❄ BTC Mei Tank Rework

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Things tanks do that cause CC
Dva: Boost into players, Self Destruct, Call Mech, (rockets??? Not 100% sure on that one)

Orisa: Halt

Reinhardt: Hammer swing, Charge, Hammer Down

Roadhog: Hook

Sigma: Primary Fire, Accretion Rock, Gravity Flux

Winstion: Jetpack Jump, Primal Rage

Wrecking Ball: Ground Slam, Grapple Ram, (Mines??? not 100% sure)

Zarya: Partial Cannon secondary fire, Gravitation Surge

Literally every tank in the game has a skill that causes CC. Granted, some are on lower scale, but every tank does so anyway.

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But none of them are centered around CC, which Doomfish tried to claim.

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Are you going to tell me that Wreckingball isn’t based around CC?

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I really like the idea of giving her a huge backpack. That would make her look so much more like a tank.
Either way, I feel like Bliz has to decide at some point, if Mei is a dps or tank. Being half-half doesn’t work so well for us.

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Same with some the off support dps hybrids.

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Playes the game since beta, is GM with multiple accounts, thousands of hours ingame, is in the partner discord… I think he has more understanding of the game than 99% of the guys here in the forum.

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Remeber old brig? She was a support/tank hybrid and was also changed to a real support. I dont think altering the character model would be good because of all the work (skins, emotes etc) that had to be touched. Just 350HP in exchange for a smaller hitbox would be ok.

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Good call here, like for real. Maybe he is homophobic or transphobic, maybe not, but that really isn’t relevant to what the guy is saying. I personally don’t agree with all of it, but he makes a solid case anyway. But ad hominem says he’s a wrong thinker and so can have no valid points or ideas.

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I totally agree but… I think she would look cute with a big backpack :flushed:

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Yeah, but that also means having to mess with all her skins, and potentially animations as well. Fitting it into her cryo, etc. And that may not sit well.

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Doesn’t automatically makes him always right though. He’s also just a player with an opinion.

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Agreed. I also dont tanke everything he said for 100% valid but he has points. And “mei chould be a tank” is not something that is new. But he even tested her as a tank (kind of) so that is more that other people did.

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currently debating still which DPS to Support is best

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You seem to forget one of the main things. How Mei supposed to be a tank with her size? In terms of both gameplay and lore?

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Lower HP. Lower than Zaryas and she is not a big tank either.

Did you watched that video? He explains it. She has the urge to PROTECT the world. Her wall is like a barrier, her iceblock is like roadhogs take a beather and her ult is already like Hammods ult in terms of space creation. The only thing that would change are some numbers and cooldowns.

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I mean from what we’ve seen Blizzard’s big changes will probably be small numbers like this last experimental card. Not even a half-rework or any serious mechanical changes, just small number balance changes…

And it’ll probably be the case until OW 2 and even after OW2 launches they’ll probably rest a bit soooo i don’t see a hero being reworked into another role in like 1,5 year…

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Jeff recently talked about this. (Check what he said in the last 48 hours.)

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Did he? D :

I must have missed it.

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Ummm i mean. IT’s the usual “not saying anything directly so we can wait with any change for 4 months”. I mean it sounds like the usual and we will get something like:

Zen ORbs travel now 0.000004 sec faster or Mei will smile when you hit her headhitbox or something.