I basically was just reading a thread people talking about Moira, someone said something along the lines of ‘I’d rather have a Moira on my team doing 15k damage over a Mercy doing 2k damage boost’ and then people stating how Moira has zero utility and her doing damage only charges enemy ults and is more detrimental to your team than beneficial.
Maybe I’m wrong but I just wanted to share my opinion on her playstyle…
People who say stuff like Moira doing damage only charges enemy ults. Really when your team is full hp not in any trouble you should be doing damage with Moira… you should be trying your best to maximise her potential. The last time I turned OWL on I saw NYXL playing someone on Hanamura point A… JJonak on Moira trying to do damage while his team were safe where they were. I swiftly turned off as I was disgusted to see JJonak on Moira, but he wasn’t stood behind his team pre-emtively pissing on them! He was maximising his potential on the character.
Moira is able to get crazy numbers so why would you not? Its pressure on the other team… like with Zarya, you don’t care if you shoot her bubble and give her high charge so long as she dies for it. So so what if Moira damage charges enemy ults? They cant use them when they’re dead. And how quickly Moira can get her Ult she can be on her way to her 3rd before someone on the enemy team has used their first sometimes. and i dont even think that’s an exaggeration.
The only real skill to Moira’s kit is the balance between healing and doing damage. You cannot just do one of the two. Like Mercy shouldn’t just be healing, she should be damage boosting as much as possible. You wouldn’t call damage amplified by Mercy trash damage if it doesn’t get a kill.
The amount of times I can think where I see the Moira on my team and she is very low hp and in trouble. Because they’ve first of all used their healing orb on their team and then just heal heal heal their team. Not looking to do any damage. I see that as bad play as much as going off on your own to duel the enemy team is also bad play.
What is wrong about Moira going off and getting a cheeky kill or cheeky damage to the enemy team when the opportunity arises? It can actually swing the fight in your teams favour if done well. I think the stigma against that play style is based on the fact she is a support. Their should be a hybrid category really and they should stick her in there with Zen and Hog.
Are people just outraged that a support can have gold damage and gold heals and that be seen as normal? Do people think a Moira in that instant is throwing? DPS characters actually take aim and aiming is hard! (for me anyway) so its no surprise really that Moira can out damage them easily.
I think Moira is still pretty “OPAF” …at lower ranks anyway. The 2 recent nerfs to her, I feel like the health draining reduction one was to nerf her in deathmatch.lol And the healing reduction one I didn’t really see the point with.
I would like to see a damage reduction on her damage orb (if not a rework to it) and a reduction to her kinetic grasp range… its like 20 meters or something bring it down 5 or so.
As someone who’s played Moira since she came out, there’s a very simple reason she can fight
Sometimes it’s literally just easier to take things into your own hands instead of relying on others to do it for you
In game she says “It’s not my preference to see to matters personally… But I will see them done.”
Moira has high burst heals and a lingering effect because you’re supposed to be swapping between the two. You’re supposed to be taking things into your own hands. Say what you will about balance, it’s absolutely intentional. A healbot Moira is only using a fraction of her potential in the same way that a DPS Moira is, it’s just that as a support her healing is supposed to be higher. Except now they’ve nerfed her healing, most likely hoping it’d get rid of the people who think she now sucks and leaving her with only the few who can still play her well in her niche
Thanks for the offer for a glass of water, but you should keep it for yourself as you seem a little irritated that you tried to call me biased and got proved wrong x
Also if you like, you can check through my comments and see I have told many Moira players to “build a bridge and get over it” when they whined about the 65 hps.
Always use kits to their full potential. As rein, I often get 4 golds with 15-20k damage blocked. Just because I have a barrier doesn’t mean it needs to be up all the time. Block important damage, then swing and help kill. Play aggressive and take space with damage mitigation and by being a threat. Same applies to any other hero about their kit in their own way, utilize all aspects to win
I’m happy to admit I was wrong where I am wrong, I still feel like you’re hitting 'em with the playground no u response though, so I would appreciate a slight change in pace if that’s alright
where I call Coalescence easier than her RMB after people defended it saying it takes skill.