His healing is not the main issue.
He’s terrorizing pretty much every match I’ve been in, on my team or enemy team.
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Not rank shaming - is this in plat (and when I say plat, I mean low diamond through gold basically)
Diamon/Master games.
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The same reason why they think Mercy is okay.
Players learn to deal with him and kill him first, because that’s how big of an issue crutch heros are when left alive.
And once again…stats…just because the playerbase is trained on dealing with X hero first to gain an advantage doesn’t make that picked off hero any weaker. Just means their influence is so powerful they get picked off more as a necessity because they are too highly effective when left alone.
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Let’s be honest, it’s diamond. Masters is OW2-speak for low diamond compared to OW1, but even there Soldier isn’t really terrorizing anything unless people can’t track ults or position - and that’s a big part of this community.
Now if everyone weren’t turning off comms and decied to play a team game like a team, you’d see his effectiveness reduced even more. But therein lies the problem.
Anyway, I don’t think adding 3 seconds of cooldown on his healing station really makes much sense, but I certainly wouldn’t call Soldier broken.
Fyi I’m high Diamond too.
Ranks shouldn’t matter because below me and Kait’s ranks are the other 80+% of the entire playerbase.
Just because me and Kait see it and can deal with it doesn’t mean the other 80% know how to.
That 80% doesn’t need to suffer through all that frustration.
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Never have to much trubble with them out side a good ana nano heal botting them or hackers
That’s a valid point too. I’m GM and my percentage of the pie is even smaller, so do we balance for the majority of the community or do we balance on the highest levels of play?
I mean Blizzard balances on data period, so I suppose it doesn’t much matter.
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Btw…that small percentage that actually know how to deal with crutch heros. IE S76, Mercy, Moira, Bastion, Torb, Orisa are less then 20% of the entire playerbase.
High ranks don’t matter in the grand scheme of the game. High ranks merely ostrisize the majority of the playerbase who actually play the game and fill up majority of the population playing.
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Highest level of play then work your way down. Simple trickle down balance its worked for tf2 for years
Is he terrorizing or is he just…in your games? What do you want to play but can’t because of soldier? What aspect is gate keeping you?
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I’m not disagreeing with you. The main issue is that if you take GM1 as a whole and say, “These people know the game well enough to understand balance issues.” Is that the wrong way to go?
Like you point out, most of the playerbase is under Masters. Should that be the focus of balance? I don’t know really. I know if you nerf Soldier for gold players, you’ve ruined the hero for Masters on up. Maybe that’s how it should be. 
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You balance for the game.
You may have unlocked more heros’ potential, but how much if the playerbase will ever get to your level?
Years? Decades? A lot of people just don’t care. So maybe even never?
So whats alright for you will make the 80% take forever to learn how to deal with.
Balance the game for the players flat out. We shouldn’t be excusing these kits like this.
It’s OW2, OW1 doesn’t exist anymore. Diamond/Master is Diamon/Master.
He’s strong in pretty much every comp against pretty much every matchup. He doesn’t have any glaring weaknesses, but he’s extremely effective himself. He’s op, straight up.
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Yes sorry if I seem aggressive but the fact that the devs along with so many influencers want tk downplay QP and force me and so many others into Comp for a basic OW experience has me fuming.
I want a basic Overwatch pvp experience. I don’t ever want to spend my time screaming and cursing off my CPU again because I have to play in rank.
No one should ever “have to” play any one mode. That’s asinine and rude to even tell another playrr.
Yes and GM5 is GM. But not really and it sticks out like a sore thumb. To be fair, that’s another issue entirely and we’ll see with the comp changes if it fixes any of it.
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Glad we’re on the same page.
Wow Kait!
Whats this new rank of Diamon?
Than you and your team suck and the soldier is several levels above you in skill. Sorry too say but it’s the simple truth of it.
If soldier was so amazing as all you whiners say he is you would all be playing my lobbies only playing him. You do not. Simple as that. What I do see every lobby thou is DPS x paired with mercy blasting everyone and the mercy that does not only pocket and go on side quests like a dummy always lose.
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Not really…looking back on the gameplay, which I’ve done many times, a S76’s gameplay loop is simple…and they position poorly and are often times suicidal and ignire their own teammates.
Its the supports who pocket the MFer that make him a problem. Because again! If they live too long they become a major issue in a match.