A tank with a taunt/protect and a healer with stationary zone healing.
I would like to see a hero with Taunt, also a AOE knock up/juggle would be cool imo
Like doomfist’s uppercut kind of?
Yes and no, we don’t necessarily need supports to be healers. They could have kits based around buffing allies or debuffing enemies. Maybe one who slows your enemies or creates an area that’s not hospitable (Like poison damage AoE)
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Yea, the CC meta right now is kinda cancer but if they’re gonna roll with it they might as well go nuts.
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Blizzard nerfed Zenyatta’s Orb of Harmony to only work within 20 meters or something of the sort.
Lucio really got hurt once his radius was shrunk to where it is now, which in turn really hurt Ana considering that she used to get healed with his enlarged radius.
Ana currently doesn’t have synergy with any of the Supports considering that assisting her limits their effectiveness.
All of the other Supports have to work within range of their team, which makes it easier for their teammates to peel, meanwhile, Ana being in the up close is asking for her to die whilst sitting in the back is also asking for her to die as well and unlike Zenyatta, Ana doesn’t have a Discord Orb that allows her teammates to quickly get rid of the teams attacking her.
Meanwhile, Moira actually synergizes a lot better with Lucio since they’re both restricted to short-range healing…but having limited range with your healing is a very big downside to manage.
Brigitte is in a weird state where she takes up a DPS slot rather than a Support slot, and while in theory, she should synergize well with Ana (due to her larger healing radius 20 meters vs. Lucio’s 10 meters) her need to be more in the thick of it makes their synergy pretty weak.
As it stands, Support synergy is mostly:
Mercy / Zenyatta
Moira / Lucio
Mercy / Zenyatta / Brigitte
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So we will never get a defense hero anymore =(
But yeah, the tank and support pools feels very restricted now if you are going to be locked into roles.
Talk about restricted. If every healer has to have a healing ability they are going to run out of ideas and they will start having a lot of overlap
we will.
its the only subsection not to of gotten a new hero since start of game.
ya but like… torb hanzo doomfist sombra widow were all horrible theres only a few viable dps
Is it possible for all hero’s to be viable?
In every situation? No there’s no way every hero can be applicable in every situation. The hope is that every hero can be used in SOME situations though
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Well of course a “healer” would be able to heal (duh) but that doesnt mean supports have to have a heal.
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Lol. Ok ok you got me. I meant supports
#BarrierlessMainTank
#NonHealingSupport
#OneMoreBuilder
#Hammond
#Sven
#Maximilien
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The problem for non healing supports is it’s too broad of a catagory. I mean almost every hero supports the team in some way, even the DPS. They spot enemies, give out armor, minor healing, etc.
Exactly what could be strong enough to be considered a support ability without being OP? I mean Symetra tried that, it didn’t work so well. If any one is the closest to this ideal it would be Lucio with his speed boost. Too bad most of the time he has to use his healing unless in a triple support group.
Perhaps a fragile lightweight hero with no real dmg but heavy cc. That could be a fun support hero that isnt a healer imo.
Fine idea in theory, in practice people lose their minds over a 1 second stun from a point blank shield bash. I’d hate to see how they would react to a full on CC hero.
Then again that’s mostly what Mei does and she’s usually considered a troll pick. Especially now that her left click can hit more than one enemy at a time.
Mei is already an off-tank/DPS hybrid.
Take it from a GM with almost 400 hours on the hero.
yea i personally feel like the near cc meta we’re in right now is cancer, but if they’re gonna keep adding cc y not go nuts