Look how much damage this poorly designed hero has done, Every anchor tanks barrier has become nerfed into uselessness because of doubleshield which started with sigma. Before sigma doubleshield was a joke, you’d get laughed at for running it above bronze.
But because the devs had a vague idea of “hybrid main/off tank”, with out considering it more deeply, they introduced a tank which enables double shield comps without the drawbacks that it had before.
I think sigma should be put out of commission, and wind back the clock to how the tanks were balanced before sigma was introduced. HARD rework sigma into an off tank WITHOUT a shield, and reinstate him afterwards.
With the state of the tank rooster right now overwatch feels like a complete clownshow.
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I’m not sure that that is the way to go. We have quite a few off-tanks already and fools are falling over each other to instalock them. We need more viable and attractive main tank options.
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I think right now is a good spot for tank balance, people are playing all the tanks in every level of play. Sigma is fine, it’s Blizzard’s painfully slow balancing that makes it feel like he ruined everything.
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It blows my mind how just how much the community has been willing to let Sigma off the hook despite all the destruction he’s wreaked on the Tank catagory.
They were always more than happy to burn D.Va at the stake, why aren’t more witch hunting Sigma?
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when you guys will realize that Hitscan DPS are a fundamental part of the double shield meta, sigma isn’t that monstrosity you described, he was meta just in GM. Masters and below you’ll see just zarya rein.
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Very interesting take considering that before sigma’s introduction double barrier was not the meta choice…despite hitscan dps having existed long before sigma…
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I believe double shield started with Orisa, not Sigma. I’d much rather deal with Rein and Sigma combined than Orisa’s pirate ship. Not to mention his shield is weaker than Orisa’s in exchange for more mobility, and he has a high skill ceiling thanks to his math-based abilities and having multiple counters. Plus, after the nerf, his shield falls like a card house so double shield isn’t the best idea if he wants to get use out of it. Honestly he’s not in a great spot right now
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Which we can get once Sigma is reworked. Right now, it’s just Rein watch. If Orisa isn’t dragged down by Sigma, she can oppose Rein, and Winston can oppose her. 3 mains tanks…
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And removing his barrier would make the hero boring, if you really hate the character I would consider to replace his grasp for something else. His barrier is his main play style and it requieres Game sense to use well, grasp is just a press and push button
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Because in their eyes aim is everything and Sigma requires aim.
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I will never understand how blizzard greenlit launch brig or sigma
and then let them keep getting away with all that ez abuse for a year+. Imagine being so stubborn you are willing to change like 12 heroes instead of nerf/reworking the new one that’s the core problem
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Double shield started the moment Sigma arrived. Before him the only 2 shields were Rein and Orisa, and that was never meta. (And honestly, very rarely even viable)
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“Tank Rooster”
I think the Overwatch devs are hinting at a new Tank hero that will save the Tank class.
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Everythings that’s been said about sigma, but Rein instead.
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Do you guys just forget Reinhardt exists or what?
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Just like ana, she is extremely powerful and nobody cares, I don’t think she needs a nerf neither but that shows the favoritism of the player base
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I’ll trade the next five new heroes for one tank rooster.
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Zarya and Winston also provide shields. I wouldn’t know what’s meta since I don’t pay much attention to comp, but double shield was an annoying problem about a year before Sigma was even released. If I remember right, the OW team ended up nerfing all shields purely because they got so many complaints about it at the time
Is that why we had
Mei/Reaper
Doomfist/Hanzo
Mei/Hanzo
Ashe+Genji/Echo/Tracer?
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