Thoughts on the new Patch

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Since the new patch came out yesterday, I’ve seen many players talking about it, along with some heroes that may or may not being kinda broken, or really trash tier. Let’s get started:

  • The armor nerf was a huge dent for GOATS and any tank that had armor. I believe that the nerf was necessary, but I hope that tanks are buffed in some way in the future.

  • Brigs’ ultimate was also nerfed, with her Rally armor only lasting a certain amount of time. This change was severely needed, and I believe she is finally not a hell-spawn overpowered hero. Sadly, with the armor nerf, she is now pretty weak, and needs to be buffed in some way.

  • Although I don’t know much about D.va, she was recently nerfed as well, having her Defense Matrix cooldown go from 1 second to 2. (I think that was it?) I believe that this nerf was good and needed, but D.va kinda relied on her matrix to keep her alive, so I believe that she should be buffed in some other way to increase her survivability, along with some other tanks (Rein, Orisa, Hammond).

  • Reaper. Oh boy. Reaper has been pretty trash tier for the past like, year and a half, I don’t really know, but was recently buffed, increasing his lifesteal to a phenomenal 50%. I love the changes the devs have done to him, because I have wanted to get his golden guns for a while, but never saw him as extremely viable. Moving on though, Reaper is quite strong, no two ways about it. The lifesteal is huge, so I think that should be lowered a little bit, but still above where it was pre-patch. The area that he needs to be buffed in is his Shadowstep, which could also be replaced, I do not know. Overall the changes are nice for a secondary Reaper main, but too strong for the game itself.

  • Overall: I personally enjoy the patch notes, as they are a step in the right direction, though they do need some changes. My #1 change would be on keeping the tanks at tank level, they’re called that for a reason. That’s just my thoughts and opinions, sorry if you think I’m wrong.

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She is fine, just her play style now has to be less aggressive.
Before all she did is Dive into you, Boop, Meele, DM + Face Rocket missiles + Main gun.

Which prevented the person from fighting back and do a ton of damage. Finally she would fly away once her RP CD was over.

Now she has to use DM has a way to protect her self instead of using it as an aggressive tool instead.

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D.va is in an interesting place currently. While I agree with you on the Defense Matrix change being good, the armor nerf hits her hard, and when she runs out of her matrix, she’ll just be a walking/flying hitbox.

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No, if she Dives only enemies out of position she still has the advantage with her health.

Problem is with these changes she a very ineffective Tank and can’t cause disruption.

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I knew I was missing the bigger picture. You are right, but I don’t believe that her changes should be reverted pre-patch. She needs something else, but I think that Defense Matrix is in an alright place currently.

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She could get a new passive. Damage absorbed by DM gives her a temporary shield based on 25% of the damage absorbed.

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That sounds pretty good actually, it would increase her survivability, while still keeping the matrix nerf. Does D.va have a passive?

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I’m not a huge fan. I think the change to tanks hurt the viability of less played tanks more than popular ones. I think it really solidified the role of Rein+Zarya as the only viable combination of tanks in the game. Winston and Hammond spend more time “face tanking” than Rein, so the loss of survivability hurts them disproportionately despite having less armor, and Orisa was excessively squishy before and is kind of pathetic now. Meanwhile, the armor nerf hurt Dva a lot and then there’s her specific nerf, which pretty much leaves Zarya unchallenged as the best off tank.

Basically, the armor nerf hit three tanks who were already having trouble competing and completely ignored one who was probably too good already.

As far as Brig, I don’t think further nerfs are the answer. Her design clearly doesn’t work in the game at this point. It’s time to rework her into something else… nerfing her more will fix the problem by making her useless, I guess, but it’s just soft deleting her at some point.

Reaper is a weird case of oppressive and still useless, pretty much exactly as was predicted.

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This patch hit me hard alhonesty.

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I feel you there in some places lol

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