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go face

go face verb: to attack or target the opponent directly, rather than their minions.

Verb

go face (third-person singular simple present goes face, present participle going face, simple past went face, past participle gone face)

  1. (intransitive, Hearthstone) To attack or target the opponent directly, rather than their minions.
    • Aggro decks often have a singular goal in mind, and that is to hit the opponent (“go face”) and kill their hero.[2015 December 11, Ben Russell, “Types of Decks in Hearthstone – All Four Deck Types”, in The Gazette Review
    • If they play Fandral and you have an easy way to kill it, do so, but otherwise simply keep going face to end the game quickly.2016 June 19, Stephen Draper, “Pirate Warrior Guide”, in Esports Edition, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020

Examples of go face in a sentence

  • All of [the Charge card's] power level has to be balanced around "what if they go face with this?" so it becomes uninteresting to use in any other way.2018 March 21, Tim Clark, quoting Dean Ayala, “Hearthstone's Iksar on The Witchwood, how Corridor Creeper got missed, and the mysterious...
  • It costs one more mana, but it comes with an extra two Attack, two Health, and, most importantly, the ability to go face.2019 November 25, Jerome Heath, “Deranged Netherwing joins the Warlock class in Hearthstone’s Descent of Dragons expansion”, in Dot...

Forms of go face

third-person singular presentgoes face
present participlegoing face
pastwent face
past participlegone face

Questions about go face

What does go face mean?
Go face means to attack or target the opponent directly, rather than their minions.
How do you use go face in a sentence?
All of [the Charge card's] power level has to be balanced around "what if they go face with this?" so it becomes uninteresting to use in any other way.
What part of speech is go face?
Go face is a verb.
What is the past tense of go face?
The past tense of go face is went face.

Words near go face in the dictionary

  1. go Dutch
  2. go easy
  3. go equipped
  4. go ER
  5. go f oneself
  6. go face
  7. go Fantee
  8. go far
  9. go fash, lose cash
  10. go fast
  11. go faster stripe

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