Kolento was my hero back when I first started playing the game, started from his control priest and miracle rogue. After 6 years of me not playing, I tried to play HS again and immediately looked him up and could not find him anywhere. I always asked myself what happened to kolento, but I realised that the real question was "what happened to Hearthstone?".
I completely agree with this comment, it’s like I could have written it. I looked up to kolento when I was getting into hearthstone in 2015 and it was great watching his streams and TH-cam, I stopped playing and recently wondered what he’s been up to and saw he hadn’t uploaded or anything in a while, now I see this is what’s happened with the game. A shame
I absolutely loved Hearthstone when it released and watched all the streamers mentioned in your "Why X left Hearthstone"-series. Watching these videos brings back so much nostalgia. However, being out of the loop for many years now and not knowing what exactly "Hearthstone Grandmasters" is, this format seems to have ended so many high profile HS careers. Feels like every video boils down to "Got relegated in Grandmasters and decided to quit".
@Thaal “skill” is not what gives you the advantage so much as deck choice in your lineup as well as RNG. I would rather climb ladder and play against a variety of classes than face overload aggro shaman 4/5 games
I miss the old HS days. I remember when i turned either Kolentos/Livecoach or Kripps stream on literally everyday when i went to sleep. Gave me chills every time. This game helped me in really stressful times of my life. Thank you Kolento for being there.
I remember the days when Kolento would make a deck and then the next day trump, forsen and everyone else would play whatever kolento played the day before
This is somewhat of a shameless plug, But I play like, a game per month against Kolento on that very niche indie game called Prismata I really loved him in Hearthstone, so it's really amazing to see that he regularly plays Prismata a few hours per week despite the impopularity of the game (we're like, 10-20 active players left, and we all don't play that much anymore)
He's the guy that made me understand that there is a whole another level to Hearthstone. He would make such unintuitive plays which would be the correct play when you thought about it. Amazing player.
For me, he's the GOAT of competitive HS. I know there maybe players now who have more tournaments wins, but he was always ahead of the competition when it came to decision making.
I definitely agree with Kolento's point of view about the power level. Decks are way too optimized now that homebrew is basically impossible. It's a shame. Hopefully the newer expansions can rope it in a little bit
Have confirmation, that Kolento playing homm is that same Kolento. It is possible to find his games on youtube vs other players. For example, [Jеbus Outcast 1hero] twaryna vs. Kolento. There twaryna specifically said, that it is that Kolento. And twaryna was official russian caster for hs, so he knew what he is talking about.
What separated him from the rest was his ability to build brilliant decks and everyone including top Streamers playing them and for that DEFINITELY IMHO one of the GOAT
Loved Kolento because he was a master at crafting new innovative decks. I remember he was one of the first to introduce Giant mage decks and this was my all time favorite, trying to use duplicate to create a wall of giants with Ice block behind. Such a fun, difficult and rewarding deck to play. I followed him quite a lot between vanilla HS, naxramas and GvG and you could see how good he was with some funky decks. Compared to Firebat who was a master of more typical aggro decks, he brought so much to HS.
He possesses all of the traits of high IQ. Actual high IQ not the larping that most people talk about or perceive. His emotionless outward expression and incredible ability to think deeply about the game and life as a whole made him one of my favorite people to ever touch Hearthstone. Glad he stopped settling for less, and I hope he's mentally stable on his journey.
@@mr.christopherdean6705 Not at all even the infamous pirate aggro deck that i mastered in old times was full of skill expression knowing and doing moves 3-4 ahead. RN game is done.
@@eliaspadari2761 pirate Rouge and aggro shammy meta was actually an even harder meta overall bc of all the control decks that you couldn't play if you were trying to brute force grind and not play 20 min long games...also reno jackson was that meta
@@Epck i was talking abot pirate warrior btw, ofc u are right generally speaking u had to win around turn 6-8 and yes at time control deck will mulligan for Reno since turn 1. Was a blamed meta years ago still 100 better than last 3 years of hs. Thats why i dropped the game after playing since day1.
Kolento was, by far, my favorited ranked HS player. He did scream into the camera, he didn’t have a bunch of graphics on his stream, he just played the game (and played it well). I get why he left but his departure mirrored my own.
