No it’s not its OWL and GM from the last 2 weeks, why can’t people understand that omg they’ve said it multiple times.
Ana is the most picked in ladder the entire month too lol:
and this week
The bans are randomized by a system, no one is insulting the Devs we are insulting the system and saying it needs to be changed. Any many OWL/pro players have tweeted similar sentiments today, here is one of them:
This one saying it’s a joke Mercy was banned and Hog was even considered:
etc.
Bans need to be based off OWL pickrates alone if we want to shape the OWL meta. Banning Mercy Hammond doesn’t affect the OWL games at all.
I’ve been watching the OWL games every weekend, Ana is almost always universally played unless it’s Bap Zen Bunker or Brig Zen dive. Moira was played like one week with Reaper due to specific bans. Ana is the most picked support on ladder and in OWL, get over it
And people say Mercy mains are delusional ffs why are Ana mains so obsessed with arguing about their hero being the most picked healer consistently the past few months, no one cares it’s just a fact we are bringing up to discuss the bans not banning the most played healer
No one is calling for nerfs to your main calm down
Again another lie, since you don´t represent all the people in this forum yet you say “nobody is calling for Ana nerfs” when I’ve seen plenty of creative people out there arguing that stuff that was never a problem suddendly became OP.
Ana pickrate is far from being the same in OWL and Ranked, thats a fact. Ana pickrate in OWL is way less compared to our ranked games, but I already know that you are going to search for a specific week in OWL where Ana was the second most played support just to say that she’s a must pick, ignoring the last 10 weeks where she was not a must pick according to that website that I mentioned.
Keep manipulating data to your purposes, but all that does is prevent people from having reasonable conversations since you perfectly know that you are choosing to ignore data that does not fit your goals.
sorry but from this day onwards, any attempt at using overbuff as a reliable source will be shut down, it’s very clear that the site isn’t working properly since private profiles became a thing, I won’t even acknowledge what you wrote there
As for those tweets, it’s consistent, their complains are about mccree and widow because both of them were banned in the wave before the one we’re in and that will continue to happen because those 2 are the most reliable dps out there which is also the case for Mercy and she will be banned consistently just as much as Moira will
Jeff himself told us why they aren’t using only OWL pickrates, pros said that they would like to have those bans instated in the game as well to use the main platform as practice, whether that is beneficial or not is yet to be determined but it has nothing to do with banning and having no impact on the OWL games it has to do with diversifying the meta for everyone, if Mercy is banned is because somewhere she had higher numbers than Ana, period
This is a joke. Are you joking? Mercy has never had higher pickrate than Ana in OWL or GM this entire month, she got banned because THE BAN SYSTEM RANDOMLY BANS ONE OF THE MOST PICKED HEROS
Are you being intentionally dumb right now or???
They showed us in OWL, this was the pickrates they used to choose bans this week
Mercy had a 25% chance, Ana had a 37.5% chance because Ana had a higher pickrate.
the ban system does NOT ban randomly and you have to be incredibly naive to think that’s the case , I have already told you about your graph and I will not tolerate your insults and attempts at manipulating people on these forums
"Starting April 13, we intend to address this by having a single, unified Hero Pool, allowing both the Overwatch League and Competitive Play to mirror each other as closely as possible and making a more consistent viewing and play experience. Here’s how this will work:
To determine a week’s Hero Pool, we’ll compile hero play rates from high-level Competitive Play matches from the preceding two weeks. Heroes with play rates above a certain threshold will be eligible to be removed; the higher their play rate, the more likely they are to be removed. Based on that, one Tank, two Damage, and one Support will be randomly removed from play. (Note that heroes will not be removed two weeks in a row.)"
It’s not random, they have a criteria that heroes need to pass in order to be elegible, it’s not that Brig can be banned if she has that pick rate that you showed there, that is simply false
Keyword here is likely, Ana was likely to be banned but Mercy also met the criteria and that is where the system selects at random, if this wasn’t the case Ana would be banned every week she isn’t, that’s the point
Nor is fearmongering and selecting whatever piece of information you have set your mind to complain around here
She met the criteria. Ana obliterated the criteria.
As for Overbuff, I have no clue how many people play overwatch, but if you have 100,000 you only need 1100 to have a statistically valid survey with a 3% margin of error. I’m pretty sure overbuff has enough to at least be mostly correct. Not 100%, but enough to give you the big picture.
It’s actually quite exciting now. With Mercy,McCree, and Widow gone, Echo’s debut next week should be interesting. I am looking forward to some pro Echo play.
People are going to say that echo is OP again like they said last time she was available, since two of her hardest counters are removed again. At this rate we are never going to be able to judge whether echo is balanced or not because they keep removing mcree and widow whenever she’s available.
But also, Ana has a much higher pickrate in OWL and GM so should ppl just stop playing Ana like…? This is the reason bans shouldn’t’ be on ladder and shouldn’t be based on ladder pickrates. People on ladder play for fun. In OWL it’s a whole different meta.
The positive sentiment is from people watching OWL.
I’m not seeing a whole lot of love for it from players in their games, except when they ban specific heroes.
That speaks more about those heroes, and worse the community, than it does about hero bans.
But then, this is Blizz where it takes them 12 months to relent on what are obviously unpopular decisions. I’m sure it’ll be cut, but it won’t be until OW2 and the thousandth iteration of it.
( ;O_O)> WHAT?! <(O_O; ) 
