It’s obvious that the recent nerfs have been very bad for the character. As a long time Mei main I would love to see the devs remove multi freeze and revert some of the recent nerfs.
How do you feel the current nerfs are effecting her / effecting the experience of playing against her?
I do not expect them to revert the recent nerfs. If they were going to make changes to her, it would be to push her away from the her pseudo tank achetype and more towards a pure DPS archetype
Not only that but her freeze and ult just got nerfed too
At this point they just want to gutt unusual heroes like they always do… Sadly…
I would like to see Mei’s ammo go up to 150. And maybe wall CD decreased to 12sec
Mei feels so bad to play now, only thing she can do well now is spam icicles
How do you propose they should do that? I think moving her more towards dps is a better idea than more towards tank, even thought I see advantages in both.
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I doubt they will fix her. When they nerf a hero to get them out of OWL, they massively destroy them, and they never fix them.
Indeed, we will soon see how these changes affect the number further. I assume they will go further downhill.
So she is a trickier in that a lot of her is tanky. Her right click is her only pure DPS ability; her ult is someone of a tank ult and her primary is more of an area control move.
Perhaps lengthen the time it takes for a freeze to occur, but keep the slow, and give a boost to the raw damage of her primary fire and maybe even give it a cone. Her right click is already fairly functional and I do not think you can safely buff the damage on that without going over certain thresholds that are best avoided.
People in GM just hate Mei, everytime I ask someone to switch to her I get the answer “I have a soul” or something along those lines.
Can’t really blame them for not wanting to play a hero that has a consistent poor showing in performance. While she is good in OWL she is very bad in ranked.
she is a bad design. she needs some reworks. ( rework is diferent than nerfs)
Would it make sense to make Mei a Tank, if that means she’s good on ladder, bad at OWL, and has 30sec queue times?
Good, as it should be.
Tanks can finally play the game again.
This is the one thing I would disagree with even if the slow itself got stretched out to be longer and in so nerfing it having a multiple target cc on primary is already not the greatest idea, since most players find it annoying to play againt.
Which is why we need OWL to die quickly.
I don’t even think they’re done yet. Thanks to hero bans using ladder rates, odds are Mei won’t usually be banned so she remains highly used by pro teams week-in week-out, which means more adjustments to come.
I just checked on overbuff and it’s now at 46% and there’s a bunch of other dps characters below 50%, Hanzo, Reaper, etc. and they are not considered bad.
Her performance is not that poor, people just need to get used to her new playstyle.
While this change may improve pickrates I feel like it will not change what most players find fundamentally wrong with Mei. It is an interesting proposition nonetheless.
It also raises many questions such as who would Mei even pair well with as a tank? Rein, Sigma, Orisa? Since she would more than likely fill an offtank role.
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