Kolento, pistolento, GODlento i know Thijz is considered by many to be the GOAT, but during the time kolento played the game, he had some absurd stats playing unconventionnal decks (handlock in a hunter meta ). To me he will always be the GOAT with lifecoach (ropecoach) as close second or 3rd.
Same, It will always be Kolento + Thijs + Lifecoach who would always be the forefront of Hearthstone for me. Frodan would also be up there as a great commentator.
Kolento was my favorite streamer - although he was rarely showing emotion or engaging with chat his true power was how smart he was. I always watched his constructive streams which helped me improve a lot in ranked play. He was always on top of his game.
Love these vids. I’m getting back into Hearthstone after years of hiatus. I played a ton during classic and the first couple expansions. It’s awesome to see these comprehensive vids showing where all the faces I once knew have gone.
Actually Kolento played a lot of Civilzation 6 in 2020/2021, casually and competitive (yes, there is a competitive scene in civ 6). He was (is?) playing with CivRu on international competitions. Dont know if you were aware of this piece of information.
The good time of Hearthstone streaming: - Kolento - Trump - Scamaz - SkipTheKripp - RopeCoach - TextToSpeech Reynad - Meme Forsen - Reckful - Firebat - Hafu - StrifeCro - Savj These were my favorite and I regularly watched their streams/videos! Rest in peace Reckful, you shall not be forgotten...
Firebat mantioned in a stream that kolento bought a house for his family, I don't quite remember if it was a house for everyone or a house for each individual but after that he is just chilling.
Where is Ostkaka and Pavel nowadays? Also i predict this Kolento video will reach 250k within 1 month. Actually I'm modifying my prediction to 500k views
I've seen him in the CPL discord which is essentially a discord for competitive civ 6 players. I haven't been active in there since like 6 months ago but his discord account is still in the server and he used to hang out in voice channels and stuff.
So many well known HS players have left the scene, but it makes sense. These are mostly young guys who are still trying to decide what they want to do with their life/careers. Constantly playing the same game day after day for hours has to get boring at some point.
Thank you for this video, back in the day i played hearthstone he was my favourite player/streamer to watch. Very cool personality and humor and strong player of course.
I rly loved this guy, just as you mentioned he was very subtle when showing emotion , but he was a god at freeze mage and i loved his playstyle in general . Sad to see him quit ,even though i can somewhat relate since i left the game for 2 years after ashes of outland came out ,cause of the game state back then. Wonder how the war is affecting him now, anybody got some news about that?
Oh my god, my second game I play casually next to Hearthstone literally is Heroes of Might and Magic 3. That news just hit me like a truck as a huge surprise. HoMM3 is a beautiful game I love it so much!
Kolento has been playing mostly Civ6, which was the last game i remember him streaming. He's also been playing Prismata. I hope he's alright with what's going on in Ukraine these days.
Amazing vid. i loved Kolento for his style. I loved to watch his vids for hours ;) . I really can understand his decision. A lot of friends, me too, loved to experiment and enjoy new ideas and todays hs feels like random luck simulator. love this series ;) thanks .
I am one of the OG players, got top 30 with Miracle rogue season 1. I have always wondered what happened to my fave players, thanks for these serries mate.
Hi Rarran! I don't know how I found your videos, but I love them and they are very enternaining. But his video made me to make this comment, and it has nothing to do with Kolento or anything really about the content of the video. I had a really bad few months behind me. Personal life, job, dating life, everything I have got my hopes up and on this week they all collapsed and I am empty and sad and lonely. On the weekend I just tried to do my mundane tasks, wash the clothes, make food, grocery shopping, then watch some youtube videos to get off my mind about everything bad happened recently. And I was fine. Not good, but I just spent the time and didn't think about anything. Then I watched this video. I always liked Kolento, I was interested what happened to him. But then at the end of the video you said the classic 'you look fantastic'. I just bursted into tears. It catched me so off guard, and I didn't know I needed just one kind sentence this much, even though its just a phrase you say in every video, this hit me so hard. I have reached a new low point on the weekend with this, but after this now I feel a little bit better. I just wanted to say thank you, even though it may look stupid, it really helped me. It is true that one kind word can change someone's entire day.
