[Mei-gathread] Does Mei feels balanced and underpowered at the same time?

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@Ironicpixel-21672

This isn’t true, there are other top 500 Mei’s such as Elysion, but you do have a point about them being extremely uncommon.

I did not knew this. It’s great to see more top 500 Mei mains in the pool of top 500 Tracer mains.

@Ironicpixel-21672

This isn’t true in the slightest. If Mei was an ‘F-’ tier hero, why does she have one of the highest winrates at GM level. You could say it is because she is picked to stall, but both teams can do this so it shouldn’t affect the winrate. I know the overbuff winrate stats are a bit dodgy because every hero at GM has over 50% winrate which doesn’t make sense, but if you look at the stats, Mei’s winrate increases up the ranks it’s about 45% at bronze, 52% at platinum and diamond and 54.5% at Masters. Sure on the website most of the heroes winrate increases as you go up, but Mei has one of the biggest changes in winrate. Clearly she isn’t an F- hero, she is just difficult to play effectively.

It is a fact.

Just read any meta reports from Overbuff, Omnicmeta, Metabomb or any other meta reports.

Characters are listed based on their average performances and pickrates. Mei does not only has one of the lowest pickrates, but her average stats are not on par with the stats of heroes from the same class and other classes.
So it doesn’t matter if you think she isn’t F-tier, she is in fact listed as one.

She is clearly a F-tier hero.

@Ironicpixel-21672

Regarding her needing more help, she doesn’t really need anything major, probably just bug fixes and an cryo-freeze change where it is shorter in duration and heals faster and have the cooldown start on usage rather than when it finishes. I guess it is easy to fall into the trap for me to say she doesn’t need anything major to make her slightly competitive for most people, just like Sombra probably didn’t need anything major. If she got an ultimate buff I guess it would put her on the powerful side along with Sombra but not too OP. But I’m not sure on it.

I fully agree with you. Mei’s kit is great and she doesn’t need a rework.
If her bugs could get fixed than I’m certain that will help her a lot.

My biggest issue with Mei is that she has an unclear role.
According to Geoff Goodman, the developer who is in charge of balancing, was Mei designed to slow down and stop movement. This is also why she doesn’t has any mobility herself. She is meant to counter it and not being part of it.

@GeoffGoodman

From a game design standpoint, shes a hero that is more about slowing enemies and stopping them, rather than herself being fast.

She can, but not of very mobile heroes, because they can easily evade her reach. Heroes like Tracer and Genji doesn’t fear Mei for this. Heroes like Ana, Roadhog and Reinhardt does because they lack any mobility.
Heck, even the buffs she has got was made to make Mei stronger to more elusive heroes like Tracer and Lucio according to Jeff Kaplan in a Developer Feedback.

https://youtu.be/rDbkDWsyguU?t=50

In my opinion is Mei not a reliable counter to mobility and is she better fit for stalling and separating the enemy team.

The buff I would love to see are ones that make her less a point staller and more like a counter to mobility. I would also like to see her ultimate in a better state.