Try to use a shield or two on some big minion early to put yourself in a good spot and then play normally and use shields when you have leftover gold or on powerful targets such as cleaves or high attack minions. Keep in mind to not fully relly on your hero power since people can play Blaster against you!
minder
Basically play the hero as you don't have a heropower earlygame. You basically only heropower units that you expect to stay around until the lategame. The heropower is more about winning the lategame rather then it giving you help earlygame. The more Shields or Summons are available in the lobby the worse George gets (Mechs/Undead/Beast)
Placement Distribution
0.2%
#1
0.2%
#2
0.2%
#3
0.1%
#4
0.1%
#5
0.1%
#6
0.1%
#7
0.1%
#8
Warband Strength
1
2
11
3
20
4
30
5
47
6
76
7
125
8
243
9
417
10
690
11
1122
12
1823
13
2753
14
3639
15
4540
16
Combat Winrate
70%
1
30%
2
43%
3
43%
4
46%
5
45%
6
47%
7
45%
8
50%
9
49%
10
53%
11
55%
12
58%
13
54%
14
51%
15
65%
16
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