I actually laughed out loud at that Samito stuff lmao it’s so true
Dunno what Flats is mad about, he’s now a self proclaimed QP warrior and he’ll always have clickbait content of roasting Bronzes. Maybe he should head over to Splatoon.
Imagine having to do stuff like that for entertainment but you don’t win, so how is it entertaining?
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I’m gonna take your advice but only because you said it and I want to copy it thank you.
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just wanna point this out to both of you
first of all this is quick play, where throwing is expected. because picking a non meta hero IS throwing in ranked no matter what some random otp says, playing non meta is throwing right now. which is why they are having fun in QP and not a ranked match. (tryharding in QP is genuinely just sad, and it goes against the casual nature of the mode)
second they were a 4 stack, and he was abusing what was the strongest part of sombra’s kit at this time. alot of sombra’s would literally just repeat hack a tank in high elo and not even deal dmg sometimes.
this is done as a joke, and it shows an exaggeration of sombra’s optimal playstyle pre nerf.
complaining a group of top 500s meme’d in QP is weird. and its even more weird to ask how is it fun when they lost, when the obvious answer is theres no rank to worry about or to stress about. its QP, the “fun” casual mode.
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Whether or not people like him, his opinions come from a consistent experience at the top of the ladders. Samito might blow his top but he can articulate exactly the problems OW faces as well and it 90% overlaps with Flats’ opinion.
The mercy changes… possibly the stupidest change in all of gaming ever.
I don’t take content creators like Flats seriously. All they do is complain and never offer any suggestions.
But they never say what numbers they would change lol. I’m all for criticizing blizzard balancing but these huge content creators never offer they’re balance suggestions because they know if they’re wrong then their audience won’t worship them as balancing geniuses.
They do but their raison d’etre isn’t to give suggestions that won’t be listened to by blizzard. They’re not paid by blizzard to be game designers.
Content creators have been given access to changes and such, and they’re all universally disliking the direction of the game. They would have had the same opinions in those closed doors so I will make the conjecture that blizzard goes “oh, u no like? i no care”
For myself playing Mercy in a mid-range I found the change helpful as a quality of life buff. Seemed like a great way to increase her value in niche situations without directly buffing her more powerful sections of her kit or trying to result in massive reworks.
With full ammo you have 400dmg and need 50% acc to kill a hero… 50% is something S76 top 500 players have with histscan. Needing only 40% acc to kill a hero now before reload is much more manageable. Having the faster reload swap reduces the advantage the enemy gets against you for having to swap at all.
I don’t see why people are whining about this at all. Its been a very helpful change for myself in a great deal of situations. There is perfectly good logic behind it. However, I’m apparently one of the few radicals that think Mercy has been a pretty strengthened position.
Buffing Sojourn and Kiriko’s neutral game is just unbelievable. The Mercy ““buffs”” are just as much if not more.
Blizz, give the balance keys to your competitive community. You don’t know what you’re doing.
That’s very convenient for them then lol. It’s not about being paid…I’m not paid by blizzard yet I give more balance suggestion than they do.
For Kiriko, her Ult got relatively large nerfs which was the biggest thing about her. Even Flat said in this video that you didn’t’ really use Kiriko for her kit. It was mainly her gate. Increasing Kiriko base ammo to have to reload less isn’t a huge issue. I don’t see how you can cause to have issue with Kiriko at all in this. Flat again said in a vid that her damage was inconsistent. Kiriko is pretty good, but I’m curious to see how the good nerfs to gate play out to see if her higher tier pick rate goes down.
Blizzard has even stated that Sojourn wasn’t doing well in low to mid ranks which is something I agree with. There are far more easy to use characters to fight against that make the matches awful and Sojourn is not one of them. Pharah is the bigger issue in mid ranks.
Buffing her neutral should be a flat buff to all ranks to make her a little better while neutering her oneshot method lowers the value skilled players get. Extreme range kills are lessened. It is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Blizzard is waiting to see how the changes play out which again I think is reasonable.
Ok so now you’ll concede that they’ll sometimes make suggestions but now the problem is that they’re not specific enough?
Again, they’re streamers who consistently play at the top of the ladder, so they have a very good understanding of the game and where pressure points are. No one is suggesting, including themselves, that they’re balancing geniuses.
because a buff to literally any other part of her kit would have been a million times more helpful, and this does nothing to keep her from being one of the worst support picks
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My thought is that Mercy is not an awful support pick, but there are a lot of awful Mercy players out there. Its curious that now that Sojourn has the perfect pick to dmg bst will she see increased usage and now have another DPS to pair with.
Pharah and Sojourn are both great pairs of Mercy along with Echo. Ashe used to be, but the hitscan spammable 1shot hs was arguably too good. Sojourn 1shot spam is far less than what Ashe once had.
I said they never offer any suggestions. Which is sad because I agree with you that they have a very god understanding of the game. I especially love hearing Samito talk about balance. But they always seem unwilling to put forward ideas for a patch they’d like to see. I’m just upset they aren’t doing more with their huge platforms other than talking smack about blizzard.
Kiriko’s non-ultimate utility in the game is the best in the flex support category, and it’s not close. They buffed all of it: her damage/spam, Suzu comes out quicker, and now you can buffer teleport. She’s not gonna fall off.
And we shouldn’t balance around midranks because there is no meta. There’s nothing to balance around.
This is conjecture on both our parts - we can’t know what they’re pushing for in those closed door beta access. But the fact that they’re unhappy from right out the gate when they knew how this was going to be would at least indicate that they didn’t like where this was going before patch went live.
This group universally agreed for weeks publicly that sojourn is a problem; on the day the patch came out, flats broke down why shes still a problem in high detail.
IE whatever input they had, regarding sojourn, was simply disregarded. Devs knew this was a bad patch. Kept it quiet right up until the final hour. This is the team in charge of OW2.
too bad mercy isnt allowed to have autonomy or any individual impact at all. Pocket or bust ig