She is not given a pass though, shes the one support that dps should be scared of and how is that bad? Why do supports need to be weak? At higher ranks she becomes irrelevant as she loses utility. She all around is one of the most balanced heroes in the game. If she was that big of an issue she would be nerfed, youd see Pros complain and drag their feet. Its not a hero design fault its the fact that players at lower ranks dont have the skillset to tackle her and I understand why thats annoying but the key to this is getting better and not try to 1v1 her if you cant do it.
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Zarya doesnt have this issue though, as hers doesnt lock on.
Cant break a continuous beam.
Neither does Moira. Being a single target beam does not make it a lock on.
Moira doesnât auto lock. Non-issue isnât an issue. Wowzers.
Doesnt matter how you define it the end result is the same a large hitbox with and animation that centers on the target. Just like old sym and mercy the only difference is moiras wont wrap around her back
Actually the difference is that it doesnât lock on at all. Itâs really quite a simple concept but do you need it explained again?
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Jeff, am I in 2018 again?
January 20th 2019 
Were clearly not gonna agree. Itâs a lock Iâm not sure what else to say.
Yeah if youâre just gonna make up your own definition of the word that has nothing to do with what a lock on actually is I guess thatâs true. Iâm looking forward to your next post where Moiraâs RMB is an AOE attack
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There is a difference between disagreeing with someone and refusing to believe a fact.
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Yet you arenât complaining about Winston who takes even less aim than Moira.
which is garbage game design
which is garbage game design again
iâm plat
i cant aim at a small moving hitbox while my life is being drained and her life is healing, if i manage to land ennough shots, she fades and heals,
if i fail to get away, she bursts me down with orb
and taimou has been dying the same way and heâs a owl player
moira isnt a free kill, thatâs great, but having her deal damage that easily while being hard to kill is cancerous
It is in no way a lock on.
Ever play a tab-target MMO? That is the functionality of a lock on.
You donât need to keep line of sight, the character can continue attacking the target regardless of movement and not require the mouse / recticle at all once the attack begins.
A soft lock is an aiming system that allows the player to pre-select a target, check out other targets / move around etc, before activating the action key for attacking at which point the character snaps to the locked target.
Moiraâs beam is literally a cone. The animation you are seeing that âloos like it locksâ is just that - a âlooks likeâ animation.
Moiraâs beam can be be broken by moving out of her line of sight. If can be broken by having another enemy pass between her and her active target. Even though it is a generous hit box, the player does require tracking to maintain the attack.
At the expense of this generous hit box, she has a high tick rate which is countered by armor. She cannot crit. And Moira has the lowest dps in the game.
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you cant expect every hero to be high skill though, thats a fact, Moira is lower skill hero for lower ranks and a hero that has a balanced kit and wont die as easy as the other supports, hence why she is highly picked, if you cant aim then its your issue, brig was an issue in higher ranks and look what happened to her, if moira had a hitbox like zarya she would be way harder to use cause she needs the damage to recharge herself, the notion that supports shouldnt do this or that is flawed, a good ana or a good zen who require alot more aim will still survive if they are better than you
Again, the setting for your cursor is too small. Change it to the setting I posted and youâll see that what you say doesnât happen. There is no mechanical lock.
Or just watch this video, that shows you what Iâm talking about. Iâll even time stamp it for you.
T: 3m40s Moiraâs non-locking beam.
Yes you can, and it happens anytime anything walks into the beam for Zarya or Moira.
T: 8m40s it shows beam is interrupted immediately with anything crossing the beam, because there is no lock.
T: 5m07s Zaryaâs non-locking beam.
T:6m20s Winstonâs non-locking cone, which works also the same way.
By comparison, the video shows actual lock-on targeting.
T: 1m56s Mercyâs lock-on
T: 2m54s Old Symâs lock-on
The video also shows many other things in the game right now that have visual lock-on but no mechanical lock-on, same as Moiraâs attack.
T: 11m13s
Zaryaâs beam cannot hit more than one person at a time.
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The comparison is made because mechanically they work exactly the same way. How much more physically demanding it is to aim Zarya beam vs Moira beam isnât relevent when comparing mechanics. No one is arguing Zarya is just as easy to aim; Youâre talking about a different topic.
Its a broken mechanic and its too good at low tiers and not good enough at high, that simple.
Just for reference when people say âjust shoot herâ, they really do mean it. Here is a clip where a Lucio, Moira, and Zen got melted by DPS as they were all healing each other and Moira was actively life-leeching.
and its simple that not all supports need to require skill like ana or zen, low rank players cant deal with it, its their own fault, they need to get better, its not broken its just below average players cant kill her, thats not a design flaw or broken mechanic, as you get better you realize how easy it is to kill moira and how much more utility higher skilled heroes provide in the support class
Also for people comparing Moiraâs beam to Zaryaâs⌠when playing against a good Zarya, theyâre going to knock you into the air with a particle bomb and laser you while youâre stuck in the air and keep repeating that to throw your aim off so you canât fight back well. Youâll pray you were fighting a Moira when you run into a good Zarya player. Zarya can also easily kill a Moira in a 1v1 because Moiraâs damage is so pathetic, life leech/coalescence or no.