Just look at the state the newest Support hero got launched. Everyone is right to wonder are they testing anything and are they playing their own game or they just flip some numbers.
“HP nerfs to mobile heroes that have big advantage” was not this it all, it was even more unjustified nerfs to Support role. And majority of them were wrong and for heroes that didn’t need these nerfs at all.
DVa, Tank that’s been dominating for whole S11 continues to do just that because she gets a slap on the wrist nerf that doesn’t really change anything. Zarya gets a buff, Orisa gets a buff… As a 225 hero you literally can’t do anything vs. Tanks! You can’t do anything at all but die.
It’s just insane how much they power crept the Tank role while making Supports worse and worse in every way season after season. This is not OW anymore, this is like playing DBD trying to survive and healbot 90% of the match! It’s awful!
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I don’t even want to play support anymore. It’s even worse in clash. Not much room to avoid tanks. It’s really awful.
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I stopped playing support since s9. TBH i uninstalled the game last month. Since none of the roles were fun to play. At this point i rather play OW1. Every season of OW2 has been awful with s9 being the worst of the worst.
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didnt nerf tracer i noticed
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I have been worn down mentally after so many games of Moira and Junes as my two supports. I get it, because supports are getting eviscerated right now, but without any defensive utility, I just evaporate. I am all of a sudden convinced that Winston is truly overpowered. Shoeglazer wins.
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This season is definitely going to be a very steep learning curve for a lot of support mains.
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i think someone of them should have lower HP, but tanks should’ve gotten nerfed too
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What you guys fail to realize, Support has been the most dominate role for ages, and you guys got comfy with crazy self sustain to where you’re knocked down a peg and gotta actually play the game correctly now
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And yet it constantly has the longest queue time.
Could y’all that don’t want to support anymore start flexing so I don’t get tank every game?
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Nerfing a handful of the supports to 225 basically omega buffed picks like Illari, Baptiste, Ana, and even in some cases Lifeweaver.
Tracer and Sombra eat 225 HP supports for lunch.
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I switched to DPS after S9. I tried support this season, but it’s just too awful.
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The game is again a respawn simulator if you play support, the devs want to make TANKS popular, everything got worse since S9.
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Yeah i came back from a hiatus and did not enjoy support at all. I was bullied hard all game.
The hero having no way to hesl herself really stunk. I was alyways dead.
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i totally and completely disagree…
supports are deadly now. Kiri over here two tapping again, and i am thrilled about it. but not just two tapping, you can drop a 225 with a crit and two bodies. it’s bonkers and i love it. plus her kunai got a HUGE buff vs. armor and shields with the 33% base damage increase.
then on top of all that, Bap is still a 250. So the only thing that’s changed for him is that everything around him is squishier. Illiari same.
i haven’t tried lucio’s 22 dmg primary fire yet, but i would guess lucio mains are really happy with this patch.
i can actually carry on support now. it’s amazingly fun.
probably the healbots are having a really rough time though.
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^ exactly
Kiriko’s compensation buff in particular IMO is actually really good for those who can aim. Since before, you used to do 112.5 damage per critical shot.
Multiply that by 2 and you still only did 225 damage. I’m not sure how much damage a melee does, but it probably wasn’t enough to finish off low health targets after double headshot.
Now, kiriko does 120 damage each critical headshot. Multiply that by 2 and you now deal 240 damage. You’ll still need to melee to finish off 250HP targets but with the recent health nerfs, more enemies will die from just dings now. Now to mention not everyone is full health all the time, so even if the enemy has 250HP, you might still be able to 2 tap them if they take small damage from allies.
Every other support also got compensation buffs too in damage along with HP nerf. The damage buff might not be as good for some, but it definitely was good for kiriko IMO.
The only hero that received unjustifiable nerf IMO is hanzo who I don’t really consider a “mobility” hero. I don’t even know why he got nerfed with no compensation buff. It’s good though that he can one shot more enemies now with the minor HP nerf.
I’m a bit worried though about sombra receiving compensation buff in virus damage. This might make certain supports like mercy even harder to play? Idk I’m not a mercy main but that’s the implication I’m feeling that could happen with these balance changes. Everything else seems fine, but I haven’t played the new patch though.
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It hasn’t been overwatch anymore since October 2022.
It has been OverwatchToo.
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For me, its this catch 22 of in order to escape being sat on by mobile unkillable tanks for 4 seconds, you’ll be switching to supports that are going to evaporate the moment your ability is on cd. And their cool downs are half of yours.
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Supports are fine, and still the strongest role to play. For a small hp nerf, they recieved good compensation buffs.
You just got too comfortable with their broken state pre s9 patch, so you now cant play them obviously.
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i main lucio and im doing fine having no problem really im loving the buff he got he very much needed it
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melee does 40 and kiriko got a huge buff to her skill floor and skill ceiling a 15 base damage boost on body shots and a 7.5 damage on head shots that’s crazy good
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