Yeah that got nerfed in like 2 weeks and then McCree was pretty much garbage since then until Double Barrier where he saw meta play even though he’s still got horrible winrates
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Eventually.
Then you have characters like Tracer, who were considered op or balanced… who recently got an insane buff that would have made her a GOD around launch.
And that was just to get her into a more viable state again.
That’s what power creep does.
Now Tracer is a REALLY good example of power creep 
It was more that she got counters, but, yes, they had to make her stronger to compete.
thats the wrong buff. Also pickrate and winrate shouldnt be the sole reason we buff/ nerf heroes
if thats the case bastion would get buffed instantly become op and then gets nerfed to the ground again to have even a worse pickrate.
They buffed mek the wrong buff.
She challenges tank at making space better than tank challenge tanks
WHAT IS THE POINT?
SHE IS A DPS
WHY CAN SHE MANHANDLE TANKS LIKE THAT??
that buff needs to get reverted they can give her any other buff but just not that
she does not need that
Without multifreeze, Mei is the only character in the game who is capable of isolating individuals out of groups thanks to ice wall, and STILL has the ability to hold off till help arrives through cryofreeze and wall usage.
She doesnt suffer as a result of being overwhelmed, and never will.
The problem is Blizz sticks by strange archetypal rules, like how no projectile hero has falloff and how all hitscan can damage at any range.
Instead of saying “well Mei is projectile she shouldn’t have falloff” they should be saying “115m/s?? Let’s at least give her an arc”.
Most of the balance in this game is nutty to the point balance ceases to exist.
A lot of under performing hero’s are only under performing next to clearly broken hero’s. Like soldier 76, under performing. Yet he’s more powerful than he was when he was considered OP back in triple tank.
that’s not how it works… with less shields she will die too quickly and hanzo widow will make their return. mei thrives because of shields. her TTK is far too low for her to be viable without them.
have you seen how much the forums whine when their char gets nerfed? players just refuse to play their character and even go into matches and purposefully throw several hundred points just to let people know they hate the nerfs.
We can agree to disagree. Mei’s survivability is very high, and she will be played a lot in the upcoming meta.
With less shields she’s be more effective with multifreezing, and more annoying than ever.
Plus her wall will become one of the best shields in the game.
Mei is going to do lots of work in the next meta. Mark my words this will happen
Power Creep is a common problem in a lot of Blizz games.
I remember some of the solutions they had in the early stages of WoW when raid gear was so powerful it was way superior to PvP gear and people would just like one-shot other 60’s.
They tried adding Resilience (reduced damage and crit received from other non-npcs) , and eventually just started bloating the players HP so they could survive the crazy damage everyone could deal.
HP buff across the board!
She still has a right click to use. Her left click shouldn’t be such a huge crutch for her kit COUGH MCCREE FLASHBAG > FtH COMBO COUGH
Which does less damage than most Healers.
That’s literally what they’re talking about though. Instead of nerfing damage, they buffed tanks back up to be able to survive the damage. Just get rid of the actual problem instead of buffing everyone to deal with the problem.
There need to be damage and sustain nerfs across the board so that there are more viable heroes. Right now the only ones who can survive have insane sustain or burst damage (Orisa/Sig/Doom/Reaper/Mei/moira/lucio.
Hah you’re really asking the developers to nerf down power creep heroes? I’d be happy to see Tracer, Genji and any other hero abused kit get nerf. If they do then perhaps we see something different, but don’t push your luck with this game. They don’t have the guts to do a real proper nerf and tweaks on heroes. They only do it on unimportant heroes.
I still remember the day they nerf her damage output. Technically no one even complained or cared about it. They just nerfed it just to put something on the list.
It’s actually a pretty solid weapon if you can hit heads.