I play Baptiste quite a lot and I’m glad they’re toning him down.
He got buffed unnecessarily, and they went straight to live even though he was already on the climb to becoming meta.
He needs to be dialed down a bit.
Sadly IF is the best tank ability atm. And they don’t like tanks.
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Ouch.
It was hide WHILE Rezing which was the worst, I mean, how hard would it have been to put LOS checks on it.
Look at me, Rezzing my team while I am literally in spawn. (yes I did that, no, I have no regrets.)
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Then give him a compensation buff. Junkrat’s already been nerfed to F-tier and below.
Can’t wait for one more support to go to the trashbin while dps stay untouched, oh boy!
I absolutely can’t wait for the balance team to gut one more viable character and throw them into the trash bin for “being oppressive”. It happened to symm, dva and sombra, it’s happening to bap too.
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I think this is going to make people try DPS Bap more, depending on the severity of the nerfs.
Like, Bap would be more inclined to throw it at his feet and dig in rather than throw it at someone to stop them from dying before having the IF lasered down.
Keeping people alive via killing targets could very well outweigh the immortality field.
was being sarcastic. I love orisa
Well only in specific maps and if the bodies were close enough.
I said ouch, because I can believe that will happen.
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I’d like that lost bounce back. I’m far from a Junkrat player, but it really threw me off even more so than his nade size.
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What do you mean? Don’t you think a Hanzo, Mei or Reaper in EVERY GAME is a good thing?!
I don’t even think Hanzo and Mei are as broken as people say they are, but those two could stand to be nerfed a smidge.
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I know it well 
Anubis here we come!
I’m sorry, I just facepalmed so hard I hurt myself a little. You could just look up the word rather than go on some little rant? Why on earth would the term ‘oppressive’ be limited to describing “heroes that could get into your face”?
Definition of oppressive
1 : unreasonably burdensome or severe
There. I hope that somewhat lessens your confusion. “A buzzword”. Good one.
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That WOULD be bad, if it was true.
Which it isn’t.
Hyperbolization is not helpful. We don’t even know what the nerfs are. It could just be that its hitbox is slightly bigger. It could be that its cooldown starts when it’s destroyed.
I don’t think any of them will affect Baptiste significantly as long as it functions the way it does - preventing death.
His healing and his damage will still be there.
The only good thing about this nerf that I completely anticipated this nerf coming based on forum whining and never invested much time into baptiste.
Suck it blizzard, you couldn’t nerf my character this time around!
I know blizzard and whenever “oppressive” is being thrown around, it’s going to be a big nerfbat. They’re gonna end this man’s career before it even started.
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In my games it is. Mei is a particularly favorable pick with people either picking her at the start or waiting picking her when they’re about to lose.
Maybe I had a unlucky streak?
I see more Hanzo than Mei. But Mei tends to stick out because of how much she rolls over tanks.
this seems like a suitable nerf, if it floats at eye level it could also cue headshots which is a nice thing to have
funny how I’m pretty sure these forums thought baptiste was balanced, talk about being clueless
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Her pick rate is like 2.3% overall
it ALMOST gets to 3% in Bronze or GM.
I used to have a Mei in every single one of my games 6 months ago for weeks on end.
Of course I was playing her 
Yeah, sounds like an unlucky streak, unless you are a god hammond, in which case you are WHY they are switching to Mei (and congrats on being good enough to force that)