Slowly but surely the stars are aligning for my early predictions regarding the beta. I expect within another week that pretty much every damn thing I predicted will have come true.
So far I’ve been right about Winston, Rein and Doomfist being trash. I’ve been wrong about D.Va however and I’ll admit it. That said, it’s only high ranking players who are making consistently effective use out of her.
But Doomfist still has the same fundamental weaknesses as always (poor uptime, zero poke, CC). Spearhorse is looking overtuned, yet is strong and fun, but once again my predictions regarding snipers gatekeeping her seems to hold up.
Hog is still Hog and a good Hog vs a lack of communication is pretty much a GGs. Ball is going to terrorize in OWL in another week or so, and Sig is going to dominate Payload maps as he always has. Sig doesn’t look too hot as of now because everyone is forcing an unnecessary pace on the match that will surely slow over time as positioning and rotations are sorted. The hero is still insanely powerful.
DPS is undoubtedly flankerwatch on all the new maps and KOTH maps, while everything else is pretty much sniper city. I had no hottakes or contentious positions regarding DPS outside of saying Sojourn was going to be more balanced than the community believed, and so far I am right. She has a high skill ceiling both mechanically and with game-sense. But she’s far more balanced than folks (outside of myself) were anticipating.
Still, I don’t have much of a bone to pick in those regards.
Lastly, I tried to warn folks that supports were in for a rude awakening, but I was mostly ignores. Didn’t receive much engagement regarding my constant and bold claims that most support players were going to hate the game.
Well I’m still right about it, and the fundamental issues that have long plagued low ELO support players are just easier to expose with one less shield and one less tank.
The irony is that supports are likely going to receive widespread nerfs following the start of OWL, as player who actually play the role correctly, position correctly, rotate correctly and aggress correctly will show just how overtuned and overpowered the role still is.
I will continue to blast this warning from my trumpet until this actually comes to fruition.
As for how 5v5 is playing, I am once again right. One player is throwing it’s GGs, and god forbid it’s a support or your singular tank. Fights snowball much faster, hard matches are harder and easy matches are easier. Who woulda thunk it? Oh that’s right…
There’s so little I’ve been wrong about despite just how many topics I’ve created concerning the beta.
I love saying “told ya so” 
