Been playing him game after game. Let me just condense it down for you. Oh and don’t tell me I need to give it time for these changes to settle. Give me benefit of the doubt I know my stuff here.
His new ability is worse against tanks but better for all other situations. You could of just given him storm arrows in exchange for scatter because I think it was inconsistencies that plagued Hanzo not that he was necessarly underpowered statistically.
The new arrow speed isn’t just noticeable it’s phenominal. He’s got insane one shot potential with a larger hitbox than widowmaker. Not to mention you can pre-aim while climbing across vertical surfaces.
Not only are arrows the fastest projectile now but he’s gotten a four second leap for absolutely free. This ability is what scares me the most as you cannot simply dive him as Winston or tanks anymore. You can simply save your FOUR SECOND LEAP to get out of their effective range once you’ve been dove.
The kicker is that it will take skill to get better at but I’m telling you up front he’s certainly not getting buffed after this. Mostly likely a nerf because it’s going to be to hard for them not to notice the best DPS in the game.
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I think his new arrow ability is cool but I swear he dragons now as fast as Junk gets tire.
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Hanzo has always looked “OP” on paper so instead of trying to prove people wrong i’m just gonna wait till they realize Widow is still better.
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No, you probably just need to stop thinking he should be meme material and a free kill that you don’t need to play around in order to win.
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I’m the one wrecking as him. Stop making assumptions and realise this is another Junkrat situation. Just because Hanzo has a higher skill floor does not excuse him being overpowered. Neither does the fact he was underpowered before!
Hey, I’ll run Mercy when we have a good Hanzo. I LOVE damage boosting that stormbow.
So good.
Meh, either your profile isn’t updated or you be lyin’ because you have litterally 0 minutes on Hanzo from what I cna see.
And considering that your attitude is as it is I’m more for the latter.
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2 years of complaining about him being a troll pick and now that he’s been redesigned to be more consistent people want him nerfed back to the gutter.
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This is not another junk rat situation, see, hanzo actually takes aim, and his ult isn’t ez free kills.
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There are all kinds of people on here who want all different kinds of things. Calm down.
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I mean…I think these were the intentions of the changes, though. They’re supposed to be better against other heroes aside from tanks, supposed to have more potential to hit targets, and the leap is supposed to help him escape.
If you jump as Winston close enough, he can’t really escape the range except under special circumstances.
He probably won’t be buffed after this - you’re right. These are really strong changes to him. ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
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I haven’t tested this, but I’m PRETTY SURE Hanzo cannot escape Winston with this, unless he goes to a higher ground. More likely he’ll use this, to get to a wall, and climb to a higher ground as well, rather than jumping straight to a higher ground.
Nope. These types of post are what cause unwarranted nerfs.
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Nope. You don’t know your stuff. No one person does.
Give it time to settle and let the pro players run it for a bit.
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I don’t know if new Hanzo is OP or not & I don’t want him to be nerfed too early yet, just wait for some time for his statistics.
I want to have fun with him but it feels that the new Hanzo kinda outshines McCree. Hanzo’s arrow feels like a hitscan at medium range with bigger hitbox & damage & do a hitscan flickshot is easier than McCree or in other word Hanzo at medium range is unlike Genji & Pharah that he requires little to no projectile prediction & leading. As for Hanzo’s lunge it’s literally McCree’s roll with half of it’s cooldown & a further dash (not to mention it’s attached to his wall climb passive).
And for Hanzo’s Dragonstrike charge rate, I’m not sure but is the charge rate really that fast or Wraxu is just too good?
https://youtu.be/c7VWA2tEdzI?t=494 (Racksoup got his ult again 23s after he used the previous one)
There is some differences between being a meme and op. That’s Blizzard biggest balancing problem btw. Most of the times they do drastic changes…
They should just give him lunge first with a little faster arrows (but not this fast) and see how it works…
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He always got dragons quickly, even the few times i played him missing most of my shots it felt fast.
Why would he escape when he can just kill you with storm arrow?
Storm arrow is on cooldown.
Hanzo’s low on health
Winston is armored or ulting
idk, there’s a lot of scenarios where it’d be beneficial for Hanzo to run and a lot of scenarios where it’d be beneficial for Hanzo to fight. but the possibility is still there.
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New Hanzo seems fine to me. Good consistency now, decent damage. He doesn’t get insta-kills with scatter anymore. Don’t complain.
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