When queuing for comp, a player can choose to “reserve” a hero. Reserved heroes cannot be banned.
So basically you can always play your favourites but potentially at the cost of a strategic ban.
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No.
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Nah just, get rid of bans they are flat out dumb.
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Why?
Character limit
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It breaks the meaning of bans. If you reserve a hero, then he won’t be banned. If you ban a hero who wasn’t reserved, he won’t be in the game, because no one wanted to take him.
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Stop trying to dodge the ban, Sombra.
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Sombra player finding all kinds of ways to sneak their hero back into the game lol
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Pretty much what was said in this thread already.
The whole point of hero bans was to give the players the ability to get rid of heroes they dont want to deal with. Its counter productive to also give them the ability to protect the same thing. If protects are a thing the best we could achieve is to ban heroes nobody would have picked anyway and for no reason.
If anything you should be happy, because if a hero is basicly permabanned or has a very high ban rate, it signals Blizzard that something is wrong with it and they are basicly forced to fix it. This is why map votes should have been a thing years ago as well.
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These are called Protects, they exist in other games and they would negate bans with the comparatively limited OW roster.
Unless there was a system where protects only had a chance to preserve your hero, not a guarantee.
I don’t think bans work in a hero shooter with a roster of this size, i.e. no hero does what Sombra or Ana does (by design), wheras in MOBAs abilities are fully replicated all over the place, thus I don’t think they work well in OW.
But the devs seem determined to learn every lesson they’re going to publicly through trial and error. We’re also very early into the hero ban system.
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We’ll find a way, eventually
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Maybe it should protect your hero versus your own team. I dunno though, literally no one seems to use the Preferred Hero as that, they usually use it as the hero they want most banned.
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It’s hardly a controversial idea either way. As others have pointed out, games with a ban feature often have protects too.
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As Widowmaker would say :
Le No
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Its bascially asking to remove hero bans.
It seems people enjoy hero bans even if they have yet no idea how to use it.
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This defeats the whole point of hero bans.
Hero bans are meant to ban unwanted heroes regardless if some players want to play them.
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But then we would need a “mega ban”, which would allow you to ban a reserved hero.
Then you could have a “protected hero” who cannot be banned or mega banned.
So we would then need an “ultra ban” which can ban a “protected hero”.
Let the arms race begin!!!
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This ban system was announced a long time ago, and during that time some players did not want to learn how to play with other heroes, because they believed that the hero they play would never be banned.
How difficult was it to learn how to play with other characters? Are you playing any simulator of this single hero?
Ex.: At the beginning of Overwatch 1, I was a Mercy main, but as time went on I started playing with other people who were also Mercy mains, and I had to adapt to other heroes.
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This again defeats the whole purpose of bans, if youre only interested in playing one hero, theres QP/Arcade to play
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One quick reason.
5 stack “reserves” the meta comp. Meaning the op heroes can’t be banned.
Literally fly’s against everything bans are for.
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Solution to hero bans: Play QP or literally anything without them.
Bruh reservations just render hero bans null, why have them in the first place lol.
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