This is where I am going to be chilling.
This mode could add a fun and rewarding twist by empowering solo players to make more impactful plays. It might encourage more balanced role selection and give each role more individuality.
Maximum number of each role is limited to two
It will turn into “get off my role you bot”
It’s all fun and games until someone swaps to your role and you get debuffed mid fight.
Others are just failed options.
This is still 5v5 with a minimum lock of 1.
I would see this as 2 tanks - 2 dps and 1 heals.
This I see strongly winning because the new 5v5 crowd can still manage this. It won’t be a big clutter for them.
“Get the F off X role!! You’re nerfing me!!”
Not sure what you think the buff will be. Knowing blizzard.
It will be 15% extra hp for tanks. Just the same as it was in tank meta.
Dps they may give head shot crits.
How I look at it is. You have to use the buff during certain pushes.
Eg : on king row pushing with tank buff will be nice. Then when pushing payload a buffed bastion with double shield will be good.
Something like that.
Again another mode that could slap if the devs stop putting the cart before the horse.
Let the community have clan/guild/team build mode so we can enjoy making our king.
Not random group project of hope our king isn’t a Joffrey
wouldnt that force the one support to play something with aoe healing? I would think bap would be pretty strong as the solo healer or lucio
Assuming this is how they are thinking. This would open up many new strategies.
Hopefully it is not some random point buff for their next skin.
I hope it’s more interesting than just a general HP change like they have between role queue and open queue.
Nah i can already tell this gonna be a toxic nightmare. everyone is gonna want to be king so players are going to fighter over who gets to be. and a lot of team conps are just going ro be unfair. imagine Kind Widowmaker that’s pocketed. or King Orisa or Mauga who unironically never dies
Would still be much better than the mongo combo of max 3.
They cannot replace 2/2/2.
I cannot see myself tanking the max 3 slot. Running into 3 tanks and 3 heals.
That is your meta for that.
Kingmaker: Widowmaker.
2 tanks (1 dva for peel) 2 supports (1 brig for peel). Good luck everyone.
You mean Dive the widow with Winston and Diva discord orb on widow ?
Oh man the return of Brig zen would go crazy with a buffed up tracer
Not only that but they still seems to blame it for their poor attempt for balancing with 5v5 otherwise they would have just brought it back with no questions asked and then tweak from there.
It would only be 3-2-1 in that format but yeah it’s probably still tough if you’re just a DPS player. I’m assuming they would have lower HP on tanks, but even in Open Queue people tend to gravitate to maximizing the number of tanks.
Kraandrop had a very good Open Queue video about his first time really playing it, placing it and going to top 10 or whatever. In most cases, he and other players went tank to climb, and sometimes he would flex as a support hero like Ana. So, I can imagine the min 1 max 3 composition will usually be 3 tanks 2 support 1 dps. Unless they mess around with balancing and reworks some more but generally people tend to gravitate towards high dps tanks with highest survivability and heal output + mobility.
What I got from that post was. They really did not want the max 3 set up.
2/2/2 which they preferred. Has longer que times.
They are trying to sell the 5v5 set up and see if we like it.
Community had issues with large hp of tanks. Which they addressed.
This is why for me Kingmaker as a mode looks more fun.
None of those modes are suitable for comp.
If we need comp it would have to be under the 2/2/2 bracket. If we really want the 2016 6V6
Rest is just a stress adder.