Yeah, just look at nerf butcher, nova, illidan, murky, etc threads and thank them for that.
The playerbase is so bad that that they need crutches to deal with heroes with stealth which is why stealth isn’t stealth.
“I want to overextend and do stuff without paying attention or being punished for it! PLZ NERF!”
PRESTO BADDO!
EXPECTUM TRASHO- Blizzard
Bam, nerfs.
Now, my biggest pet peeve is bad players who make bad plays that would normally get them killed but get away with it due to hero homogenization or lack of awareness.
Like, an enemy should get DUNKED on if he chases someone to the enemy base but when that same moron gets ganked by a nova because he was out of position, “WAAAAHHHH, PLZ NERF, I’M BAD AND WANT TO MAKE TERRIBAD PLAYS!”
Yet, heroes who punish bad positioning have been nerfed due to garbage ‘axe’ players such as tracer, nova, valeera, etc.
I had to learn to position in the beta days because I got crushed constantly, now I never get crushed. I used to be the person chasing the map for the kill but I’ve been penalized too much for that.
New wave of players think they’re above the law with that, whenever I see them do that, F them and they should eat dust when they’re tunneling for a kill.
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Well if I offended you I’m sorry. That was not what I was trying to do. I’m just looking at my diamond and masters friends profiles and even they have under a 50% win rate with her. Maybe shes one of those high skill heroes that hardly anyone is good at but everyone wants to play. Let me tell you though most nova players are clueless.
I do think she is a bad hero, but that doesn’t excuse bad players on her either.
I learned a long time ago that anything she can do someone else can do much better, at least until 16.
With the loss of her clone build (thanks samuro) and the release of hanzo and chromie, she is just too specialized to bother with, and not good enough at that specialty to warrant her existence.
Good players will still make her look good, but I will always ask why work so much harder for the same result?
Still my highest lvl hero, even though I haven’t touched her in a like a year. That made me kinda sad, guess I’ll play her after work tonight for old times sake…
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People main her because people love stealth assassin characters. They love taking people by surprise and bursting them down with a combo in a matter of seconds.
It’s really that simple. But it’s not all that fun to play against (Especially in QM, where you often have poorly-balanced comps and can’t counterpick her), so the dev team has always been extremely hesitant to buff her.
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Eh, I think she is a little underrated. Her biggest weakness is no wave clear for the majority of the game.
Triple Tap is fine in the right situation.
Nova could be a bit more versatile, but she’s not useless.
I think she should be balanced around having range rather than burst, and it’s quite confusing why Hanzo gets Explosive Arrows at 4, but Nova gets Explosive Rounds at 16.
His other level 4 options help him kill minions also, but she gets decoy upgrades, which can be useful but ultimately only really perform the role of Hanzo’s Sonic Arrow.
Unless you clone to block a skill shot or Garrosh throw for an ally.
couldn’t agree more lol when the game has 90% or more horrible playerbase expect nerfs on every single hero that actually rewards good plays in the game just to please these bad players that unfortunately for us doesn’t care about learning so they want everything to be balanced around their horrible skill level and look at how the devs listen to these bad player’s i can see why they won’t ever bother to learn anything since they’re getting what they want
i wouldn’t say it any better so i agree with you and no i’m not “offended” so no need to apologize it’s just that how they nerf the heroes that doesn’t even need that nerf…
you know why you think like that about her? i mean sure i do look at some heroes and be like “that hero is trash in this ( team comp )” heroes like Li Li where people pick her thinking she’s a main healer then yes that’s a braindead player over there and i hate Li Li in my team cause of a reason she isn’t a main healer and people think she is so in my eyes she is a bad hero and shouldn’t be considered as a main healer only in bronze sure since people even ban her there so afraid of her etc…
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They should switch to their E, she should be able to control it, for example.
Edit: My translator is horrible 
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her decoy is just useless since you can kill it asap and you know that it’s not the real nova unlike “samuro” where his freakin mirrors can “tank” tower shots and people think he’s the real one cause he doesn’t die with 2 tower shots like nova’s decoy so where’s the problem there? the devs design is hot garbage for the decoys and they should have never removed her triple decoy for distraction before and should never nerf her decoy damage either they just made her look worse in everyone’s eyes even in my eyes but i still play her and carry despite them !@#$%^ on her for the bad player’s sake
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Honestly the only thing I hate about playing Nova is her mana problem. Advanced Cloaking should be baseline or just remove her mana cost all together. She’s could also use a wave clearing talent. I mostly play W build with One in the Chamber and I can’t count the number of kill I missed because I was oom. I use snipe mostly as an execute. She’s fun to play but ultimately she has almost has no impact on the game.
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thank the horrible playerbase for that. she was fine before but they found her “broken” while she wasn’t since there’s rarely any good nova player around yet she got freakin nerfed to the ground
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You’re not going to get far with people if you instantly assume that if they dislike something about the game, it must be a problem with them, and not a problem with the game.
I can’t think of many people who enjoy getting ambushed by an invisible enemy and killed by a burst combo so quickly that they didn’t even have a chance to fight back.
I know I don’t enjoy that; it’s one reason I prefer this game over League of Legends or DotA 2.
how’s it a problem with the game if the player’s are the ones who’s making the game worse and worse for the good player’s cause they can’t stop complaining about heroes being SO OP PLS NERF ???
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How else will TB varian be able to chase you into your base and expect not to pay the consequences? How else will those retards be satisfied if they can’t chase you into the base without being ‘hard countered’.
MY DUDE! If you’re dumb enough to chase into the base, you DESERVE TO DIE. MAH DUDE! You’re not PRO for pulling it off, you’re on TRAINING WHEELS. The heroes who punish that have been nerfed ma dude!
You’re not good. You’re coddled!
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and that’s what i’m exactly saying over here. they nerf the heroes based on the freakin bad player’s that keep CRYING
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Who is the “good player” here? You? The guy who needs to rely on invisibility in order to score kills?
If you just straight-up think you’re better than everyone else, don’t be surprised if nobody likes you.
do you even think before replying? what does invisibility has to do with scoring kills? you think you can be braindead and score kills? or you think i stay hidden waiting for someone to be 1 shot so i can get that kill? you don’t even know Nova and how she’s supposed to be played nor watched any of my games on her to understand anything lol and yes i’m saying i’m good on her go check replays thread you may find Nova replays from me
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Catherine is right. people didn’t know how to play against Tracer and she was nerfed over and over again, basically because people hate heroes like nova whose functionality is that, kill.
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No, I think I explained why I think she’s a bad hero in the rest of the post.
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nova can be amazing if you play her well.
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