stop with mirrored team!!!
Should be banned in OWL the same characters on both teams
so I watch afk, give me the tokens and bye.
boring boring boring and boring
It’s worse than OW1
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At that point it would just mean whichever team gets the meta characters wins the match
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Some people can’t conceptualize that Hero Shooter FPS games will always have a META at the highest tiers of play.
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Hero ban should be a thing in OWL
1 ban by role on evry team at startup
So just 6 hero you wont pick during each march (same hero lock on both side)
Not hard, effective to see more gameplay
For now team just play the optimal comp not there fault if blizzard cant react
Wait? Why is Zarya not the Meta? I though she was the OP tank?
Are you saying that teams that know how to avoid shooting bubbles don’t make her OP?
Edited to show my old post. Didn’t see that they nerfed Zarya. So OWL gets the nerfs we want yet the Public doesn’t?
Sounds like Blizzard is playing favorites again.
they will still pick meta and spend bans on counters =)
They’re playing on the nerfed patch. That’s the only reason.
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No? Owl just gets updates earlier. Been that way since 2019
Thanks for the update. Another what’s only good for OWL patch and screws us normies in comps.
OWL was always boring.
At least in the past you could be your own observer to watch high level play.
Now you get observers switching views every 0.5 seconds and looking at walls as the casters read the kill feed to you. 
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No if they fight against the best sojourn player
in owl, the opposite team will certainly ban her.
Same for all hero
There no counter to the curent meta, just some opportunity pick on special map like widow.
Yeah some match ban will go on dumb hero, but on others team will try some strategy and training on that.
Team will be forced to train other things expecting a ban too.
Could come from blizzard too, evry week 2 top pick hero from last week on each role are banned
But meta will just alternate each week.
Blizzard’s competitive offline scene their most update-to-date patches at least 2 weeks to a month in advance of the online modes. It happens in WoW also. You’ll see updates in tournament realms before official release to public.
Even without the nerf Zarya would not be in owl meta right now
I like this idea. Imagine if they had to take turns selecting heroes.
idc about “meta”, there shouldn’t be a meta imo, if there’s a meta it means the game needs balancing and it’s on Blizz
It is actually not true, you can balance that amount of characters to make everything playable. If ow1 meta was based on heroes interactions the most, and they failed nerfing interactions because they were focused on individual heroes for some reason. Then in ow2 the meta is more based around heroes individual performances instead. SJ and winston are the core here, and they are hard overpowered. Tank role overall is very overpowered now, esp dva winston and zarya, soon ball will show himself after sombra nerfs, and he would require tuning as well.
But devs do casual balancing instead of pro balancing. OWL players just resolve that equation with ease, finding the most broken lineup. Blizzard need to tune variables to make it impossible to resolve. And the answer would be switching the whole roster depending on map and map parts.
1st step in the right direction would be hitscans buff (falloff, damage, fix damage boost interactions to prevent onetaps) but widow nerf.
Then they need to increase hanzo’s proj. speed and maybe tone down his spamming oneshots potential somehow.
They also need to buff projectile speeds overall (bap heal, pharah rockets, mb junkrat spam with damage adjustments for them)
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