As of the current patch, there are 31 heroes.
17 of those 31 have a form of CC.
5 of the 17 are just knock back, where a player retains full control.
4 of the 17 restrict movement, but still allow a player to fight back.
8 of the 17 have a hard CC, removing 100% of your playablility.
14 of 31 have no form of CC.
Upon launch there were 21 heroes
10 of the 21 had CC.
4 of the 10 had knock back.
2 of the 10 restrict movement.
4 of the 21 had hard CC.
The 10 heroes added post launch.
3 of 10 have no CC.
1 of 10 has knock back.
2 of 10 restrict movement.
4 of 10 have hard CC.
If a team played Sigma/Hog/Doomfist/Mei/Ana/Brig, they could effectively put someone with infinite health into permanent stun. Without infinite health, they can be stunned to death. Of this specific set of heroes, all CC is on cooldown, not an ultimate.
Please, don’t add more CC.
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Teams only have 6 hero slots.
There is only so much CC you can have on a team.
You don’t like being CCd. I get it.
They’re going to add more and more CC. Get used to it.
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Around the time of Brig, Jeff actually had an interview where he talked about how players are getting fatigued with OW, and one of their strategies to combat this is to reduce CC.
That’s why Brig, Doomfist and Sombra have been toned down so much in that regard, I think. So in general, I would actually expect CC dilution if anything. Particularly of hard CC or movement restrictions. Like how we saw Rein get knockback resistance or the universal slow down nerf.
More of this please Blizzard. Sigma seems to be a bit of an exception, and I think people already really want things like that slowdown on his ult removed.
Yeah, at this point it feels like Blizz is just trolling.
They KNOW we hate the stuns and knockbacks.
So, they create a new tank… give him an ability that knocks you on your butt. He doesn’t NEED it at all. Sigma would be totally fine just, doing a damage with that ability. Nope. Blizz needs it to knock you down.
For some reason, that just ticks me off beyond belief. It says they are out of touch, or just don’t care what players think. After ALL these complaints about CC… to keep piling it on.
Jerks, really.
Can we reduce the reasons we have CC as part of that? I’m all up for the removal of CC, but not leaving some heroes unchecked in the process.
I think there’s a sweet spot that constantly moves. When brig was introduced there was too much. They walked some of it back and gave Rein, who is the one who really needed it, passive resistance to the worst offenders.
CC is fine. Adding more is fine so long as they keep chasing the sweet spot when necessary.
In a team there are only six slots. So long as you cannot overload a team with two tanks, two DPS, and two Supports with CC, you cannot add too much CC to the game when introducing new heroes.
As long as they don’t add a 7th slot to the team, new CC can be assessed on a case by case basis.
doomfist has been toned down? Not enough in my opinion
Perhaps. But it’s still a big improvement. No longer getting locked mid-air on uppercuts, as you gently and unavoidably fall off a cliff is nice.
Speak for yourself.
I like them. I enjoy exerting control over the battlefield. Even more than I enjoy scoring kills.
I control someone, one of my teammates gets the credit for the kill, and I’m happy. I did my job.
CC is fine so long as you pay for it somehow.