So to summarize right off the bat, there seems to be a weird pattern in the classes of each new hero. From what I could find, the pattern goes "Support,Dps,Tank, mirrors itself, and ends at support. The tank and dps slots switch places every other year". I was curious if this is just a coincidence, or blizzard has a list of which heros are going to be which class?
The current pattern
Ana:Support
Sombra:Dps
Orisa:Tank
Doomfist:Dps
Moira:Support
Brigette(Aka Plz Deliette):Support
and finally Hammond:Tank
If the pattern continues, then hero 29 is a dps.
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how’d you get to that conclusion…
the pattern is 1,2,3,2,1,1,3 aka not a pattern
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I sorted all the added heros chronogicly, replaced the heros with their class, and tried to find any trends in the releases. I ended up with what you see before you. Also, the pattern hasn’t ended yet, it looks incomplete because I could only make due with current heros. If the pattern is true, then you should be seeing 1,2,3,2,1,1,3,2,3,1,1,2,3,2,11 and so on.
and there’s no pattern at all
It doesn’t seem like there’s any real pattern to hero releases, Blizzard just releases whichever heroes are completed and feel best for the game, regardless of class. People wanted another main tank, we got Orisa. People wanted Doomfist, we got Doomfist. There’s not much else to it.
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Only the big boys at blizzard know for sure.
I like the effort, but cerberus is right, there is no correlation between class and hero released. That is like me looking at the first 7 digits of pi and saying it has a pattern cause 1 is repeated
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One would say there is a pattern.A per month released class hero pattern.
So for example in the month of July we have gotten Anna/Doomfist/Wrecking Ball hence heal/dps/tank.
On the month of March we have gotten Orisa/Brigitte so we lack a dps (edited i typed healer ).
On the month of November we have gotten Sombra/Moira hence we lack a tank hero.
But if you were to start looking for patterns you would see them everywhere much like the movie 23.The brain works miracles like that.
They have, at the very least, 3 separate heroes in testing at any given moment, they look at what the game needs at the moment, then decide which Hero gets added
People want Doomfist
Gets Doomfist
People want another main tank
Gets Orisa
People want a vampire-ish support
Gets Moira
Dive is annoying
Gets Brigitte
Dive wasn’t as annoying as we thought, plus another skill hero plz
Gets Wrecking Ball
That’s the pattern
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A defensive DPS IMO, we had 2 offense DPS since release but no dfensive ones
DPS are no longer Defense or Offense, as they have been changing them to be centered on comps more than battle arrangements
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