Why does Blizzard hate Nova?

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Nova back in the day used to be at a PERFECT 50% win rate!

This is what Blizzard strived for with every hero and Nova was it! THE PERFECT HERO! Exactly 50% win rate!

SO what do they do? THEY NERF (rework) HER!

First they remove her gathering power, which is complete BS and needs to be put back in at level 4 talent.

Then they remove double clones AND nerf the damage.

Then after all of that little crying kids still whine and complain so they nerf stealth altogether for all heroes!

What an absolute complete and utter joke.

Let’s take a look at an apples to applies comparison of Nova’s damage now.

Nova snipe: 50 mana, 6 second cooldown, 230 damage . (With 5 stacks would be 356 dmg. So let’s just pretend Nova doesn’t ever lose any stacks)
At rank 10 with 5 stacks: 528 damage

Ana heal snipe: 10 mana, 2 second cooldown, 195 healing. Times 3 = 585 healing.
At rank 10: 289 damage, x 3 = 867 damage healed.

So in the same time Nova can Snipe once Ana can heal almost double her damage, AND pierce targets for even more healing.

What a complete and utter joke. What’s even worse is if Nova misses that’s 6 whole seconds of doing nothing AND losing all your snipe stacks. If Ana misses, meh so what 2 seconds later just hit the next one and doesn’t worry about losing stacks.

Nova Precision Strike level 10: 644 aoe damage (60 second cooldown)

Azmodan globe at level 10: 784 aoe damage with Tide of sin (20 second cooldown)

So not only Does Azmodan nuke harder per hit he can also do it 3 times as often. Andy it will get even worse when Azmodan hits 400 stacks for another 300 damage on top of that.

Like seriously Blizzard do you guys put any thought at all into this crap?

You’ve made it pretty obvious you really just don’t care at all about the game any more.

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i remember after her last rework she was bonkers with decoy build.

then they nerfed her

and again

and again

and again

and again

And now here we are . In the trash.

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Nova is generally OP in small time periods, and almost all that has to do with a super strong clone build.

The problem is, Clones are probably Nova’s most useful ability and it makes her stand out from other heroes.

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Cause ActiBizz sucks

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Why do you think blizzard ‘‘hate’’ their own created characters??

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Stealth + clones + high range + targeted slow + ult choice of target nuke or global nuke.

Slice it however you like; if Nova has anything, it’s a kit designed to win against heroes and unfortunately, that becomes one of those “it’s unfun to play against” models. Regardless of whether or not I agree.

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Stealth change might have been bad at the time, but I think it has helped the game, in general. It’s not hard to sneak up on people with it, there’s enough bushes and los issues that minimize it, and all it’s really used for is the openers that have good range to begin with. Full stealth just from standing in place for a few seconds too, so ambushes are still possible.

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Murky lives matter, so they changed her to not counter the murkster.

Honestly she’s not as bad as you make her out to be, she even sees plays in the pro scene from time to time.

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You’re not comparing things in context though.
Snipe is not always 5/5, so you can’t assume that
Snipe is followed by an auto-attack if you’re in range
You can chain Snipe (Q) + Pinning Shot (W) + AA to drop a squishy 3/4 of their health bar, from stealth.
Typically, Nova doesn’t initiate. It’s not her job to drop a target from 100% --> 25%. It her job to take that 1/2 health hero and kill them. So, if you’re playing her properly and positioning yourself well, you should be killing with that.

Her Precision Strike is a fairly low skill kill shot as well, if you target low health targets. If you want to compare that to Azmo, he has to trigger his ult, but also has to use his Q. Nova does not. She has her full combo at her disposal, plus the ult.

Your comparison isn’t accurate to her play style nor does it reflect her ability to secure kills. Yes, she takes patience, positioning, and skill. She’s a sniper, and I’ve seen plenty of them who know how to apply tremendous pressure in support of their team. You just can’t play her like a hyper-carry and troll people in QM anymore and that’s a good thing.

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Nova is OP right now. Maybe you haven’t learned her but her decoy is amazing. Her bribe is over rated. She’s a tank killer with snipe build + wave clear at 16. Her trait build is fun as fell even if it doesn’t come on till super late level and she is no longer an anybody can play her hero which is huge. She may have had 50% win rate but it was awful. She slaughtered or failed and she did so hard. She relied on her team getting ahead and if they failed her, that was that. True she can no longer 100-0 people like the old days except with rewind but that’s all for the best. Her old decoy build was braindead stupid any idiot could play so I’m glad they nerfed it into the ground.

Originally nova was busted as hell. My friend and I would farm all our friends to rank 1 during pre season with nova zeratul back when Tassadar was strong and we didn’t even care that he countered us. We could pick Zeratul Nova INTO Tassadar and give no crap. Now she at least feels like she has counter play and it doesn’t help your case that you’ve likely been gone awhile. Nova actually has counters in the game such as Samuro bladestorm, Genji dive, and Tracer with sight ammo. She can no longer roam with punity which is perhaps the greatest power creep on her.

I will still go on Nova tours of duty and just QM her all day for funzies and usually get a good win rate going but it’s not the slaughter fest it use to be, and that’s healthy for the game. Old Nova and Zeratul were TOXIC.

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Its a hater. Look at his name. He is never gonna read this. He just spreads anarchy

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Mutants, anarchists, and bandits. None of them will stop Duty on it’s triumphant march, towards saving the planet!

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Is that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. reference?!

Get out of here, stalker!

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they dont, they just have a hard on for single target burst mage, which was obsolete the moment they released Jaina… maybe even before then.

Besides, if you compare Nova to anyone it should be Handsoap.

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Wait, I always thought Kael is OP… :open_mouth:

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The real question is : Why ActiBliz hates heroes of the storm so much ?

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She would probably be undertuned if they reverted her to how she was then and just nerfed lethal decoy. There was no need for any other nerf. The only broken thing was 2x 50% dmg clones at once literally giving her double damage

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even guy with bow have more range then nova that how much she is bad :smiley:

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i know right? a bow has a longer range than a sniper blizzard logic LUL

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actiblizz hates ALL ‘stealth’ heroes