Hanzo with no oneshot needs something to make up for it

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At the very least buff his movement. He cant escape from anything the second he gets dived.

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hanzo is fine, i see him plenty in games and he can be quite strong. the point of the health buffs were to reduce frequency of one shots and burst shots

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I second this emotion.

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He got storm arrow buffs and a giant log buff, he already got his compensation.

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Arrow size is uesless when it takes 3 body shots to kill someone. Everyones already healed to full by the time you knock your second arrow and release

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3 Bodyshots sounds not that bad? Again, his storm arrow shoots many shots very quickly.

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So land headshots???

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Hanzo players arent used to having to try.

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Well itā€™s a good thing they buffed his very tiny hard to hit arrows then

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Itā€™s 4/5 bodyshots for Storm arrows btw.

For his normal primary, full charge takes 1.25 seconds, so his kill time has dramatically gone down.

People shouldnā€™t be mistaken, Hanzo absolutely sucks right now and is a defacto throw pick without Mercy. The problem is, as soon as he gets Mercy, all his breakpoints are suddenly insane and he has the bigger projectile size as well.

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If you canā€™t hit headshots why are you playing hanzo?

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Been playing a bit of Hanzo in recent times. I only use him against a Tracer or Widow anyways

Honestly people barely live if they get headshot. 240 damage is still a lot in one hit. The only time it sucks is at the start of a fight where everyoneā€™s full health and theyā€™ve just peeked a corner

But mid fight, one headshot and most of the time they will die. If not, storm arrows exist and are easier to use, more lethal and more frequently available

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To pull from a comment I made on another thread:

I do agree Hanzo needs work now. Like Iā€™ve said before, if they want to still call him a sniper, he at minimum needs to be able to ohk Widow, but a sniper that leaves all regular hp characters (now 250 hp) with a sliver of hp is just bad design, especially when you consider how he has one of if not the slowest ttk among dps with body shots and heā€™s punished probably the hardest for missing.

They need to do one of 4 things:

  1. Buff his arrow damage back to 125. If they donā€™t want him to ohk, then nerf his crit multiplier to 1.95 and buff Storm to 77 to keep it at basically at the same damage. All that change would do is restore his 2 shot body.
  2. Give him back his ohk, but on cooldown.
  3. Rework him fully into a sniper. Increasing his body shot damage to 140 so only former 250hp (300hp) and stronger will survive like before, replacing Storm Arrow, removing Lunge, and massively increasing his projectile speed so he can more reliably compete at longer ranges. As for what replaces Storm? I would say something like piercing or explosive arrows.
  4. Lean fully into his spammer/ duelist playstyle. Increased ROF (his second arrow will be charged before the first hits the target at med range), replace Storm and Sonic arrow with something fitting this, bigger arrows, and more mobility.

This playstyle I donā€™t think is working for him as well as they thought it would. And in regards to point 1, if he really does take 1.25 seconds to charge an arrow as another person on here said, up to 3.75 seconds not including travel/ reload times to kill a normal health player with perfect accuracy is insane, especially when there are tanks and supports that can kill 250hp faster without needing to be nearly as accurate. Itā€™s practically mandatory to save Storm for close encounters or to land crits. Even for a sniper, that should never be the case.

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Storm arrows are on an 8 second cooldown, heā€™s good.

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he got
an arrow size increase
shorter cooldown on storm arrows
hes spamzo now, forget about sniping with this guy

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he should have smaller arrow hitbox
and high damage for ā€œreasonableā€ kill

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Lol good joke dudeā€¦ Hanzo needing buffs

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He has storm arrows to dish out so much damage outside of his primary fire and thereā€™s no fall off on his arrows. He still can one shot Tracer, Baby Dva and Widow. I dont think heā€™s weak and can still duel dive heroes if played properly.

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anyone say hazno get a bigger hitbox size have no idea what it means
Only 2 projectile size is smaller than hanzo
90% of projectile is larger than hazno
kiriko , mercy , mei , genji , pharah etc
they all are larger than hazno hitbox

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They shouldnā€™t have removed his one shot. That was the whole reason Hanzo players were logging into the game.

I donā€™t even play Hanzo but I imagine it is like how Mei felt once the freeze was removed - totally ruined and now I donā€™t play OW anymore.

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