Why is it whenever Rein falls out of meta he gets some insane buff that forces him right back into it, or why is it when McCree starts becoming worse than Ashe and Soldier they buff him so he’s more insane than the already power creeped Soldier and Ashe, but when Bastion, Torb and Sym have been off meta for the last 4 years they literally do nothing. Is it because these characters are ‘poster childs’ for the game? or some dev who really likes playing these characters hates playing Rein and losing to an Orisa (Which was supposed to be his counter when she released). I seriously hope Overwatch 2 can be more fair to all characters and avoid the huge powercreep that this game has. Every character deserves their time to shine and watching Blizzard forcefully choose what character stays meta and what character stay trash really ruins the whole diversity aspect of this game.
Support has literally had the same must pick characters for the last 3 years. Baptiste, Ana and Brigette. If you play Zen or Lucio you’re basically throwing the game.
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Reinhardt is a bad hero.
Cassidy is not that great.
Soldier and Ashe are powercreeped; just like every hero.
Bastion, Sym, and torb are good picks on their maps.
Orisa is getting reworked to be more flexible.
And… you know nothing about this game.
Bap, Brig, Zen are the MOST broken heroes in this game currently. 
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I think Reinhardt is extremely overrated by you guys. I like the guy, but it seems like he’s only a problem the entire team is pocketing him.
Why do you guys see Lucio speed boosting him, Ana healing him, Zarya bubbling him, and decide “clearly Reinhardt’s the problem”?
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Evidently neither do you.
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Ummm, do you even know how to read? I said Brig, Bap and Ana have been gatekeeping the support role for years. Zen, not so much. The characters kit may be better than Lucio but it ain’t gatekeeping much.
Also, McCree is insanely OP right now? Like ever since they buffed him to keep up with Soldier flash fan the hammer deletes tanks. The man does reapers job better than Reaper does and he also has mid-long range capability.
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No it was maybe like a year ago that both bap and brig were considered trash picks and brig hasn’t even changed since the time she was considered a trash pick, but she just magically became good.
Im not saying that Reinhardt is a problematic character, its more that whenever he falls out of meta Blizzard is pretty hasty to try and put him back in, unlike Orisa who has been neglected most of the time and Sigma, who constantly gets nerfed and hasn’t got a buff in years.
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Hanzo, Cass falling in ladder via negative winrate? they buff them to be better than soldier, ashe.
Bap, Brig, Zen Dominating? They’re fine. zen with bap or brig: he isn’t throw pick. Lucio Moira being troll pick? That’s Fine.
Screw genji,doom,reaper,lucio etc.
Its double shield hard pocket time baby 
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Rein hasn’t been meta for a bit lol
Your post kinda died right here sorry man
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Not true, sure he hasn’t been the best tank in GM for awhile but he’s the most played tank overall for all ranks. He’s been seeing lots of play ever since they gave him the 300 damage buff to his ult. Which was completely unnecessary and forced him back into play.
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thats because he is the simplest tank to play
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So close to a good take…
You almost had it
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only one thing i disagree with is “zen being a throw pick” but yeah, ive always known that theres blatant bias when balancing this game. its quite obvious to see how certain heroes (mainly the bottom dps heroes) get catered while others are neglected horribly. so sad how this game’s balance has fallen now that you see the same heroes almost every match you run up to.
True, he doesn’t gatekeep supports. He gatekeeps tanks.
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Apparently I’m not smart enough.
I guess I should listen to Gold and Silver players about game balance since they seem to understand the game further than Master and Grandmaster players.
Using my off-roles that I haven’t placed in 2.5 years to rank shame me while your profile is private.
How classy. Anyways, my take is backed up by actual masters players (Toast and Jasonbent) and not some unnamed fiction you have 
I never said anything about your intelligence. I just stated that your take has fundamental flaws that your fabled GM’s wouldn’t make.
and so do all your other takes but that’s a story for another day
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Zen is only good because the Brig would be constantly watching out for him. Its as “OP”
as Pharahmercy, if not a significant amount less because at least the Zen-Brig duo requires both parties to have SOME amount of braincells to peel and hit stuff vs the Mercy just holding a bloody mouse button. Its called team play, like Rein-Zar, Double Shield, Hog Ball, etc. The game is literally designed around trying to get good hero synergy.
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Overwatch is primarily a team game. Decisions about its balance are always from that perspective. They want heroes to shine when they are played properly in a team environment at a reasonable level of skill. They don’t balance it to make certain heroes carries. This is why solo queue can often feel really bad. As for the same heroes being meta - well those heroes are the ones that work best in teams.
the devs have been pretty clear they only want dps to be impactful they want everyone else to be a role player and pocket dps
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