The more I read it over the more this whole patch reads like Blizz literally throwing darts at a board to pick characters, then flipping a coin to nerf or buff them. Who asked for literally any of this.
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The Moira one is the one that makes a lot of sense TBH. The orb speed increase was a buff and a nerf in one. This one makes it a glaringly net-positive situation for her.
Everything else is like…
what.
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It’s like the devs don’t realize that Junkrat is not meant to be a great duelist. Yes, Tracer will destroy him if she duels him even fairly. You’re not meant to duel as Junkrat, you have to stay near your team.
Take Sym for example, Tracer wrecks her, in fact most heroes destroy Sym in a duel. But she doesn’t get absurd 150 dmg Orb buffs or a faster fire rate because you must stay near your team and avoid duels unless you have a huge advantage.
Sym doesn’t even have a faster escape like Junkrat! I would really love to know the reasoning behind 150 dmg. Do you want Junkrat to be a stronger duelist and delete Tracer (the best duelist in the game)?
If so, where is the Sym 150 dmg Orb buff of the same nature?
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Can we stop buffing high noon for crying out loud?
Why does it need more buffs??? Isn’t it enough that it will kill everything in 1.5 seconds?
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Don’t give them ideas 
Cause it’s often sighted as one of the worst ultimates.
Yea maybe in 2018 it was.
Wow this Moira buff
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It doesn’t… ranged hitscan such as McCree and Soldier generally have lackluster ultimates because their weapon soaks up a lot of their power budget.
If you give these types of DPS everything (Which Ashe pretty much had before her nerfs), then they have very, very few downsides.
What was her orb speed before they made it faster? I want to do the math, because I have a feeling they lowkey reverted the slowwed Orb velocity back to how it was pre-nerf. A subtle nod towards how they should have listened to Moira mains when they contested her increased orb speed change.
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Stealing this image ty.
Unfortunately, this company would probably go under before they even consider nerfing Tracer: she’s the poster character for the franchise.
This is my concern with OW2: Tracer will be the most vertically mobile hero in the game.
Also aerial roll cree is going to become another tracer who can just go and climb walls, I can feel it.
I stole it from this forum when looking at old Moira content hahaha
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I already said until tracer is actually fair she deserves to be one-shot by spam.
I’m hoping they have learned that literally people in every single rank, including their precious OWL, dislike her being so rampant.
And that they let go of this image that she is the poster child and pinnacle of balance.
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Trying out the the mid-air roll again I kind of get, but I don’t understand why they buffed Mccree’s Deadeye on top of it.
I know it’s considered one of the weaker ults, but I think this change is going to end up being too much.
Those Junkrat changes sound kind of absurd too. Playing tank into his grenade spam is hell as it already on particular maps.
The Torb and Moira changes both seem great though.
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Who’s ready for Torb spam Doublebarrier meta tho?
Don’t underestimate Overload spamming torb. Current dive meta would be shred.
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She is the most fair duelist in the game… You have a better chance dueling her as a support than someone like Genji/Doom.
I would still disagree with that, only because her being one shot means every other hero gets it worse off because of this.
She should just be nerfed. She isn’t fair and I agree. But I’m not in favor of putting in changes just because they counter her. We have had Sigma and Brigitte released to put pressure on her, and look what that has done to us. If this was a Tracer-only interaction - all for it. But sadly it is not.
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Well what sort of counters can you have against Tracer in OW2 besides “Get dead”?