Seems like all the main players I used to follow and enjoy watching has left, just like me. These videos are great to watch and nostalgic, but also a bit sad as it shows the slow death of this game.
@@darkairlord Yes new players that are good fill their positions but don't compare thijs, kolento, firebat etc. players who competed for number 1 position also take into thought the game isn't what it used to be, this isn't only kolento's feels and thoughts, i also quit hearthstone like couple friends' of mine did since it felt too fast with all the powerspiking of latest expansions the game downgraded its gameplay to earn money.
I came back following a 3 year break. Played the Classic mode as I have so many fond memories off that era and the barrier to entry cost for playing standard or wild. Got to Leg in 5 days playing 2-3 hours a day. Now trying out Mercenaries. Kolento was an absolute boss
kolento has been playing semi competetive sid meyers civilization 6 on cpl discord server, cpl being civ 6 competetive scene. he doesnt stream himself, but can be seen in other civ 6 players streams.
Standard Hearthstone died the moment RNG completely took over the game. I remember when the game was playing to your outs and to your opponent's outs, but when you have random card generation you're just pulling a slot machine: Sometimes you hit the jackpot, and sometimes you don't. I think it's ironic that Battlegrounds has less RNG involved than the main game.
Kolento was my favorite Heartstone player, just because he was the best. When Russia Atck Ukrania, one of my fisrt tought was if Kolento ok, and i already left Heartstone years ago.
I like this series a lot. Would love to see you do a few more. I watched almost all of them. Miss Reynad the most. LaughingHS was one of my favorite streamers back then. Hit legend twice with his Freeze Mage list. Zilea? I think he was one of the original Control Paladin players. No clue what ever happened to him. I quit when every deck was boring midrange decks. I think year of the mammoth rotation? When they killed Freeze Mage, Miracle Rogue, Face Hunter and Fatigue decks the game became boring for me. I also really disliked quests as a gimmick.
I followed Kolento for a while sorta got out of hearthstone as he did too. It was sad to see him go. Great work on this series though. Maybe things will change with Microsoft.
Some say he streams on twitch now with the name "xqn_thesad",doesn't show his face or anything like that,most say they recognized him by the voice and how he speaks english but to me he doesn't sound like kolento
MMR does not mean a lot in the HOMM 3 - what you should be looking at is the table that shows the highest ranked players in the lobby. The current top player is named Challenge Top 2. Kolento score is not even approaching top 30.
I dont understand why Blizzard introduced the relagated thing to competitive hearthstone. So many great players left the scene because how screwed they were by this rule. It seems that Blizzard really hated its old competitive players
HOMM 3 is massive in the russian community atleast for the older gamers there. There's indeed quite the competitive scene there. I played that game alot when i was younger and i would love to be actively competing in it nowadays too, but life's just busy and that game takes time. I wouldn't be surprised if Kolento is playing it. And yes hearthstone was at it's greatest in Naxxramas patch. My good ol' days being legend ranked with control warrior deck. Kolento was one of my favs if not the most favorite streamers at the time cause he was just so robotic but also genius and it was funny when his robotic facade breaks due to funny rng plus he had amazing insight and i learned alot from watching him.
He still plays hearthstone, he even streams on twitch, but under a different username. The twitch account is called "XQN_TheSad", he doesn't show his facecam, but he talks and even has a !kolento command in his chat.
great series of vids, quite depressing tho lol, hs, and the community has changed alot, i used to open my youtube up and vids from all these great guys everyday, now alot have gone, we still have some left tho, cant even beleive hs is so old now
Playing card games such as these causes burnout due to their incredible variance. Once you reach a certain understanding of the game, you kind of feel whatever extra work you do changes your win rate of barely 1% or even less, in their case it's even worse because their revenue was dependant on a game that they might have liked in 2014 but kind of kept on going on afterwards just because it was how they managed to put food on the table and you have to keep playing insane hours, there is no escape. It's amazing they kept performing for so long! Kolento was really a fantastic player to watch, pretty entertaining.
