Like I know the world cup is around and that Alec and the guys on the balancing team where reluctant to make any major changes because the competitors need to be familiar with the current meta and all but who is gonna really watch the world cup with the resident sleeper META in place? Another question is who was this META made for because it’s clearly something the current playerbase absolutely loathes to death but apparently we all must be wrong and everything is fine? When I get off comp to relax for example I still have to deal with it in QP because appearntly winning in QP matters all of a sudden too?
I just hope for the love of god once the world cup is over we see Bastion, Orisa, Illari, Zarya, and other current offenders get hit so hard with the nerf hammer that they are immediately F tier for 2yrs or more.
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I’m tired of seeing dive being the meta thing all the damn time. I’m tired of seeing Dva, Winston, Ball, etc. Bastion being in there? That’s refreshing to see for a change. Orisa in a different playstyle. Bap/Illari instead of the endless Brig/Ana?
I’ll enjoy the time period of spam comp for a change where things slow down and other heroes can finally get played for a change.
The thing about Dive is that you don’t even see it outside of Diamond at the lowest and in general the game is at it’s most enjoyable state by far when it is the dominant team comp.
I also dislike these used to be F tiers to pop up in higher ranks, niche should stay niche. If somebody would tell me that bastion/sym/torb would be playable in high ranks meta-wise I’d say “you are out of your mind” and then they add “Listen man, there would be a torbjorn alike support hero with afk pylon” and I’d uninstall in advance. But it is what it is. Devs are making money on that selling skins to casuals that want the game to play itself more than they will. Spread and increased hitscan projectiles instead of aiming demands (bast/illary/Ana), afk objects on map that play itself (turrets/pylons etc). Everyone has falloff on hitscan but Ana is exception that can outdamage Ashe/Cree range-wise and has forgivable hitscan hitbox on top of having the smallest player model hitbox, on top of the passive with 350-400 effective hit points basically. The list can continiue. Greed is Good, Blizzard, greed is good…
Obviously not even pretending you want the game balanced.
Oh, so you don’t want to balance so heroes are around equal in high elo?
And you don’t want to balance for low elo play?
They deserve punishment for annoying me, simple as robot.
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You know what? I respect someone who actually just comes out and says that 
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Full dive is uncommon, but many people play dive components or attempt to in low-mid tiers.
Genji is like the most popular DPS in the entire game. He’s like Ana where no matter where you go every other game will feel like they are there. Dive tank skill is questionable, but its still always annoying to hvae to deal with a ball player, sombra, tracer, or Genji. There are side grades of dive as well.
Widow + Winston/Tracer is actually a dive variant where say Widow supports from the rear like an Ana, so ending up with like 2-3 characters is rather annoying. Compared to the brick and mortar slower playstyles.