Beta 1 was the best patch we’ve had

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After the support buffs in beta 1 the game felt so amazing apart from small outliers like Sojourn and 225HP Zenyatta

It was highly praised by most people (as far as I’m aware) so what happened? Why did we stray so far away from such a good start

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I truly wished i could test Doomfist from the beta 1

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Support was still widely complained about, especially by high sr support content creators.

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game balance got worse once more the minute junkerqueen and kiriko were released. and the more exposure we got with sojourn not being addressed, let alone net buffed in that one patch a while ago, was comical to me.

now rammatra at first glance would seem an alright addition, then they powercrept his ultimate making it nearly unstoppable just adds more and more powercreep into the play.

overall powercreep might need a whole new round of nerfs again. but the recent buffs last patch seem to be that we want more powercreep instead

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If you want my opinion on Doom, he was perfect in beta 1 but they decided to ruin him with nerfs

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His slow was incredibly frustating to play against and super strong, i would’nt call that iteration perfection, for it also lacked a good ultimate and the block worked in janky ways while he was also considered too strong.

But i mean, for the thread’s initial question, its pretty obvious really, Kiriko is an incredilby powerful support character and lo and behold thats almost always what drives the games meta.

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If he was considered too strong then no one would’ve made fun of Blizzard for nerfing Doomfist

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He was being played in Pro scrimms to great effect, Blizz just overnerfed him with no compesation, thats what brought him down so much, just like Queen.

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Beta 1?

Sad Junkrat noises

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Lol I completely forgot about him he basically didn’t exist in beta 1

It’s true that he was played a lot in pro play but that doesn’t exactly translate to him needing that harsh of a nerf

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Thats usually what that means yes, though obviously theres no arguing that the nerf was too harsh considering the other tanks got untouched at the same time (other than Rein that also got uncalled for nerfs)

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Perhaps if it were 6v6.