They’re identical in terms of useability, this doesn’t make any sense.
I know it doesn’t, yet that is how it is. PSN players are usually the ones complaining about her, but on xbox where I am no one complains about her and takes her down pretty easily sometimes.
Pharah is horribly designed and has many issues across the board. She’s my most played hero and I haven’t played her for about a year now… because shes not viable. Pharah with a Mercy tethered to her is viable on some maps. But Pharah as a character is not.
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I was a pharah main, but now I am a genji main.
After all the patches I will say maybe Pharah not belong in Overwatch this kind of dps game? She is so insignificant… in the game and official.
She was one of the 6 original heroes. But she is most insignificant hero now, no any production about pharah… no T-shirt, hat, nothing…in game… too depends on teammates and enermey team…
But I guess Blizzard don’t like the female like Pharah this kind of woman power’s presents. But who knows…
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Anyone that argues, especially with the hitscan bluffs and mercy nerf, that pharah is op on console is most likely low elo and can’t aim.
I agree with you op. I feel your pain
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Oh yeah. Self damage on Pharah. Either remove it or give junkrat self damage.
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I don’t think he should get self damage , I think all the current self damagers (zarya, soldier, bastion, dva, tracer) should get equal self harm to match Pharah, or all self harm removed across the game. I don’t know why pharah is singled out and has exponentially faster self-killing than every one else just because she can fly. Whoop de doo, soldier and bastion can self heal, tracer can recall to regain health, zarya regens her shield hp, and dva has a 2nd life as baby dva
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Pharah has never been in a worse place than she is today. I’m optimistic because I heard rumor that they’re going to change a portion of her health bank to armor rather than HP, but we’ll have to wait to see if that makes any real difference. With Ashe now in the game (you know, the punishment of a hero we got when we begged for another tank) Torb’s turrets being in funky places, all the recent hitscan buffs, and the nerf to her ability to fight at a distance, she’s seriously unplayable. 170 hours on her and I want to cry nearly every game. It’s infuriating to watch them buff her counters to better deal with her, and then nerf her at the same time. None of this has been thought through for PC users. Console needs to dealt with way more separately than it currently is.
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You forgot to mention how they constantly nerf two of the three healers able to even heal her (mercy and brig)
Also happy 1st post! And I agree with everything you say, I used to find happiness and enjoyment playing her, but now it always ends in a rage filled tilted cloud of anger for me from all the ults that are 99% guaranteed to kill you since you have no divedown skill (tac visor, deadeye, self destruct, bob), or from your own ultimate being a ‘preplan in advance to die’ suicide bomber meme, or from how you can no longer kill by chaining splash dmg due to boop nerf and damage nerf…
I find little to no happiness playing Pharah nowadays. Something needs to change, they could start by reverting her to the previous build that lasted for literally 2 years
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This post is so on the money it’s ridiculous.
And god it’s going to be terrible when the McCree buff goes through. It’s going to be so unforgiving with his time to kill reduced and Pharah’s time to kill so much higher now with the nerfs.
There’s such massive power creep and while the game would be better turning it back down if they’re going to creep then increasing her mobility with a boop buff and either playing around with the splash (self damage and damage or adding some armor to her) would make her more than very niche again.
I mean if you’re good you can force her but it can be real feast or famine with how forgiving every target is now.
Higher skill floor = the hero is actually hard to learn at first.
It depends on the elo, diamond and above pharah is a troll pick, unless babysit by a mercy (whom is not even that viable in high rank).
Beside, in low elo, people expected the hitscan to 1 v 2 pharmercy, tell me how that fail.
1 v 2 is unfair because the team is too dumb to help.
edit: oh it’s a necro thread, at least it’s relevant.
Honestly…with how Blizz ignores Pharah for years and years and only buffs/nerfs her once every 15 months, topics on Pharah can’t be considered necro ever since she’s kinda always in the same spot since launch
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