Popularity is pick or ban rate. Kassawin (Kassadin) in LoL got up to 99.55% pick or ban rate in 2015 at his peak. Now players please pick or ban Gazno as he’s broken. Right now Gazno is at 91.05% popularity at all ranks data combined on HeroesProfile. Thank you and good night.
TBH I have no idea where games come from where somebody doesn’t pick or ban him. He is literally first pick every single game if open. I haven’t had one game where he was still open at end of draft with nobody taking him.
from people who dont read patch notes yet go to sl
from low mmr people who think bans dont matter
from people who are simply oblivious about the current state of the game
and don’t know he’s op
allowing the enemy to take gaz is sabotaging your teams win rate, almost non-participation report worthy from the ban picker
If the devs don’t nerf gazno more, he’s just going to remain OP. Get his popularity to near 100% and it’s the dev’s fault if he isn’t gutted and then people leave. And yes I said gutted ;). Any replies that say “git gud” or some form of that can say it, but that won’t change the fact gazno is op.
he just got nerfed. Give it a week to settle. Then we’ll see if he still needs more. Overnerfing is bad.
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Says you. The cycle of nerfs await. He and dva got their chance in the spotlight. Now it’s time for lesser known heroes that are “unpopular” to be in the spotlight. The next patch marks around 2 months at least of gazno and dva’s reign
Medivh, valeera, qhira, genji (even though I say he shouldn’t be buffed), probius (even if one guy is op with him), and so on. And then nerf those 2-3 months later to the trash bin
The interesting part about it that he becomes op after the buffs he received, not after the rework like D.Va. Now they nerfed him a bit to see, if it’s enough, so you should give Gazlow some time after the patch and stop crying already two days after the patch…
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Well that’s stupid. Why buff if you’re not looking to balance but instead just nerf back into the ground?
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Because that’s quite literally been the Blizzard design theme since WoW. Overbuff then overnerf, unless your devs are fond of playing it. Then just overbuff and leave it where it is.
Still a dumb way to think though.
Balancing is hard. Even 5 dmg points is enough to make or break a hero.
Remember Sylvanas pre-buff? Trash dps, 40% winrate. They increased her AA dmg by like 1, and her dagger dmg by like 10, and then BAM! she got good.
So, yes, it’s better to do gradual, conservative changes in most cases.
Patinece young one, it takes more then 2 days for the results of patches to be obvious
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Been out of the loop on here for a few months though I’ve been playing.
Can’t tell if people are being serious or joking. I’ve had 70% WR with Gazlowe since release, so /shrug
If this is true, it’s kind of amusing but also annoying since they tend to over nerf.
Honestly, I’d rather they not even touched him for the current rework
I just had a game that Gaz basically carried the enemy team and we couldn’t do much beacuse he healed like crazy and got stuns for days (and multiple stuns… in area… with gravibomb). He definitely needs to be looked at.
Unfortunately Reddit and forum doesn’t think so. No one agreed to get his popularity up
You realize that he had a ~77% popularity in the last minor patch?
His 91% popularity in SL is, well, bizarre. Nerf a hero and they get banned more. 
His winrate so far in SL has fallen ~4-5%.
Still needs nerfs. But he is not nearly as stupid as before.
It takes time for uninformed terrible players to finally notice gazno is op.
If Georgia can flip, Gazno can get nerfed again. Make it happen, forum. Get the picket signs and get Gazno up in popularity. Together we can make him seem even more “op” than kassawin relative to each game
So play him and get to Masters.
Most of the increase is people going the herd of “gotta ban Gazlowe”.
Again, I don’t accept that criteria to say a hero is op or not. Getting to masters with a hero is extremely unlikely
What you accept doesn’t really matter does it?