I never play tank except for fun every now and then. But I must say that JQ is A LOT of fun! I mean: I’m just in love with that hero!
Really considering becoming a tank main just because of her. I’d be JQ OTP.
Of course you either play her flawlessly or she’s pretty weak at the moment. I don’t think she’s bad AT ALL, but weak compared to the state of other tanks, who are a bit OP at the moment.
I understand she’s probably going to get buffed at some point.
She doesn’t have armor, which is the first point I would address. She needs armor, now.
A second point: I would improve her self sustain, the healing she gets through wounds is a bit ridiculous imo. I love that she can heal through damage, but considering it’s only active wounds that heal you, the numbers should be definitely higher.
I like her ult, but it’s so easily countered by Kiriko, that she basically doesn’t have an ult. I’m not sure if this can be addressed, but having an ult completely removed as a tank really sucks. Maybe her ult could instantly replenish her life, like Winston or D.va, or something else could be added so it has at least some use.
Actually I’m not even sure I understood how to take the most advantage of her healing through wounds or if there’s a way to do so.
The wounded state usually lasts for very short, because I follow up with shots. If the enemy survives, he’s probably damaging me so I don’t even notice that very little heal I’m getting. I see single digit numbers, it’s just ridiculous. It’s like getting healed by the payload.
Rampage offers some more heal when it lands on many and is not cleansed by Kiriko, so doesn’t happen often. When it heals, the numbers are really underwhelming anyways and you’re not awarded for landing your ult so well.
Healing is currently 125% of the wound damage dealt, recently buffed, but I guess it should be… doubled?
I’ve been onetricking her myself cuz I love playing her so much and honestly the things I desperately want are: the shout cooldown reduced cuz her uptime is ridiculously low you basically use shout, rush in and try and get a pick or whatever but after those 5 buffed seconds you’re now basically a squishie with your hitbox and only 425 hp and you have to wait to be a “tank” again for 14 whole seconds while a fight clearly lasts way longer than any of that
So I’d buff shout and definitely carnage speed
There’s no reason for an attack that’s on such a long cooldown and melee and put on a close range hero with no survivability aside from shout to take that long
why the shout also desperately needs a cooldown reduction is while it’s also your only survival/rush tool there’s a big change that when you use it out of spawn for the speedboost for you and your teammates you literally won’t have it for more than multiple seconds in the fight which just shows imo that’s it’s too long
I dunno man. She just doesn’t do anything WELL compared to the other tanks.
Hog? Better enemy displacement ability, more reliable and better combo’s/ damage output, 10x better self regen/ damage mitigation for himself.
Like even if he’s reworked/ dumpster nerfed, she’s still not going to feel good.
Her knife is a bunch of fun to use but the pay off for reliably landing it just isn’t there. The environment affects it so much, stairs are your worst enemy. It doesn’t pull as far as hog hook, nor does it really have a follow up for a quick kill confirm without the enemy getting peeled.
Her self regen is dog sheet. Her entire kit is based around it and it’s absolutely awful. If they want to make it better it either needs to continue functioning even on dead enemies, or rework it slightly to have burst potential - i.e landing carnage burst heals you for x and then wound heals for x over x seconds.
And yeah, her ult definitely needs looking at. Maybe make it so any cleanse applied becomes a -50% healing instead of 100% negated healing.
And just for fun - God I wish her ult had 3D movement potential. I would love to be able to just fly up to the high ground with it to contest sniper nests, especially because ranged characters are her biggest enemy. At the very least I think you should be able to cancel it at any point so you don’t have to fly off to Narnia just to guarantee you hit everyone with it.
Also another Idea just to throw out there. I feel like Queen REALLY struggles with drawn out fights because she’s so ride or die when it comes to shout. It’s her only way to mitigate damage but it doesn’t prevent her from being damaged or CC’d throughout it’s duration in the same way fortify or kinetic grasp does. It would be interesting to change carnage to be a 2 swing attack that can break projectiles throughout its duration. Queen is just absolute food to hook, javelin etc and has no way to deal with them other than cover or hoping to out sustain whatever follow up comes your way. This way she has a tool to close distance without face tanking 2 million damage & CC or wasting shout on an engage just to lose the fight because nobody was able to get a pick within the first few seconds.
Anyway, maybe not balanced but I thought i’d throw my 2 cents in.
I think the issue is also that other tanks are a bit too OP, what are you going to do against Orisa? She’s immortal and you’re just a squishy compared.
Healing through wound damage can definitely be buffed (a lot) is we want to make her even remotely comparable to Hog’s self sustain.
I think JQ looks more like a sort of dps than a tank. She’s a tank every 14s.
“Gracie” is the funniest part of her kit, I think the range is ok but difficult to land from a distance, plus I’m noob with her… looks like the trajectory is a bit like Kiriko’s Suzu… I think it should have been slightly magnetic, because right now it feels like you need to land it so precisely like an arrow from Hanzo.
Moreover her hp has no armor so all the damage she gets is 100%. She also heals less damaging armor (almost every other tank), so right now she’s a tank that can’t 1vs1 other tanks.
They mentioned “spicy buffs” sometime in january for mid season. I hope they give the knife pull a very short stun so you can cancel ultimates with it would be nice.
I would also add a option to aimdown sights this doesn’t buff her dmg or anything but she gets a small arm shield with 150 hp that covers her face and torso, but she moves at 40% reduced speed when she holds it.
She needs to heal more, most importantly. In that vein:
Commanding Shout:
*when activated, all targets gain 25% increased healing received for the duration
*Extra health now decays over 5 seconds, instead of disappearing immediately
Agreed. JQ super fun. Love playing her. Reduce shout cooldown, and give her at least a little more sustain to make up for her lack of armor. That’d probably be fine enough…Though, didn’t they JUST increase the size of her hitbox? That definitely needs a reversion. Don’t know why they made the objectively squishiest tank even easier to hit