I would like to say that I am not saying Sojourn is OP, rather this part of her kit seems off to me. For me, I find it hard justifying Sojourn’s one shot. The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me for her to have one.
I know people like to bring up Hanzo and Widow as a justification for Sojourn’s one shot. Yet I feel it is justified for those two because they have a slow time to kill without it. So their one shots act as a compensation to offset their slow rate of fire. While for Sojourn it feels like a gimmick rather than a compensation.
Sojourn still has a high time to kill even without a one shot. Really if you takeaway Sojourn’s one shot she would just be a more aggressive dive focused Soldier. Which to be fair she kind of is at the moment. Unlike Hanzo or Widow, she is also a lot more mobile and not a sniper.
Maybe the one shot is needed to justify not hitting only body shots with her secondary fire? Or is it needed to reward her for hitting enemies with her primary fire? Yet isn’t her primary fire already very spammy? What weakness does a one shot cover?
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she doesnt but the worst game dev team ever doesnt freaking care (i actually consider them worse than EA)
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Well that is quite a bold statement, but not an untruthful one.
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Her right-click should have been a finisher so she could win 1v1s. But now if you get into a 1v1 with her she throws her orb, left clicks you to death and turns round and 1-shots someone else. Totally unnecessary. A bit of a joke really when soldier’s projectile only does 120 damage and is much harder to hit.
In every way a better soldier.
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If anything i’m surprised since her reveal that they went with a railgun that can headshot rather than one that can pierce. Y’know, like Quake?
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I think the shots would work better if they were switched around. Her ordinary fire is hitscan, but the secondary is projectile
A 130 damage hitscan attack with no real downside seems a bit too powerful
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I mean… it’s a railgun. You seen what those things do? I don’t really know what else they could given her to feel fun and seperate her from the rest.
As for nerf, she shouldn’t be able to hold her charge for 8 seconds. It should be charge and more or less fire immediately. Max 2 seconds.
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It pierces during her ultimate
In terms of guns that can traditionally one shot, rail guns are second only to sniper rifles. They could stop it from headshotting if they really need to for balance, but it’s sort of against the character concept.
Oh yeah but like the railgun in quake pierces regardless.
I’m honestly still let down they didn’t go for her original ult (piercing thru-walls kamehameha beam) but i guess it would have meant having to limit her mobility which doesn’t seem to be something they wanna do.
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She doesn’t need it and it’s a major factor in why she’s so overpowered. It just needs to not be able to crit outside of ult.
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The one shot is ok imo. Why does she need to do 130dmg body shots? With a mercy pocket she can deal 169dmg body shots. This is in no way balanced.
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The 1-shot is what is causing balance issues and the difference between her being extremely OP in high elos (see top-500 for evidence of that) and a little UP in low elos (according to the devs). The difference is, who can hit the 1-shot.
Removing crit from it and increasing the damage to 140 would help both low and high elo as far as balancing her goes.
They are going to fiddle around with other things in her kit, but nothing will solve her balance problem except removing the 1-shot as that is what is causing her balance problem.
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same on 1 shots. Personally, I have no problem with her having a oneshot or even it doing 130, it’s how fast it charges, how long she can hold it, that she can charge it on anything and her mobility cooldown being pretty low that she can hop all over the place so it’s hard to zone.
she just has too many tools.
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This sums up the situation nicely. The problem is probably going to last far longer than it should just so Blizzard can try to avoid doing what is obviously necessary.
Even with it removed I still don’t think she’ll be balanced…But it’s at least a start.
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i would change two things about her, rail cannot be fired at less than 100 outside the ult and it cannot headshot outside the Ult.
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Yea but Trob also has a bolt gun and I’ve been wanting that to be buffed up.
They could also make it harder to obtain if it must one shot. Such as giving her a slower fire rate which would make a one shot more justifiable.
Yet I personally feel balance must take priority over character concepts. Which is also the sacrifice we made with Echo when changing her to a DPS during development.
From my understanding that is more than a Widow body shot. Ok maybe that is more unbalanced now that I think about it.
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I don’t know, it’s probably more about the lore of the weapon. A rail gun in video games not one-shotting is like a sniper rifle in video games not one-shotting. This is a fast paced game, it has low TTK in some areas but there are abilities, movement, skills that can nullify that a bit. There are different ways to make a rail gun in games though but its usually powerful. From what I can tell the ‘one shot problem’ seems to really be an issue in higher mmr than in mid-low. No one ever likes being oneshot though, people still post “nerf hanzo/widow” after so many years, so I tend to ignore those, but I do think there is some oppressiveness with her mobility and suppression with her cc that makes her hard for average players to deal with.
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I feel like they’re going to change other aspects of her kit, without completely killing the alt fire. Namely, the amount of time she can hold charge. It’s currently 8 seconds. I could see them bringing that down to 6. I could see them nerfing the CD on her slide from 6 seconds to 8 seconds. Nerfing her mobility would be a bigger hit than some people might think. I also think they’ll alter her E…either make it do less damage, lower the AOE or increase the CD.
Edit: I don’t believe they’ll do ALL of these things, more like some combination of them.
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I don’t think so - the issue in high elo is that she is 1-shotting everybody. Watch any GM streamer and see her popping heads constantly. She’s like a widow with a turbo button.
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