Projectile heroes are hard suffering despite their projectile increase. Mostly because HP was adjusted and projectile speed has stayed the same even though they are bigger. Why did point and click heroes get any buffs to forgiveness is beyond me. A ton of projectile heroes have kept their fire rate the same apart from the pharah “rework”. Hanzo feels horrible with a slow fire rate and lack of damage, 3 body shots is just brutal. Same applies to junkrat even after he got his buffs. Sym already got nerfed even though she wasn’t even doing well, people were just trying her out and she gets nerfed. Mei doesn’t exist, echo is good but hitscan buffs make it so shes only viable with a mercy pocket. So are projectile heroes designed to be trash? Are they not allowed to be in the meta?
I don’t know about you guys but I’m already bored of dive and call of duty meta. Im not gonna preach balance perfection because that will never exist however I feel nerfing heroes to the ground just to shake a meta is not the way to go. I think adding more heroes, making MINIMAL changes to problematic heroes is far more impactful for the game than nerfing heroes to the ground. I already have piles of videos showcasing me landing headshots back to back on hanzo with nothing dying. It’s demoralizing having put over 2k hours on a hero to be consistent and now my skill got thrown out the window. I can adapt with heroes changing, I’m ok with hanzo not getting one shots anymore. Slow fire rate is killing the hero though, if hes gonna not one shot then he NEEDS a faster fire rate.
I then start playing widow and the impact is night and day, its not only braindead easy now to pop off with widow having a larger bullet but also with an increase in her HP, shes able to survive way better with a pocket mercy than ever before. Why would anyone in their right mind play hanzo over widow now? At least before we could argue widow was better for the largest maps and hanzo for the shorter ones. Now it’s just no contest. The slow fire rate also means ashe is miles better than hanzo, I have not lost a single 1v1 vs a hanzo with me playing ashe since the changes. Thats insane, even if he lands a headshot, the fire rate is not fast enough to outplay me on ashe. I dont know what more I can say about that, the hero went from being viable to trash tier really fast. Don’t even get me started on junk, sym, torb, mei etc. I really want someone at blizzard to at the very least shine some light into this topic. Whats gonna happen now? Are hitscans and dive the only ones allowed to stay relevant now?