Poor Mei hasn’t seen any love in a long time. She’s been in a state of horrible since the release of OW 2. Once they took her freeze she became a crappier version of a hit scan. Her m1 damage is laughable. The only way to do any sort of damage with mei is her right click/projectile and even then, why not just go a stronger hero? Her wall can be nice in certain situations, and her ult can also be strong if used correctly, but besides that she’s just…so bleh. It’s like they forgot she even existed in the game.
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Mei has become an undesirable since they decided to enforce solo tanking to cover their OW1 hitscan pandering.
Cant have Mei freezing Rein/Dva mains anymore. So now she has to be bootleg Hanzo with some utility.
Same as Sym, Torb, etc.
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Hero viability can be adjusted through hero balance, but overall enjoyment for both sides comes down to hero design.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that they need to remove Freeze from Mei’s ult and just have it focus on slow + damage; this would not only lower the amount of frustrating CC in the game, but Mei’s ult would also be more evenly effective in value whether you’re using Blizzard against a mobile or immobile hero.
Only if the frustrating mobility and instant burst of other heroes are also removed.
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mei isnt hitscan thats why
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Because no other “squishy” hero has 300 HP with a self sustain ability and a hard wall to block los.
Mei is fine. Idk I find her fun to play taking space on the map literally no other DPS can take and playing as a pseudo off tank. They killed off tank sigma but Mei still exists
There are heroes that are ‘allowed to be good’, then there are heroes like Sym, Mei, Junkrat, Torb, Moira, etc.
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so basically every projectile
She saw some love a few months ago when she got her pre s9 breakpoints back. Somethin only a few heroes were given. I do think her m1 can be a bit better, but m2 is great, and a well placed wall is still very impactful. Her ult is alright, it’s a dps ult, so it’s fairly on par in strength with many others. Overall she is pretty good imo. Solid like B tier.
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Almost. Pharah can be good, but usually needs a Mercy pocket. Sombra is hitscan, but not allowed to be good.
Which dont matter in a game ruled by high instant burst from range.
Mei’s survivability takes her out of combat or isnt enough to make her actually live through the insane damage that hitscans output even up close.
And Mei sucks at it.
Genji and Echo are allowed to be good mostly because they are also flankers, and not anti-flankers.
Hanzo was also quickly fixed after S9.
But those are the exceptions, not the rule. S9 was intended to solidify even harder the differences between the chosen DPS and the undesirable scum they wish they could delete in their crusade to turn OW into Call of Valonite.
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The new tank may be quite Mei like.
in which case, you would see changes to her soon enough.
She seems to do fine in pro-play, or as a psuedo-counter to DVABall.
You pick her cause her wall owns non-mobile tanks and she has survivability with her ice block. Also, the slow on her M1 is still strong.
It’s exactly why it matters. Because Mei can live most of those instances of burst that other DPS can’t while having pretty good ranged burst herself since each icicle headshot does 170
A lot less so than a lot of other DPS that have to wait 5 seconds to start getting passive healing. Mei can just ice block and stay on the angle without getting forced out so easily.
She cant. Not to a meaningful degree. Mei survives less than half a second more against meta hitscans than 250hp heroes. And if she uses her ice block, its also a self stun that takes her out of the fight.
And her range damage is pretty mediocre all things considered. 170 damage on a headshot?
Tutorial 76 can do 180 instant damage on bodyshots by aiming at Mei’s general area. Before counting his rocket.
And he dies to tanks on cooldown. What does s76 do against dva or Winston? He just dies the second they look in his direction lol.
And Mei too dies to tanks aside… Dva. Who can actually kill Mei far easier than Mei can kill her after the removal of freeze and the dumpstering of wall’s HP.
What can do Mei? Iceblock and then die anyways?
Mei is an anti-tank DPS not allowed to be actually an anti-tank anymore.
Live longer than any other DPS and outlast most tanks defensive CDs.
She won’t die to a Winston ball or dva dive. Winston and dva will run out of matrix or bubble before they’re able to kill the mei if she has ice block, they have to get out.
She gets close to being able to 1v1 a sigma if he doesn’t hit the rock
She can wall off mauga ram hog or orisa and make them explode, or otherwise burn all their defensive CDs to stay alive
Cool, that doesnt do anything if you cant pressure anyone or progress anything.
All it takes for Tutorial 76 is to aim at her legs for 0.4s longer.
She will die anyways, it will take her slightly longer while threatening no one.
Thats a very big if. Its easier to land it on Mei than on many tanks.
Right now her wall isnt walling off/in anyone for longer than 1-2s. It might as well be made of wet tissue paper and prayers.
50 more HP and a self heal tied to a self stun doesnt do anything if Mei has subpar impact at range.
Mei is not a range hero with superior survivability.
Mei is an overnerfed close range hero with mediocre range damage.