Post Zenyatta nerf fix

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I have been playing Zen for years and I have 1500 hrs on him. I have played multiple matches with the new nerf. It makes the game play clunky and they went overboard with the discord nerf. The extra 25hp is nice as well as the 5 seconds LOS of orb of harmony, but the nerf overshadowed the buff.

I get that discord needs some counter play, but they basically deleted Zen from the rooster. I have hardly seen anyone other then myself play Zen, since the nerf. Playing against flankers has always been hard, but now with the nerf it’s even worse. If the devs truly want to balance him, I have some suggestions.

Option 1:
Revert Zen to his pre nerf abilities, just give the tanks a 15% discord resistance. Easiest thing for the devs to do.

Options 2:

  1. Increase orb of destruction damage from 48 to 50.
  2. Revert the volley nerf from OW1, by increasing the volley speed 15%.
  3. Make it so volley canceling with melee does not consome ammo or make Zen’s reload speed 1 second instead of 2 seconds.
  4. Make avoiding LOS from 1.5 seconds to cleanse to 3 seconds if you want to keep it at 7 seconds to discord the same target again.
  5. If you don’t change the LOS from 1.5 second, make it so you can discord the target again after 4 seconds not 7.

I’m not trying to make Zen OP, just playable. Other then Illari, the nerf to the problem supports Ana, Bap, Kiriko was useless. Increasing the cool downs was not the answer, reworking the abilities like you did to Zen was!

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yeah zen basically just unplayable in this patch, and they giving him measly 25 health for compensation? What he gonna do with that lmao

Your option 1 seems to be the best one imo, simple but not as intrusive. They can do it with ana why they cant do it with any hero?

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Can we get two orbs of harmony and a shield while we are charging our right click, it would make him so much better

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If they’re going to keep this kind of nerf to discord as a way to nerf it without reducing its amp % further, then they should lower the cd. 7 seconds is too long, they should reduce it to 4 or maybe even 3 seconds and see how it performs/feels.

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I think it’s a shame they went this route instead of making Discord less effective on tanks and tanks alone, since a Discord cooldown ruins the fluidity that Zen’s always had. Oh well.

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