On PTR I ran into a few different streamers/pros who all have widely varying opinions on whats next to come metawise. But there is one thing that has been established:
Orisa and Sigma are horsecrap now, and so is double shield.
That being said, it’s actually looking like HAMMOND could be the best tank right now. Some people think dive is gonna take over with Hammond/Mercy playing a large part of it (since Baptiste sucks now too). Other people think Deathball will make a comeback with some potential Rein-Zarya or Rein-D.Va. I’m putting by bets on dive for now, because honestly all the other comps have been nerfed too much to be viable.
Are they really horse crap now? Ptr is a terrible place to judge the actual competitive viability of a hero. The nerfs will without a doubt make the meta more diverse, but I don’t think orisa and sig are going to be F tier. They’re still going to be stronger than Winston and Dva. But hey I’m rooting for a Hammond meta. He’s my main
First it was Sym, she got nerfed into the ground because lolbalanceteam
Then McCree was meta, and he was replaced by Hanzo eventually because people started to realize that Hanzo was as broken as ever so he came back into the meta
McCree was the 2nd most used DPS hero in the game for a period of time in the last few months
That is not the meta. That is just… What people are playing? I want to see if McCree will be popular at the highest level for the first time since launch. That would be cool if so, but I have no idea what direction the meta is heading.