Well as I see it… part of the reason why a lot of people are going in with lots of healing/reviving is that they’re going in blind so they pick the absolute safest comp they can get (lots of healing and reviving).
While I’ve seen in games that have draft modes (like League of Legends), seeing the enemy comp being built, you can take answers to the stuff your enemy is taking… (aka: you see a lot of healing/regen heroes, you take Ignite, which reduces healing or you take Champions that make use of items that grant the ability to apply “Grievous Wounds” which reduces healing in their item builds), You see the enemy take a lot of high HP tanks… take Champions who have a kit that has %Health Damage.
So with Hero Hunters Draft… I am imagining that we would be able to do similar things: aka if you see them take a lot of:
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Healers: then take a Callidus or a Sapphyr (who heal block) or take yourself some heroes with Silences or Stuns/Staggers (Maven, Salvatore, Sentry, Heckler, Mauler, Phoenix, Steele) to shut down their healing to allow your DPS to break through and kill people off.
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Shielders: Take Yanlong (or any future “Shield Pen” heroes,
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high armour Front liners? then take Heroes who have armour pen/reduction (like: Plat Dogface, Plat Moss, or Skinned Salvatore… etc)
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High Health Heroes: Take heroes who have % health dmg (like Mauler)
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Summoner Swarm (aka: featuring Halloway, Hivemind, Hardscope, Castellan): Take good AoE heroes (Like Oro, Razorback, Savage, Ghoul, Callidus, Fortress)
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Burst Deniers: (aka: Revivers, Flatline’s Stay With Me, Phoenix’s Gold, Caine’s Counter Measures, heavy Shielders) Use Sustained Damage Heroes like Phoenix, Heckler, Mauler, Clyde, Kunoichi, Ghoul)
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Silencers: Take Auto Attack Centric heroes (Panzer, Heckler, Prophet, Clyde, Artemis… etc) or Cleansers (Phoenix self cleanse, Heimlock)
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AoE Zone Control (Scum, Chesterfield, Ghoul, Fischer, Oro… etc) don’t take stationary heroes (Castellan, Richter, Yanlong… etc)
I could go on, but this is an example of the sorts of decisions I myself do when I’m looking at what is popular currently, in the “Blind Pick” PvP system that’s in the game currently… unfortunately for me, the biggest issue is exactly what the Devs have mentioned… I’m going in blind… so MANY of my niche picks that could shut down a Reviving Heal Wall comp, are “specialists” who can get shutdown themselves if you end up fighting other specific heroes or comps… which can end up happening very easily with blind pick.
Aka: my answer for Panzer, Heimlock, Flatline, Caine, Ifrit would be different that: Panzer, Odachi, Flatline, Ifrit, Halo, and my answers to both of the above would probably be completely shut down by: Mauler, Ifrit, Halo, Caine, Moss, and might have a 50-50 chance vs: Wesson, Panzer, Oracle, (legendary) Lawson, Baron.
So I’m actually waiting to see how this Draft mode turns out (I have some concerns about certain implementations of it, but I won’t know if they’re actual valid concerns until I play them, so shrug I await October eagerly, but not gonna let the hype get to me either)