The “favoured by devs” Tier List 3.0

General Discussion
1

Since we got our last patch in this year it’s time to look at the favoured by devs tier list again. Did they finally start balancing the heroes equally?
NO. :clown_face:

The list can be found here

https://imgur.com/a/byThcVy

Following heroes climbed one tier: Zenyatta, Roadhog, Soldier 76, Baptiste, Wrecking Ball
Follwing heroes dropped one tier: Genji, Lucio, Doomfist, Reaper

Climbs without changing the tier: Widowmaker, McCree, D.Va, Torbjörn, Echo, Sombra, Symmetra
Drops without changing the tier: Hanzo, Winston, Junkrat, Phara, Brigitte, Bastion

Explanations: Tier 1: (not needed) Rein buff and Baptiste nerfs as soon as his pickrate climbs to 8% but Ana is allowed to have a 10%+ pickrate for 2-3 years. And no nade nerfs despite the forum begging for them.

Tier 2: We all know the devs don’t like to nerf Tracer

Tier 3: McCree and Brigitte got 25 HP and their pickrates went up very fast but only one of them got nerfed. Guess who didn’t.
Geni didn’t fit next to Tracer.

Tier 4: Suddenly the devs love Roadhog or they still don’t know how to nerf him while not destroying him.
Mercy, Zenyatta and Winston are in the “few balance changes but they don’t really need them either” category.
Baptiste is here too despite the double standards compared to Ana. He still gets buffs and nerfs if needed.

Tier 5: D.Va climbed. She might be a bad hero for so long but she gets small buffs here and there.
Doom and Junk are both bad and don’t get buffs at all.

Tier 6: Reaper is similar to Doom and Junk but worse.
Sombra climbed because for the first time she was an okay pick and the devs didn’t nerf her immediately.
Symmetra climbed from last to pre last because the last 3 changes to her were (useless) buffs so they tried at least.
Bastion is getting ignored.

21 Likes
2

35 Likes
3

Didn’t they try and delete D.Va :weary: :weary:

They didn’t try, they did delete her :heart_eyes:

/s

5 Likes
4

why is genji/hanzo so high and not brig, she got a buff literally the patch she underperformed? Winston hasn’t ever gotten a nerf lol. Reaper has been much more consistent to play the only reason they are afraid to make changes is because lower rank players are the ones complaining about them, its consistent across all the characters except brig and moira, who have both gotten buffs almost immediately after underperforming. Overall seems like entitlement since both genji and soldier stayed without changes over 3 years before getting buffs

5

everyome is calling sig torb and echo op rn

6 Likes
6

Why are Genji and Hanzo so high up? They got dumpstered

10 Likes
7

Hanzo is like

B tier tbh, and Genji is like C.

So… there like mediocre.

3 Likes
8

its one of the posts where people have the audacity to say the devs don’t look at brig and moira as much as bastion sym mei lol. Brig moira is literally whats on their minds 24/7 they get the most changes

2 Likes
9

But they do.

Moria has had like 3 experimental for herself, sym has gotten like 6 buffs in the past 6 months, and Brig… deserves it please spare me.

Sombra is like, really good, just requires a lot of teamwork.

Bastion needs a rework, but at-least they gave him buffs.

Mei literally just got buffs.

1 Like
10

You are aware that Rein got also a extremly hard nerf this year?

2 Likes
11

I am talking about like throughout the years.

Sym gets like a rework and then they go dark

genji stayed in the same state from like 2017 even while the whole game power crept around him, not getting a buff till early 2020

soldier was in a similar state and got like 1 buff also but didn’t change much until around sept

hanzo has always been a joke/very strong for a while, this is the only time he has really been balanced.

The characters at the bottom like sigma echo are really good but they haven’t gotten nerfs at all.

Finally moira and brig both immediately in a single patch get a buff while characters like reaper mei genji doom junk have been consistently underperforming

5 Likes
12

I think the thing about Sym is the reworks. Plus the 25 hp is considered a “buff” but I’m guessing they just picked random people to give it too, as with Mccree’s much faster reload, he didn’t need more health

1 Like
13

and then he just got buffed

14

Because a youtube personality complained and she got dumpstered right back where she came from.

4 Likes
15

Lol ball has been given like 5 nerfs he didnt need in the past year

16

she got dumpsetered because she was strong at 225 health, it wasn’t just a youtuber complaining, she immediately climbed to fourth next to bap and if we left her she would have been top 2 again

1 Like
17

Seriously? An extremely hard nerf?
The nerf wasn’t even that bad at all and he’s been compensated for almost every nerf he’s gotten.

3 Likes
18

She immediately climbed to 4th out of 8. I don’t see a problem.

4 Likes
19

He should’ve gotten the shatter nerf reverted.

2 Likes
20

how is a shatter nerf that completely turned the ultimate from a win con to a follow up ult not a nerf? Add to that no one asked for shatter to be nerfed in the first place

1 Like