I voiced my opinion, and now I’m seeing the improvements I desired. Thank you for listening to me, as well as the many other players with similar views. Good riddance hero pools.
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i kinda feel like they listened to the OWL pros more than anything but allright…
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That may be true, but it’s still a wish come true from my perspective.
Yeah I cant wait to play against Reinhardt every single freaking game until they nerf him in 5 months, itll be FUUUUUUN
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They got rid of hero pools for bronze-diamond, how does that part affect pros?
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I’m honestly super happy they aren’t going to be in my games.
They’ve literally nerfed him twice in three weeks.
Well they only made changes just right now after the controversy OWL had with hero pools, and it was right next to a few changes for the OWL players,
its just suspicious timing
If Reinhardt is a must-pick, that’s a balance issue, therefore hero bans wouldn’t be a correct solution anyway.
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But the change that most people are happy about has NOTHING to do with OWL pros. The more likely scenario is they spent time testing and seeing how many people didn’t like hero pools. Especially since they said it would likely last at least a season, and it’s near the end of the season.
Yes, they reverted a buff he never should have gotten and they nerfed his ult. I’m glad that changes his must pick tank status. Oh wait, it doesn’t.
Instead, theyre gonna nerf him over and over again with pointless nerfs, then finally do the right nerf, but that plus all the other nerfs have made him useless.
Or they could just buff the other tanks, but they seem to have no interest in that.
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So it’s your fault is it? Everyone, get em!
Kidding
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Yes but with that logic hero bans shouldn’t exist at all.
The goal of hero bans are
- To create a temporary more diverse meta
And - To allow swift action against banned heroes to prevent repeat bans.
Blizzard doesnt do the later, but for the first thing, bans help.
I agree with you. If the game was balanced (or even even remotely close to it), hero bans would have never been needed to begin with.
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Tell us what the right nerf is
Revert the movement speed with shield up buff.
Revert the shatter stun duration nerf.
Increase cast time on shatter by a very, VERY small amount.
Buff Orisa and Sigma.
Either prevent or weaken 2 shield tanks on 1 team.
The shatter nerf may not be necessary once it has more varied counterplay from orisa and sigma. But the shield speed buff broke rein. He is able to push way too aggressively. He steamrolls any comp that cannot directly oppose him because of it, and steadfast makes preventing his approach even harder. However, as a rein main I would rather keep steadfast, it’s good for rein.
Don’t like this idea. Just makes bunker the only viable strat again.
I think the shatter duration nerf is fine.
Depends on how small. Open minded to it, but I think making reaction time windows more forgiving only makes the game less skillful, as opposed to more skillful. (Generally speaking).
Sigma seeing a lot of play right now. We’ve gotta be careful about double shield.
Gonna be honest, I cannot stand this idea. It gets floated so often, and I think it would be horrible for the tank role as a whole.
I agree here. Steadfast needs to stay.
Rein either closes the distance reliably and is great, or he doesn’t and he is terrible. That’s how he is. This is why Lucio is so vital to his success.
I’d rather they just increase the ultimate cost dramatically. I have no problem with an ultimate being very powerful. Grav is very powerful. It just needs to take much longer to get than other ults.
It’s just such a difficult situation. I mean, as a tank player, I hate only having 1/4th of the tanks. being viable. That is how it usually is, due to tanks controlling the meta, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen something as bottle neck as rein zarya is right now. It really is a challenging situation.
But I main rein. And I’ve been around this game for a long, long time. And I know what happens to problem heroes that blizzard can’t figure out what to do with. Just like mercy. Like mei. Orisa. Sigma. Brigitte. Baptiste. D.va. It happens to all of them. Small nerfs that don’t do much stack, and in the end, the hero IS dealt with, but at what cost? They end up basically unplayable. I’m so afraid of that happening to rein because honestly if it does I’ll probably quit.
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I have the same fears as Rein main.
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All the tanks are more or less equal right now, with Rein being the best by far: but he’s an outlier. It’s why when Rein is banned, you see A LOT more diversity: because he’s the one holding every other tank back. It’s not that all the other tanks are bad, it’s that rein is insanely OP right now.
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