Iirc that’s wrong. They removed it because the passive was actually a deterrent for some players because the sudden speed boost was throwing off their aim. The mid to long range heroed like hanzo were the ones that were affected the most.
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This is the silliest thing I’ve ready today. That’s saying something. I just read a hugepick comment.
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But wait, what does that say about Genji mains? 
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Overwatch is probably in the most balanced state it’s ever been. Balance =/= Fun.
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Good thing all the Hanzo mains got that reload speed passive to compensate!
(lol)
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Well that’s an entirely different thing because blizz can’t come up with a proper passive or just give people the option to turn it off if they want.
That’s literally why they don’t. Every match needs the same amount of dps and support players. To make the queue times not terrible, supports need to be a bit stronger than dps to offset that.
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Not really, i will spend money on my aesthetic tastes even if it is a hero i don’t play much,
- Males characters need to look bada**.
- Female characters need to look either sexy or cute…
- I am a complete sucker for asian culture…
I have some many crap steam games because of anime thumb nails on the game sold me on it…
They are new skins people wouldn’t of got them if they were not gonna use them, they need to use them do give some semblance of value…
for some reasons dps get balanced around getting peel and pockets, while supports won’t get balanced around getting healed by each other, ergo we have the support passive.
passive so useless unless the support won’t heal the other support.
That is basically every solo queue lobby, though. That is almost why the passive is widely considered broken. Just saiyan.
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yeah for some reasons its valid to balance support around solo play.
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I’m pretty sure they made bank with Lifeguard Mercy.
Support favoritism (Mercy especially) has been a thing even in OW1.
They seems to be noticeably vocal in social media and Blizzard want to be on their good side.
Ofc they will and there will be overreacting from the support side as usual.
I do not think anything other than OWL was “catered to”, I think the state of supports and tanks are due to simple incompetence.
Emm… supports don’t need to heal themselves nearly as much when they have that passive going on. What this does in practice is you peel for your support when he really needs it but you don’t waste time tapping their 30-50 dmg wounds so it increases their uptime a lot because you can instead of healing another support keep dpsing or healing your other teammates. It takes care of poke damage when they are rotating. It allows them to spread out more. It allows them to survive way easier when one support is dead. It allows them to save their self-sustain cooldowns more often. There are many situations where that passive is useful.
People remember 8 min queues for tank and DPS and 1 min queues for heals when the game launched. This is really the only reason for healer power creep. It’s really the only reason I mostly play support out of habit today.
That Devils dude is right, though. They wildly overtuned tanks because nobody wanted to play them in OW1 and they went crazy. Get ready for them to get the current healer treatment again when people lose their minds after tanks start exploding after heal nerfs.
OP is wildly off base.
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They made supports more like dps to make dps players play the support role, it’s not that complicated, there’s no QAnon conspiracy behind it like OP is saying.
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I was there and had a 60% win rate. They weren’t bad at all and never needed buffs. They just got buffed because most support mains were used to being babysat by an off tank and not used to taking duels into their own hands so they went to the forums to cry in masses together.
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“I need healing” intensifies !
Just remember to thank your “over powered” support heroes when you win 
Technically your theory is a conspiracy theory. It is correct, obviously. But I mean, as far as I am aware, they have never really said as much for anyone outside of Kiriko and Lifeweaver was quite the deviation from the trend.