It will absolutely eviscerate quickplay if they start balancing around hero banning but only include the hero banning in comp. Like if the dev mentality becomes “This hero deletes reinhardt in the current patch? Oh don’t worry reinhardt players will just ban them” but reinhardt players in qukcplay can’t ban him, then QP will become a bigger counterswapping sweatfeast than comp and you will probably even start to see casual players going to comp and softthrowing there
“But it’s quickplay, I should be able to play what I want to.” Yeah, say that to all the tank players out there who have to go 10 matches even in quickplay to play their main without getting counterswapped 30 seconds in. Hero banning would make more of the roster playable than is now, if you literally can’t go 1 match without playing your OTP maybe stop playing the literal only hero game out there where onetricking isn’t the optimal strategy
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Hero banning CANNOT be. That’s all I have to say
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Hero bans didn’t work when they tried them in OW1.
Doubt it’ll work here either.
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I can guarantee hero banning will only finish off this game that’s already basically on life support. Spiteful players like me aside who will soft throw matches if our character is banned, you know as well as I do that they’ll balance around banning characters. Frequently banned characters will mean that either they’re not fun to play against (which isn’t really an excuse to change them usually), throw picks, or they’re too OP or cheap/ no skill characters. As for who would get banned the most, and probably depending on rank:
Supports
Ana
Baptiste
Kiriko
Moira
Maybe Mercy.
Damage.
Sombra
Widow
Hanzo
Pharah
Junkrat
Tank
Doom
Ball
Hog
Orisa
Zarya
Most if not all of those bans would only result in unnecessary changes that would only make this game that has really only been going downhill for years, especially after all the cut/ half-***** content, even worse.
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Hero bans would probably make quickplay MORE popular. I know I would stop playing “competitive” if I am not even allowed to pick my freaking character, mang.
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This game isn’t suited for hero bans to begin with, so if it did exist it should be comp only
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Hero bans is the main reason I don’t play Paladins comp. That is a horrible, horrible idea.
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The devs have said that they believe people should be able to play multiple heroes and that they don’t take one tricks into consideration when making balance decisions so they’re not going to balance heroes around bans
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99% of one tricks that aren’t necros and arrge are casuals anyway so you guys won’t be missed and the game will be fine. The best players across every role can play multiple characters and will take those characters to the top. The only exceptions are probably zbra and quake who are top 500 on doom pretty much every season. Skiesti and necros has dropped as low as diamond several times
Hero bans are way more interesting for pro play. They shouldn’t be implemented into the regular game though, unless that is its own mode entirely.
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I’m not a one trick, you can check if you want, assuming profiles aren’t still hidden or overbuff is up to date. I meant that as if Reaper for example is banned, yes, I could make probably anyone else in my top 10 work, but if I can’t play who I want because of a ban instead of just someone picking faster, I’m going to be that guy who plays Torb and magically forgets I have a gun and turret. And what’s Blizzard going to do? Ban me for hammering people? If they didn’t want me to do that, they wouldn’t have given me a tool that can be used as a melee weapon that actually hits harder than most if not every other melee.
And considering how toxic players are known to be in this game, it would be easy to ban someone’s main even if unintentional and say they’re throwing if they do poorly anyway.
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Wait? Torbjorn has weapons other than his hammer? You must be joking. I am relatively confident he just has his hammer…
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They can ban you for that because that falls under feeding and if 2 or 3 people report you you will get suspended, i got a mei player suspended for walling me off in qp and you’ll deserve the ban and I’ll be here when you come to the forums to complain you got banned
This is correct. Torb hits things with his hammer. This is the Torb way.
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Unless feeding is specifically classified as a bannable offense or listed under a specific category, it wouldn’t be a valid ban. Even if it is, I’d do it again and again just to get the point across that character bans will only make this game even worse. Screw me over? I’ll do the same out of spite.
What difference will it make if I’m “feeding” or if the best options are characters I hate playing/ suck with and get reported for throwing anyway for underperforming in a game with an enforcement team that just copy/ pastes every other response and says “the punishment is justified, any further tickets will be ignored”?
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Oh shut up with ur crying
Hero bans are a dumb idea, period.
All they do is add an extra hero to the meta - one that will always be banned.
But the meta ban-pick will signal to the devs which heroes need attention!
They already have that information. You may not like what they do with it, but they have it. With hero bans, you’re still not going to like the decisions the devs make, only now your favourite hero will also be banned sometimes.
But other games do it!
Yeah, and other games have meta ban-picks. It solves nothing.
But hey, it’ll be fun when they add bans - just to see the influencers who have spent years asking for the feature babyraging when their mains get banned by streamsnipers every single game. Can’t wait for Flats to get mad when Reinhardt is the meta-ban for a month straight - it may take a while before it happens, but it’ll be worth it when it does. 
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Comp is the serious mode.
So how about you take the serious option and just take the ban system.
So many other games have ban options only for comp and it’s been great.
Opposite idea.
QP already holds like 70% of the playerbase’ attention.
Adding bans to ranked will just keep people in QP only.
HowBouDat?
Other games use bans as a solution to meta characters, in Overwatch bans would primarily exist as a solution to hardcounters. People don’t play meta in quickplay, but they do play hardcounters. Bans cannot be a solution to hardcounters unless they’re in both modes