Buff DPS many times & Nerf Support many times

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As I observed, OW Dev buffed DPS many times and nerfed Support many times
Dev buffed all DPS to be broken the game and unbalance and nerfed all supports to be very weak
What is Dev team thinking ?

Dev team see which character has many pick-rate and nerf that character
When win-rate is high, Dev team always blame healers and nerf them all by Ignoring other winning factors.

Isn’t when winning-rate get high . Maybe it’s because DPS is too overpower

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Um, what? You do know that the DPS class is twice as large as the supports, right? You do realise that with that many characters more are gonna get changes than supports.

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Every single support is viable right now. Most dps are still mediocre at best. This thread is either bait or stupidity.

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DPS are so overpowered that the top meta comp has 0 of them.

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  • Yes, it’s not like those DPS heroes who got buffed were F-tier or anything like that.
  • And it’s not like Mercy, which is the support hero who received the most nerfs, overshadowed the other support heroes.
  • And did the developers not toned down Hanzo as well when he was meta?

I know I will be called a fanboy for saying this, but I am not one. Balancing isn’t easy and the devs are trying to make it better (sometimes).

Winrate alone isn’t accurate. I mean, Torbjorn and Symmetra had an inflated winrate.

It’s better to look at winrate and pickrate when it comes to balancing.

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Historically supports have always been meta definers (in fact we have yet to have a meta that hasn’t been dictated by a support or a tank), hence why you see more support nerfs than DPS nerfs.
Whereas DPS balance has always been wildly inconsistent, with some being too strong, too weak or just don’t work, you see more DPS buffs than support buffs because there are more DPS in need of them than there are supports that need them.
Hell the current meta is 3 tanks and 3 supports, that doesn’t exactly scream “DPS is too overpower” does it?

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Yeah the supports are much more impactful character than the dps category. That’s why you target support in a team fight because they are very useful to the opposing team.

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hands you a bowl of Mercy and Moira’s tears

Let’s not pretend that the support roster is in any way in a good place.

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You might feel that subjectively, but objective stats show all support heroes are in a good spot.

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Yes, that is called “Ana is a must-pick”.

People were so busy hating Mercy that they forgot that she is the healer that actually helps the DPS.

But she got the nerfbat, so Ana rules cuz “muh skillz”. And Ana is ALL about tanks.

So that means meta is 3 tanks + 3 supports

or, for short:

“SWITCH OFF THAT DPS BOI OR I THROW”

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Most of DPS has ‘Team-wipe skill’ or ‘One hit kill skill’ but Dev buff them to be stronger, DPS has high kill-rate and high rate to the win more than support that easy to kill

Look like Dev promote just only DPS and buff/nerf inconspicuously. Just because pick-rate