I like winston and I want to play him more but he’s still not good after the recent changes the only time it makes sense to pick him is to counter something which means the hero is weak. It’s usually not a good idea to start the round as winston.
Plus he is one of the easiest to counter in the whole game which means he should be stronger to compensate for that. Increasing the duration of his shield was pretty much a non buff because it still gets melted fast.
I think he needs a significant buff blizzard can determine what that is but if I were to suggest a few:
Lower cooldown of barrier to 10 seconds.
Slightly increase damage of his weapon.
Regenerate 100 hps during his ultimate.
Would these changes make him op? Maybe, but probably not. And it’s better to find out than continue to let him be pathetic and weak. Winston is fun to play so it’s much better for him to be strong than someone like orisa who is boring.
That duration increase to his barrier didn’t really do anything because his shield is already dead in like 2 seconds because of the high damage spam. 100 hp increase just made it last like half a second longer.
And with all the healing in the game I’d say he needs a damage buff.
they didn’t address his problem, they need to tone down the damage or buff his survivability. Throw back to when eliminating winston during his ult was harder.
No his pickrate is bad because he sucks and get destroyed easily and has low impact. Healing and dps being overtuned would be a problem that applies to every tank so that cannot be pointed to as a reason why winston in particular is low.
And when it comes to increasing his pickrate and viability, is it easier and more logical to simply buff him more or to literally nerf all the dps and healers in the game as you seem to suggest I think the answer is obvious.
I’m not sure what you mean by this comment. How do you ruin a hero that already sucks and is borderline useless except in very specific situations.
You are acting as if he is super strong right now and buffing him more will allow him to overpower the game and become top level must pick hero.
That is far from the truth he is currently trash and even a large buff would only make him viable and a good pick in general which is the goal here not for him to be op just solid and not a loser.
He doesn’t need any buffs. We are one good hog nerf away from return of Dive and it’s going to be Winston and Hamster dive. I shudder at the very thought.
if im correct, winston is there to dive the backline and kill squishies, especially healers.
he deals a safe 60DPS right?
almost all AOE healing (bap, brig, moira) was nerfed quite a lot lately.
so winston can either eat through it easier, or at least deplete their resources faster, which makes him more efficient overall.
oh and also beam weapons damage a winston less when he has armor.
all in all it looks like he actually got indirectly buffed by this patch. or am i wrong?
edit: oh boy, the OP was from october? sorry… but it sounded like something that could be recent.
i have accidentally did that a few times