@@Exknight2 Totally, in fact I have myself stopped playing this game around when Lifecoach did. I remember his famous rant and agreeing with everything he said at the time and it's sad to see that the situation didn't improve at all. Unfortunately MTG is kind on the same situation if not worse and LoR isn't really becoming any popular.
![드라이버가 안정적이면 일어나는 일 😎 [Ep.40] 2024.11. 골프존NX / 팔도대회 A코스/ 힐데스하임 CC - LAKE/HILL / [고나] / 4K](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qQNBV0sc3cY/mqdefault.jpg)
Let me know who you want next and if you could like the video that would be pretty fantastic!
Keep the great work
Strifecro next plz
@@nonu01 i was going to say that...the handlovk master lol
Do nevillz miss that crazy bastard
Solem, Savjz or Forsen pls
Watching Kolento play miracle rogue was just mind boggeling at times.
I was looking for this comment, that’s how I got to know of him. I just started playing and it blew my mind.
Him and Dogs are the OGs rogue gods
Kolento was my hero back when I first started playing the game, started from his control priest and miracle rogue. After 6 years of me not playing, I tried to play HS again and immediately looked him up and could not find him anywhere. I always asked myself what happened to kolento, but I realised that the real question was "what happened to Hearthstone?".
I completely agree with this comment, it’s like I could have written it. I looked up to kolento when I was getting into hearthstone in 2015 and it was great watching his streams and TH-cam, I stopped playing and recently wondered what he’s been up to and saw he hadn’t uploaded or anything in a while, now I see this is what’s happened with the game. A shame
@@Nillowo Ladder now is based on luck not skills and this kind of game is too low of a quality for Kolento.
@@zamarah123 fair. Thanks for the warning before trying to come back. It was fun while it lasted I suppose
@@Nillowo I'm from Brazil, could you explain to me why the kolento stopped playing and what happened to the game?
I'm from Brazil, could you explain to me why the kolento stopped playing and what happened to the game?
I absolutely loved Hearthstone when it released and watched all the streamers mentioned in your "Why X left Hearthstone"-series. Watching these videos brings back so much nostalgia. However, being out of the loop for many years now and not knowing what exactly "Hearthstone Grandmasters" is, this format seems to have ended so many high profile HS careers. Feels like every video boils down to "Got relegated in Grandmasters and decided to quit".
So far out of the ones I have done, only two come close to that.
@Thaal ?
Basically they quit cuz they sucked competitively. So why continue lol
@Thaal “skill” is not what gives you the advantage so much as deck choice in your lineup as well as RNG. I would rather climb ladder and play against a variety of classes than face overload aggro shaman 4/5 games
The bigger the hearthstone esports scene got the smaller kolento became
I miss the old HS days. I remember when i turned either Kolentos/Livecoach or Kripps stream on literally everyday when i went to sleep. Gave me chills every time. This game helped me in really stressful times of my life. Thank you Kolento for being there.
Fr! I would watch their streams almost every day back in those 2016-ish days.
I remember the days when Kolento would make a deck and then the next day trump, forsen and everyone else would play whatever kolento played the day before
DONALD TRUMP PLAYS HEARTHSTONE (REAL!!!!)
@@TordBot69 lol
Kolento was my favourite HS player because of his coldness, I hope he finds a new game or something to enjoy and be happy, he deserves it
This is somewhat of a shameless plug, But I play like, a game per month against Kolento on that very niche indie game called Prismata
I really loved him in Hearthstone, so it's really amazing to see that he regularly plays Prismata a few hours per week despite the impopularity of the game (we're like, 10-20 active players left, and we all don't play that much anymore)
Also, yeah, I got him to answer to my emotes once,
it was the best moment of my life
@@shadourow-bathory6965 what if its a fake nickname
He's the guy that made me understand that there is a whole another level to Hearthstone. He would make such unintuitive plays which would be the correct play when you thought about it. Amazing player.
For me, he's the GOAT of competitive HS. I know there maybe players now who have more tournaments wins, but he was always ahead of the competition when it came to decision making.
HOMM 3 is one of my favorite games ever. Glad to see Kolento doing well with it.
