Support is absolutely terrible

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Hey guys, I’ve been saying support players should really hate Overwatch 2 ever since Beta

Playing support in Overwatch 2 is kinda bad

If you’re a support player, you should be hating this new game that is going to be forced out on everyone. I’m a Lucio player, arguably the support that benefits the most from the new changes and Lucio is still LESS fun and useful than he is on the live game unless you play like a DPS. Reasons why supports are just weaker now are because you get your ult wayyyy slower, there’s one less tank to soak up damage and give you ult charge. Not only that but now the game is alot faster and basically al…

'Support isn't bad in OW2, you're just coping'

I’m really sick and tired of people who play DPS and Tanks telling support players that Overwatch 2 supports are fine and in fact playing support now is more fun than Overwatch 1!. Firstly, I want to know from these people, why would playing support in OW2 be more fun? So far I’ve only heard its a new game and we have a healing passive (even though all roles got a new passive) or something but there’s so many reasons why Overwatch 2 is just worse than Overwatch 1 as a support player. Firstly, DP…

This was when everyone was hyped for Overwatch 2 and this wasn’t a popular opinion at all saying that Support players should absolutely DESPISE the new game.
Anyway, the reason I bring this up is because now that everything is final in the game I just wanted to run down my thoughts on the support roster.

Firstly, the power gap between the best support and worst support in the game is now HUGE.
The worst supports are probably Mercy, Brig and maybe Zen (Situational pick) basically right now if you don’t run either Lucio, Bap, Ana and Koriko and the enemy does, you basically lose.

Basically, Blizzard needs to focus on making Brig and Mercy actually playable and this will either involve buffing them or nerfing everyone else. (Bap and Koriko are stupidly overtuned).

Also in this new 5 v 5 era, playing Support isn’t the same. Support needs some significant play potential to be fun, currently a ‘play’ with support is surviving a Genji blade by hiding and not being picked off. There needs to be some impact potential for supports or its going to be the same problems as tanks in Overwatch 1 when nobody wanted to play the role.

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Nah.
Support is fine.

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I don’t feel that Brig’s down at Mercy’s level, personally. Whip alone can be so useful in screwing up some tanks’ positioning. Meanwhile, Mercy’s damage-by-proxy is reliant on teammates, and Rez is all very well and good but I prefer to have tools to prevent teammates from being reduced to a red mist. Valk is also nothing to write home about compared to most support ults.

If I feel that I need reliable healing, I go Kiriko instead.

[Dastil-2946]

Yeaaah I had that opinion too in the beta aaaand yep wasn’t popular eighter, so I can confirm that.

Also I don’t think that kiriko is that busted. If the enemy and your team play hitscan, which honestly they do most of the times in my games, it is better to run a zen for example with a big heal hero next to him than her.

Also brigs problem is very fundamental and really shows what’s wrong with the supports. To maximize your healing with here you are forced to fight, but going to the frontline will kill you fast. So the best playstyle is to wait for enemy flankers ooooooor honestly just to swap. What I want to say is, that she is waaay too situational, because of the big target that supports have.

And for mercy? Give me Dual wielding bro xD Suuure burst heal would be fine, but come on a pistol/staff dual wielding mercy would be sooooo fun!

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While Brig probably isn’t as bad as Mercy, she’s significantly less powerful than the other supports still. Her healing is just too weak and her CC ability that was where almost all her value was at was removed from the game without significant buffs to compensate her power.