I know Rein/D.Va are meta in tank with Ball replacing either to keep a good alternate meta comp. Then we have Lucio, Ana, and sometimes Brig coming in for the support side of things, but it’s kind of hard for me to tell who the meta picks are for damage at the moment. Anyone watching GM/Top 500 or playing in those ranks able say where the winds are turning?
Edit: Since it seems like this is unclear, I mean as of current, what damage characters are being picked and might be considered meta alongside the tanks and supports currently being played now that double barrier isn’t viable any longer?
no, dps allways was a shtty role, just hanzo and widow make dps role “a thing”, if therent 222 we would still in tank meta forever, roadhog also need a nerf, every single tank got nerfed, is his turn.
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Ok, thanks for the answer that didn’t tell me anything.
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Mmmm not with the way game has evolved. There was like a month before role queue where 4 dps and a Hammond and mercy were meta, but burst is just too strong in the current game.
Might actually be McCree now that Hanzo is bad.
Tanks and healers are usually the enablers of a meta. Because of this are DPS metas pretty rare.
The only DPS metas we had in the past was:
- Double sniper
- GravDragon
- Beyblade
The last 2 metas was only possible with the help of a tank of a healer.
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Oh, you’re asking who is currently a meta pick in the damage class?
That would be McCree and Hanzo.
The thing about dps picks is that they’re much more dependent on the opponent’s picks than the team’s (dps that is, but plenty, not all, of the choices do synchronize with the other roles’ kits). Unlike the healers and tanks, they generally have little need to synergize with eachother compared to with the other roles and against the opposition.
So, there aren’t really notable matchups for the 2 dps slots outside of what’s just generally effective balance-wise.
I mean right now. In the current game state, with 2-2-2, now that double barrier is almost as dead as Bastion. What DPS complement the most picked tanks and supports?
I feel like it’s still burst. There’s a couple that can be used, but if you pick someone like Hanzo/doomfist/widow or even junkrat you can start a fight with a 6v5 advantage. Mei, too, if you’re good, but only because she can deny those picks and create one of her own. I don’t think much has changed.
Also meta is deceptive. It’s the most effective strategy but only because the top players train in those strats. There’s others that work as well if you can play them. I can counter most doomfists as brig, but once you get up to grandmasters I start getting outplayed
Not a meta, but there are some strong picks, mostly McCree and Mei, and also the snipers Hanzo and Widow are always useful, depending on the map Junkrat, Torbjörn and Soldier are nice picks and Tracer and Doom aren’t that bad, though not preferable
Ashe’s problem is still being good but outclassed, Reaper is very situational and with Zarya and Dva on the meta isn’t that good, Genji is strongly countered in this meta, and Symmetra, Bastion, Sombra and Pharah are straight up awful
McCree, Hanzo, and Widowmaker; With Mei only if the Hammond/ D.va is being super oppressive to Ana
So not really any changes xD
Hanzo, Widow, and McCree
So, basically the same as always. Snipers with a variable third option. For what it’s worth, Double Barrier at least gave us something new there (Doomfist, Reaper, Mei)
LMAO at the people saying Hanzo. He is actual garbage tier now. A losing winrate in all ELOs.
You have top 500 Hanzo main players literally refusing to play him now. Arrge drops to diamond, Samito (one of the best Hanzo players around) won’t even look at him.
The forums did it, they cried their way to nerfing Hanzo into the ground.
I’m hearing a lot Mei through the great vine.
But Han Zo is still good because teh YouTube say so?