I definitely agree with Kolento's point of view about the power level. Decks are way too optimized now that homebrew is basically impossible. It's a shame. Hopefully the newer expansions can rope it in a little bit
@@pantsmcgee4997 sure, just don’t expect an even half-decent winrate lol
@@pantsmcgee4997 Why play a format that was dead from day one? Kitchen table Magic has endless possibilites, and no one gives a shit.
They tried to rope it in on the rastakhan's rumble cycle. Then they didn't sell enough packs, so went back to the eternal power creep.
Have confirmation, that Kolento playing homm is that same Kolento. It is possible to find his games on youtube vs other players. For example, [Jеbus Outcast 1hero] twaryna vs. Kolento. There twaryna specifically said, that it is that Kolento. And twaryna was official russian caster for hs, so he knew what he is talking about.
they're actually both ukrainians, but yeah, heard twaryna say it too
What separated him from the rest was his ability to build brilliant decks and everyone including top Streamers playing them and for that DEFINITELY IMHO one of the GOAT
Loved Kolento because he was a master at crafting new innovative decks. I remember he was one of the first to introduce Giant mage decks and this was my all time favorite, trying to use duplicate to create a wall of giants with Ice block behind. Such a fun, difficult and rewarding deck to play. I followed him quite a lot between vanilla HS, naxramas and GvG and you could see how good he was with some funky decks. Compared to Firebat who was a master of more typical aggro decks, he brought so much to HS.
He possesses all of the traits of high IQ. Actual high IQ not the larping that most people talk about or perceive. His emotionless outward expression and incredible ability to think deeply about the game and life as a whole made him one of my favorite people to ever touch Hearthstone. Glad he stopped settling for less, and I hope he's mentally stable on his journey.
The game isn't about skill. You don't need a high IQ to play this game. It's luck based and RNG based.
@@mr.christopherdean6705 this is a midwit take. the same players are on top every year. the same poker players win all of the tournaments.
@@mr.christopherdean6705 Not at all even the infamous pirate aggro deck that i mastered in old times was full of skill expression knowing and doing moves 3-4 ahead.
RN game is done.
@@eliaspadari2761 pirate Rouge and aggro shammy meta was actually an even harder meta overall bc of all the control decks that you couldn't play if you were trying to brute force grind and not play 20 min long games...also reno jackson was that meta
@@Epck i was talking abot pirate warrior btw, ofc u are right generally speaking u had to win around turn 6-8 and yes at time control deck will mulligan for Reno since turn 1.
Was a blamed meta years ago still 100 better than last 3 years of hs.
Thats why i dropped the game after playing since day1.
Kolento was, by far, my favorited ranked HS player. He did scream into the camera, he didn’t have a bunch of graphics on his stream, he just played the game (and played it well).
I get why he left but his departure mirrored my own.
Kolento, pistolento, GODlento
i know Thijz is considered by many to be the GOAT, but during the time kolento played the game, he had some absurd stats playing unconventionnal decks (handlock in a hunter meta ).
To me he will always be the GOAT with lifecoach (ropecoach) as close second or 3rd.
Zalae is the Goat dummie
@@youbluethatone1017 in jail hopefully lolol
@@llll-xh1qr he’s 115% cooler than you’ll ever be noob.: Get reKt kid 😘
@@youbluethatone1017 so cringe, hopefullu you also don't know what he did
Same, It will always be Kolento + Thijs + Lifecoach who would always be the forefront of Hearthstone for me. Frodan would also be up there as a great commentator.
Kolento was the best HS player in the scene. This guy was fucking scary. Loved the guy as well! Hope he is doing well!
Kolento, One of the smartest streamers ever Landed on TH-cam, thanks for the content 🙏
Thanks for the videos! It brings back memory of when I was watching Hearthstone. The first couple of seasons of the game were amazing.
Kolento was my favorite streamer - although he was rarely showing emotion or engaging with chat his true power was how smart he was. I always watched his constructive streams which helped me improve a lot in ranked play. He was always on top of his game.
Kudos to the guy who didn't surrender when kolento had a creature hitting for over 9000.
The guy actually helped him get it that high
Love these vids. I’m getting back into Hearthstone after years of hiatus. I played a ton during classic and the first couple expansions. It’s awesome to see these comprehensive vids showing where all the faces I once knew have gone.
