Why should we buff dead old man who shoots peas, let’s once again buff Sojourn, who has been meta for almost all seasons since her release.
I used to main him and everything was fine until season 10, but then, due to the changes of other characters, he became trash.
He hasn’t been changed in any way for several seasons.
All he does now is pew-pew. In most fights an enemy will outplay you with more damage or healing, because you do too little instant damage, if you miss with a rocket the chances of killing are close to zero. And to really benefit a team with him, you need to put in significantly more effort than your opponent.
To kill someone without a rocket, you need to have a higher critical damage percentage and perfect tracking(at least 40%+ accuracy, which is just crazy, because it is impossible to track every target with such precision.), while other DPS characters reward a player for less effort.
This game no longer rewards you for good aim with him.
Just take as many broken characters as possible and win because of it.
This is one of the reasons why matchmaking is terrible. Bad players abuse broken characters(like Dva) and get higher than they deserve. While skill-dependent characters remain trash.
if you can trust this source(overbuff.com), then the average accuracy on Soldier 76 on Masters and GM is 38-39%.) and his winrate barely exceeds 50%.
Plus, given the trends of the new season, where Widow is in every match, he becomes literally unplayable.
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Blizz can’t do balance, they haven’t been able to do it in WoW for years, so why should they be able to do it here?
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If we get a Mythic weapon on Soldier this season, they’ll probably give him some kind of buff. I really hope so.
Solder is wheelchair for noobs and f2p drifters, he shouldn’t exist outside training range
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In 2d overwatch workshop he’s decent tho
For noobs? Did you read what I wrote? To squeeze impact out of him now, you need to significantly surpass your opponent in skills. Good tracking is not an easy skill. This character requires more mechanical skill and positioning than most DPS characters.
He is a very mechanical and tactically dependent character.
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he is hot… dare I say… a DILF.
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Id actually say soldier suffers more due to the gigabuffing of tanks and supports than other dps. Hes not a strong dueling character, thats true, but thats largely always been the case - duels were just about always decided by whether you hit helix or not, and even that wouldn’t make a win guaranteed in all cases. But with buffed supports you need to be capable of high burst damage, which isnt really his forte, and what used to be solid, consistent pressure on tanks is now pretty laughable as they have so much health and supports can sustain forever.
Nerf power creep, dont buff soldier.
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Soldier is pretty good tbh, you just need mechanics
I bet that statements like “soldier is garbage” come from cod people who only know w, strafen and full in the face.
He was my main hero before, I played him a lot. I have no problem with mechanics.
What’s your rank?
Havent reached a peak on him yet, first time doing soldier, 80%wr 5kd. At like g1/p5 so far.
What is your soldier rank? Maybe it will get tough once I climb more
Doesnt take much to stomp at that level tbh. At higher ranks, you’ll spend most of your time running away and feeding support ults because he cant kill anything
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If you know how to run and position yourself with soldier he is unstoppable. Give respect where its due ive gotten pinned down entire matches by a good soldier 76.
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Not trying to be a jerk, but you sound like you’re in metal ranks or below. In those ranks, soldier can be a menace because he can often go uncontested. In higher ranks, he is, at best, someone that can force a dive and hopefully run away quickly enough to not get immediately deleted. Most dps heroes are better choices because most dps heroes have better mobility, lethality, or both.
You responding to me or someone else? I take no offense to anything lol. Im typically around Diamond. Skill level is higher but I havent grinded the ranks out to climb up. Got pretty far up the ladder as Doom before though.
So far ive played soldier up to masters 5 lobbies. Currently on my soldier climb in p4 though. He still seems decent.
Hes the fastest dps in game esp with juno, and can instantly melt with rocket and headshot. Very fast repositioning, and requires less support resources.
Soldier is fine he’s a jack of all trades that has a little of everything they can’t just throw buffs at hero this generic or he rolls ladder. Alright range, some burst with helix, self sustain with biotic field, and mobility with sprint. Can we rework his ultimate though? I’d rather just use it for reload half the time considering s9 bullets are big enough to land the majority of your shots anyways.
Ult is terrible. There should either be no reload, or the shells should penetrate shields.
Ult is fine. It should absolutely not penetrate shields. If it did it would instantly become one of the, if not THE, most op ults in the game.
The issue with soldier is the lack of spike damage without a compensating mobility ability. If devs were to make helix rocket jumps allow soldier to get to much higher places (like ground to to catwalk on 2nd point kings row, for example), he would instantly become more useful in high ranks.