The mid season patch is coming and please do NOT nerf Pharah!!!
Pharah has been a niche dps instantly killed by hitscans for years and she’s FINALLY viable!
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Sorry, I’m on the please DO nerf Pharah train. She’s blatantly OP right now man.
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She’s not just viable though, she’s annoying. Why’d they gigabuff her before a hero like Symmetra who has struggled more than Pharah for longer?
Personally, I think she should lose the dash thing if she’s going to do so much damage from so far away.
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I dont mind Pharah, I just dont like the idea of having to switch to counter her. Hitscan is boring please dont make me play it.
pharah always has been this annoying, pharah always has been able to play against hitscans good
everyone is noticing now because she’s more picked now
She is well above just “viable”. She’s blatantly overtuned.
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The increased fire rate broke her tbh. Conc could use an AOE splash reduction for damage as well.
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She’s certainly going to get a nerf. She forces you to go hitscan hard. That’s just dumb.
Sadly like ive mentioned in previous posts, most projectile DPS are just very unfun to playagainst and when theyre meta the game is generally in a bad spot. Having hitscans be better is a necessary evil unfortunately, Pharah needs to stay niche, just playable
Same problem as before, though, if Mercy becomes anything but useless as she is now, Pharah will be a menace to South Central while drinking her juice in the hood.
She’s okay without Mercy right now, but when the meta shifts… oh boy.
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She is viable if you have a good hitscan, op if you dont lol
and its limited to being dependent on two players in your team, its never good to have that design,
which is why oq was always superior.
you could run 6 hitscan just to send a message to that pharmacy camp
the dash is bloated though.
no hero not even hitscan when meta is good.
Only TRACER can be meta and others can feel good , cause she was designed to be meta, if you have widow cass meta people will still feel as horrible as projectile.
only soldier is the other hero who is uncontroversial when meta due to being a basic.
Thats why i called it a necessary evil, hitscans are the lesser of the two evils. OW devs have an insanely good track record of making heroes very fun to play but terrible to play against
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not evil TRACER is just the hero you all need 
even if you dont want it
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The only reason Pharah can even contest hitscan is because of her ability to dash into them to attempt to dive bomb them.
This was literally why she was so bum dumb against hitscan for most of her lifespan because her only mobility tool concussion blast was a super long cooldown and was needed for general utility as well. Trying to zone people, prevent escapes, combos, etc.
The proper way to nerf Pharah is reducing some of the dmg buffs she got. The very easy ones to accomplish are reverting the 0.80 → 0.85 recovery time on shooting. Lower the projectile speed from 40 m/s → 35 m/s. Possibly put concussion blast dmg to function as an explosion radius.
The only other option as well is to remove the knockback effect her explosions deal. This not only sets up for her next rocket attacks, it also disrupts the aim of other players much of the time. Its a very noticable “ugh” moment when hit by rockets being jostled around.
Not all 4 dmg options need to be taken, but these are the areas which should be affected instead of affecting her mobility more.
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They should start with rocket velocity.
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She isn’t though. Most players are just bad at hitscan and that’s OKAY
Pharah shouldn’t suffer because people can’t aim.
The one who gave damage dealing to CC Blast should be strapped to a chair and forced to play Junkrat against Pharah for 10 hours straight.
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Are we gonna pretend Pharah is viable outside the metal ranks without a Mercy attached to her 24/7? Are we gonna talk about certain blue beam that has caused a ton of issues since forever? Nah, just nerf Pharah and ignore the real problem.
It’s always the same with these devs. Bandaids, bandaids and more bandaids instead of addressing the root of the issue. Pharah could use a mild nerf, I’m not against it, but we all know the stupid moth is the problem here.
I agree to not nerfing her shes already been grounded a lot more now so I dont really see how they could make her worse. If they nerf pharah they will have to nerf mercy pocket somehow too i imagine. The match is really annoying when you face a good one but I always tend to appauled and figure out how we couldve maybe adjusted to take care of her more. Personally with sombra the way she is I dont really think pharah needs a nerf as she is more of a counter then soldier. I just think you guys that want her nerfed is because you cant play the heros you love when facing her and that is never going to change