I’ve noticed a pattern with many changes to the game in the past few months. They seem to be targeting those who one trick a single hero and never play any others.
Hero bans meant you had to learn someone else in case your main got banned, and one tricking echo is not possible because her ult requires you to learn many different heroes.
I think it’s good that Blizzard is trying to fix this issue because I personally find it annoying when your teammate is getting countered by the entire enemy team and won’t switch because they only have spent the time to learn 1 hero.
Although hero bans might end up getting removed, I hope that Blizzard continues to try to fix the One Trick problem. (Although I think the game has a few bigger problems than one tricks)
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Many one-tricks aren’t affected by hero bans. On the week their hero is banned, most of them just don’t play that week. And thanks to the new hero banning selection system, many niche one-trick heroes (e.g. Symmetra, Bastion) won’t ever get banned because they hardly ever get picked.
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One tricking Echo is absolutely possible. I rarely play Zarya but if I copy her I can still know where to drop her ult. Bees! has the right point. Hero bans do nothing to effect or punish one tricks directly, all they do it make them take a week break. The system will only be actually effective if it keeps them in the game constantly but punishes them for lacking any flexibility at all.
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Yeah, I think that’s kind of contradicting.
Not really, they’re saying (and I agree) that the bans don’t really discourage one tricking in any meaningful way. When their main isn’t banned they just come back and continue to one trick.
I think Blizzard should try a new approach to solving the one-trick toxicity problem: educating its community about being nicer and learning to accept each other. There is nothing more pathetic than one picking on another for the hero they choose to play or, more specifically: the lack of heroes they are perceived as “needing” to play, but choosing either not to play or be lacking the “skill” for playing a hero mandated by another player.
Face it: one-tricks are a minority, and just like any other minority group, they are often unfairly discriminated against, typically (and often wrongly) being blamed for a community’s problems. Teaching people to be more tolerant and even welcoming of one-tricks may spread general positively and more acceptance outside of Overwatch to other gaming communities and perhaps even the real world. We all know that numerous minority groups who are also regularly discriminated against could benefit from more sympathy and less hatred, after all. “The world could always use more heroes”? Well? The world could always use less hate crimes and violence towards racial minorities, women, the disabled, etc—and what a better rallying platform that exists than Overwatch- the game whose very purpose is to make its players feel and act like heroes!
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