Let’s talk PTR today

Kk, time for discussion around new PTR.

Hanzo got his scatter taken away. (Hype) and replaced with a rapid fire. This does incredibly good damage as well, but you need to aim to people’s heads now, not their feet. Also lunge is like genji double jump, but it has a cool down.

For some ungodly reason TRACER got a pulse bomb nerf. First time she has ever been changed for the worse, and hopefully blizzard will implement more counters instead of more nerfs.

Genji got a (fair) deflect nerf, it reduced its size by a hefty amount.
Honestly, most people have been waiting on this for a while now. Not surprised.

Trashmouse got a grenade size nerf, and a tire reduced speed nerf.
Why in The name of Jeff, won’t they just listen to the community on this one? All he needed was a ult charge nerf, now they dodged the main issue people have been complaining about and decided his frag sizes were too good.

Retribution map is available, glad we are getting it. Absolutely love it.

Alright that’s all the major changes. Discuss in the comments about if these changes are really going to do anything in game. My bets are on the ‘no’ side of things.

Also - Lucio no longer touches the ground.

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Ya, dont invite lucio to a ‘the floor is lava’ party.

Also, why did tracer got her ult nerfed? Dva’s ult is basically the same thing, but it 1 shots eveyone nearby.

Tracer nerf was unfair.
Please don’t let it come.

You forgot Brigitte shield bash hitbox reduced

Was it actually?

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Yes now the hitbox is more smaller than the shield

the tracer nerf to pulse bomb was to keep her from destroying tanks/bastion with it.

“Alright that’s all the major changes.”

So lucio’s massive buff doesn’t count as major changes???

Seriously. He’s amazing now!! wall riding on ptr is so easy now its great.

And no cooldown on boop. Definetly needed change to our music man.

In my opinion, the Tracer nerf seems fair. (Coming from a semi-biased support player) With all these changes making tanks worse, the pulse bomb damage nerf is starting to relieve that a bit while still making it good against other heroes.

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To be honest, the change on Lucio feels like a very smart nerf under the hood of a buff.

With the wall ride being more ‘easy’ to be used, now it’s also far too easier to predict the path he is taking as well, hence that wall leap boost has being decreased.

It’s a veeeery smart nerf and people cling onto the fact that ‘he wall rides easier now!’ but he is also more predictable as ever with a nerfed wall leap boost.

“hence that wall leap boost has being decreased.”

Where did they say that?

They gave something but also took something back. Seeing Lucio(s) wall riding in circles is not actually a smart thing to do in specific ranks.

Very fast frog moving at an incredibly high speed