It’s fun to play against players that don’t play perfectly and land all of their crits.
widow vs widow is fun. also vs pharah as a sniper is too.
Very unpopular opinion. When I play ana, genji, tracer, pharah, doomfist, junkrat. I love fighting these heroes.
Sombra, Widow and Hanzo.
Sombra purely because Hack lasts an obscenely long amount of time.
Snipers just naturally lack interactivity, especially in the current meta where you can’t contest them with anything but another sniper.
There is no really anyone fun to play against, the fun in this game is killing people and doing well but heroes like Brigitte make that process very unfun to do. Take Mcree, its fun to play Mcree but not when you and your main tank are getting stunned while Hanzo can literally have an easy time killing you with or without his storm arrow. Things like that make this game very “unfun” to play against.
It honestly depends what is happening in the moment and what I’m playing.
Least fun for me is probably Sombra (if I use a character like Roadhog).
Mei if I’m a tank or Support and no ones shooting her.
Brigitte if I can’t aim that way or my RNG shot guns doesn’t want to cooperate.
A really good Tracer and really good Widow if they’re really on point and somehow predict literally every one of my attacks/movements, it can be very frustrating.
I don’t mind fighting Doomfists, Tanks, Supports, and basic DPS like McCree, Reaper, Soldier etc.
It’s like a high-speed whac-a-mole with bullets, if the mole were controlled by a human. She’s one of the most rewarding characters to play against as someone who’s good at analyzing and predicting people’s movement and/or reacting quickly.
Other than maybe dying to her ult, or if she’s finishing me off at already low HP, it’s pretty rare that I die to a Tracer without feeling like I either messed up or got outplayed.
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You missed Hanzo. Not sure where you feel he belongs, but yeah, he is not on your list I noticed.
Edit: Also I want to clarify I’m not saying I agree with this list or that I don’t, I just wanted to point it out.
There are more people that are fun to play against than people who are not fun to play against.
When you play a bunch of rounds of this game you can start to see a pattern with certain characters where it does not matter what player is playing them, they roll a whole team regardless of that fact. And that is where these “X character is not fun to play against” comes from
As Genji
Very fun:
Doomfist
Genji
McCree
Pharah (not Pharmercy)
Junkrat
Fun:
Soldier
Tracer
Hanzo
Widowmaker
Kind of fun:
Reaper
Bastion
Mei
Torbjorn (not protected by turret)
D.Va
Orisa
Reinhardt
Roadhog
Winston
Zarya
Ana
Lucio
Moira
Symmetra
Zenyatta
Not fun:
Sombra
Brigitte
Mercy
Sombra and Brigitte are just “cheap” with Brigitte also being no skill high reward.
Mercy…most Mercy doesn’t whip out the pistol and instead just hopping around trying to throw off my aim while hoping some GA target comes in los. Killing them is not much challenge so not that fun.
As a Zarya main, I like facing a Pharah or a Widow on maps where I have a decent chance of responding to them. They aren’t the easiest heroes for her to kill, so they feel particularly rewarding when it happens. Genjis can be amusing as well, as they clearly tend to think double jumping will prevent them from being tracked.
That’s made up BS. It’s up to you to learn. Dying should feel like dying. Only the competitive spirit that rises in you will overcome that, not this touchie feelie “we should all enjoy and learn from losing” That’s on you. Not Blizzard.
Blizzard made a nice casual small map FPS that is quite well balanced.
Have you tried playing other shooters before?
Dying in games like CS:GO or tf2 feels waaaaaay better than being stunlocked in OW. It’s mainly because there’s so much more room to expand and the only thing really limiting you there is your skill. In OW, you’re put in an unfavourable position and that’s it. It doesn’t matter how good you are.
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That’s easy. It’s Mercy!
We’ve been told several times that Mercy was unfun to play against before her rework.
We’ve been told several times that Mercy’s rework was a success.
Therefore, regardless what anyone personally thinks about Mercy, she is currently fun to play against.
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There is no hero designed to be fun to play against. Fun is supposed to be created by overcoming challenges and reaching success.
It appears to be more “fun” playing against heroes you have an easy time with because it increases your chance of winning and boosts your ego because it makes you seem good in comparison.
Unfun is everything which kills you, because it makes the chance of loosing higher and decreases your ego and makes you feel bad.
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In no way is losing fun. It’s more of an issue of what exactly a hero does do earn a kill against you. If you die against Widowmaker or Genji, it was because they were more skilled than you or you made a bad decision. If you die against Junkrat, it was likely out of luck, If you die against Brigitte, she won because of the kit itself rather than her application of it, and if you die against Pharah, while she did have to aim, she might’ve been hovering outside of your effective range while peppering you with rockets as you were helpless to defend yourself.
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Everyone besides Junkrat, Mei, Brigitte(Pharah can be a bummer if she is being pocketed and your team wont help out) is decently fun to play against.
My favourites to play against are:
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Mcree: A ton of heroes have abilities to bait out flashbang, so it’s a mindgame between you and the Mcree to see who comes on top.
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Doomfist: Stopping this unstoppable force because you were paying attention is always fun for me. Punishing him after an outplay feels very rewarding too.
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Reinhardt: Is my absolute favourite, specially if I’m playing Rein too. Reinhardt duels made the game for me and turned me into a Reinhardt main. They are mindgames in it’s pure form. There’s no better feeling that outplaying the enemy crusader and winning the game knowing you were the alpha Reinhardt. Shame that Brigitte has ruined them.
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Ana: Sure she’s just a poor vulnerable support, but her Nade and Sleep can turn the tide of the duel in an instant so is fun to play around them. I think Sleep Dart is the best designed CC in the game, never have I though “that was bs” after getting slept in a crucial moment, I always think “jesus that Ana was so good” or “I got outplayed”.
The ones I hate the most to play against are Brigitte by far for the lack of counterplay against her and just how much she can shut down tanks if she feels like it which is always. And Hanzo because Storm Arrows is just accepting that either you or your shield is gonna dissapear, and I hate how he is a sniper better at close range duels than Reaper and Mcree (still better than Scattah tho). Bastion and Sym are annoying because it seems every time they’re on the enemy team, my own team loses 50 iq points and forget how to play. Most of the times I know if I want the Bastion or the TP to die I have to do it myself.
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Torbjorn is fun to play against. Even if he is winning, he looks so funny running around on his little legs like a baby.
Personally I love seeing a Dva on the enemy team, she’s nothing but free ult charge no matter who I’m playing, and the worst I have to worry about is her maybe getting a lucky ult that catches me out of position every few minutes