Legends of Runeterra is the better Heartthstone and much cheaper

The Card GameHearthstone is in criticism because of pricing policy, balance and new mercenary mode. Some players are therefore looking for alternatives. MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch has moved to Legends of Runeterra in 2020 and feels again confirmed in this change.

What happens because Hearthstone? The Card Game of Blizzard has last announced the new mercenary mode. Even the idea went chaotic and many viewers did not understand how exactly this mode works.

However, what many have understood are the high costs associated with this mode. In the pre-order all new packages together cost 130 euros together and do not even take advantage of the other modes.

In general, many see a problem in the pricing policy of Hearthstone:

• Every 3 months comes a new set for which you can buy packs
• There is a season pass that costs money
• You can buy directly top decks
• There are solo content that needs to be purchased
• Feeled every week comes a cosmetic set with new skins

CORTYN has already been dealt with in a Meck-Wednesday to the pricing policy: I do not deserve enough money to play Hearthstone.

What are the alternatives? Currently, the question is increasing which alternatives to Hearthstone are worthwhile. Games like Magic: The Gathering Arena, The Elder Scrolls Legends or Gwent are called.

Personally, I played Hearthstone for years, but I am already changing permanently to Legends of Runeterra in the summer of 2020.

The greatest pluses at Legends of Runeterra I see above all in the course of the gameplay, the better arena mode and the monetization, which fails extremely fairly.

* Who speaks because? * Alexander Leitsch is actually the MMORPG expert at Meinmmo. However, he likes to play a round Legends of Runeterra in the evening, while he lies in bed.

It has already sunk in Hearthstone and in Lor already dozens of hours. Hearthstone is currently pursuing only in compilations and on the Youtube channel of Trump, which regularly presents new sets and crazy decks.

Legends of Runeterra is Hearthstone superior to almost every point

The better gameplay: When I tried Legends of Runeterra in January 2020 for the first time, especially the gameplay tied me. I would designate it as a mixture of Hearthstone and Magic.

• In a round is always alternating a player of the attackers, while the other must ward off the attack.
• Both players alternately come to the train. Thus, an action is always carried out (e.g., a monster played), then the opponent may react to it.
• Requires for playing card mana points that are recharging and multiplying to each turn. There are also up to 3 magic mana. These are not spent mana from the last round.
• There are different types of cards: creatures, champions and spells. The champions, which are known LOL characters, can rise in battle under certain circumstances, which gives the games another tactical component.

Overall, in the gameplay of Legends of Runeterra, significantly more dynamics is in there than Hearthstone. That makes me a lot more fun.

In addition, the champions really feel particularly important. While well-known characters from the Warcraft Universe in Hearthstone are played, but usually do not take such a big impact on the course of a game, they usually build a strategy and deck around the champions in Legends of Runeterra.

How such a match runs out of this tutorial video of Riot Games:

The better arena mode: The arena mode in Hearthstone is basically a cool idea, which has been terribly implemented. Its deck made up of 30 cards by chance and fights against other players who also have random decks. It should win winning that is better in assessing the cards offered and build a functioning deck.

The players always offer 3 cards of random offers from which they should choose one, which should then move into their deck. The only aspect in which the player can orientate are the already selected maps.

However, the system lacks synergies and thus complexity. In general, you only choose the cards that are most hardest. One has little choice of choice, basically nothing can risk in choosing the cards because there is no indications that you get suitable tickets for synergies.

In addition, it is not guaranteed that I get a legendary card while other players like to pull two or three legendary.

On the other hand, the expeditions in Legends of Runeterra allow you to collect packages instead of cards. For example, in the first 2 choices, you will be offered a champion and two matching cards that directly produce synergy.

Even in the laps then you do not choose one, but always two cards. Alternately, you will be offered two normal cards and two cards that have an interaction with each other.

The Legends of Runeterra system thus emphasizes that each player gets the same many champions and the decks not only value the strongest cards, but also on synergies.

At the end of the draft, a dealer also offers you the opportunity to exchange a 3 random card again against another card, if you want to do that.

In the course of an expedition round, your deck also changes. After the first victory, for example, you get 3 champion packages to choose from, from which you may choose one.

The expeditions also set to another elimination system than the arena:

• Who loses 3 matches in Hearthstone in the arena, is out
• In the expeditions you only lose if you lose twice in a row

Much better monetization: As in Hearthstone also Legends of Runeterra offers special cards, skins for heroes and different playing fields for real money. However, there is a clear difference when buying the cards.

So you can not buy Booster packs in Legends of Runeterra, even if you want it.

Instead, you buy an ordinary, rare, epic or champion card directly for real money. Depending on rarity, the card costs more money. A champion of your choice costs about 3.30 euros, an ordinary card 11 cents.

For comparison: A pack in Hearthstone costs about 1.50 euros and contains 5 random cards. To get a legendary card, you need average 5 to 15 packs, where you then have no control over what Legendary you get.

The purchased map in Legends of Runeterra can then use the deck building to unlock a desired card of the corresponding rarity. However, in LOR you get new cards in Lor so fast that you do not have to spend money for the first good meta decks.

ART-STYLE AND INTERACTIONS: About this last point can be argued in any case, but I like the art style and especially the interactions in Legends of Runeterra much better.

In the game it always comes to interactions between champions and other champions, but also between the champions and their followers. Not only funny puns and jokes are torn, but partly also tells the Lore.

The entire staging of the game - with all artworks, Cinematics and the interactions - I like that so much that this also makes me great hopes for the upcoming Lol-MMORPG:

Because Legends of Runeterra is so horny, I have great hope for the LOL MMORPG.

Hearthstone offers other modes and more curious situations

What makes Hearthstone better? Hearthstone is far from everything bad. The game does not take himself so seriously, has a good sense of humor and of course offers many iconic characters from the Warcraft Universe.

There are also players who prefer the rather quiet and always alternating gameplay by Hearthstone to the Legends of Runeterra.

With the implementation of battlegrounds and mercenary mode, Blizzard has two interesting game modes that you can not find in Legends of Runeterra.

Lastly, I also gladly follow Hearthstone, because of the curious situations where players play their opponents in the third turn or suddenly many random interactions take place, which turn the course of the game completely upside down.

But so entertaining these moments are too, so often they have already led to frustration with me. That too is one of the reasons why I feel good in Legends of Runterra, but still like to look together from Hearthstone Matches.

More about Lor and Hearthstone on Meinmmo:

• Legends of Runeterra: 10 tips with which the entry succeeds
• 5 free mobile games that get along without threesful pay-to-win
• Hearthstone wanted strong hexamine noven - buffs him accidentally

What about the two card games? Despite the plots of hard monetization of Blizzard, hold on Hearthstone? Or do you play a very different card game? Write it into the comments!