How good would Hanzo they halved his damage versus armor and barriers.
Hanzo
Storm Bow
- Arrow damage reduced by half against Armor and Barriers.
The reasoning for a change like this is that it would make it a lot harder to go Double Sniper. And it would open up usage of Pharah and Junkrat more at higher skill tiers. Who would typically be the heroes you associate with Tank/Shield busting.
(and Reaper and Bastion).
Maybe even some more Ashe usage.
Overall it would promote more competitive hero choice variety. Which is always a good thing in my view.
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This is definitely needed. My team shouldn’t be saying “they have hanzo so they have better barrier bust”
He’s a sniper, snipers weakness is supposed to be barriers. Might wanna try it at 75% damage against barriers first though.
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It is kinda strange that a sniper has Reaper tier anti-tank.
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Love this clip, even used it in a thread the other day.
It’s ridiculous that he can kill a tank faster than a tank buster in the tank busters only range (which is short range).
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I think arrow damage should be reduced to 100; no way something that spammable with a forgiving hitbox should take out more than 60% of the target’s HP. And thats just assuming it’s a bodyshot.
is gold.
hanzo in gold has the 6th lowest winrate.
what are you on about?
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No he is not. He is a low to mid range dps with Barrier and Tank burst.
If you take that away he becomes a bad mid range dps.
He is NOT and NEVER can be as projectile dps a long range sniper.
Edit: he is actually the only shield basher that can reliable conter orisas double shields… with some patience. Without him that Orisa double shield gets even more annoying.
Was high Plat for about 8 seasons, and occasionally Diamond. And got some crazy projectile/hook accuracy.
But I’ve been kinda preoccupied with suggesting how to fix the game.
But hey, what do I know, right 
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not that itll mean a whole lot…but he will have 1 less arrow in that clip in the near future…its something…
reaper using primary fire, hanzo using a 10s cd
fair comparison
also 6 storm arrows don’t kill winston he has 500 hp and arrows do 420 (414 with armor reduction) dmg, that gif is more than biased
Forum Hanzo has no CD on storm arrows
Kinda like how Forum Winston doesn’t have a cooldown on his Leap?
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Well, if Reaper had used his 10-second cooldown, it only would have taken longer to kill Winston. 
it would be better if you learned how to pick your engagements and position more intelligently instead of attempting to artificially elongate the most boring and uninteresting part of a game marketed as a shooter
there are plenty of barriers to break in other games where you barely get to fight the other players like world of warcraft if you love breaking barriers so much
If anything, my goal with this is to promote the usage of barrier breakers like Junkrat/Pharah/Bastion/Reaper.
And a large part of the reason people are behind barriers in the first place is because of how difficult it is to Dive a sniper that can whip out the firepower of a Reaper. (Without even needing to get headshots).