Same person who leaked ow2 confirms blizz has been working on hero bans.
Also anyone against bans, you are crazy. As much as these forums complain about balance you’d think you’d all be excited to have control over balance in your games. One of the best things about a ban system is it will pressure blizz to make good balance changes. If doom is banned in 90% of games, they can either hard nerf him, or accept that the community has essentially deleted him from the game.
Hero bans are a part of every other hero based competitive game. It’s necessary because by design there will always be OP heroes and there’s no avoiding it. It’s about time overwatch gets a ban system. Great job devs! Looking forward to deleting hanzo from my games.
What? How would this add 6 minutes to wait time? A ban phase would take a minute.
When has the game ever been perfectly balanced? Never. Because it’s not possible to have perfect balance in hero based games. There will always be OP heroes and this is why literally every other hero based game has a ban system.
Imagine waiting 10 minutes to get into a game just to find out you can’t even play your favorite DPS just because some player would rather ban them then learn to counter.
Where is the balance in the enemy team taking, say, WIdowmaker, Hanzo and Mercy and your team banning Winston?
What about banning Reinhardt when you desperately need the extra shield later in the match?
That’s not balance, nor is it learning to work around problems and play better.
Okay so let’s say enemy team has double sniper and both Rein and Winston are banned like you suggested. You still hand double shield with orisa sig or you could dive with wrecking ball. I don’t see a problem here. Also nobody is going to be banning Winston.
