They have too much favoritism for this character. Every season now they’re going to start randomly picking two heroes, most likely tanks, to artificially pump up the stats for so that they are must bans and both teams will use their two ban slots for thus shielding ana from the deserved 90%+ ban rate
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I don’t think they’ll be able to unless they just immunize her from bans, at which point just drop the game the jig is up.
Also, isn’t the ban system 4 match Hero bans based on ranked choice with each player getting 3 to pick? That makes it insanely hard to shield someone by purposely overtuning someone else.
Sure you might get eight players to ban both the OP tanks but there are all their third choice ban votes and the two who haven’t banned those tanks six votes to account for. We don’t know how it’ll work in practice, but the three ban pick minimum means three heroes will be banned unless people only use two slots (if that’s even allowed). The fourth possible ban could just go unused if all ten players are unanimous I suppose, though it could do a revote as well forcing a fourth choice to be made.
Is this a preemptive “it’s rigged if Ana doesn’t get banned as much I want her to be” post?
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Like you said, if they do that, it’s going to be undeniable that they’re playing favorites.
If anything, I imagine we get a last-minute “save” feature which protects a character or two from being banned.
But, other than that, I would be surprised. That would defeat a significant purpose of hero bans.
I Just hope that people understand that if they ban Ana, we’re going to ban the heroes that she keeps in check, too, like Roadhog or Doomfist. I’d say Mauga but the devs kinda did that for us lol
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They already said they dont want the system to be used to bully certain unpopular heroes.
So I would guess they’re going to have some protection system for the most commonly banned heroes.
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I’m going go assume you weren’t around for the original hero bans. The pro’s got to choose who to ban and it didn’t take long for blizz to say nope, we will choose who gets banned a week at a time. If they implement hero bans again it won’t be long and we will be back to that same thing.
I just wonder if Ana is always banned if they’ll finally nerf/change Sleep and Anti or not.
Also, if Ana is banned they can actually powershift/rework Hog (though Zen can still gatekeep him). Hog does keep Doom in check, though 
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I would hope so! I think it would be enough to nerf every tank’s survivability by removing the helmet passive, though.
Not every rank thinks ana is a problem honestly. I think ashe, sojourn and pharah are bigger issues.
Sombra is the only hero that I am going to ban. No need to waste time on anything else. I wonder if it weighs your vote more heavily if you do not cast three votes.
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I don’t have a problem with the tank passives in 5v5, considering people still don’t want to play them. I say give them more passives/HP/Dmg until the queue fixes itself. OW (and every game with The Trinity)'s problem though is they’ve never made tank more compelling to play for the majority over DPS.
More responsibility should also have a higher potential for fun, says I.
But what I really want is 2-2-2 (Perks optional), passives not needed (except maybe Boop distances from non-tanks, and less dmg ult charge granted).
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I’m afraid not. You’re going to have to do it the old-fashioned way, i.e. bribe and coerce people to ban Sombra. It’s what Sombra herself would do.
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That is true, but novelty runs fast.
At first people are going to ban due to personal “hate”, then when the trend changes Ana is going to take a lot of hits. Same as Widow.