hanzo is a one shot, one kill sniper who can be played effectively at mid long and close range with mobility on top of it all. you cannot balance a hero like that.
some may argue that you cant balance one shots in general but they are wrong.
lets take a hero like widowmaker for example, the other sniper hero, widow can only (effectively) one shot you at long range, when she gets into close range or gets dove she will die unless her team supports her.
another good example is junkrats mine combo, this requires junkrat to use one of his two CC mines, be at close range and, not get falloff damage which is why its balanced.
Hanzo is not balanced because he can one shot at any range and doesnt need to use a cooldown for it and if he does get dove he can leap away, assuming he gets support from his team which will happen in high levels of play
and this isnt even getting into storm arrow
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if he’s so broken, why his stats at any rank is around bottom with mccree?
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I mean he didnt have mobility before the rework. I dont know who exactly asked for his double jump. To me it feels like a mistake to add that to his kit.
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i find that very hard to believe, mccree sure but not hanzo
im not suggesting hanzo nerfs if thats what you think im implying
Spamzo is a broken character design.
One of the easiest to “master” aswell since all you have to do is randomly spam your arrows, jumping around and ult near the spawn!
Or how about McNoob, stun roll and spam the whole magazine just in case I wont miss tue stunned enemy. Ez Pez and SKILLS!
My god… I wish these two were deleted form the game.
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When you jump a hanzo as reaper only to get one-shot at point blank.
feelsbadman
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Leap was a colossal mistake that allow hanzo to escape from winston and D.VA and then destroy them with his machine gun arrows…
Hanzo doesn’t have a single true counter now, the only way to beat a good hanzo is to just be better than him. I mean yeah, to win the game you have to be better than the ennemy team for sure, but this game is about COUNTERING the ennemy team to increase your chance of winning and there’s no such things against Hanzo right now.
I couldn’t care less about Hanzo’s winrate, he needs to be looked at anyway.
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She has mobility too though, and it gets her a lot more distance from the divers than Hanzo’s does unless he can leap to a wall.
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Uhh no? Also hanzo isnt a 1 shot, only if your godlike. This hole thread just looking silly to me & is missleading information… Hanzo isnt the most broken heroes by its design btw.
You forgot someone, that one is Doomfist. That hero has been broken till the day he was released & he still is today.
Today, I destroyed a very high rank player playing Hanzo (Not a Hanzo main) with Reaper (Not a Reaper main)
New shadowstep is ridiculous. Now you can shadowstep into snipers face as they struggle to kill you.
Another match I shadowstep on Lijian right into widowmaker who was sitting with Ana. Both dart and one-shot didnt work, killed both lol
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Everyone agrees that leap was a mistake that made no sense. He didn’t need it.
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So what do you guys do after hanzo leaps? Give up? He doesnt go very far…
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I dont understand why they opted to give him burst damage at all ranges and two forms of mobility. Thats the real issue to me.
You might say long range sniping is unrealistic and unreliable, but just because of his potential to do so makes him extremely cheesy when he really doesnt need to be.
If they gave him greater damage falloff i bet he wouldnt feel like such a pain.
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did you just imply hanzo is broken while widowmaker is fine?
HAHAHAHAHAHA
thanks for the laugh
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Destroying Hanzo as Winston is pretty easy. Widow is the one who can escape, but his leap won’t save him in most cases, and even if it does move him too far from Tesla shock, you can just bubble and stay safe from him.
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As the Hanzo… Yes, actually, that is exactly what they do. It is weird, but I am all for it if it lets me escape.
I HATE Hanzo with the burning fury of 1000 suns.
I think he’s a bit overtuned, lacks a distinct weakness, and is way too effective just spamming at any range.
That said, I’m admittedly a biased Sombra main, so I try to stay out of balance discussions about my counters. Plus until Goats is no longer THE thing, I’m not big on nerfs to any DPS.
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If there are lot of heroes, go straight into shadow - its funny how everyone panick and throw everything at you. If they have Mccree, unfortunately youre busted 
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He’s fine. I don’t think climbing with him is ez SR at this point. I actually think he needs the mercy damage boost back for his ult.