about Alarak is that he's voiced by John de Lancie, Q from Star Trek. (And Discord from MLP lol)
mans hit himself with discord strike.
As someone who stopped playing hots for awhile it is really fun to play the characters in order as pally does. Just an idea!
@@jacoblewis6333 Damn. Why didn't I think of this? Now I've gotta go do it, despite barely ever touching Alarak.
@@philiphartleip3563 👌
Claps for Holly!!!!! Also hearing you say "Protected by the way" made me feel so much nostalgia!
A-Z = Pure happiness. Much appreciation to Pally (and Holly).
Thank you Holly for helping out!
"Your Highlord has returned!"
2021 A - Z Record:
Overall (W/L) - 2 - 0
Assassins (Melee) 1 - 0
Assassins (Ranged) 0 - 0
Bruisers 0 - 0
Healers 0 - 0
Tanks 0 - 0
Supports 1 - 0
Wins - Abathur, Alarak.
Losses -
*Until Ahren Starr shows up (greyscale Fry 'not sure if' profile picture) I'll fill in*
You guys are legends
isn't he going to most likely show winning games?
@@ammakko As far as I'm aware, Pally has pretty much just showed the game he planned on recording. Unless the game is toxic enough, and he won't show that one, which he proceeds to note in the video itself.
Pally, you forgot the most important talent about Alarak. He is voiced by actor John de Lancie. De Lancie played Q in Star Trek and Jane's flight controller father in Breaking Bad.
He's also Discord, some sort of chaos dragon (very reminiscent of Q's character) in the My Little Pony tv show, which Blizzard has paid homage to through the name of Alarak's q (and possibly a talent name, but I can't remember).
John de Lancie does an excellent job with Alarak. “Do you think we are fools?” Alarak: “Yes but that’s beside the point.”
@@flibbernodgets7018 i thought it was an homage to the platform Discord since it silences the heroes hit (discord strikes)
RIP Jane
@@flibbernodgets7018 level 4 q talent chaos reigns?
*claps for Holly*
Also, oof at "Blizzard, if there's anyone still there".
As a Murky main, I love when an Alarak takes Rite of Rakshire, assuming he's gonna stack off you, and he just wastes cooldowns because by then, Murky is slippery.
Claps in the chat for holly.
Is this the best healing you can do?
Updoots for Holly!
7 out of 10 characters were StarCraft characters on a StarCraft themed map. How appropriate for an Alarak video.
Fun fact : Alarak is voiced by John De Lancie, who also voiced Discord in the TV show : My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic. So certain of his voice line and talent named are inspired by that last character ;)
Yeah I I get alarekt everytime I play this character.
You pronounced Sadism correctly! Proud of you Pally!
I haven't played this game in ages, but Alarak was my favourite character. And the A-Z series brought back a lot of nostalgia. Thank you. Will definitely continue watching.
Thank you Holly
👏👏👏 thank you Holly!
Also, last year i was watching a HOTS tournament, and there was this match were a team was doing a Deadly Charge Alarak + Lightbomb Anduin. It. Was. Naughty. I guess that was my fun fact about Alarak!
That's smart Pally, you get more views on your old videos b/c Holly going back and getting notes lol
Thanks Holly for helping out on this series.
I'm a level 700 alarak otp, and I've actually experienced a weird bug with him. I was using deadly charge, got Mei wall'd mid air, when the wall wore off i literally got stuck inside outside the map. It was the funniest thing ever, i had to die and lose all my stacks to get out. Yeah.
Couldn't even recall back to base?
I think how attack-move works is that when you click somewhere, the game registers the click on the enemy that the attack move would have sent your character to. So when you attack-move and click somewhere you are actually clicking on an enemy and therefore sending your character to that enemy.
It's just a good day for a Pally. Holly is da best
Claps for holly, that counter strike at the end was so well timed with the zombie wall proccing it no matter what. Well done
It was.hype
Pally playing Alarak like a god for the video. Was not expecting to see a match like this after hearing your reaction to him being next in the Abathur video. Good shit dude.
I know it's not the main feature of the video, but whenever i see Pallys' webcam at the beginning or any part of the video, i just can't help but admire that beautiful long hair he has and i hope he never cuts it short cause it looks absolutely amazing.~ Also, keep up all the great entertaining work u do Pally!~
In Korean HoTs community, we call him Sir Bamboo Sprout(his head looks like it)
I love everything about this
I’ve barely ever used E build even when it was popular. I’m glad Q build is finally becoming popular, it’s always been so satisfying to do just 1000 damage to someone and silence them so fast you can just see the panic set into their movements
Legendary Alarak video by MF pally! For me either I have an Amazing game with him or a devastating game with alarak, either way one of my absolute favorites in the game.
thank you for always being there helping Pally, Holy!
COMMENTS ARE PRETTY NICE FOR THE TH-cam ALGORITHM :) Also a big thank you to holly :)
Thank you holly for the help. Pally is my favorite streamer. And you keep him in line for us, For more great commentary games
Thank you holly for keeping pally sane, pepper calm and researching for this series
the hair keeps growing and i feel like so does the depression. Hope you feel good homie
I also understand this and do it. Chopping all my hair off has helped me, especially if you don't care about it.
