Underrated: Greymane, almost never hear people talk about him, but he’s still as disgusting as he was back when HGC was a thing.
Overrated: Mephisto, people always overestimate (including myself) what he’s actually capable of in a teamfight.
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Underrated: Jaina. Sure, she isn’t as flashy as Ming, and she does have a relatively short range. But her combo potential is off the charts, and her burst damage hits like a truck. Throw in all those slows and decent build variety, and she is still a great mage at any rank.
Overrated: Nazeebo. Yes, he is better than he was before, and yes, he was overbuffed right after his changes, but I can easily think of 15 other heroes I would first-pick/first-ban before him. I guess he is popular because he is fairly easy to play.
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Underrated: Mephisto. Only few players plays him, but when they play him can almost single handely decide games.
Overrated: I agree with Hoku, it’s Naz for me too. He is not bad, but he isn’t really that good as people think.
I don’t think so on this one though. I think he’s popular, because people still think he’s op.
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Underrated: Cho’Gall. He was twice as popular last year before Gall’s nerf, but they’re still a powerhouse when drafted properly.
Overrated: Stitches. He was great during his rework, but he got nerfed twice. His popularity is still very high for no good reason, especially after the Leoric buff.
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Underrated: the heroes I play
Overrated: the heroes you play
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Yrel is definitely not overrated, but yeah I can say both Abathur and Murky are both seemingly simultaneously are both overrated and considered underpowered, somehow
Yrel walks a fine line. She gets overhyped because she can be amazing, but unless playing in a stack her drawbacks are often glaring at you the entire match because the rest of your team treats you like a main tank.
Aba and murk are the macro spammers. They take a different mindset to approach but once you have the hang of them the match stops being a traditional HotS brawl and starts revolving around how well the enemy team is adapting to your presence (or lack thereof). So instead of calling them overrated I just think of them as unique win conditions.
Is Hammer overrated or underrated? She gets hate at all levels of play for both her kit and the players she attracts, and while most everyone agrees that she gets hard countered easily we all still have days where we can’t deal with the kablamo
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Definitely both, depends on skill level.
New players overrate her and immediately get blown up by skillshots, poke, burst, cc, etc. Higher rank players who know “the counterplay” to Sgt. Hammer will get suprised by good Sgt. Hammer players who know how to position and position proactively.
Kael’thas is overrated in all ranks under diamond. Too many clueless people picking him, empowering flamestrikes and having 25k damage at the end.
Abathur is extremely overrated in QM. 80% of the games seem to have an Abathur and they don’t even place mines or play proactively. They just sit in base hatting things. 1% of these Abathurs play him properly.
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Overrated: Li Ming
All she does is damage. No real utility. She’s (IMO) insanely boring.
Underrated: Fenix.
Lotsa good build paths and talents, 2 solid ults. Does good damage. Resilient due to shields. Can negate some abilities with E. Very high skill ceiling with W ability and warp warfare, but also not too difficult for beginners.
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Underrated:
- Kael’Thas. Especially in higher ranks. He might not do the raw consistent damage like Jaina, Orphea, or Ming, but he has on demand hard CV and that goes a LONG way for a mage assassin because he can set up his own combos and/or stack it on top of other heroes’ combos.
- Lunara. Even after the (IMO) over buffing of Choking Pollen, she’s still considered “fake damage”. I know that people in CCL has begun picking her a lot, but the stigma is still there.
Overrated:
- Azmodan. Sure he can potentially have some of the highest burst damage with his Q but that’s really all about it. If he can’t burst or kill people with Q in a team fight, he doesn’t have the capabilities to fight sustained battles or he’ll die because the team counter engage and he has no mobility. The one redeeming quality he has is that he can win games simply by split pushing.
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Underrated: Chen and Probius especially the letter had already decline since after HGC ended, Chen had regrowth with another rework in 2019, since then Chen have also decline as lowest Bruiser players several times.
Overrated: Li-Ming and Valla the most played hero during the last 4 years as Li-Ming have high burst damage.
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I initially came up with the idea of sorting Heroes Profile by influence, picking bottom…
But then!
- Overrated: Abathur
Massively overpicked, and while he is good enough, especially with his matchups being generally inferior, he isn’t as much a game changer. There are definitely some combinations where he (they) shine(s). - Underrated: Nova
Universally hated and considered a troll pick, while virtually everyone with more than just a few matches a year has good results, either by hunting or playing her like a regular hero (myself). I also desperately hate her as my opponent and love her ability to finish stuff I didn’t. Obviously Zeratul and Valeera also qualifies, but they are respected more and harder to play.
I’m seeing nothing but 65% winrate Azmodan players. I’m serious. I’m blaming his skill ceiling, being able to utilise his Q.
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Mephisto can kill you with a global ult pls nerf.
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Naz has always been extremely easy to play and he was once stronger and easier than he is now. I played a few SL games recently and was surprised to see he was still first ban/pick material, even on maps like Braxis where there are far better hero choices.
I also wanted to say I agree with you about Jaina being underrated. She’s almost never fallen out of the meta to become irrelevant, a testament to a solidly designed basic kit.
As for overrated I’ll throw down my two cents with other posters who have singled out Li-Ming. Her mobility and safe poke damage is her strength, but lack of utility and a trait that can often be feast or famine, more dependent on your team’s performance, places her in the overrated camp for me.
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Underrated: Tassadar. He’s vulnerable but has great build diversity. He also brings a lot of team utility with walls. His macro is great as well.
Overrated: Li Ming. She’s great at farming stats but that’s about it. Most people wont go for her high risk/reward builds either. Ultimately you get a ranged assassin weak at macro that’s only doing poke damage.
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Orb ming is overrated.
Calamity ming is a sin against god and a crime on humanity (so was orb ming until the succ talent got removed).
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it screws over my two most played characters, Murky and Abathur, which you know, is fine, but annoying.
Still think Meph isn’t actually that great.
Overrated I wouldn’t know.
I don’t play Ranked, but in QP and Coop VS AI I can think of Underrated or perhaps “Underpicked”. I almost never see those Heroes:
- Murky
- Jaina
- Junkrat
- The Lost Vikings
Murky I’d say is probably the winner in being almost-never-played in both QP and Coop VS AI, and Junkrat a close second. In VS AI the Junkrats I do see (very rarely anyway) only play him to exploit the AI because they don’t navigate around the mines, blocking Gates and pathways (similarly to how many Stukov players do the same thing). Also, maybe Ragnaros too, people need to play him more.
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People really be hating on my favourite diva 
. But yeah everything you said is on point, she’s overrated.
I think it’s because she has one of the lowest skill floor in any mages and also has the safety of a mobility spell (other artillery mages like Chromie, Hanzo, and Lunara with Vines don’t really have that on demand mobility and they’re much harder to play). Coupled with her low mana cost, forgiving CDs, and a snowbally trait, she makes players feel like they’re contributing something and when you proc off Critical Mass, you feel good because you feel powerful (event though most of the time if your team is already getting kills, you most like already won)
That and her being a conventional beautiful female character with flashy spells
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