Recently, supports have became completely overtuned constant buffing and catering to low ranked support players starting with OW2’s removal of a tank, Supports have recieved numerous buffs and recieved basically zero nerfs going into OW2 despite the fact Global health and damage per team has decreased with the loss of a tank which should mean damage is lower and theres less health to provide healing to.
Which should mean healing should’ve been decreased going into OW2 logically.
And yet healing numbers and other buffs have stayed the same and in some cases actually been buffed for example anas buff to 75 healing which has only recently been undone.
We’ve gave them some of the best Utility, Ultimates, Damage, Healing the whole package
Supports make it impossible to have fun on the game on any role DPS like killing and Tanks like taking space and displacing teams ocassionaly punishing positioning supports remove all the fun from both of these roles.
The amount of heal makes it impossible to punish the enemy DPS with all the get out of jail free cards and insane healing numbers.
You almost have to dive the supports first but even then they can heal eachother reposition instantly with the press of a button have utility that can make them unkillable or take you out of the fight instantly.
It feels like theres very little you can do you can say its a 2v1 but supports can quickly change targets with easier to hit abillities and healing unlike DPS which have to put themselves at risk to shoot their targets meanwhile Ana can sit on the otherside of the map with view on her entire team holding her teamfight winning Utility like Anti-Nade and Sleepdart which can cause tanks like Doomfist and Junkerqueen to go back to spawn any rank above Masters.
Alot of these supports are better DPS than the DPS Illari is essentially Cassidy on steroids, Kiriko in my opinion has better flanking value than Genji in alot of situations since she can easily flank and get in your face with Zero risk to herself since she has Suzu and can teleport out of any situations.
She can’t even get an unlucky oneshot headshot like Tracer can unless you’re playing against Hanzo.
You can keep flanking getting in peoples faces untill you generate value envitably you will get a kill and they wont get a kill on you.
We really don’t need to cater to support players they allow and create these horrible metas and are already the most picked role support in my Rank atleast currently has the longest queue times meaning everyone is playing Support instead of DPS and Tank which has never happened before I’m pretty sure.
Tank started as the most popular role in OW2 and is now currently the most unpopular because they get bullied by Supports you do 0 damage can’t get any picks struggle to take space because you do tickle damage incomparison to heal output get antied and slept the whole game by supports discord removes 30% of your health.
Supports can make the game unplayable and send you back to spawn on cooldown you are at the mercy of yours and the enemies supports.
Supports are what caused Roadhog and Sniper metas, you had to play these characters to get any Solo kills because otherwise you cannot kill through healing these characters are very independant characters you shouldn’t need OWL level communications just to play the game (This only happened on ladder btw in OWL they played dive from what I remember because Dive was the optimal comp but you need OWL communication to actually make it worthwhile playing in Comparison to roadhog and snipers.)
Supports caused Double barrier, double barrier would not have been a viable comp without the sustain supports provide, theoretically dive comp absolutely rolls Poke what caused double barrier was allowing poke comps to have some of the most sustain out of any comps.
Supports caused Goats which fundamentally broke the game introduced rolelock killed OW1 and a lot of people called it “The descent of metas” and thats because every meta afterwards in OW1 was horrible to play you can honestly say Supports killed OW1 in a way.
(If anyones wondering I have the brigitte Icon because back in OW1 she ruined the game so badly that just having this Icon would make the enemies hate you begging you not to play brig essentially its Ironic.)
Before this we had Dive, we had a high skill support called Ana who had very obvious weaknesses in her mobility didn’t have the support passive and Brigitte wasn’t released to compensate for her weaknesses so you had to play Lucio to protect Ana from dive which once again Lucio is a very high skill support this meant supports were easy to kill unless you played well and were skillful now supports play for free, You still had alot of value from anti and utility.
Dive was the most fun meta for Tanks and DPS and I’d argue alot of support players enjoyed it too at the very least it was the most popular point in Professional play people loved seeing dive played on the stage.
You know what happened when they saw brig played or rather goats they booed.
Even if you don’t like dive before that it was Brawl another very popular meta the game at its height early overwatch only had Lucio, Mercy and Lucio Zen and it was one of the best periods of the games history supports being broken kills the game.
TLDR : Please stop catering towards low rank support players they’re already incredibly powerful we need to Rework and redistribute support power, they’re already the most popular role in my Rank based off queue times, and it ruins OW content, Tournaments and High tier ladder play.
