OW2 high elo tier list

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After I’ve spent around ~50 games in Masters+, I think I’ve gotten a good idea on what’s strongest in high elo games.

Meta - Zarya, D.va, Lucio, Sombra, Sojourn, Genji

Strong - Cass, Ashe, Ana, Tracer, Echo, Brig, Widow, Sig

Okay - Zenyatta, Winston, Orisa, Bap, Mercy, Hanzo, 76, Junkrat, Roadhog, Reinhardt,

Poor - JQ, Moira, Reaper.

That just leaves a handful of other heroes who are a bit more specific…

Bastion - Obviously disabled right now. Very good against shields, Mei, immobile tanks, and great with Mercy. Pretty meh otherwise, around strong/poor depending on situation.

Torb - Also disabled. Fantastic Sombra/Genji counter, sucks against Zarya and SJ. Meta for dealing with sombra, poor otherwise.

Ball - Really really good at contesting highground and being a distraction, awful against Mei but that’s not a huge idea. Really amazing with high damage/low healing comps like Mercy/Zen. Just hard to use correctly but can be good.

Pharah - Great with Mercy, great counter for grounded teamcomps like JQ rush. Still sucks against hitscans and especially against widow. Decent for dealing with flanker heavy comps that dont have SJ. Okay/Meta teir, more or less.

Doomfist and Mei - Really good together, pretty bad otherwise. Mei is still a good ball counter and is okay against Orisa, but really meh otherwise with a really weak ultimate. Good synergy with Orisa, though. DF isn’t as bad as people make him out to be but he’s still not great. Together they’re pretty strong (around strong tier) because of the Wall-punch synergy, as well as both of them being able to bully really hard, but just not great otherwise. Both are around poor tier seperated.

Symmetra - Must pick for KOTH to use tele to get out the doors and onto the point faster, but otherwise completely useless. Teleporter is good for hybrid first point pushes but it only makes symmetra as good as a strong hero, so you’re probably just better off playing as a strong hero regardless. Damage too low to be useful, turrets are bad, ultimate is still pretty strong though. Turret cooldowns too long to move with push/payload maps.

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Not a high bracket player myself but from my current game knowledge and watching some high level players pretty consistently most of this makes sense to me.

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Seems fairly accurate. All I’d change is an explanation on how Junks performance heavily depends on maps and a lot of maps will often drop him well into the poor category.

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that’s probably true, but honestly as long as he has tire as his ultimate, he will be atleast a little viable.

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Personally I can’t wait to see more people understand just how important map design is for a lot of heros and engagements in general. It’s one of my most favorite things about OW2.

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Yeah. Tire, while inconsistent, has massive fight changing potential and is part of what gives his mains a chance on every map regardless of how badly the rest of the match goes.

I still think that even with that a lot of maps make him never worth playing though as the consistency will just never be there. Not that it matters, I guess. Poor and okay are still miles behind meta so…:man_shrugging:

Sorry that’s reasonable. That isn’t allowed here.

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KEK.

You owe me a new Bang drink now. Just spit it all over my desk.

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I feel like you could add 1 or 2 more levels to the tierlist because Okay tier has a lot of them in it with (IMO) a pretty large power difference between some.

Mine would look very similar:

Meta - Dva, Zarya, Sombra, Sojourn, Genji, Lucio

Strong - Winston, Ana, Kiriko, Widow, Cass, Sigma, Bap, Tracer

Okay - Ashe, Orisa, Reinhardt, 76, Brig, Zen, Hanzo, Mercy

Poor - Hog, Torb, Reaper, Mei, Junk

Needs buffs - JQ, Doom, Moira, Bastion

Niche - Ball, Sym, Pharah

Ball is great when the enemy team is running slower dps like cass, sojourn and widow. He loses value against genji, tracer. And you HAVE to swap vs sombra now. If you hate snipers he’s still the best choice to bully them, but with how strong sombra is he’s VERY niche.

Sym is very limited to koth but pretty valuable on very specific maps.

Pharah is an ok counter-pick when on attack vs a comp that does not have D.va or hitscans. Though that situation is rare so she’s still pretty bad.

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I’ve been trying out me some Tankfist. He is really good on some maps, and absolutely horrible on others. I don’t mind that. Zarya seems a little too OP on all maps but that’s just anecdotal evidence from me. Best DPS is Sojourn by a long shot, then Genji. Support is kind of balanced - depends on the map and comp what is strong - again how it should be.

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Here you go

S - Dva, Zar, Genji, Sojurn, Sombra, Kiriko, Lucio
A - Orisa, Sig, Winston, Ashe, Reaper, Tracer, Ana, Bap
B- Echo, Brig
C- Rien, Hog, Ball, Cass, Hanzo, Pharah, 76, Torb, Widow
D - JQ, Bastion, Junk, Mei, Sym, Mercy
F- DOOOOM FIST

Never ever get advice from “YourOverwatch” thats a gimmicky channel and the dude never made it out of Diamond I think. Listen to KarQ and Flats.

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Honestly, I don’t know who that is.

Mercy is not that bad. Sym is worse than Junk and bastion by a mile. Doomfist is certainly bad but I really think Symis worse… if there were a tier between D and F I would put DF there.