If Mei was moved from the DPS role, to the Tank role. (With no balance changes).
Do you think that would increase or decrease Tank queue usage.
Or have no significant effect?
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Probably no real effect
Mei isn’t popular, there aren’t many Mei mains, not too many people would go to tank just to play her
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It wouldn’t do anything. Except some tanks quit as they will be effectively solo tanking again.
Despite all the suggestions, Mei is not a tank. She is a disruptor and enabler much like Sombra. Unlike Sombra she has a front line presence which makes her much less of a risk to use.
That and her Ult isn’t as dependent on follow up like Sombra’s and I’m talking immediate follow up.
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I’d argue Mei gives better teammate protection, and zoning of enemy positioning than Roadhog does.
And she’s pretty well known for her capability to hold her own positioning on an objective.
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I really don’t want Mei tampered with, I still miss Sym 2.0.
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I’m a tank main I’d be happy to play her every once in a while
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Ok but this is a serious topic, please post a factual, serious reply.
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I do think changes are needed though.
I would increase her healthpool and tone down her CC, and call it a day.
I would leave all her other abilities as how they currently are, and if she is either too strong or too weak after the class change, then further adjustments can be done.
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I would love to play her in tank role, even if unchanged. Though logically she couldn’t be moved to tank role unchanged because widow can 1 shot her as she is.
Overall Mei isn’t that popular. In Gm sure because she’s meta (although her pickrate is dropping there now) but across all ranks she’s middle of the pack.
Although middle of the pack for dps would probably be a super high pickrate for tanks so she probably would be very popular in that role.
Well, one idea I toyed around with was
-1 sec wall duration
-1sec wall cooldown
-1sec iceblock duration
-1sec iceblock cooldown
Proportionally faster heals in Iceblock
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I think Mei would have to be changed dramatically to tank.
She’s too fragile. You really can’t have an off tank who is one sniper bullet from death at all times. Mei cannot play out of cover or openly enough to do the job of an off tank and certainly isn’t even remotely close to being able to as a main tank.
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I do wonder what the devs thinks about a class change for Mei?
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She wouldn’t need dramatic changes. Buff her health, that’s… about it, to be honest. 350 HP Mei would be a pretty solid off-tank. The rest of her kit is very tank-like.
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I dont think she needs dramatic changes but her low default health makes her too weak to snipers to be moved into the role as is.
Mei just isn’t kitted out to be an off tank, though. She doesn’t peel well. Her tanking is honestly main-tank flavored, but it’s not really right for that either.
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Blizzard says they were moving away from “off tank” and “main tank” anyway though. Also her peel is incredible.
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So what if she had half wall duration, but but half wall cooldown.
She’d basically be a wall version of Zarya, I think.
Better? Not a snowflakes chance in hell.
Does she provide protection? Yes she absolutely can. The thing is it is only for Large abilities/combos and for stalling.
She was in the defender dps category for this reason. She is not a tank who can take space.
Hog has the potential of demolishing barriers, zoning out anyone in a 20M radius, and providing protecting (body blocking) without hindering his own team.
Wall and Cryofreeze obstruct you own team as much as the enemy. Her peeling would be the worst of any tank too.
Mei is extremely easy to run over and the only reason she became meta was her self sustain was amplified during double barrier as she could go and do whatever she wanted due to all the barriers.
Before Sigma she was mainly used because she had both the ability to isolate Orisa/Hog AND counter the much feared Halt Hook combo.
Her pick rate is dropping because she no longer has those barrier tanks to constantly protect her from her normal weaknesses (range/sniper heros)
That would be super annoying to play into. Invincible walls everywhere! Constantly!