Actually Kolento played a lot of Civilzation 6 in 2020/2021, casually and competitive (yes, there is a competitive scene in civ 6).
He was (is?) playing with CivRu on international competitions.
Dont know if you were aware of this piece of information.
The good time of Hearthstone streaming:
- Kolento
- Trump
- Scamaz
- SkipTheKripp
- RopeCoach
- TextToSpeech Reynad
- Meme Forsen
- Reckful
- Firebat
- Hafu
- StrifeCro
- Savj
These were my favorite and I regularly watched their streams/videos!
Rest in peace Reckful, you shall not be forgotten...
Kolento was probably the best player I've known, always watched his matches
man, I really miss those days.. recently discovered your channel after being away from HS for almost 5 years.. all those names -- i remember them
My man kolento lots of love from Costa Rica.
Kolento is my favourite hearthstone player all time. He had that extra layer of complexity in his playstyle I couldnt find anywhere else.
Firebat mantioned in a stream that kolento bought a house for his family, I don't quite remember if it was a house for everyone or a house for each individual but after that he is just chilling.
Where is Ostkaka and Pavel nowadays? Also i predict this Kolento video will reach 250k within 1 month. Actually I'm modifying my prediction to 500k views
Thanks for doing this man.. I miss Kolento
These are really well done..... Thank you for this
I've seen him in the CPL discord which is essentially a discord for competitive civ 6 players. I haven't been active in there since like 6 months ago but his discord account is still in the server and he used to hang out in voice channels and stuff.
just wanted to add that based on his steam profile he's been playing a good amount of prismata
Heroes of might magic was SUPER fun. I'm not amazed this game still has active community. I wish we had a updated version of this game.
It wont be "the same" , plus the old game is fine as it is.
You can buy it for cheap on gog
Great Content, Kolento got me playing back in season 1, been waiting for this
So many well known HS players have left the scene, but it makes sense. These are mostly young guys who are still trying to decide what they want to do with their life/careers. Constantly playing the same game day after day for hours has to get boring at some point.
Thank you for this video, back in the day i played hearthstone he was my favourite player/streamer to watch. Very cool personality and humor and strong player of course.
He used to be my favourite HS player. Always rooted for him during tournaments. The one and only GODLENTO!
These are needed and awesome! It would be cool to get a soundbite from kolento et al. on the subject. Keep up the great work!
I rly loved this guy, just as you mentioned he was very subtle when showing emotion , but he was a god at freeze mage and i loved his playstyle in general . Sad to see him quit ,even though i can somewhat relate since i left the game for 2 years after ashes of outland came out ,cause of the game state back then. Wonder how the war is affecting him now, anybody got some news about that?
Oh my god, my second game I play casually next to Hearthstone literally is Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
That news just hit me like a truck as a huge surprise. HoMM3 is a beautiful game I love it so much!
"A Viking we will go", Druid start, reroll for Gelu. Mmmmm, Gelu...
@@talltroll7092 No no ! Gunnar !! Or Thant, the resurection cheater 😄
Ha ! Me also, i loved it. Also didn't know Kolento played this game too. Great to know !
I have been wondering about him. He was my favorite streamer back in the day
Been waiting on a Kolento video. He was my favorite chill streamer, although I only watched him on yt.
Love this series! ALSO MAGIC AMY SOON??
I love these videos thank you so much for kolento story
Kolento has been playing mostly Civ6, which was the last game i remember him streaming. He's also been playing Prismata. I hope he's alright with what's going on in Ukraine these days.
Amazing vid. i loved Kolento for his style. I loved to watch his vids for hours ;) . I really can understand his decision. A lot of friends, me too, loved to experiment and enjoy new ideas and todays hs feels like random luck simulator. love this series ;) thanks .
I am one of the OG players, got top 30 with Miracle rogue season 1. I have always wondered what happened to my fave players, thanks for these serries mate.
Hi Rarran! I don't know how I found your videos, but I love them and they are very enternaining. But his video made me to make this comment, and it has nothing to do with Kolento or anything really about the content of the video.
