Trash at the lower ranks, and insanely good at the higher ranks. Make Junkrat, Reaper, whatever much harder for bad players to get value out of them, but reward people greatly for those who can push them to the next level. No reason for noob friendly heroes that are trash in GM, just let the matchmaker stop noobs from getting stomped. CS:GO was like that: Bad at the game? So you don’t get stomped every game we will put you against players of the same skill level.
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But , but…
that would mean you can’t cheese your ways up the ranks. Imagine the salt on all mei/torb/symm/bastion mains.
Oh no.
edit: blizz won’t do it so don’t count on it.
How do you cheese your rank? The problem is it creates a lot of hardstuck players because they pick up heroes like Junkrat or Reaper when they’re not viable in the higher ranks.
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easy, didn’t you see all those brig mains that went from silver to GM in 1 season. Or mercy mains back in the day? These are extreme examples of that. But if you pick heroes like symm,trollb or bastion. You can easily get 1 rank or 2 ranks higher than you should be or normal heroes like widow, tracer and so on, because unlike skill heroes you get value just for existing.
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trust me the game needs more
that also dominate in gm because they’re op.
Agree. I don’t think junkrat and torb and stuff need to be viable at high ranks whatsoever
So you say delete 75% of the roster…
Pass
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I never said delete them, I said rework/change them. Like maybe make Reaper easier to kill, but give him more options for good players to bait out cooldowns. Something like that.
How do you rework them all to not be just copies of tracer/widow with different skins?
How do you give them all different playstyles?
You cant make them all high skill without sacrificing diversity.
You say make reaper easier to kill, fine. How do you rework the rest of him to be high skill?
Be specific
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Easier heroes have harder counters. You’re a GM widow/tracer main. “Wah wah my heroes require a lot of skill”. This is a pretty pathetic thread tbh.
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With Reaper I would give him more mobility to engage AND disengage, while wraith form would be used more for baiting out abilities than escaping. At the same time I would lower his HP, making him easier to kill if he doesn’t use his kit properly, but harder to kill if he’s smart and uses his kit properly. But this is just an idea that I came up with in like 5 seconds so. 
dowsize his spread by 75% , give him a lot of fallof dmg so he can’t camp you. This isn’t so hard. Also delete all turrets from the game so noob heroes don’t get value for existing. Symm could get her old shield for that and torb could throw armour packs instead of turrets. Bastion is tough one because he was made to frustrate you but you could make more counterplay by for example giving him a 10s cooldown for turret form so he doesn’t spam it. Sombra’s translocator should have the same cooldown as hack after you take dmg so you don’t have a get out of jail free card.
How do you give him more mobility?
So make him a 150hp hero?
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So if is more than 10m from his target he’s useless?
Sorry but you are silver and you cannot read properly so sorry I won’t listen to you.
btw. that’s how he is meant to be played ,very good when very close to enemy but useless on long range. It would be similar to what is now without all the blind 90 degrees flicks on random targets.
Don’t buff torb and junkrat and bastion etc to begin with. Many seasons ago junkrat was a major throw pick with a low pick rate (at least in master). Nobody was complaining about this.
Then blizzard thinks “we want a spam hero to be viable at all ranks!!” And gives him a second mine, faster rip tire, etc now players who should be in gold can go HERP DERP IMA HOLD M1 IN A CHOKE AND CREATE MORE VALUE THAN A SKILL HERO and get to ranks their game sense says they don’t belong in
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No point in trying with this guy.
Immediately resorts to rank shaming and insulting people.
Pathetic
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Wow, your lack of understanding of Junkrat is absolutely absurd
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So you think putting a crosshair & m1 is harder than leading a target & m1.
Interesting
So anything that isnt hitscan is a skilless hero in your eyes?