Tracer feels horrible to play in OW2.
You literally can’t take any damage or you get oneshot by Kiriko or Sojourn
You can’t kill most of the supports because Mercy is unkillable because she can fly in skybox and zoom away the whole game,
Tracer is literally unable to kill through even mercy heal she feels awful to play in OW2 because you can’t kill through healing and oyu can’t kill the healers the one thing Tracer is supposed to be good at.
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I get shes still really good outside of this but the current meta seems really obnoxious to play against for Tracer.
More so than other meta since Goats imo all of 2019 Overwatch and afterwards felt alot better for tracer compared to now.
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Removal of some of biggest counters (flashbang, bash stun, Rally armor)
Addition of new passive (faster reload after elims)
Tracer players should be living large since OW2 launched
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Flashbang was easy to go against.
Rally is an ultimate.
Now we have sojourn and Kiriko they’re both some of the most obnoxious characters I’ve ever had to go against as Tracer
And mercy is alot more survivable now too compared to OW1 which makes her incredibly difficult to kill.
Tracer also had her damage decreased which makes it almost impossible to oneclip and its literally literally impossible even with an aimbot to kill through healing.
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You can’t do anything because you can’t kill characters being healed.
You can’t kill any of the healers because Kiriko actually has an insanely good 1v1 matchup against you
Mercy is out of your fall off reach.
Lucio is also incredibly hard to kill as Tracer but its not a problem as his healing is low and his more so ran for speedboost
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Flashbang and shield bash were two of the main tools someone would run to deal with a pesky tracer, now both are gone.
This is very significant and you can’t just shrug it off and go “they were ez to avoid so they dont count”
And Rally was a major counter. Yes it’s an ult, but the armor aspect. It persisted and made Tracer have very difficult time killing anything, now that’s gone too.
Yes Mercy and Kiriko make things much harder to kill, that’s true
Maybe the problem isn’t that Tracer is “weak” and needs buffs. Maybe other DPS are much better suited for OW2 currently than her (Aka oneshotters and long range hitscan)
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well not everybody have the skill to play tracer so they choose the easier option (genji)
I’m gonna disagree. For the most part she’s fine now. With all the no skill shots and whatnot she can be harder to play than other dps but you need map knowledge to avoid bllinking into objects and consistent tracking to make her work if you don’t have those then you fail as Tracer. Trying to kill someone while they’re being healed is hard but if you can’t do it then you’re just missing too many shots or they’re getting double healed in which case I’d say go for the healers instead or just switch targets. If you want my suggestion just work on your tracking and aim at the neck chest area.
Tracer can’t kill through healing period unless its zen heal and can rarely be done in oneclip it isnt a matter of good or bad tracking.
If I had to honestly choose, I’d say Tracer is harder to get value with than Genji
I think another piece of puzzle OP forgot about is there’s no longer 2nd tank in 5v5
No longer a 2nd gigantic target to farm pulse bomb off of (in addition to ult generation being lowered for shooting some tanks like Hog)
Its all tanks the ult generation passive is universal for tanks.
i think she might need a rework to make her more smooth across all ranks instead of just being a dominant dps in just grand master.
I’ve done it so I know you’re wrong and its why I said you need better tracking or to just switch targets
If you hit 50% of all your bullets and they’re all headshots
Tracer does 220 damage so you’re meaning to tell me you have 50%+ accuracy and all
20 hits are headshots and remember if mercy is healing them
That adds 55 effective health so then you have to do 270+ damage but you’ve definetly done it even though its mathematically impossible to oneclip through mercy healing without an aimbot at close range due to spread and fall off
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Unless you mean to tell me you’re the best Tracer in the world with 80% accuracy all crits?
In which case I would advise you to go to contenders and try to get picked up by a pro team.
My accuracy with her ranges from 38% to 48% so yeah it is almost 50% and you can very well do it. Which again you can just shoot and kill the mercy or it forces her to stay and hope the person deals with you or she leaves then you can kill the one you’re shooting at. Its so simple and it works especially if you can move enough to avoid lethal damage. I also highly doubt even pro players have accuracy in the 80% they tend to sit in that 50-60% range. Playing her is mechanically hard but its not that hard to push people into what you need to do. Harass the mercy or kill her first if you know you can’t kill someone through her healing. Prior to the buff tracer couldn’t kill through the healing now she can
Its not doable.
Mercy in the skybox out of fall off range perma GAing in the sky.
Top500 tracers struggle with that you can’t kill her that far in the sky you have to use like two/three clips and by that point you’re dead.
No you’re right they dont have 80% accuracy pro players have accuracy in the 28-38 range becuase they don’t shoot tanks
And that is 28-38% body shot accuracy with about 12% crit not 100% headshot accuracy with 50% body like in the example I gave to you to kill through heal
which is exactly my point Tracer can’t kill through healing and she can’t oneclip unless you land almost all your shots perfectly on a standing still target at point blank
I’m Masters on Tracer Cree Hanzo, Ascendant in Valorant, LEM in CSGO my aim skills are pretty high tier better than most players in this game, its not an aim thing I’m telling you its almost impossible against players with good strafes to oneclip ESPECIALLY through healing
Shooting Mercy out of the sky with Tracer isn’t that hard either but not sure why you’d try to do that as a reliable means to kill mercy given how easy you are to kill if you’re not paying attention to people shooting at you. If she’s in the sky in the skybox as you state in the post then that’s not your job as tracer anymore so I’m not sure why you’re complaining about that. If she’s in ult that’s outside of tracer’s job when she’s near skybox. As far as your last point yeah people with good strafes are harder to hit but you can do it. If you’re masters like you say then I don’t get why this is such an issue for you. If you’re focusing on the very specific scenario of her being near the top of the skybox I don’t get why you’d even make this post because that is a hyper specific scenario and especially given that Mercy just got guardian angel nerfed and got her healing nerfed by 10 healing per second you definitely can kill people through her healing now.