Todays devs response to powercreep is Heartbreaking

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So Josh did give an update recently to clarify what he said, and it does shed a little more light on the subject.

@JoshuaNoh-1358

When I looked into the current patch stats, Mei and Genji are both very middle of the pack for GM where I would normally expect players to adhere more closely to the meta.
There’s only about 8 heroes with higher pick rates than Mei/Genji. Soldier pick rate is low, coming in at slightly less than half of Genji’s and is on par with Ashe for both pick/win rate.

One of the perceived strongest and one of the perceived weakest heroes have nearly identical pick rate and win rate. I found this personally very interesting and wanted to share.
My post above was intending to get people to consider that this data, while not absolute or conclusive of anything on its own, may suggest off-meta heroes are much more viable on the competitive ladder than players tend to expect, even at the highest levels.

Genji’s stats are nearly identical to Mei’s in terms of pickrate and winrate. But one is viewed as a troll pick and the other is viewed as OP.

That’s what he was getting at, perception tends to be a lot stronger than reality.