High Risk Medium Reward hero.
Especially with healers being able to heal sustained damage really well, most healers can also duel her just fine.
Pulse bomb is fine for what it does.
Cooldowns are fine too.
But I personally think she needs an hp buff, she doesn’t even have the smallest hitbox in the game and it’s actually quite easy to hit her if you at least try.
175 hp should be good enough since 200 would be overkill.
Don’t let tracer become smogon Pikachu
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if she gets any HP, cooldown on blink must be increased , is that really what you want?
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support crybabies complained that “she was OP” enter Brigette and Moira the tape M1 + W adventure hero so that even moms and dads who barely touch the game can counter a top 500 Tracer.
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It’s actually most likely very high risk, no reward. Too much healing and armor for her to be able to actually do her job properly.
If you ever get destroyed by a Tracer, it’s a smurf, and he would be able to demolish you with a Mercy using a pistol.
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The most rewarding part about playing tracer is that you build mechanics very quickly. Those mechanics then translate to insane value when you switch to a good hero 
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The snipers and Doomfist powercrept her. Doomfist does the exact same thing she does but with free one-shots every cooldown cycle and sustain that’s stronger than a tank’s. And the snipers have become too good at escaping her(Widow) or both escaping and melting her(Spamzo).
Nerf the snipers, remove Doomfist forever, and Tracer will have a spot again.
It also doesn’t help that tanks and supports she naturally synergizes with (like D.Va and Zen) have been either dumpstered or pushed out of meta.
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That’s all well and good but I’m talking about the hero herself.
I know, it was just some sarcastic humor about how she doesn’t (and hasn’t for a long time) rewarded practicing her very much 
If anything was to happen to Tracer, I’d see her guns having half ammo double damage, or like, a 33% change to each, sort of like Roadhog v2. Simply to make her much more lethal against the sheer quantity of armour and low damage high firerate weaponry counters in the game.
I don’t see her mobility changing. It’s fluent, gorgeously even to play… But her guns are weak.
She would spend 75% of her time reloading
Tracer would be neat to see more often. I hope she gets a little something soon to help her out!
People on these forums really got to stop using being out of meta as a justification for demanding their favorite heros get powercrept. Because what happens when you power creep heros while they are just out of meta is that when the game shifts to where they are meta they become obnoxious fun killing monsters that ruin the game for everyone but the people playing them. “points at mei multifreeze, damage falloff removal, increased cryo beam damage, every time they even slightly buff doomfist and 1 month later have to think of a new way to nerf him, widowmakers 20% charge rate buff that made it not a weakness anymore”
Blizzards finally starting to undo some of the obnoxious DPS powercreep in the game and tracer already got a powercreep buff of her own when they reduced her falloff “thank Papa Jeff for the armor revert”
Tracers a dive, hero and the nerfs to storm arrow, mccrees fire rate, orisas damage “seriously blizzard she needed a nerf but halt and just one of the other nerfs wouldve been enough” are all massive indirect buffs to dive tanks like winston ball and dva.
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Nope, I’d just leave her where is. Brig and Moira don’t even win 1v1 against her with all the nerfs they got.
If you’re losing to them on Tracer, you’re just not good on her.
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Why ? Doomfist can 1shot 2 people in a few seconds and he as 250 hp.
Its harder than ever before to kill anyone as tracer with the healer powercreep. She deserves 200 HP and even with that i think she still woudnt be meta because its too hard for her to kill people now. When many other heros can just delete people from long range.
Tracer 100% needs buffs and right now, the hardest mechanical hero in the game should not be in the gutter for this long.
because heroes dont just get a buff like that, they have to lose something, so shes losing blinks cd, or ammo… both are bad
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No it wouldnt. Why would you nerf to compensate for a buff when the hero needs just a pure buff.
That makes no sense.
Anyway, Tracer doesnt need changes, other heroes need toning down.
Sustain as a whole needs reducing so consistent damage actually has a use in this game and heroes like Soldier, Tracer, Genji etc can be of use.
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Not really Mcree is getting 250 hp that will directly effect tracer, she does too low damage and is too risky to play she needs something.
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People didn’t understand that tracer has pretty much always been F tier at MOST ranks. I’m not talking about masters/GM during dive, when an insane tracer player could annihilate enemy teams. 95% of the playerbase didn’t even experience that.
Tracer’s winrate has almost always been below 50%, and it got even worse after CC, self-sustaining supports etc got slowly added to the game.
She’s often a high-risk low to no reward hero.
Take it from a guy who has nearly 400 hours on this hero - she’s never been as powerful as people thought she was.
Tracer can be denied so easily, if people just stay together. Tracer thrived on being able to kill that lone zen on his own in the backline.
Unfortunately, the playerbase will scream if tracer gets any more buffs. The majority of people absolutely hate her.
I think she fits an important role in the game. Being a high skill hero, you never feel like you got cheesed when you die to her, cause you know that player is really good. Heroes like doom on the other hand, you feel the complete opposite.
People will still complain, but tracer will always be a subpar pick at most ranks, just purely due to how hard she is to play. Most DPS heroes outclass her. Mobility alone isn’t strong enough anymore.
I personally think they need to tone down some of the burst damage on some other DPS heroes, and continue to lower the healing power creep. Only then will tracer actually be viable again.
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They just need to tighten up her spread a little.
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A Tracer buff would only encourage Moira and Brigitte gameplay…
And this is why certain heroes should never have been released.
Tracer’s interesting matchups with Ana, Zen and Lucio are forever gone.
I just wish heroes like Moira were kinda playable to the general population, but weak overall. Because they’re obviously not going to delete them.
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