By nerf size or nerf count?
It would have to be count, nerf size is a bit subjective.
Seems like Brig and Mercy would be the only two real contenders, although Junkrat might also be in the running.
Numbers aren’t subjective.
I throw Roadhog in with 33% damage nerf.
Yeah, but how do you compare Mercy’s healing nerf vs. Junkrat’s reduced grenade hitbox?
I guess you could compare highest pickrate minus lowest subsequent pickrate (highest pickrate drop).
This might be of interest:
Probably Mercy, she got reworked, was buffed into crazy levels, then whacked with a nerf bat several several times. Some might say too many times.
Brigitte Shield Bash 90% damage nerf.
Without a question it is mercy, brig is a close second
Roadhog.
Sombra.
Doomfist (nerfed on the ptr before launch has to be a record)
Brigitte.
Mercy got reworked into an overpowered meta defining monster then proceeded to be adjusted. So I kinda don’t count her.
Junkrat got two mines but at what cost…
That’s pretty much it
I’d assume Roadhog or Mercy. Maybe D.VA.
Brig is up there as well.
Roadhog got a damage nerf with a ton of buffs to compensate. That’s not “the biggest nerf”
Buffs that didn’t work with his kit. He was intended to be a bulky killer, not whatever he is now
Mercy over a longer period but nobody beats Brigitte in terms of sheer burst volume of nerfs, she keeps getting double nerfs soon as the previous month’s double nerfs come out of ptr. #reworkbrigitte
Brigitte, Mercy, and D.Va are the three front-runners. At the end of season 3 D.Va was nerfed so hard that she was weaker than before she got her buffs.
He has a way more diverse kit than he had before. Take a breather isn’t garbage, hook got many improvements and his spread is consistent. He can still murder squishies but you need a different combo
which was at the same time a 20% attack speed buff and made something like a 2% dps difference in the end
Any list that doesn’t feature Sombra in the top two is invalid. I would wager that she is number one.
has symmetra ever been nerfed? (doesn’t include tick rate bug fix)
Roadhog got a damage nerf with a ton of buffs to compensate. That’s not “the biggest nerf”
On the contrary.
He was left in a horrid state for months. Remember the bugs that came with them?
Buffs that didn’t work with his kit. He was intended to be a bulky killer, not whatever he is now
Exactly. Take a breathers downside was it made you immobile. Now it doesn’t have that. I just made him a fat dps with heals in a can.