Banning orisa will effectively ban hog at the higher end of the ladder. She would probably be a top 3 candidate for bans since people dislike her so much.
Try playing Rein into mei reaper, or mei doom etc etc. Itâs miserable, and under hero bans it would probably be your only option at the highest levels. Factor in defenderâs advantage and you will potentially be in a situation where you have zero fun whilst playing and still lose horribly. If you have to attack a point into those oppresivley anti tank DPS who can only be handled by Orisa who gets banned, your next probable option is Rein, and what can he actually do there? Not a hell of a lot. Heâs relying on his team to carry him at that point which is getting harder and harder to do as time goes on.
People in low rank will ban Orisa. People in high rank know and understand that if people actually attack the barrier, it vanishes in like 2 seconds. People in low rank literally ignore the barrier at least 80% of the time.
I also believe hero ban would be a total disaster for the game. Could and would probably make sense for Grand Masters and Pros, but anything else would just increase frustration and add another layer of randomness.
For one, most people I know and play with canât play well that many heroes. Ban one of their two main picks and thatâs already a huge disadvantage for the whole team. Ban their favorite hero consistently, theyâll just stop playing.
Secondly, letâs face it, below Master and probably even Grand Master, people just canât figure out win conditions and synergies. The game is too complex as it is. Meta heroes of the moment would probably get banned every games, regardless of map, compositions and other factors. And when your mains are meta, well, back to first point.
Let me guess, you donât want people to ban your window, which will force you to play another hero. Hero ban should only be implemented for competitive game play like in every other esport game that has moba like characters.
Today itâs window, tomorrow itâs your main. With current meta, the system would benefit me. Next meta, maybe I wonât be able to play my favorite hero. Considering the time it takes Blizzard to balance things out, that would pretty much be it for me. Plain and simple.
Except you wonât. Weâre what, 3 years into the game ? We already know what heroes we like and donât, especially when it comes to support and tank lineups.
We donât know how it will be implemented yet, so we cannot assume that heroes will be literally deleted.
We are talking about The Overwatch Development Team, of course they will have a brainstorming section and will see that itâs possible to have a hero ban meta, and will put systems im place so that cannot happen.
I donât know how, but maybe you cannot vote on the same hero for 5 rounds?
Good for you bud. Most of us donât have that much time to dedicate to the game.
I put the hours I put into Overwatch into a collection of tanks and supports I like (Sigma, Hammond, Zarya, Rein, Brigitte, Ana for the most part). Especially if youâre a tank or support main, hero bans will hit HARD, especially with role queue too.
If we only get one ban, Iâm more likely to do map specific bans (like Bastion on Junkertown).
I donât think itâs hero bans though. Iâm hoping itâs something to help out groups finally. Maybe a clan system, or the ending of the separation of group queue and solo queue.
I agree, if Moira gets banned, itâll certainly be tricky for Ana mains out there being harassed by Genji, but Brig/Lucio can potentially help out there.
Iâm pretty sure i can handle my own if any of the tanks are banned though - Orisa can be covered by Rein or Sig.
What worries me is not one tank getting banned, but multiple (i.e. each team banning one, or God forbid each team getting more than one ban).
If one team bans Orisa and the other bans Reinhardt, congratulations itâs dive time. Except you canât play dive because of Mei, Baptiste and Reaper lol.
Or banning something like Mercy invalidates a lot of other picks as well, like Pharah and to a lesser extent Ashe.
If hero bans are to come we need a lot more tanks and supports
We do hero bans in our clanâs in house scrims, and itâs not so bad.
We do one ban per team, and the first ban also acts as a âprotectâ because no other character can be banned in that category. I suspect, if it does happen, Blizzard will adopt a similar system.
Mind you in the in house scrims, itâs more often used to try and target the effectiveness of a specific player than to get rid of a character that people donât like.
Hereâs my big concern about one ban per team in solo queue
Youâll be seeing a massive increase in leavers as their hero gets banned (especially DPS players who will be in for a long queue time only to get Mei or Hanzo banned out from under them) and people sometimes spite-banning their own teamâs picks (I can imagine this happening a lot with Wrecking Ball or Widowmaker at lower ranks).
And any more than one and youâll get cases of the support and tank categories being strangled by excessive bans.
I believe it will play out differently. Maybe at first hanzo will be banned every game but after a long enough time players will have a problem with what ever new hero feels oppressive, they will start banning the said new OP hero and hanzo will be released from jail. This cycle will naturally continue, not necessarily swapping between the two. The rotating of banns will create a rotating of meta comps. I think this will be a great thing.
Thatâs because in your âin-house scrimsâ youâre all using it âcorrectlyâ. In general usage, it will be used to ban meme-op heroes and to tilt known one-tricks.
Gratz! PvPTwitch and Chro will never be able to play Junkrat ever again. No more Kolourblind bastion or Fuey500 torb.
âŠnot becuase theyâre good picks, but because those players are known one-tricks who happen to be very very good at specific off-meta heroes.
Welcome to hog-banned games where thereâs nothing but barriers everywhere because the tank roster is so stunted.
The community is very, very good at figuring out the very worst way to use anything and everything the devs build. Bans will be no different.
Welcome to games where when someoneâs main gets banned, they then immediately throw and become insanely toxic towards their teammates.
âŠand god help you if your main ever becomes meta. Youâll never, ever be able to play them.
And if the general populous finds certain heroes to be busted, then we wonât have to wait 6 months for the devs around here to maybe do something about it.
