Blizzards Largest Problems: Roll Queue, Point Design and Hero Balancing

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How does balancing work?

I have no clue. People keep telling me the heroes are supposed to be balanced for 6v6. (correct me if I’m wrong) for a team of 6 players with 28 heroes to choose from (without allowing 2 of the same hero on 1 team) the amount of possible combinations can be calculated. c(28,6) = 376.740 now if we want to know all possible combinations of 2 opposing teams of 6 we can calculate this too: c(28,6)^2 = 141.933.027.600 This astronomical number seems impossible to balance right? so let’s say we …