Oh sorry. I thought you were talking about “damage reduction” as in, not damage reduction to the damage he receives but damage reduction to the damage he deals.
In this case, I think what you suggest is a fair buff but not nearly enough to bring him to “decent” level. I insist on the Jump Pack buff (without cooldown reductions).
Exactly what I’m saying, dive isn’t good because supports do allot of damage and dps do allot of damage, torb is actually super good he gets his ult really quick and does allot of damage echo melts everyone and needs to be nerfed, tracer needs some sort of nerf even though she’s dive just because she does so much damage and doesn’t die. Brig needs a rework not a nerf, bap needs damage/healing nerfs zen Discord needs to be reverted to 25% these are all the reasons were in such a poke heavy meta, this is one of the few meta types that tanks don’t dictate because this is the meta you get when tanks suck, like they do now.
He is straight up the worst tank right now, hard countered by nearly half the roster. Most supports don’t even fear him and easily go toe-to-toe with him.
I was mainly pointing out how, currently, Winston is pretty much dead in the water since a single character creates an almost unwinnable situation for him. She isn’t the only one, but, since I main her it’s the situation I am most familiar with.
One thing I always think about with winston are the global ult charge nerfs the game has had. Winstons base kit makes more sense when it was like half his gameplay with primal rage being the other half. Now his base kit needs to carry his gameplay but it doesn’t really seem to be working out particularly well, especially with all the other changes & hero additions the game has had.
Simply cutting down his ult charge requirement may not be enough due to the increase of ways to shut down and/or avoid him nowadays like coach gun, hanzo leap, brig, bap boots & lamp, fade, accretion, etc.
I wonder how lowering his ult charge requirement + having a lil bit of boop+cc resist during primal rage would fair?
I mean I just think it’s the tanks around him that need balancing. Overall he’s fine. But I guess I wouldn’t mind if they made it so that you get less ult charge from a primal raging Winston since that makes Jim’s walking ult charge battery. Maybe you could also give him a passive where he deals more damage to constructs like turrets, lamp, etc.