He doesn’t needed buffs. No one likes a character who can destroy your whole team from a safe distance and a ultimate that needs zero skill.
Just revert everything.
Now looking at sym “buffs” I see how blizz want their game.
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It’s weird to see calls for Soldier nerfs. He can’t even one shot, he’s not a dedicated flank, and his ult is situational. He fits no criteria yet people hate him because he’s pesky and annoying. Weird.
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If you move like bots or stand still that’s not soldier’s issue. From safe distance he has fallow and narrow angle pretty much and he has no oneshot potential.
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He poops out damage, is hard to move in poke wars due to his healing which can also keep his mercy pocket alive, he has increased movement for repositioning and his strafing making his head waggle way more than it should. The biggest offender though is his rocket is on a 6 second cooldown, with fast speed and big AoE. You can’t win up close to him with most the cast if he has his cooldowns up. You can’t out poke him at range unless you one shot him or have your own pocket. He is just stupid good at everything right now with almost no downsides. What’s to like.
Personally what I dislike about him the most though is everyone telling me to switch to Soldier when I’m on Widow, something that’s been in the game since forever, though not sure if they still do it I just assume they do because I have comms off. Both need their stuff reverted.
Soldier makes really boring metagame imo if he’s too strong. I’d watch Widowamker or Tracer make plays at a high level all day but Soldier and I sleep.
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It’s because he’s legitimately too good for the fact he requires no actual game sense and only somewhat decent aim. Every other strong hero takes a LOT of skill or at least really good aim. He can compete without either.
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Blizzard team sucks at balancing why would they buff a character which has unlimited sprint, can heal, can shoot from long distance, auto-aim ult and a rocket.
This teams need a mental checkup.
It’s incredible what people are saying about Soldier now. Apparently he requires no game sense, despite being one of the few heroes without a cheesy panic button skill. Reaper and Mei can go invincible. Sombra and Tracer have instant get-out-of-jail-free abilities. Junkrat, Ashe, and Pharah have large knockbacks. Hanzo, Genji, and Sojourn have instant dashes.
Soldier gets to… move faster? He’s in the same category as Bastion and Torbjorn in terms of unable to get out of bad situations. That requires more game sense, not less.
And Soldier not having an aim requirement? His only finisher is his rocket, which is a projectile that’s only functional at close ranges. You ever try to hit a Pharah with a rocket? A Tracer? Not impossible, but Ashe, Cassidy, and Sojourn have far more reliable kill-damage on hard to hit targets.
Soldier’s only real damage is pumping out raw damage, which puts him in the same category of Bastion and Junkrat. Which I guess is fair. People complain about those two a lot despite them not being any good either. I guess people still complain about his Ultimate even though his damage doesn’t actually increase compared to just aiming normally.
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Yeah, I was surprised at the backlash on the forums. I don’t think S76 needed buffs but people are pretty mellow about him most of the time, so I wasn’t expecting to see “I can’t believe they buffed braindead S76 blaaargh” posts.
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lol, his biotic field is not a panic button. Yeah, dude sure.
Definitely not. I don’t know what game you are playing, but it is definitely not Overwatch.
He doesn’t need a rocket. 6-11shots from his rifle are enough for dealing with a pharah. Fun fact helix rocket travels faster than pharahs. So if a pharah hits you, you should hit a pharah too.
Mccree maybe it is a skill issue, but sojourn and ash, not with my experience. As a tracer I have eaten far more helix rocket after soldier activated his panic button than ashs and sojourns have ever killed me together.
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Sorry if I don’t wanna play hide n seek every single game cause of hitscans and my tank not picking a shield hero.
Hes not a 1 shot hero.
If you complain about being consecutively hit by soldier without a healer and stayed visible to him, then what is a justifiable method of elimination to you?
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Helix Rockets: Just burst them dead
Biotic Field: just double your potential effective health
If he had invuln on top of this do you think it’d be fair? lol They are combined way more effective than those panic buttons because they end up killing people while he lives.
It’s almost like there’s not a lot of difference between being bursted down in .5 seconds and being one shot in .5 seconds.
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I don’t think you know what a one shot is…
Helix rocket deals like 65% of most of the roster’s health.
Followed with a couple headshots or a slight spray to the body, and most heros just die.
His TTK has never been this good before, besides one iteration of S76, that got nerfed super quickly.
Chip dps is so amazing in this game, as the damage sticks until healed up. Which pressures support players. Even just raw dps with no headshots, S76 remains one of the fastest shieldbreakers in game, top 3 to be exact against a Rein shield.
Yes he needs to hit his shots…but how difficult is that when his whole hero strategy is literally spray and pray all game?
Where’s the skill expression? Where is the signs of a highly experience player? Why can he ignore so many basic mechanics for suicidal peeks to blast people from every range and still get huge value? How come a hero is allowed to ignore their own healers, fix their horrible positioning with little effort, and still compete for top dps in a match without ever planning ahead?
Why is this allowed?
Lol, I think you don’t. Fun fact it actually takes longer than that for Widow to Scope in and charge a killing head shot. In which time Soldier is still getting value just pooping damage for no reason.
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1 shots ignore healing, only need to hit once not multiple times, and allows your opponent to decide hey I dont want to fight anymore because im low and leave.
When you are fighting hanzo, you are pretty much dead at any moment. If you are fighting soldier you can just leave when you get hit too much.
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No wonder you guys hate one shots so much you don’t even live in reality when thinking about them.
He had 20 dmg 3 different times in ow1. It was for multiple years in total and had the same ttk as now with a rocket, and even faster then now without.
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Chip dps is horrible in this game because support ults are better than dps ults. Its literally feeding.
Its called spray and pray because guns can instantly kill people in real life and if you have a machine gun you can shoot randomly at the enemy and accidentally kill people.
Wouldn’t this form of helix rocket be more potent and require less accuracy then ever, IE less follow up shots or prepatory shots, to secure a kill?