I’m done switching positions like a politician. Who’s the best generalist of the cast? One hero to do it all, without having to, you know, considering what your team plays, the enemy team plays, how that hero can do with yours, etc, etc.
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Robocop herself, sojourn.
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Soldier, Freja, Sojourn
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Depends what role we are talking. If dps, sojourn for higher mmr players, soldier for most people.
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Mei can tank, damage and heal herself.
She has area denial abilities, she can block a tunnel for a few precious seconds and she can headshot.
You can’t make it more generalist than that.
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Tracer is the most generalist hero of all, so her
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Tracer can’t do anything against flying characters, long range characters, dive, and brawl. If you’re assuming tracer can actually get close to these hero’s then venture is 10x better than her.
She soft counters both Echo and Pharah, and shreds Juno too.
Soft counters literally all of them
Literally the best anti-dive hero in the game
Can’t touch her unless she’s actively going for a kill
There’s a reason she’s picked so often. Pretty much nothing counters her and most of her worst matchups are just neutral.
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Symmetra is easily the best generalist. She has high close range damage. High long range damage. She counters barriers and mobility while having the best mobility tool in the game; allowing your entire team to push past chokes. That is on top of area denial with her turrets and the ability to create a cross map barrier. Is there anything she cannot do? 
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ana. she works basically anywhere
If Ana had some form of mobility, then I would agree. Though may make her very OP.
range makes up for lack of mobility in the vast majority of situations. the amount of time and or resources needed to interact with you at range is value enough. and when it isnt, her self heal, anti and general duelling capabilities can bail her out.
she would absolutely be busted with mobility cough stadium hanzo dash cough
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Best generalists are found in the Tank-role. Barring that, your best choices tend to be Tracer, Soldier, Sojourn, Lucio, and Baptiste.
Freja’s a bit too specialized.
Argument falls flat just like the “Mei is a tank” argument.
Definitely one of them.
Most ceilings for flying heroes don’t go past 20 meters, that’s generally within Tracer’s optimal shooting range.
And even if they are outside of it, Tracer still has ways of bringing them down or baiting them.
Uhhh… most of her worst match-ups aren’t too terrible for her, but yeah… this sounds right, or close to it.
Ana’s too specialized for being a generalist. Though she has a fairly balanced skill-set, her core designs don’t really lend to anything more than artillery designs, which aren’t really generalized.
She can damage at short and long distance, she has support abilities and can hold her own against all types of opponents.
The whole “Mei is a tank” fade might not be entirely true, but it didn’t came from nowhere. Her abilities allows her to fill any part that is lacking on the battlefield.
Mei is the ultimate generalist hero.
That’s why she’s not played that much. The very notion of supporting your team instead of flanking like a maniac is too hard to understand for a DPS player.
And it was even more true in Overwatch 1 when she was able to freeze enemies for her team with primary fire.
Nowadays, it just slows, which is still useful but not as much.
There is no one who can even pretend to be more of a generalist than Mei.
If you care about healing, then probably Soldier or Baptiste.
Gets hard countered by the forum Ana
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The biggest problem with Mei being an generalist is that it is far too specialized for that. She might have two fires, but she’s also a really excellent controller, but not much else there. She’s great at stalling, Cryo-Freeze doesn’t really allow for a more generalized playstyle and hurts her offensively and even defensively. She’s great at support and facilitating offensively or defensively, and Blizzard is still a really good ultimate. But she’s got some clear weaknesses that other generalists don’t really have.
It is more than just healing, or flanking or control, it’s about how a hero can fit into any team playstyle and can play at different strategies or different offensives or defensives. It’s also about a lack of specific or crippling weaknesses, which Mei unfortunately has.
Mei
Tank,dps,self heal
Wall is borderline better than a lot of tank utility.
She can deal with brawl and snipers too
She literally is the only hero that can do EVERYTHING
Jack of all trades/master of none
Ball, Sombra and Moira can all tank (hold space/disrupt), heal, and DPS.
Interestingly, you play them all the same 
Sojourn , best generalist hero
Can out snipe snipers
Can out brawl brawlers
Can kite any dive with her rocket legs
Can pressure people from narnia
Ohh someone is hiding behind cover , here’s the orb of cancer
Ashe is close next , but she requires way more skill , she can also kite dives very effectively , can get u out of cover but u gotta hit the dynamite shots and ashe has damage falloff
Sojourn does not have any downside to her kit , none