Season 9 has really grown on me since they made all these changes to make gameplay smoother.
The projectile changes encourage and reward going for headshots. Everyone focuses on the difficulty of hitting in a vacuum, but the hp changes requires more consistent targeting.
The crazy af gigahealing is gone. I love playing tank now because as long as I work with my DPS things actually die. On tank I am more venerable, but it’s really given me an appreciation for using cooldowns right, positioning right, and using cover correctly. I can’t do the same troll nonsense I do on Lucio where I just juke my way out of bad positions with movement.
My main has been Lucio, but lately I’ve been investing the time to really becoming good on tank and taking Orisa up the ladder with DVA and Zarya in the back pocket.
Season 9 has made me want to get better at the game. I play against these tanks and am climbing super easy right now against them because stand in the middle of the lane like they are invincible.
They are used to getting carried by supports who’d prop them up day and night while they stood there playing god mode getting shot from every direction not even caring.
Tank actually takes some skill to play now and I think a lot of the crying is just kids getting put in their place learning that they aren’t as good as they thought they were.
Almost every game tanks are still at the top of the scoreboard in elims and damage. The crying about getting instantly blown up are gross exaggerations.
Orisa for example has 3 seconds of complete invulnerability from projectiles, then she gets 5 seconds of drastically reduced damage, then if that ain’t enough she gets a Mcree (pre-Cass) flashbang + Lucio boop rolled into one.
She has infinite range so she can sling melons at them from Widow range and get full dmg with a headshot multiplier.
Ok, now on DPS Cassidy gets 6 bullets that are smaller and fire turtle slow, then he’s got the Elden Ring roll, a grenade that doesn’t do anything and about 40 percent of the health.
But no, tank players have it the worst.
It’s the OW 2 season 1 Mercy one trick complaining about getting smacked by Genji all over again.
Hopefully they don’t listen and make the tank role ridiculous like the support role is now.
Instead I hope they nerf the supports and at best give the tanks a little more hp. The only reason things feel out of whack imho is Zenyatta. High lvl tanks are dealing with coordinated teams of sweats stacking that discord orb with huge bursts of dmg.
Everyone is losing their minds like this is unfixable when one hotfix or a mid season patch tweaking a couple things is all that’s needed and this season will be even more GOATed than it already is.
I just play Orisa cause her weapon has a similar projectile size and speed as Lucio so the practice I have translates well. She’s also fun to play cause she has all the buttons to press.