Support main here

And the constant nerfs to meta supports make me want to main DPS, no shade, not whining, it’s just what it is.

The DPS category goes through cycles or nerfs and buffs, yeah, but nowhere near the severity or rate of the support category.
[excluding the outliers, torb sym sombra]

It’s no secret that casuals [me] are upset when their favorite heros are nerfed, or in my case, a specific category.

To a lessar degree, i feel the same way about the tank category, but that’s only because i mained Dva and then subsequently Orisa after Dva got nerfed a million times, and it’s hard for me to get excited to play Dva and Orisa because they feel like paper mache.

This isn’t particularly a discussion that I’m going to take part in, only because i know I’ll get over these nerfs eventually, and I’m not going to discuss something that might not be an issue in a few months. Nerfs and buffs are going to happen no matter what i feel, and i do place a certain amount of trust in the balance team to get to a place where the game feels fun for casuals.

TL;DR I’m a casual.

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How to be sure your hero will still be playably decent after they become a meta pick and subsequently get nerfed

-be a DPS main

literally every time a DPS has been a meta pick they’ve always been reasonable enough with the nerfs to ensure the hero remains playable. (With the exception of Genji but he didn’t get directly nerfed, the meta just shifted away from him)

whenever a tank or support has gotten good enough to be a meta pick the nerf hammer has been gratuitous and without remorse (D.va, Mercy, Orisa, Sigma, Baptiste, Brigitte) to the point that the hero has ceased to function afterwards

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Oh a casual, then it doesn’t matter