More importantly, she couldn’t freeze one hero in dive, and now with multifreeze, oh wait, she couldn’t freeze even one…
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Yeah it’s hilarious how vocal are about Mei being a common pick, but when it’s Genji, Tracer, etc being picked every day they suddenly shut their trap as if it’s any different.
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Hell with Sombra she wasn’t played as much as the other heroes, but they were super vocal about her anyway.
And not vocal about the other heroes, which were player more.
“Low skill” as though the no-mobility projectile-based zoner requires so much less than the hyper-mobile hitscan. It’s just a bunch of nonsense self-congratulation to make them feel better about themselves.
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begins?
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Remember a couple of months ago when ‘‘Sym is so OP how dare she be on my games!!!’’ and Sym wasnt even a tier B- hero?
And that got her an absurdly harsh set of nerfs. And now she has like 0.3% pickrate.
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The problem, in this instance, is not mei directly. It is that Blizzard shoehorned her into the DPS slot when they forced 2/2/2.
She is being used as a 3rd tank. OWL teams go super safe, to a ridiculous degree. One of the the worst aspects of OWL since the beginning.
Straight up facts over here. I remember when a Soldier main said that ‘‘Sym was still braindead no skill’’ and like… bro you are the one with the ranged aimbot hero, why are you calling the inmobile squishy close range hero ‘‘brainless no skill’’.
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Yeah it’s really questionable. People act like hero balancing is a high school football game, even worse Blizzard further encourages it.
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Another person saying this.
Why would you rather watch Mei over some of the most mechanically demanding heroes in the game?
Watching the best players in the world playing the highest skill heroes in the game is far more enjoyable than watching them play an easy one.
To me it’s like taking a Chess Pro and having them play Connect 4.
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Tracer isn’t really the highest skill hero in the game. Neither is Genji. Hanzo definitely isn’t (and the idea is laughable, he’s actually one of the lower-skill heroes in the game). You guys overinflate how high skill these types of heroes are, and I’d rather see someone who has to work with no mobility and a kit based on incremental advantage than someone who gets “ZzzzZZZ hypermobile escape escape easy ranged damage.”
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You mean the more mentally forgiving heroes of the game? Full of escapes and izi get out of jail nonsense?
OWL has always been about teamwork wins, not who can burst down zenyatta the fastest. I prefer to watch an interesting match of strategy and teamwork that twichy hypermobile hero like the first three years of overwatch were.
Kinda funny that you consider the no risk hypermobile flankers to be Chess but not the inmobile that actually has to think to gapclose.
By funny I mean biased. You sound like the kind of moron that still thinks Sym is or ever was ‘‘brainless’’.
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Describing the heroes like this shows complete and utter ignorance.
The difference in skill between a top-of-the-league Tracer and an average one in the league is far more obvious than even the best Mei player vs the worst one in the league.
There’s massive risk associated with these heroes, the skill of the player is what compensates for that. Especially with Genji, who has been too risky to even justify picking in the majority of situations for more than the last year and a half.
If Tracer is so braindead, then why are the best Tracer players the ones with the best decision making, not the ones with the best aim?
Try and answer that question for yourself and come back.
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Truth is the total sum of skill requirements for heroes in this game both is constantly ignored or misinterpreted, and isnt a Mariana trench of difference.
The difference in skill requirement between Tracer and Mei is not as big as some people pretend it is. Having a somewhat easy to hit primary that has other conditionals and backdraws doesnt translate into ‘‘brainless no skill izi win’’.
You mean Mei? If so, yes it’s true her requirement isn’t as high as “genji or tracer” and before the “lul aim/mechanic” elitist or whatever generic insult, I think heroes like rein and winston are highskill.
Why do people take offense to heroes being called lowskill anyway? Some are low, mediocre and others high.
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Thats Symmetra, a squishy inmobile hero that steps in the wrong place and gets exploded, actually.
Not Ms. RewindBlink, not Mr. DeflectDashDoubleJump, and certainly not Mr. LungeSniperRange.
Are you saying other heroes have no decision making? You just shot yourself in the foot.
Genji not being the absolute meta doesnt mean he is underpowered or even underpicked. Maybe stop with the silly forums myth of Genji being a F tier pick.
There are like 40% of the dps roster under him in performance. Not only that but the reason he isnt absolute meta its because he doesnt have sustained damage, not because he is ‘‘too risky’’. A hero with 3 forms of mobility and a defensive cooldown that is better known as ‘‘and now you will kill yourself’’ is not risky.
No, but a huge number of other factors do. I’m not saying she’s brainless, I love Mei, I’m just saying she’s really not hard to get value out of- especially compared to Tracer, Genji, etc. who require both mechanical skill and immense awareness/gamesense (surpassing Mei in both of these areas) to get value, even in metas which favored them like dive.
Mei is a symptom, even a tiny nerf will send her back to being trash-tier, because the problem is 2/2/2 and one-shots/DPS power creep. The solution to that problem before 2/2/2 was getting a bunch of tanks and brig, but what do they do now? Substitute off-tank mei.
Doesnt matter to me either way, vast majority of my playtime on her was when people thought she was a throw pick, but I would like the root cause dealt with in addition to mei’s impending nerf.
I mean if it makes the skill elitist fanboys go ree then sure.
It’s absolutely hilarious how they complain about the same few heroes being used every game but when it’s their mains they shut up and could give less a crap.
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The decision-making has nothing to do with Tracer, and everything to do with decision-making. And no, the difference isn’t that much greater, it’s just a little more noticeable because Mei has more durability.