Standing ovation for Holly. Pally had angels giving him the biggest second chance of all second chances when he met Holly.
thanks for helping with the A-Z, Holly!
love you guys in Crab Champions
love the HOTS content, savoring it as it arrives.
Ever think while you are playing through this A-Z that this may be the last time you ever play this character? Feels bad man..
I mean, Blizzard is in deep shit now after the Sexual Harassment lawsuit came out. People are having a mass exodus to FF XIV from WoW. Players getting upset in all their other IPs. Wouldn’t surprise me if Blizzard will pull the plug on HoTS and focus on their last 2 cash cows Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 after this.
Thank you Holly for editing with excellence!
I really missed the A-Z man, I started following your channel because of it. Claps for Holly!!!
Great work with those series, dude, thanks for the effort! I find these very helpful even if not pure guides, as well as entertaining, even if an year later or so. I play only a few characters (yes, still :) ) and learning about the rest, even if I saw them plenty of games in action, is great.
THANK YOU HOLLY!!!!!! Thanks Pally for bringing this back. I missed it.
I didn't think about how much effort goes into making these videos. Much deserved like incoming!
Ah man, I hate that I have to wait, like, 3 years before I'll see Pally play Zagara again. Happy to see A through Z is back for one last hurrah!
Pally, this is awesome seeing A-Z again and watching you have a good time in this game. This is the dream! Keep up the amazing work! Super claps to Holly for her help!
Could you help me with alarak deadly charge. I don't know what setting i have used but when I am trading auto attack and use deadly charge very close to enemy i cancel deadly charge and continue trading auto attack. Please help me.
for someone who hasnt played Alarak in a while except in practice matches, you did pretty well Pally!!!
Hey Pally, when I was learning Alarak (and I was still really rusty lol), I played a game against you. You were Gazlowe and we got into a lil 1v1 at one point and I missed all of my abilities and I was so embarrassed lol
Thank you Pally for explaining the bug with Deadly Charge! I use the same left clicks to aa that you do and I've never understood why charge didn't work! Now I do.
Fun fact: Alarak was one of the last heroes release that came with an animated home screen and click interaction. Also, claps for Holly!
i miss those screens
@@lukevasquez2921 Ditto :(
Back for the second video of this A-Z. Loved the Abathur video, buddy. Here till the end.
*clapping* great job Holly! This is one of my favorite series from the channel so I am happy to see the return.
Holly MVP!! And thanks Pally for putting in all this work too. Damn what an Alarak game.
Alarak has always been my favorite mage along with Zeratul and seeing you pick the AA safety build was satisfying. My highest sadism count was 223 thanks to a Murky and TLV in the same game.
that poor nazeebo in the end, lol! Great video pally, love ya
If this is the last a-z i will have a huge hole in my heart. Thank you to holly 👏🏼Hope you can at least keep this up for HOTS. I dont want to give up the tgn days and you are pretty much the final streamer that brings me great joy from watching hots :)
👏👏👏👏 for Holly!! I suck at Alarak but this video makes me want to try again. I predict it will last exactly the one game where I realise I really truly can’t play this character:)
TY for research holly and the assistance for this series
Alarak is a character that can ambush and destroy an entire enemy team. Also can get solo'd by murky, haha.
Great character, one of my all time favorites!
Thank you Holly and team for this A-Z!
Alarak is one of those guys who either have really good days or really bad.
Paly I'm very glad to see that you're happy in life that everything is going well and that you're okay. You've always been one of the most heartwarming. And wonderful TH-camrs out there with such a big heart stay amazing. I'm also so grateful that you found somebody that makes you happy❤
THANK YOU HOLLY FOR ALL YOU DID AND CONTINUE TO DOO! "I have seen a better healer in my days" lol :) Great video series! Love learning more about MOBAS
Claps for Holly.
Does anyone remember the HotS championship game where the Alarak player combo’d the entire team into a corner with Telekinesis-Discord-Lightning surge? His entire team jumped in as Alarak used Counterstrike to survive. They ended up killing the entire team, while Alarak walked away with 2 hp.
THAT was the best play i ever saw
I've basically been playing Alarak of The Storm for the last 2 years or so. I don't play ranked. I'm that asshole that spams their main in QM all day. Best hero in the game.
*Mmmm...* Acceptable.
People take Quick Match too seriously for what it is (Chaos), so play whoever you like as much as you like. When people are stubborn and inflexible in Ranked, where tensions are high and team composition is a lot more important, those are who could be considered the "assholes". You're fine.
@@StoicForce People definitely take QM too seriously. I was referring to the fact a lot of people use QM to learn a new hero or to practice one they aren't very good with. So they're already at a disadvantage and then they run into the 300+ Alarak that spams him all day and that's what makes me the asshole.
@@lifeforms7423 Hey, good to know I'm not the only person that does this. Lol. I play ranked occasionally, but I mostly QM Alarak. And it's possible that his voice lines are part of the love I have for him.
