I don’t think so. One theory is they might bring some heroes down to 225 with some armor, with the recent armor changes it kinda makes sense, like for Genji and Sojourn maybe being the more likely candidates for this.
I didn’t think about it but Tracer 150 with armor could happen too.
I don’t think they are doing any of this specifically for Hanzo, perhaps they’ve realized a certain chatacter is overtuned with the season 9 change.
Though, I was wondering what they meant by “mobile heros” too. Like, are Moira, Mercy, and lucio considered mobile? What about genji, sojourn, soldier?
Or you could ask the traitors who back stabbed the shimmada dragon in a cowardly act and didn’t even have basic decency to acknowledge ruining the primary of a iconic hero of 7 years to revert his one shot back and let them know they can also take their increased aimhitboxes back , shimmada don’t roll that way.
I hope it’s just flat reducing their hp and not replacing it with armor. Both would help Hanzo, but the second one would hurt a lot of other heroes unnecessarily.
Realistically it’s going to be a handful that have a good case for deserving it.
Genji and Cassidy are unlikely. I wouldn’t think they’d want to give Hanzo that kind of advantage over heroes that are supposed to thrive in Short and Midranged combat, at least not without a Damage boost. Which is where they’re at right now.
Tracer is well under Hanzo’s breakpoint already.
The only support I see it likely happening to is Mercy she has plenty of evasion that gives her advantage over Projectiles already. Baptiste and Kiriko arguably warrant it, but Kiriko is a Favored Child, and I honestly feel like the only reason they haven’t done this for Baptiste already is because of Lore. They don’t want to give him Less Hp than a variaty of characters he clearly looks physically stronger or equal to
I’m just going to point out that OW is a team game and the devs have gone on record to say that they don’t factor 1v1’s in their balancing decisions.
a genji is a character who specialize on 1v1, his dash and deflect are design to do that
but now long range heroes can even do better than genji in close range 1v1, like soldier / sojourn, mcree, ashe, torb, heck even sym is lethal if u can get atleast lvl 2 beam
“Starting with the obvious, Overwatch is a team-based, hero-based, multiplayer competitive shooter. Heroes, maps and game modes are all designed to require teams to work together in order to successfully win a match.”
Totally agreed. And honestly I think in a majority of cases it’s a mistake to give armor to squishies with a few exceptions. I think it makes sense for Brig’s hero fantasy as well as Bastion. And for Bastion really needs it for balance too. I think it makes sense for Torb’s hero fantasy, but honestly I wish he didn’t have it because of overload. Aside from that, I don’t think any other DPS or supports should really get armor. It’s best to balance them in other ways.