Like many other sites before it such as OmnicMeta and MasterOverwatch, it looks like Overbuff has finally fallen into disrepair.
Unlike those other two, it hasn’t officially shut down. It’s still up; however, it is missing obvious data. Hazard isn’t being tracked. And there’s no tag for seasons 14 or 15. Which makes it look like season 13 might have been the last season that it was actually being maintained.
The data currently is definitely wrong.
RIP Overbuff
And yet it doesn’t stop some forum geniuses from claiming Mercy is giga op seeing the 60% win rate on overbuff
the data there has always been bad
sadly, i see it as highly unlikely that this new development will stop people from making bad arguments supported by this bad data
Not always. There was a time when it was reliable. But I think it’s been spotty at best for the past 2 years and questionable since the addition of private profiles. It’s definitely completely broken currently. At this point, it’s no better than just making things up.
I saw this the other day while looking for stats on Reaper’s current status in season 15 and noticed that they didn’t have the tags on anymore. I also saw it in season 14 as well, but I thought it might’ve been a bug of some sort that they would’ve had fixed by this season.
Makes me wonder how many posts were made using potentially corrupted data… well… even more corrupted than OverBuff is normally.
You are, same as anyone, welcome to your opinion
I’m talking about before private profiles when it had access to 100% of user data. Back then it was certainly possible to have all the data and they were actively maintaining the site.
After private profiles they lost access to “all” the data. And in recent years the number of players has also reduced which makes that even less reliable. And now they aren’t even actively providing maintenance for new heroes and seasons.
So, I think early days it was accurate. But it’s become less and less reliable over time. At this point though, we should all agree that it isn’t useful anymore regardless of the past.
fixed that for you ftfy
It’d be nice to get at least some official stats. Even if the devs just slapped the latest pick/win rates for Comp, M+ only, into a blog post and put it up… well, that would be neat. And then from s16 onwards include ban rates, too.
Oh well.
Yeah, that’s not why Genji is so overrepresented in T500 picks in every region or anything. Same with Hazard. Or Ana.
Must solely be because they’re so fun.
Except genji is actually good unlike Mercy.
More like good riddance….nothing good ever came from it…just a bunch of confirmation bias based arguing and people taking it as gospel as far as what could and couldn’t be played
its possible that due to private profiles and other things in place they cant get to the data needed to update the site but whoever runs overbuff may not have the time to update the site
If I recall, the Overbuff people run several other stat sites for different games. Traffic on Overbuff probably dropped to the point it’s not worth updating.
Must be workin on RivalBuff
Devs themselves confirmed it was accurate as a general rule. The problem was the highest ranks because of too few people.
So, private profiles had nothing to do with it. You don’t need all data for an accurate survey.
You kid, but there is basically an Overbuff for Rivals out there. 
Multiple, even. Wonder where they’re getting the per-rank data from? They must be using some sort of internal API. AFAIK only the T500 match data is public. What’s also nifty is that they have stats per comp type. Guess which one has the highest WR (it’s 2-2-2)
I think you can look it up from pinging Blizzard API. Presumably Overbuff pulls the data and then simply puts it in a readable table. It’s why when Blizzard added the private profiles that it made Overbuff less accurate.
Nah, I meant the Rivals equivalents of Overbuff. Pretty sure Overbuff now collects data through linking your profile via Blizzard’s OAuth