I’m not dead serious, but I’m dead serious. It’s most likely definitely not racism but it’s probably definitely out of pure stupidity or just lack of understanding of the game’s state.
Please look at the top 500 leaderboard. On what planet, do you come to the conclusion that DOOMFIST is the tank that needed nerfs…
Sigma, zarya, orisa all very clearly the heroes that dominate the tank role and somehow doom is the conclusion you reach? None of those 3 I mentioned got touched somehow, but doomfist does??? Even though sigma alone is practically holding the leaderboard hostage?
I also ask you to once again check the leaderboards and look at the doom players that ARE there. You notice something funny? How 90% of the doom players in the top 500, are OTP’s???
NO ONE OUTSIDE OF DOOMFIST OTP’S, PLAYS THE CHARACTER.
Almost every single doom player that is in the top 500 has been otping that hero for hundreds of hours. Playing almost nothing else. A lot of them don’t even have TIME on other tanks and the only hero that pops up in their top 3 most played section… is doom.
It is such an egregiously dumb nerf, from the view point of, he’s not even top 3. And if you even want to make the argument that he IS top 3. He sure as hell ain’t one??? So why is the #1 tank not getting nerfed, but the #2 or #3 one is??? Especially the tank that clearly no one outside of his otp’s even wants to move the cursor over.
They saw doom doing well statistically and knew support nerfs were going to make him better and decided to include him with the cc changes even though he’s a tank and is supposed to be the role with more cc.
They could have nerfed any part of him and they target his solo carry potential off getting picks. I just don’t get how people “couldnt” react in time to the giant man with 20 sound queues that make it obvious what he’s doing. Is it because of punching around corners, diags, and his mobility letting him do weird flanks? Either way the 40% to min wall stun means they move before the animation even ends so now you’re taking even more damage from everyone trying to charge more.
These set of supposed balance changes were all garbage, minus Illari nerfs and Bastions was decent, though not enough. All the rest were complete dogwater and not only dont make the game any better, only less fun to play.
You said it already, but to state again for emphasis: who asked to nerf Doom -in what world was this needed? Who asked for the Cree nerf? The Widow unscoped nerf? WHY DID ORISA NOT GET NERFED? -The unkillable dmg sponge gets to keep cheezing up every other game. Ana nade? The Zen discord nerf is completely moronic. And as i said, the support nerfs do nothing to improve the game, only makes it less fun for people playing them.
I have 300+ hours on Doom, my most played hero. I barely feel the nerf… BUT WHYYYY DO IT? Its still so annoying that they do this stupid crap.
The argument that it is hard to master a hero does not change the state they balance around. A Doomfist well mastered can already dominate games. They do not balance around not being able to play a hero. They balance around how strong a hero is when played properly and when played properly he is a top 3 tank. However that is not the main reasonwhy he was nerfed.
He was nerfed as a consequence of the Support nerfs though. If they are going to make the Support role more vulnerable then in order to have them avoid becoming what they were in beta 1 they had to nerf the one tank that can just go in and delete them. That meant nerfing Doom.
