guys, can we please nerf doom in season 8 too? i dont think he is trash enough yet
and while your at it, increase ana’s nade to 60 seconds cd but make it oneshot
good game design guys right? as long as we increase the cooldown then its balanced right? 
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i don’t play doom, but what i assume will happen is freeing up some of his power away from CC will allow a compensation buff down the line elsewhere if it turns out to hurt him too much. i think they were worried that with all support utility nerfs he would just eat them alive. and also, cc feels really bad against other tanks too. hope they keep a close eye and don’t just leave him like that if he turns out to have been hurt too much.
We balance around gold supports! If you don’t like it get out!
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Reducing Doomfist’s CC makes the game more fun to play.
The next rework after Roadhog needs to be reworking Doomfist back to the damage role, but remove his stun, reduce his displacement of enemies, and reduce his burst damage potential compared to OW1 Doomfist so that he is a healthy hero for the game.
Out of the list of anti fun things in overwatch, there are loads of things at the top of the list before doom. Doom isn’t even that big of a deal when heroes like ana bastion and sombra exist. People who think doom is anti fun just think people being better at the game than them is anti fun.
If the game isn’t going to be focused on balance around OWL, they will balance it around the players.
Guess where the bell curve is biggest?
Doomfist just needs reworked back to DPS the way I said. Any tank design that is overly-focused on stunning, knocking back enemies, and 1-shot comboing them (Empowered Punch), is always going to be unfun on the receiving end of it.
I haven’t even seen anyone say they like playing alongside tank Doomfist either, since he leaves the team feeling too vulnerable.
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Doomfist was pretty good, but the nerfs may not be deserved. They should work on fixing some of the bugs that ruin his consistency before they make changes like these.
He was the best tank after sigma zarya.
He was also the one with the least amount of counterplay if you werent playing support out of the three
Doom has been one of the best tanks in the game for a long time now.
Guess what happens when you balance around mid ranks in a competitive game? The entire point of a competitive system goes right out the window. What motivation does anyone have to improve at the game when they know the game just gets progressively worse and more unbalanced the higher they climb?
Notice how OW2 is the least populated competitive shooter. The popular ones balance for high end competition, because when you do that there’s a purpose in practicing and improving.
If you balance for casuals you ruin the game for competitive players. If you balance for competitive players, casuals can still have a great time.