I myself tried making alarak work in QM for a long time, but in my opinion he just does not work most of the time. He worked here, because this melee build is a tank/bruiser killer and the enemy had 3 of those without any assasins. But in QM, you often get 4 assasins, so this melee build does not work. His momentum build should be the ideal for that, but you almost always die vs so many assasins, which just puts you out of the game.
@@oguzcanoguz5977 Yeah, if the enemy team has heavy frontline, the Q build is the way to go. It really pops off at 16 when you have 190+ Sadism. If the enemy team is full of squishy assassins, it's W build for sure. I have a 60%+ win rate with Alarak in QM though, so you can definitely carry games with him. It's just really hard to do if you team doesn't have any wave clear or mercs, because you aren't helping either of those things. You just gotta build your sadism for the late game and then know which hero on the enemy team to pick off. You land one combo and you win the team fight for your team and hopefully end the game. Deadly Charge at 20 allows Alarak to one shot almost every hero in the game in one combo if you have the Sadism for it late game.
Also - Pure Malice at 13 is a requirement as far as I am concerned for QM. Your team mates are guaranteed to feed you sadism and it's a quick way to get back into killing range if you die and reset your sadism late. I sometimes won't even take Rak'shir in games we're stomping because I know Pure Malice is such a bailout if shit gets ugly.
Thank you Holly. This is one of my favorite series! 🙌🙌🙌
Damn that was a hell of a performance Pally. Well done sir
Thank you Pally for the years with HOTS!
Missed a lot the A to Z, thnks Pally and Holly for this!
Claps for Holly.
God this hero takes a lot of practice to get a feel for. 2-0 now after getting my timing back with him. I really like this build and it's gonna be my go to one with some variations on the 13 talent because they're all good.
Holly is a blessing for helping make this series possible again!
Thanks Holly! Exceptional work 👏👏👏👏
Thank you holly! And thank you pally! Love to you both, thanks for all you do ❤️
Thank you Holly for supporting our Pally!
Yesss, our glorious Highlord!
The Lord of Burns, returns!
(You better be playing this game with Alarak Announcer)
Thank you Holly! And thank you Pally for doing my favorite series again!
I LOVE the A-Z series! :-) Thanks Holly. I know that without you this wouldn't have happened!
This video made me wanna try Alarak (never used him)
Thanks for explaining or giving idea how to play him.
The highest stacks I've seen were about 400 in aram. Dude was cutting down whole emeny team like it was a bunch of Murkys oO
You should cast hots pro games! You have excellent engaging caster voice with good pace :D
He has noted why he doesn't a long time ago, I can't remember why.
Big THANKS to Holly! :) I don't play hots anymore but I Love this series! What could have been with this game. Ah well. PS. GG Pally! Looking sharp!
That just turned into one of those alarak stomps you were talking about
Thank you Hollie! Your alright too Pally!
So Pally your takedown stack up to 30 that’s it blades of the high lord and pure malice also caps at 40 and show of force is 20 rite of rekshire is an infinite number you can go forever for getting stack so your build will cap at 190 also the other 16 talent that gives you a massive aa damage bonus is super helpful
Thanks Holly! Also, thanks Walter :) Watching this series again brings back memories :D
dude, i love your emotional outbrakes so much
Ty holly and pally love all your heros content 👏👏👏
Thanks Holly!
0:43 nice kit name above Pally :p
Alarak is my first main got me through a lot of games, I quite for lol in the end, but Im gonna come back (inspired by the return of this series) my first and only lvl 15. I always go discord strike quest, getting that triple hit is so rewarding
I played Alarak once in ARAM and then proceeded to never even think about playing him again. Such a difficult hero to play
Hell yes! A-Z training is chugging along, gonna love this journey!
Pally, the bug you are experiencing with Deadly Charge is not a bug, it is the interaction with attack move. Because you using attack move, the game issues the attack command on the closest target. When this happens, that command makes you charge to it. If you notice in your official bug report, you can dashing to the attack move target, it is not random nor does it have anything to do with walls.
My Main alongside Deathwing. With his help i climbed up to master, it was such a fun ride !^^
Hadn't Time for Hots since November, because Shadowlands kept me busy xD
Claps for Holly! Thanks for sharing Pally with us!!!!
The voice actor for Alarak is Q from TNG
Claps for Holly!! Great Alarak play, My Dude!
My best advice for hitting Lightning talent is try to hit minions or buildings behind the hero you want to hit. Thats the best way to stack that talent.
Claps for holly, so happy you're doing this again
Love you pally, keep it going my man
In the level 13 debate, Pure Malice is great for comebacks, Blade of the Highlord is safer, but capped and Rite is a risky winmore talent that can help you utterly dominate, but also won't do much if you can't get it going
Alarak is my favorite character, but I haven't played him in like a year. I really should pick him up again!
Thanks Holly and thanks Pally for the great content ❤️
I really like playing as Alarak. I am determined to be good with him, so I practice often. With your sadism high, you can pop everyone like balloons