So I havent played OW in a long long time. Came back to check out comp and give it a whirl as I had an itch. The new hero rotation format I feel really is a weird way to artificially control “meta” by rotating out heroes. Why not use a draft system for bans rather than devs controlling and force playstyles? Just felt really really bizarre.
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They pretty much said they didn’t really like that system, primarily because it would cause less in-game time (with role queue already limiting DPS playtime). On top of that it would be difficult to choose who can pick whatever bans (compounded by unpopular heroes being potentially unfairly punished), then if you get to ultimately decide and you ‘ban the wrong hero’ your team could get even more toxic to you.
It’s mostly about extending wait-to-play. The timer is already 45 seconds for game prep and they didn’t want to add another 30-60 seconds on top of that for drafts.