I had a really bad few months behind me. Personal life, job, dating life, everything I have got my hopes up and on this week they all collapsed and I am empty and sad and lonely. On the weekend I just tried to do my mundane tasks, wash the clothes, make food, grocery shopping, then watch some youtube videos to get off my mind about everything bad happened recently. And I was fine. Not good, but I just spent the time and didn't think about anything. Then I watched this video. I always liked Kolento, I was interested what happened to him. But then at the end of the video you said the classic 'you look fantastic'. I just bursted into tears. It catched me so off guard, and I didn't know I needed just one kind sentence this much, even though its just a phrase you say in every video, this hit me so hard. I have reached a new low point on the weekend with this, but after this now I feel a little bit better. I just wanted to say thank you, even though it may look stupid, it really helped me. It is true that one kind word can change someone's entire day.
HOMM3 is the greatest childhood game I've played and I'm stoked that he's gone back to it.
Seems like all the main players I used to follow and enjoy watching has left, just like me. These videos are great to watch and nostalgic, but also a bit sad as it shows the slow death of this game.
It isn't the death of a game just because people decide to go new things. New content creators have taken up the spots vacated by these people
For real I only have thijz left to watch and some new (?) fun channels like ragis killbin and markmckz
@@killuazoldyck6452 try feno and habugabu
@@darkairlord Yes new players that are good fill their positions but don't compare thijs, kolento, firebat etc. players who competed for number 1 position also take into thought the game isn't what it used to be, this isn't only kolento's feels and thoughts, i also quit hearthstone like couple friends' of mine did since it felt too fast with all the powerspiking of latest expansions the game downgraded its gameplay to earn money.
Second rate players like Kolento have been replaced by much better players.
Heroes of might magic is an absolute classic
I came back following a 3 year break. Played the Classic mode as I have so many fond memories off that era and the barrier to entry cost for playing standard or wild. Got to Leg in 5 days playing 2-3 hours a day. Now trying out Mercenaries. Kolento was an absolute boss
He is still active, his YT channel is called "Thijs hearthstone".
kolento has been playing semi competetive sid meyers civilization 6 on cpl discord server, cpl being civ 6 competetive scene. he doesnt stream himself, but can be seen in other civ 6 players streams.
Standard Hearthstone died the moment RNG completely took over the game. I remember when the game was playing to your outs and to your opponent's outs, but when you have random card generation you're just pulling a slot machine: Sometimes you hit the jackpot, and sometimes you don't.
I think it's ironic that Battlegrounds has less RNG involved than the main game.
Bro this guy is the Goat of Heathstone
such perfect nostalgia these videos are, keep them up please :)
HoMM 3 is still a good game that held the test of time, so completely understandable.
Kolento was my favorite Heartstone player, just because he was the best. When Russia Atck Ukrania, one of my fisrt tought was if Kolento ok, and i already left Heartstone years ago.
Man I miss those times. Also loved Strifecro and Dog.
I knew it was kolento hehe, i won the poll!
I saw Kolento playing heroes 3 several times, at least his nickmane in the lobby.
Thanks for doing these! I am quite enjoying them. Really brings back some nostalgia. How about one on Pavel?
Thanks for the video!!!
When l watch steams, l could predict what they gonna play, ofcos becos l saw those cards. But for Kolento, he always surprised me.
lol, dicovered your chanel 2 days ago and was searching for this video, timing xD
Great video. Could you please one about Pavel? He always did his own thing but he disappeared after rogue secrets came out.
I like this series a lot. Would love to see you do a few more. I watched almost all of them. Miss Reynad the most.
LaughingHS was one of my favorite streamers back then. Hit legend twice with his Freeze Mage list.
Zilea? I think he was one of the original Control Paladin players. No clue what ever happened to him.
I quit when every deck was boring midrange decks. I think year of the mammoth rotation? When they killed Freeze Mage, Miracle Rogue, Face Hunter and Fatigue decks the game became boring for me. I also really disliked quests as a gimmick.
