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

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@AtomicTom-21215

Ice Block has a low net code priority and Blizzard functions exactly the same as Pulse Bomb does

Well, it is a bug.
Even man in charge of balance has acknowledged it:

@GeoffGoodman

We were actually just looking at this bug earlier this week. We have a fix for this coming soon. Thanks for the report.

Mei could snipe Widowmaker’s, but if Mei was losing the battle, then she could spawn a wall to hide behind it. McCree had to run/roll away.
Mei could heal herself and be invulnerable. McCree not.

I’m not certain but I believe they also increased the cast time with the same patch that gave her falloff damage in the beta.

But I agree with you on this one:

@AtomicTom-21215

Mei’s core problems are a lack of range and mobility, then those are exactly the problems that need to be solved within reason.

She’s a hero all about crowd control. Because of this is she best used in close to midrange battles, but even then are there heroes who can deal more damage and are mobile than Mei in the same range. Junkrat being one of them.

What’s also interested is that they have tried giving Mei mobility but eventually decided to make her a counter to it:

@GeoffGoodman

This is actually something we talked about when she was first being designed! The main issue with it for us was that it meant that you were basically always staring at the ground as you moved around. We then thought about it as an ability where snowball would fly out in front of you and lay a path that you could slide on, but ultimately decided to try to avoiding giving her extra mobility.

From a game design standpoint, shes a hero that is more about slowing enemies and stopping them, rather than herself being fast. In general, we often find ourselves trying to resist putting tons of mobility on every hero, to make sure we keep every hero feeling unique.