Tracer seems to be going ham this season. With the increased hitboxes I rarely see her miss and she just terrorizes the back line worse than usual, and being in metal ranks combined with support I just feel like I cant do anything against it. Every team that has a tracer on it has won every game this season, or almost every game anyways
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It’s the same with zen. The stack with discord and the DPS passive is massssssssiiiiiiiive. He’s in a tier of his own right now. Ball, tracer, and zen
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Guess now is the time to practice her. Been thinking about going on a tracer binge but too lazy… maybe when i get home from work
I am terrible with her and can never land pulse bomb. Also she is kind of nerve wracking to play
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Have you seen Soldier’s laser cannon?
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They just lowered her floor, people will start noticing her present.
But yes. She has always been this powerful.
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It’s like Devs have bad predictions or they don’t test enough internally.
She survives more, hits more pellets, spams more damage, her mobility didn’t change (continues to be one of the fastest DPS).
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Tracer is the best hero in the game. You only kill them when they severely mess up. Luckily this projectile increase just buffed their aim and not their decision making…
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Probably because her spread doesn’t make her miss shots she should’ve hit, I’m still missing shots on her that I would’ve missed pre-patch it just feels like that RNG spread doesn’t screw you over at points anymore.
Yeah I hated the rng too pre patch. If they ever need to nerf her I hope they go with damage 6 → 5.5 instead of decreasing the bullet size
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Tracer is S+ this season
A lot of heroes that could endanger a hero only balanced and counterable through oneshotting her have lost said capability.
Tracer right now is gatekeeping viability of even more of the DPS role in high ranks than before. Before, you could threaten her with a lot of heroes. Right now, she is only threatened by Widow/Sojourn/Soldier/Hanzo or by mirroring.
Health pool changes are way more powerful on heroes with massive mobility or safety.
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She’s always been stronger. It’s just that her mechanical skill floor is way lower now.
Tracer was nerfed but she’s far easier now.
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Well it helps that if you aim within a 180 degree arc of the enemy, every Tracer bullet will still headshot. As long as you understand her mobility, it’s free farming all day.
imo, the fact she was both nerfed and made ‘easier’ sort of evens it out
240 dps for her gun but her gun is more consistent, so one clipping a 250 target is still something most ppl cant do consistently
i think alot of the people saying “its easier” such as the op, are bronze/silver
cuz outside of ultra high elo games, most players are still somehow missing on .08m hitscans and .05m tracer/sombra lul
Disagree, because it disproportionately affects low ranks. Tracer in high ranks is weaker solo. Much weaker. Tracer in metal ranks is op because no one there ever actually understood how strong she was until now.
One clipping was never a big part of Tracer’s skill floor or ceiling. It requires someone else to mess up to actually get one. It’s not even about aim.
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I don’t find her that bad to play against, i would argue it isn’t her accuracy that the problem her hp is, cause she is also easier to hit also and before patch i thought tracer was pretty ez to shoot at not it feels easier, now instead of 2 taping her i feel i need to 3tap in most instances.
2 tapping they may react fast enough to recall but not likely needing 3 hit kills recall is almost a certainty
Yeah I’d definitely take that instead since she can’t really get easy bodyshot one clips any more and with the DPS passive it’d actually feel good. All I’ve ever wanted was tracer to feel consistent with my aim and this patch did that.
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idk maybe, i personally dont think thats true based on what ive seen of gold/plat players
they dont have aim good enough to 5 clip someone with these changes, let alone do enough to 1-2 clip them.
alot of what ppl are seeing are people like me on alts testing out the new system and it starts us in silver/gold cuz its an brand new or lower ranked account
i played tracer in a gold lobby last nite just to see how it would place an account that still in plat at the end of season 8 and it estimated my rank to be Gold 5 after that first match
a10 took a brand new account and played in gold for a bit until it eventually placed him plat 3
low rank players dont know how to play tracer, and no amount of hitbox buffs are going to help them
the better you are at this the more effective you’ll be
one clippin someone is rare but if you can do it, it means you might get someone well below half in one clip on average and this makes it easier to finish them off
and if someone is already under full hp they’ll die
mechanic’s do matter, but you have to know who to shoot at and when to engage, obviously
its easy to say mechanic’s dont matter if you already have good aim, most players do not have that
Yeah finally lower ranked players can pick her without instant throwing for their team isn’t that what people wanted?
That might be true, actually.
I don’t play in metal ranks so I’m only going off of what I’ve heard.
That’s true, but Tracer is easier mechanically and so they can now kill things while being hard to hit for trash players.