Top 5 most broken heroes in Overwatch’s history:
5.) Roadhog hook 1.0, the fact he could hook you through walls and even sometimes across the map made him a truly broken hero during the first few seasons
4.) Ana post release, nano boost was a broken ultimate ability, it not only gave a damage buff, but 50% damage resistance and a speed boost, her biotic grenade gave double healing spawned a tank meta which dominated the game after the speed boost was removed from nano boost
3.) Bastion 35% ironclad, his damage resistance in ironclad mixed with Ana’s nano boost made him resistant to 85% of all damage. A week later Bastion’s ironclad was nerfed to 20% and damage resistance now caps to 50% for everyone
2.) Brigitte, even after a ton of nerfs she still dominates the game in many ways, her inspire passive and Rally allowed tanks to just snowball the enemy team and her existence made damage heroes unplayable.
1.) Mercy after her rework, when she was reworked, her pickrate in GM shot to 99% and she for a long time was broken in literally every single rank. Matches were just people fighting over who is gonna play Mercy and no matter what Blizzard tried her dominance still plagued ranked and OWL. Her Rez was a huge focal point for everyone and resurrect was nerfed many many times since the rework
No here is really ‘broken’, the meta just favors them. Exceptions might be made for current Reaper he is nearly unkillable.
Are you implying Mercy 2.0 wasn’t OP, just favoured by the meta?
And Brigitte pretty much defined a meta, she didn’t just happen to be good in it.
Heroes WERE broken.
Dive was the meta at the time, she fits well into dive, there you go
But even if dive wasn’t meta she would still be busted because of rez
Just because she fit into dive doesn’t excuse the 14% to 16% pickrate she had.
That’s not fitting within a meta, that’s becoming a must pick. No other hero could compete, not choosing her was throwing.
And she would have done fine with any comp, to be honest. She was that broken.
She actually had an even higher pickrate. She had a 99% pickrate in GM and 75% pickrate in bronze
16% equals to almost all games.
100 / 6 = 16,67%
Ooh. Okie. But yeah. I think that she’s in a better place now balance wise
I wasn’t around for the early Genji… but I hear he was extremely good.
The vape was doo doo tho.
I’d put the version of Genji that had three jumps there (not all he had), rest makes sense.
He’s only ever gotten nerfs in the past… so think about him before he got any nerfs
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Original Bastion (beta) came with a 2000 hp shield in turret form, could also headshot in turret form and had a small spread…absolutely brutal against unorganised teams
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Mercy 2.0 - on the ptr a nano mercy could ult and solo an entire team
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Brigitte - she has been over nerfed now (fact) but she was too strong initially due to her ult
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Genji, originally he had more mobility and his dragon blade lasted long enough that getting 5-6 kills per ult was normal
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Widow, originally she could scope cancel her shots which made her very strong, she was much stronger than her current form
Yeah, that went Live, even with Mercy players coming to the forum and warning them about it. Even without being Nanoed, Mercy’s fast flight and improved bullets made DPS and Tanks run for cover if she went full on Battle Mercy during Ult.
I’d say Bastion is #4 because he was only broken for a week (month on consoles) until they gutted him.
Until they removed his barrier, and told everyone his counters, like Genji. That’s why 35% IC was far worse than his barrier.
How have people not mentioned lucio 1.0 That speed boost ( 50% ) was broken as all hell. Especially on KOTH.
Isn’t speed boost currently 50% and it used to amp 100%…? I could be wrong. I thought that’s what it was.
Edit: yup, amp currently increases speed by 70%. It used to be 100%.
In literally ONE way! Goats. She is only useful in goats. Her damage is too weak, her heal is too weak, her cc is not enough
I’m sorry mercy after her rework was god tier and was necessary on every team otherwise you just lose due to it being a 6v10
I’m a mercy main but hated that iteration of her after the first day due to the massive impacts it had on overwatch