Is Doomfist one of the easiest heroes in the game right now?

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And here, ladies and gentlemen, is yet another bad attempt at applying the ol’ “low skill” argument to justify a nerf.

Seriously, just because it worked with Junkrat and Brigitte doesn’t mean that the devs like this argument to justify a nerf to every hero.

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Brigitte says hello.

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It’s funny how everyone complains about bug fixes until they fix something that makes your kit better. Like, if they fixed the structure punch up to the rooftop rollout that counts as airtime, Doomfist would not be as insanely hard hitting. But, DF mains dont want that fixed, just the ones that hurt their hero.

Rein mains like me are feeling this right now other than they have not fixed any negative bugs, but they took away our animation cancels.

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some say yes, some say no. bugs=buffs has been debated as long as time.

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umm… when did that happen?

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Not even a little bit. He literally has to throw himself at the enemy to deal significant damage, and it takes A LOT of practice to figure out combo timings and escape routes. For example, when you dive into the enemy, unless you believe you can kill every threat in the area without dying (which you’d need your teammates for), you always have to have at least one ability off cooldown to escape. On top of that, he still has pretty crazy bugs (especially with Seismic Slam I’ve noticed) that really hurt his consistency even when you do master him.

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boy the salt of being out played is bountiful here. Doom is still the hardest character to play in the game. It’s just all of these people who loved him enough to put in time when he was terrible are now rocking that he’s doing okay. hopefully after they fix all of his bugs he’ll be decent to good in comp.

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Remember when Junkrat was #1 DPS after his double mine + tire speed buff? Low skill - high reward was the top argument on the forums on why Junkrat should be nerfed.

I’m pretty sure you’re quite familiar with Brigitte.

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What’s the “iron sights button”?

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and he was never nerfed into being a high skill hero… he’s still the same his counters are just more common in the game right now.

again, what massive nerf was put into the game to make them a high skill hero?

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Except for Seismic Slam, that thing has a mind of its own ffs.
Like actually, the reticle on the ground will appear, but you can mash that damn button and that man isn’t going anywhere but straight down lol

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I once saw a gold fisted Doom in Mystery heros survive for a whole point capture once. True story.

P.S He died shortly after when his dive on golden Gun Ana failed.

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“Instant kill”
You can dodge it by moving in the opposite direction when you predict he’s going to punch. In other words, be unpredictable?

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He is not the hardest. He is maybe on the top 5/10 but not the hardest.

Lucio
Wrecking Ball
Ana
Mcree
Genji
Tracer

prob another one or 2 I forget are excellent contenders (Lucio and Ana fighting over #1 for sure)

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woah… This should be an interesting thread. Let me invite my good ole friend NiceGenji.

EDIT: I just realize that he is already here :sweat_smile: oops

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You know he’s not, unless he just happens to be easy for you and you like to crow about it lol.

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Never said they were nerfed into being high skill heroes. They nerfed them until they minimized their reward while keeping their skill floors relatively the same.

Brigitte’s skill to reward ratio, however, is still under discussion even after 2 nerfs.

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Thank you, someone finally understands.
Now we must pray to Jeff the same thing happens to Bastion :pray:

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I mean, is he more effective than before? Yes.
Unfortunately his abilities are too strong if they actually work, which is a really awkward issue.

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Ok he isent easy to play but he isent hard to play either. The problem with Doomfist is that he has to rely on his stuns to do anything, and believe it or not, people don’t like stuns. If Blizzard likes to nerf stuff b/c it “isent fun to fight against” I don’t understand why they keep buffing him. He was made b/c we kept asking and all I can say is he was massive disappointment. I feel like he was rushed just to they could finally give him to us. You can make good heroes in that amount of time (ex Ana) but Doomfist was not a good hero. On launch he was useless and now with even the smallest buffs and bug fixes (which have been in the game WAY to long btw and only further cement the fact he was rushed), he is an oppressive force that is anti-fun and anti-fair in most situations. Get it together Blizzard.

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