We get 12…? heroes unlocked every week for players to try.
Would anything be added (yes I realize) by locking some heroes from the weekly roster. There’s probably some grey area seeing people have purchased heroes, but it’s only a week right?
I think it might be nice to have a reprieve from some heroes every so often.
Maybe just me.
Edit: To clear up some confusion, I’ll add an example.
Weeks Free to Play Rotation
Free players for all
- Malfurion
- Valla
- Gazlowe
- Johanna
- Thrall
- Dehaka
- Greymane
- Xul
- Lucio
- Falstad
- Alarak (Slot unlocked at Player Level 5)
- Zarya (Slot unlocked at Player Level 10)
- Tyrande (Slot unlocked at Player Level 15)
- Abathur (Slot unlocked at Player Level 20)
Along with
Weeks Banned Hero Rotation
No one can pick at all
- Genji
- Lili
- Stitches
- Nazeebo
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That’d hurt one tricks in ranked and they’d decay in rank. Unless it’s coded to be only active in non-storm league games, unlikely to happen. This could be the next anomaly tho so all hats are off
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Buy the starters pack. Great value when you love and want to support the game
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Can I spend money to put them back in the pack?.. For everyone
I very much doubt they would do anything that discourages players from playing.
The entire purpose of a F2P is to keep you playing as long as possible. And we wouldn’t gain much by having heroes players can’t use. You’d have some people stop playing, but in exchange you get nothing.
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I can’t help but feel there’s some confusion here. Or at least I’m confused.
So what you’re asking is for heroes to be excluded from the weekly free hero rotation, right?
Then do not one trick and wont be a problem
I should be able to play who I want to play. The only time I’d disable a hero would be for an event like LoL did where in a teaser trailer a new champion was a killer that killed already made champions in the game. It’d be thematic and only for a short time. I’d stop ranked decay during the disabled duration to make it fair for all players if their mains got disabled
If you can not play more than one hero, you do not belong in ranked.
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Not from the free rotation, excluding heroes from being picked at all, by anyone on a weekly basis.
There are some games that do it, not really mobas, probably for a good reason.
The most recent example I can think of is Underlords, they “Jail” certain characters every week.
Edit: apparently this is a thing in Overwatch now.
That would make it difficult for new players. I see where you’re going, maybe this would impact the meta in SL etc… I can’t support the idea though, if you own a hero, it shouldn’t be temporarily locked. Some people have paid real money for a hero (in the early days I bought a few), they should not be restricted from using something they “own”.
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In vsAI? Yes. In QM? Yes. In UD? Grey area, maybe. IN SL? Hell no! (Unless you form a 5men premade which is cool with that.)
This, I understand.
It’s one of those balance questions, would it add to most players experience (by shifting the meta) or would it just annoy people.
The way they’ve done it is called “Hero Pools” in OW, with 4 heroes removed from each weeks roster.
Fair opinion though, I get why people wouldn’t want to pay for something and not be able to use it for some percentage of the time.
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If HOTS doesn’t go the LoL route where disabling a hero would be extremely rare, then I hope it’s not the next anomaly. Others may disagree but if I HAD to have this implemented, then ban those heroes for the season because I don’t want the rug pulled under me mid-season. I’d be unhappy (and hopefully others enough to really make a statement even stronger than the outrage against the last two anomalies). If you’re unwilling to get rid of ranked decay, then I can’t do ranked as if my main is disabled, I’m not going to have fun.
If you’re willing to disable heroes just for the heck of it, then unnecessary changes like my balance ideas should be considered just because nothing was broken before (all heroes can be used currently), it can be balanced, and it’ll be SOOO FUN
I thought you could delay Rank Decay by playing matches? Doesn’t it go out to like 30 days?
I think your more valid point is players that only enjoy playing one character. I imagine that’s fairly niche… it would suck if inexplicably your 4 favourite picks were banned though 
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If you want to spam a Hero, there’s QM for that.
If you don’t enjoy ranked if you can’t play your “main”, don’t play that mode.
If you can only maintain a rank as 1 and only 1 Hero, you are on that lvl with that Hero, but(!) you as a player doesn’t belong there.
And I’m saying these while I don’t really understand the idea in the op. I don’t think there should be a “weekly banned” (if I got it right), or any restriction outside of draft-bans on who ppl can play and every Hero should be on free rotation from time to time (so everyone can try them out).
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You’d have to give advanced notice who would be banned. At least then you could play a few more matches to get enough saved days to not decay
If you’re a one trick and you consistently win with that hero, that means you do belong in your rank. It’s equivalent to forcing me to tank or bruiser when I don’t do those two roles. I’d be much lower, but that doesn’t mean my rank is lower from looking at the one trick area.
Strategies to rank up either fall in the “main 3 heroes from each role and be good at all roles but master of none,” or “main a few heroes from one or two roles to get really good.” Unlike LoL ranked preferences actually mean nothing when the matchmaker builds a team or so I’ve heard so you have a slightly stronger argument to be the master of none. I’m still gonna play who I want to play and I won’t be alone in that. There are a few master one tricks, I’m not one of those but I do play only a few heroes too.
Hang on,
I’ll edit the OP so it’s a lot clearer.
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One tricking is a ranked issue. It’s a hindrance for the others. It’s extremely selfish. And a bad habit which can only persist if only a minority does it (basically being a parasite to others. I study biology in uni and it’s similar to nest-parasites or individuals of social species that don’t search food but go where the others found them).
Like imagine you get a game, where there are 5 assassin onetricks. Now what?
Ranked is a teamgame, so ppl there should be cooperative and adaptive, meaning they should be able to play most roles and a few Heroes for each. If not, they’re a liability, a risk factor.
And if (let’s say for an example) you are Diamond as Nazeebo, but fall out if you play others, you are not a player who’s on Diamond lvl, because if your abilities would match that lvl, you could perform on that lvl with at least a few others without being a liability to your team.
You are only a person, who got really good with one Hero, but if you can’t make use of that experience on others, it’s like mere “muscle memory”. You don’t know why you’re doing things, why they work, why they don’t.
As someone who always tries to draft for their team’s needs, one tricks really trigger me.
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