She feels like the only useless tank. Doomfist is actually somewhat underrated imo, from what i’ve played against and with so far. Problem is that Sombra absolutely shutdowns him. Other tanks struggle, but Doom needs to go into aggresive spots to do anything, so hack absolutely demolish him.
I played games where he wouldn’t be immediately countered by Sombra and do a lot of damage, kills and throwing people out of position. He isn’t straightforward tank, you can’t just pick up him and expect value. But he isn’t trash. At least until they pick Sombra…
JQ on the other hand have been consistently useless whenever I saw her.
I don’t think damage is her problem. She could be balanced with some number tweaks (hp, shout buff/cooldown).
But, I don’t think her biggest problem is balance per se. Rather, it’s that she doesn’t have enough tank utility. Her CC/disruption is weak, her mobility is weak, her damage mitigation is weak, and she’s thin enough that body blocking ineffective. She needs some way to protect her team for her to be a viable tank pick.
Her kit is a lot of fun and flows well, so I think there’s a simple fix. Just make the axe less situational and add some utility to it. For example:
This will give her some much needed damage mitigation while remaining on theme. Also, one of the things I’m finding most frustrating about her is that she has no tools to deal with any of the AoE damage ults. This would at least let her axe a Reaper/D.va/BOB/etc and give her a chance of surviving the ult.
Yeah, that’s really the rub with her. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy playing the character. I find landing Gracie and Carnage, the shotgun sounds, and all that, really satisfying.
But, anytime I’m doing well with her, I’m thinking to myself:
“You know, I probably could get this much value with half the effort on almost any other tank.”
I think the problem with it is also the fact that even if they are not healed it’s pretty easy to to just push JQ back during the axe channeling animation with characters that can do it. If you play hog they can’t really do that. I really like JQ though, she is fun as hell to play and I don’t think she is extremely weak. Most of her kit just can be negated or countered completely by the enemy team if they just have the right heroes.
It’s a trade off, plus Hog’s self heal makes him more forgiving to play, but so far I think people really sleep on how useful JQ’s party buff is and how much it can sway fights.