How a 1Shield Lock is inevitable

General Discussion
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Well it’s better than being locked onto double shield and having your hero suck without a second barrier eh?? (cough orisa cough)

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Perhaps the better distinction is on defense. Where an anchortank sets down their anchor and hold an area.

Winston…, not that great on Defence objectives.

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It does sound like an annoying band aid, but considering that they can’t get people to just shoot at the shield a tiny bit i consider it way more likely than I did at the beginning of the year

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I dunno this logic still kinda applies, He’ll still jump in with his team, with his allies following, and his barrier will help make space, it’s just a different type of anchor tank.

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Here me out

we get rid of role qu-

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I mean, realistically there’s

  1. One anchor tank per team, first come first serve, maybe with a first pick dibs
  2. Slower Barrier regen/cooldowns if 2 AnchorTanks
  3. Make it so DoubleBarrier is more vulnerable to Dive, versus, Buff Dive
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No, it isn’t. Double shield, as all metas, haven’t made its way downwards of master, a lock would apply to all ranks, I’m assuming, so I would be trading a problem I don’t have for one I’m guaranteed to have.

Furthermore, Orisa based DS is easy to get rid off, Blizz is messing up because “shields bad hur dur”. Nerf Fortify, buff the shield and DS with Orisa is gone in a month.

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What percentage of the playerbase you figure would quit from that?

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Well, even if you don’t face double shield…
Orisa still sucks on her own, but she can’t be buffed because she’ll be busted in DS.

What you are suggesting would be nice but I don’t think that would solve the DS problem.

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Honestly dunno

I think more players played before role que honestly, the game felt more alive

Edit: Then goats came lol

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From one of my older surveys most people liked role q, ill try get it now

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Role que is the best thing that happened to this game imo. It was just sad from blizzard that they didn’t think of the bigger picture that a role lock would bring.
Also its confirmed from emongg that role q was the last “big update” for ow1. After that they worked almost exclusively on ow2

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here we go
only 8.8% disliked it.

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The only reason Sigma/Orisa continue to dominate is because it’s the closest they can get to GOATS strategies and tactics. Without the 2/2/2 forced compositions, the compositions would still remain 3 Tanks and 3 Supports. And competitive OW will continue to have that composition because it remains the best possible composition in the game for OW.

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Zarya has this on a daily basis, you dont have a problem with it?

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Honestly i brought ALOT of problems, the idea on paper is great

But in process is just flawed at the core of being you are now stuck in one role

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If any type of lock or “if double shield then X is weaker” I would probably become full on support main.

Couldn’t pay me to queue into what already is the most team dependent role and have my random PoS team mates literally dictate what stats my hero will have or what pool of heroes I must have.

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Or just, idk, rework Sigma’s barrier?

Maybe balance him to where he is punished when another Barrier is on the field???

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THIS

just rework the shield :sob:

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Zarya hasn’t had a 12% pickrate with a 58% winrate, Lol…?