So…we have another flier. While many kight say “It’s about time!” We still haven’t solved anything about the oppressive sense fliers bring to the table. So in turn hitscan will stay as high tier “effective” dps which leaves a lot of older heros in the dust.
We are one away from a full flier team and that is going to be a whole new meta that is gonna make everyone mad guranteed.
Besides that she’s just another flex support with homing healing burst…
So we have a flying Lucio, with LW’s blossom on a CD, that shoots like Ana, I have no idea what her ultimate does…but my bet is, it does damage, and probably homes in on its target.
August is going to be a nightmare if they don’t start reverting some od these changes soon.
Just an FYI on why fliers are bad.
Tanks have one good pick against fliers, which is Dva then you have Mauga who is decent at handling fliers, but is ahh…well easily countered by certain elements.
Then you have the issue of how there is only one tank and potentially FOUR FLYING ENEMY HEROS. Which qoupd require a pot kore teamwork to defeat.
App projectile heros drop power because now you just have speed stacking as a legit strategy.
Rush might even become a very oppressive strategy.
I have so many concerns here.
Devs didn’t learn from their flex support mistakes so this puts us in line for further healing creep.
Fliers are still not addressed which means hitscan have to stay annoying. (Which there’s so few options to deal with flying heros so that just sucks that we’re forced to counter pick.)
Then we have further need for CC. Which…their fliers. They already avoid a ton of CC. But everyone grounded will eat more hitscan and CC as a result to counter these fliers innately.
Did I mention Sombra is going to be a “Must-learn” pick. She has the only reliable means to CC the fliers enough to keep them grounded, hopefully, long enough to down them in a reliable fashion.
I have concerns. One of them is the release of Juno and the inevitable boom of offensive only Junos in training. Second is mobility creep. Heros without mobility are going to have a real bad time.
I feel like we kept all the high tier propped up on a pedestal and we keep shoving lower tier heros further down the drain.
Torbjorn, Reaper, Mei, Sym, are going bottom of the barrel again and may stay there for years to come. But what’s changed?
Nothing really besides more powercreep.
Every tank player needs to learn Dva or Mauga. Every dps player now has to learm hitscan, and for supports…whats worse then an invincibility? A dodge.
Welcome back to hell guys. We’ll be traveling at several mach speeds against your will, whether you like it or not because here comes Juno.