I followed Kolento for a while sorta got out of hearthstone as he did too. It was sad to see him go. Great work on this series though. Maybe things will change with Microsoft.
coupe of days ago kolento graced us with his presence in sjow's chat
Oh wow, Good to know, Hope he is doing well. I too love HOMM3 but never ever played it online or competitive
Some say he streams on twitch now with the name "xqn_thesad",doesn't show his face or anything like that,most say they recognized him by the voice and how he speaks english but to me he doesn't sound like kolento
It is obviously not him
@@SiouplaitMerci Probably,and with all the stuff happening now in Ukraine we wont hear from him anything soon
MMR does not mean a lot in the HOMM 3 - what you should be looking at is the table that shows the highest ranked players in the lobby. The current top player is named Challenge Top 2. Kolento score is not even approaching top 30.
Heh. I don't know why did I feel Kolento was going to be next.
I enjoyed Kolento a lot.
when they asked him how to be a legend he said JUST PLAY GOOD... lol
who remembers the tournament fatigue mage mirror between kolento and strifecro that went on forever
Love this series, keep it up! :)
I dont understand why Blizzard introduced the relagated thing to competitive hearthstone. So many great players left the scene because how screwed they were by this rule. It seems that Blizzard really hated its old competitive players
I want to see the full clip vs ancestor call shaman
wouldnt say that 700ish elo in heroes 3 is insane but it is decent indeed and it really depends which format u play like duel or mtfw etc
Slowly realizing the entire pro scene from my hearthstone no lifing days have all moved on. Kinds sad
he was my fav hearthstone youtuber together with Dane.. at least Dane still play the game wild constructed, my favorite mode
HOMM 3 is massive in the russian community atleast for the older gamers there. There's indeed quite the competitive scene there. I played that game alot when i was younger and i would love to be actively competing in it nowadays too, but life's just busy and that game takes time. I wouldn't be surprised if Kolento is playing it.
And yes hearthstone was at it's greatest in Naxxramas patch. My good ol' days being legend ranked with control warrior deck. Kolento was one of my favs if not the most favorite streamers at the time cause he was just so robotic but also genius and it was funny when his robotic facade breaks due to funny rng plus he had amazing insight and i learned alot from watching him.
He still plays hearthstone, he even streams on twitch, but under a different username. The twitch account is called "XQN_TheSad", he doesn't show his facecam, but he talks and even has a !kolento command in his chat.
Are you serious ?
It is not him, not evn same voice
oh i remmeber when he creat the cubelock deck and all of his vid in youtube
Godlento definetely one of the greats, he was undisputably the best hearthstone player for quite some time
Lifecoach should be a really cool one to do next
Do one for Day9!
Wow me and kolento have something in common, Would have never thought so, But Heroes of Might and Magic requires a hell lot of strategy and time,
great series of vids, quite depressing tho lol, hs, and the community has changed alot, i used to open my youtube up and vids from all these great guys everyday, now alot have gone, we still have some left tho, cant even beleive hs is so old now
I just wanted to get back and see how it developed after some years of absence. But it seems like all the main streamers are already gone as well.
Another great video, keep it up! It's pronounced "especially" tho, not "eXspecially"🤣
i played this game so much until the expansions come out at a faster rate, very hard to keep-up.
I remember that I watched massan's stream. Don't know what happened to him
Playing card games such as these causes burnout due to their incredible variance. Once you reach a certain understanding of the game, you kind of feel whatever extra work you do changes your win rate of barely 1% or even less, in their case it's even worse because their revenue was dependant on a game that they might have liked in 2014 but kind of kept on going on afterwards just because it was how they managed to put food on the table and you have to keep playing insane hours, there is no escape. It's amazing they kept performing for so long! Kolento was really a fantastic player to watch, pretty entertaining.
The game was likeable then but it isn't anymore, it has changed so much its difficult to keep playing and so alot of players quit.
@@Exknight2 Totally, in fact I have myself stopped playing this game around when Lifecoach did. I remember his famous rant and agreeing with everything he said at the time and it's sad to see that the situation didn't improve at all. Unfortunately MTG is kind on the same situation if not worse and LoR isn't really becoming any popular.
I came here for know if he still lives in Ukraine. I hope he get out of all that conflict 😞
kolento was winning games in top 200 with renounce warlock. he is the streamer for me. i think he won 4 in a row
I love these videos so much!!