Maybe it seems obvious to many of us, but I see a lot of people posting here re: this hero banned and that hero banned and rework this and that because they are banned every game you're in.
Please understand that this is going to be subjective to you and where you play, with few exceptions (like Sombra).
With a hero like Sombra, lower tiers/console will be banning her because they can’t deal with her easily, and high tiers will be banning her because she’s a throw pick/one answer to something else they want to play. It could also be a meme/culture thing to ban her (i.e. the more people talk about it, the more people end up doing it, and that snowballs). There are probably even a few tiers that don’t really ban her at all.
End of /rant, but bans probably don’t (yet) belong in a game like OW, designed around hero identities/uniqueness and counters. OW2 was supposed to do away with hard counters, but it was also supposed to have a fleshed-out PVE, and was supposed to ‘redefine the sequel’… No hereoes were ever supposed to be locked behind a BP, and DPS were not supposed to get hard CC… though I will say I’m glad they course-corrected on some of that.
Super interested to see if bans make it into QP or if there’s gonna be protects/RNG bans, or how they’re going to solve these issues. I very much hope for beloved reworks similar to OW1’s Torb, but that’s literally been one single good rework in the entire history of OW. Ball and Hog got cute QoL improvements, but I’d (personally) hardly call either of those reworks. I’m also not yet completely sold on perks, even though I enjoy some of them.
Yea I highly doubt. Some of us are keeping track of what we see and we’re all kinda various ranks and platforms. I would bet they reference a few heroes based on ranks but we will never ever see a chart
Yeah, I’ve already had some conversations where people don’t realize that just because a certain hero hasn’t been getting banned in their games does not necessarily mean they aren’t getting banned, even banned a lot. I’d love hard data on this. Right now I’m relying on anecdotal data by watching what people I know are saying. Because I know their rank, what they play, etc. And all those factors will impact who gets banned.
Like if you play a certain hero, you might actually see them banned less possibly because your teammates (who might have voted to ban that hero normally) might choose not to for your sake.
Right now, what I am hearing, is Sombra, Mercy, Doom, Ball, and Zarya are all receiving a lot of bans across many tiers. And surprisingly, Ana is getting fewer bans than expected. But again, it’s anecdotal. Would love actual data.
I really want stats on how often preferred heroes are banned and which ones.
This depresses me to no end, but I’m kinda glad I stick to QP. I’ll probably try Xadia, but I’ve not yet.
They’ll probably do a boring blogpost that KarQ will read to us, but I’d really love stats or even like a site where you could look stats up. OW is well OverDue for something like this.
No hereoes were ever supposed to be locked behind a BP, and DPS were not supposed to get hard CC… though I will say I’m glad they course-corrected on some of that.