Nothing would change for 99% of the playerbase. Even during the peak of dive Rein/Zarya was the most popular tank duo in the vast majority of ranked. What affects the top tier of play rarely affects 99% of the playerbase, which is why top-down balancing works, even if you think it doesn’t.
Can’t wait for Rein, Ana, Lucio, Genji and Mccre buffs and Orisa, Sigma, Symm, Torb, Mei and Moira nerfs.
Only “high skill heroes” allowed.
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What? Can someone fill me in? What experimental created by pros?
Sigh… there is so much confusion about this. Yes, they predominately do… because of OWL. That’s it. OTOH, they do take balance changes into consideration on what effect they have on lower tiers… they have repeatedly stated this, I don’t know why some people think they don’t.
The Sombra history shows that the pros have no clue what they are talking about.
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What even is the opinion of “most people” anyway?
This forum doesn’t represent “most people” any better than the pro/streamers.
Oh boy, I can’t wait for already weak heroes like Sym to be hard-nerfed while already balanced heroes like Ana to be buffed into the stratosphere. I don’t trust the pros to be unbiased in what they want and chances are it’s just going to push “unfun” heroes into the dumpster while the “fun” ones get to be OP.
It’s going to be a complete trainwreck for anyone who doesn’t main one of the “golden” heroes like Rein, Widow, Tracer, Ana, etc. I would be extremely surprised if it wasn’t.
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I better see some genji buffs that dont make him broken 
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IDGAF about pros and nobody who plays on ladder should care about them, either.
I mean, what is a videogame? It is first and foremost entertainment. A past time. Something you do for fun and pleasure. It will be always like this for 99,9% of people. Saying someone is a “pro” gamer is even paradoxal in this sense. It is like saying someone is a professional ice cream eater or professional movie watcher. You take away the fun, the personal pleasure which is supposed to be the essence, the whole point of the activity, and transforms it into a “profession”. Just another gray business.
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Not me.
well I hope that these are smart and there the pros that know what their talking about
Most pros do
what I mean is that they do smart stuff and does what blizzard does similarly: Balance for GM but keep other ranks in mind
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I think actually this forum does better job at representing other ranks, than pros. As there are people here from ranks that have way more players, compared to the pro scene that is way smaller than normal game.
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XQC would be a bad plan™
I mean, the Blizzard team do it all the time.
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He still plays the game?
Yep, he throws his toys out every few weeks, and then keeps playing.
Widow damage falloff is getting reverted.
What was that? Give Samito complete creative control? Sounds like fun!
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Experimental Patch notes:
All heroes besides hitscan removed
All heroes changed to 1HP and body hitboxes disabled, only headshots count
Respawn timer reduced to 2 seconds
Welcome to Halo Reach SWAT, Spartan.
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Totally agree. Sometimes forum users think that their opinion is just as valuable as a high tier player one. Like you can have your own opinion but don’t treat the opinion of a pro player as if it was false or something because if they’re better than you it means that their game knowledge/balancing is just better than the average forums.
I think that whenever someone talks about balance and is on a higher sr low SR should shut up unless they’re talking about the balance in their rank, which is also wrong unless you bring up changes that nerf that character just in low sr or buff that character just in low sr.
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