They’re absolutely the fastest way to shake up the meta and makes the game feel fresh for awhile, I especially loved the herk ban that was mostly high healing supports so everyone had to play smart or get killed.
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I’m okay with this as long as bastion is never banned 
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This will cause forced meta’s with little to no counters, and people will just not play the week their hero is banned.
It was cool for awhile, but after a few weeks it got old because, shocker, the same few heroes get banned alot…
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Hero bans are not enough. The game needs a league/dota style hero selection with bans and picks and no duplicates. That is how you really shake up the meta. And with OW2 adding a bunch of new heroes, we probably have enough to choose from.
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That would be cool, each team votes to ban 1 hero from each role, Fair. Every comp match.
I thought hero bans were really fun because it forced me to learn new heroes instead of sticking with the same 2 heroes all the time. I definitely think it would be fun to add tis back.
Sounds like a balance/design problem. Maybe it’ll be the kick up the a** the devs need to finally fix those heroes.
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We had hero pools, and that was lame and shouldn’t come back. Anything where the devs artificially restrict the game is bad. Now player-chosen hero bans on a per-game basis, now that’s interesting. Maybe adding it to open comp would bring a different crowd over there. Role queue is already a little too restricted for it imo.
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If they determined the hero bans off of gm/owl like they used to, it’d literally be sigma/tracer/bap/brig banned 24/7 lmao.
Honestly doesn’t sound that bad, but then you remember their old rule about the same hero can’t be banned 2 weeks in a row, and so while we’d have a nice week, we’d have a terrible 2nd week due to way less problematic heroes getting the ban just due to a rule.
The game needs less restrictions….not more
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If it was bans where we get to pick them before the start of every game I’m all for it. Otherwise just implement that first series of bans where they removed almost every hitscan and never bring them back.
Mercy mains killed hero bans.
They banned her for a week and they just stopped playing. (no one mains a hero like a Mercy main)
Blizzard can’t have that bigger chunk of playerbase just leaving even if it is for a week.
This annoyed the one tricks so they reverted it. I never had a problem with hero bans but it felt like it teaches people a lesson not to one trick on the other hand.
God yes please. In every mode too. I might finally get to play some games while avoiding the Mcchandicap rat plague.
Hero bans imo would highlight more characters that could use some changes and not change hero’s based on top 500 games, and to be frank bap, tracer, and sigma are imo too strong, letting us choose would allow so much diversity I think but I’m open to discussion.
Ill vote tracer bap ball every time
Well there was that, but the ban on Mercy made no sense at all, this was back when she had 50hps, and was literally trash dumpster tier, and it really gave the impression that hero bans were just randomly generated instead of carefully picked. I also think that it put too much pressure on the devs to actually develop the game and balance the heroes that were problematic that were being banned more often than not, and they decided to scrap it on that.
It was a huge mess with tons of problems, I hope it never comes back. I wouldnt mind player voting per match, I especially wish there was a map pool we could vote on as well, but this is all too much of a tall order for this tiny indie dev team
Hard agree. They really do seem to want to constantly meddle and force us to play the game the way they want us to play it rather than how we want to play it.