High health shield that covers every direction of attack, low cooldown, map-traversing jump every 5 seconds, low skill weapon that can’t be blocked by anything in the game, high health, no downside for shooting. Literally his only weakness is if a character faster than him gets out of his range after a jump. But even then, he gets another one almost instantly anyway, so can easily chase. Now they want to give him a long range weapon too?
Unless you have a super coordinated, equally skilled team it just feels like playing into an unstoppable force. He jumps from the spawn point right on top of the weakest characters in the game, drops shield so they can’t get healed or shoot back, shoots a gun that can’t be blocked by any tanks that happen to be around, gets a kill or two and jumps back out to heal to full health again… Unless every single person on your team is simultaneously shooting the one character he gets jump back before anyone can kill him… Only really bastion is good against Winston, but if you’re not dps then there’s nothing you can do…
If I could change one thing about OW, it would be to make winston walk at 80% speed when using his weapon so that I don’t feel like I might as well just give up and let him kill me.
It’s always amazing to see how certain folks have these skewed perspectives on certain Heroes in which they honestly believe that a Hero is broken, OP, or absurdly easy to play as.
I have a suggestion, try playing as Winston yourself for today, then come back tomorrow and tell me you still feel the same.
Anyone with any sort of mobility can exit his range fairly quickly, assuming he’s already used his mobility to close the gap. And any sort of self sustain nullifies most of his damage.
Honestly, in 2022 complaining the old found-to-be-proven-wrong attitude of 2016’s “no aim, no brain must be a Winston main” rubric which now every coach, pro and knowledgeable players knows is objectively false is hysterical. Please OP, post some replay codes of your awesome Winston play and we will take this attitude seriously.
I played Winston some in the beta, I assure you, he felt anemic in general and his ranged attack takes real skill to employ. Don’t be fooled by videos by a few streamers who are crack players… few will get as much value out of it as anyone begins to think. I’d go so far as to say it’s a novelty at this point and not a real impactor on his kit output.
I just hit 200 hours on monke recently and this made me die inside lol
As other people have said, try returning to monke, just for a game. He has more deterrents than you would expect and maybe you’ll have to start using your brain.
Its a lot of this in OW and one core issue many can’t get past - you won’t like every mechanic, and you won’t like playing against certain characters and this varies by person but everyone dislikes something, and that is how a game like OW has to work. The problem is that it becomes acceptance by popularity; Genji is the poster child for 14 year old Adult Swim fans, and thus some complaints by that kit against others gets a response from the devs just due to sheer numbers whether it is is legit or not, ditto for other kits. Less represented kits often get pushed in the corner due to this popularity system.
FWIW, Lucio is a character I dislike running against as too many think they are good just abusing the movement to position in ways most characters can’t. But I’d rather have a game with the variety that allows for Lucio than not.
Sigma’s shield has just as much HP but isn’t as spread so thinly as winston’s
His damage is so low that you can’t even kill a mercy before she rezzes even if you are perfectly on time
High hp doesn’t matter when my 5% accuracy crosshair can hit all my shots while spray and praying him across the map
He only thrives if there isn’t too much attention on him. Even primal can be gunned down in seconds if like 2 or 3 people are shooting at him at once. If someone can find that one clip of flats being the victim in that exact situation thatd be great
Oh. I just glazed over it. I should edit my post. lol
I mean, technically they are but I was always taught they were different as, commonly, Ape means “tailless simian” while Monkey means they have a tail. But you’re right. lol
Or sleep… you’ve played 500hrs of overwatch and you mainly play Ana and don’t know that … no wonder you’re projecting your anger pointlessly if you just let the monkey farm you over and over.
This is unbelievably wrong. Brig, Hog, Cassidy, Ana, Sombra, and more can stun him out of his movement. If your team isn’t bronze, they will gun down the monkey while he is stunned. Zen is absolutely devastating against him because he’s HUGE. With discord and a non dumb team he gets slaughtered. Mercy heals his exact dps, meaning that if you play Mercy you can render his targets unkillable.
Monkey is strong, but the person playing him has to be intelligent, and he has plenty of weaknesses. He is a massive dive hero that is vulnerable to CC and has low burst damage.
Winton jump 
