Seriously feels more like a liability than a benefit in battle. Blizzard needs to make more supports like Lucio that support multiple characters at once. Last one to even do this somewhat effectively was Brig every other support since has been pretty much nothing single target heals
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At the very least I feel like her ultimate needs a change.
I’d honestly rank it as either the second worst, or worst support ultimate tbh.
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As I alluded to, I think there are too many single target supports like Ana, Mercy, Lifeweaver, etc. I think there need to be more supports like Lucio and Brig that can heal in a small area.
Your definition of “area healing” is too restrictive. To name a few, Bap, Moira, and Illari can all heal multiple people at once. Of those three, two of them have actual AoE healing, and the third has two separate single target healing sources that each can heal different areas, at the same time.
The point that I was trying make more specifically is that there need to be more supports that heal in a radius like Lucio and Brig.
There’s a school of thought, espoused by many high level players and coaches, that area of effect healing abilities, especially passive value ones, are emblematic of bad game design and detrimental to gameplay.
The vast majority of players aren’t pros. They don’t need to use those types of characters if they don’t want to.
Her Photon Torpedos can heal multiple heroes at once. You just have to be in the proper backline positioning to lock onto multiple teammates.
I actually think single-target healing isn’t a problem. For the most part, it’s also far more palatable for the enemy team if they know your support is not dishing out AoE heals with minimal effort and keeping up more than one person at a time (coughcoughBAPcough).
The problem with Juno is that she just does so little to defend herself. Her gun is not threatening at all, which is fine…but then tack that on to the fact that her other abilities have a lead time before you can heal, and they nerfed its healing. Her decision-making now is, “who do I desperately try to keep up” and still fail at, while simultaneously needing to constantly escape - not defend, but just flat-out run away - from flankers because they decided she needed 225HP. So you’re not even spending that time trying to help your team, you’re just trying not to die.
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