ive been noticing blizzard wants to buff pharrah somehow and if any of the devs think that pharah needs a buff i want to say please take a look at ps4’s bahrain server this character is busted there is no way to stop this and pharah has like a 90% pick rate on this server.if you are a pharah player and think that pharah needs a buff im sorry but you are actually so bad and you should see what middle east pharahs can do with that character. this character is cancer… take a look at this server. its a real problem. thank you
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the devs need to actually balance differently on consoles like they said they would, characters like pharah who don’t need good aim are OP on consoles
One thing that’s weird is that Pharah is more of a problem on PS4, than it is on Xbox.
Pharah has a whopping 1.48% pickrate on Ps4 this week in GM 
she’s the 7th most picked Dps…
I play on Ps4 and I literally never see Pharah.
Though I do know that EU Ps4 plays more Pharah, on US Ps4 she’s pretty much a dead character.
OP Console Pharah is a complete myth tbh. The top 5 most picked Dps on Console are all Hitscans. Pharah/Mercy is a joke to literally any Hitscan/Mercy/Zen combo.
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Yeah, Pharah hasn’t been dominant on PS4 for a while now. I don’t know why people keep acting like this is still true.
Right now, I would say Hog, Soldier 76, and as literally always Mercy are moreso the PS4 problem heroes. Although I use that word kind of loosely because PS4 balance is skewed a lot by Xim users and free account alts. So what’s strong because of format differences between controller vs mouse + KB going against each other, and what’s strong because it’s actually a balance problem with the kit is kind of harder to discern.
I’d want to say only Mercy and Hog are problems when you think that way, but I dunno. Even with them, I’d take a Xim user on an Ana anyday over a Mercy on a controller, but that’s kind of harder to find since most of the people using those play DPS.
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i know pharah has no fans in na servers.eu players pick her like any other character but a little more. on my server which is middle east pharah pick rate is insanely high and like i said even plat players play like owl pro players its a nightmare.all im saying is MAYBE playing good with pharah is not much known by other regions and it doesnt mean pharah needs a buff (sorry for my english)
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Phara is not op in console. Just ask a dps to play a hitscan like Widow or Mcree and help him with Mercy/Zen orbs.
The real problem is when your dps can’t play hitscan and/or they don’t have help from Mercy/Zen.
You are asking them to balance the game around one specific region on PS4…?
Chile what
or possibly people like playing the one semi-viable DPS from the middle east?
Hows symmetras pickrate out there?
It’s…more complicated, though I think may be part of it. A lot of them are also M+KB widow/mccree mains.
Symms pickrate is pretty universally bad.
I can vouch that for some reason EU PS4 the pharah players are actually freaks, idk why but only players from there can play pharah, just from the eye test diamond pharah play on ps4 EU would get you easily high masters, it’s a very strange bubble of pharah onetricks, even going to pc yzn got rank 1 for a while so it’s not that the hitscans are bad or anything, just that so many people play pharah they’ve just improved that much
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Oh I’m sure, I’m not implying “lol we only play the one character we can identify with” but regions do tend to boost the “local” characters a little.
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That’s actually so weird but lowkey cool, someone should make a Youtube video about that lmao
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Can confirm most of switch has no pharmercy problems. Barely run in every rank from silver to masters.
zero.you can play for 10 hours without seeing one
That wouldn’t make sense since there’s talks of potential cross-play 
If they plan to implement crossplay, they’ll have to get rid of console specific balancing
I agree that other regions havent played against actual pharah specialists much.
Dont forget that yzn has been almost always top10 for a year now with pharah only on EU PC,after moving from ps4 eu.
Other servers/platforms just havent pushed her to her limit and also dont know how to play against her.
They should nerf pharmercy on console specifically, but they should nerf ashe+mercy even more so on console <3
there’s no console specific balancing in the first place, and cross play would probably be between consoles, considering a mouse and keyboard give a big advantage to aiming
Turrets do less damage on console… that was… pretty much the extent of it though.