You’re drawing conclusions based on years old data from a completely different game. You’ve completely invalidated everything you’ve said
It never changed, every year it was the same. Why would I need to memorize the date, if the data doesn’t change in any significant manner. Tracer and Genji dominated the top 100 from the beginning of the game until OW2 was released. Would it help you if I went year by year and gave you the distribution of the 2 or 3 profiles that added Soldier 76 instead of McCree to their personal roster?
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I’m not. I’m saying you shouldn’t.
so why are you complaining if you acknowledge that its a skill issue?
neither do the people that carried in my ranked games.
I didnt say you had to be playing against people worse than you. if you cant tell the difference between how an owl player and a gm player reacts and what they are aware of then idk what to tell you other than you have more issues that the balance state of your main.
and the people in your own tier dictate how viable suboptimal picks are.
youre playing against worse players so you can get away with more suboptimal play.
its not a difficult concept.
I didn’t know every character was designed to dump their entire clip and get a kill from it.
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Here’s some current data from omnicmeta:
Tracer overall pick rate for this week: 8.9%
Tracer overall win rate for this week: 46%
Tracer grandmaster pick rate: 6%
Tracer Grandmaster winrate: 64%
Admittedly that’s a high winrate, but the 6% pick rate means an exceptionally small sample size and so the data is very likely skewed. The low pick rate with high winrate suggests that tracer is only picked in highly favorable situations which heavily skews her winrates. This is a very common phenomenon in competitive games with characters like Tracer.
Also, every other tier than grandmaster, her winrate is 45% or worse
Current data is the only data that matters. Previous data has zero impact on how a character is performing right now.
She is and has always been the best dps in the game on small maps (majority of ow1) but she sucks vs snipers in sniperwatch2
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Impossible even with an aimbot you can’t because some pellets will envitably miss because of spread or get reduced because of fall off.
She’s very inconsistent to get one clips even on pro players going for mostly headshots.
She’s not as lethal as she used to be she’s played more as a fly to annoy and draw attention run away run back attempt to kill healers.
Okay, cool.
Then what can we glean from what you have written?
This tells me, the better you are at the game, the more useful Tracer becomes. The differential between the average tally of success on Tracer is 64% minus 46%.
This means that there is an 18% increase in viability of 1 hero in 1 rank versus only the hero mentioned.
Now, you will have to look at all other heroes, and do the same math to figure out how much more viable they are overall and in the top rank in the game to get a good feel for how much more or less Tracer’s viability increases or decreases from hero to hero.
You probably don’t want to do that though. My guess, without seeing the numbers is that the only hero that has a close to or equal value when at the highest rank is Genji. These 2 DPS characters have no ceiling on how much more benefit you can get from them the better you are at playing a DPS hero.
And you want to buff one of them, which will lead to an increase in the top level viability by default.
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it depends on the target. yes not every bullet can hit a widowmaker, but every bullet can definitely hit a zen
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It won’t unless you’re face hugging him no one plays tracer that close to a target thats an easy way to get headshot.
You play one blink distance away.
Honestly, I think Tracer’s skill curve is too steep. She’s the face of the game but she’s one of the hardest heroes to get reliable value out of. I say reduce her headshot multiplier and increase her body shot damage.
Even if you did that she wouldn’t be playable in lower ranks.
The problem is they don’t know how to use their abillities and the problem isnt that they aren’t hitting headshots its that they’re not hitting anything they’re completly wiffing.
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Your interpretation of that data is reasonable, but still somewhat erroneous. tracer’s winrates are abysmal at all ranks except Grandmaster and (ironically) gold where she has a 67% and 51% winrates respectively. Everywhere else, she fails to rise above 45%. If you were to treat grandmaster as an outlier, her overall win rate would be 44%. You didn’t have this data point with gold having a rather high winrate so I can’t fault you for that, but that data point suggests that there is something else going on.
Genji overall pick rate this week: 22.3%
Genji Overall winrate this week: 49.4%
Genji Grandmaster pick rate: 67%
Genji Grandmaster winrate: 53%
Genji’s pick rates and winrates even out to the 20% pick and 50% winrates across all tiers, suggesting he’s actually in a pretty reasonable place right now, though a further nerf to shake up the meta may be required.
When looking at overall hero pick rates, the average pick rate of characters for the week is somewhere within 15-20%, I didn’t do an actual calculation I’m just eyeballing the spreadsheet from Omnicmeta. There are actually 13 characters that are outside the generally accepted 2% winrate deviation from 50%. Those are Rein, Cree, Dva, Orisa, widow, Zarya, Winston (shockingly at 47%), Mei (a low key broken hero), Brig, Tracer, sombra, Sym, and Bastion. There’s quite a few more outside the ideal 1% (the game’s balance is pretty bad right now).
Based on this weeks Data, Tracer is one of the worst performing characters in the game, with only Cree, sombra, and Bastion having a lower winrate. and of those only sombra and bastion have a lower pick rate.
How about we wait until the Sojourn nerfs are done, and see?
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Where are you getting your data from? Overbuff hasn’t been getting updates since October 4th.
It’s a website called Omnicmeta
The last update on that site is from 2019.
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Well crap, you’re right, it appears I’m an idiot
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I wouldn’t say that. You did the best with what you had, you just missed some of the information. It happens to us all.
Damage falloff doesn’t exactly reduce your damage in a meaningful way against most characters as the likes of Tracer or Reaper. They aren’t made for fighting at that distance, so even if she had no falloff at all it would be like eh whatever except against like D.va or something.