Maybe I’m just on a bad streak, but Tracer is one of my most played heroes and the only DPS I’m consistently good with, but in this latest patch I’ve gone from routinely getting 17 elims/avg 10 mins to rarely getting more than ten in a match. I generally kind of feel that Tracer is a character who requires a lot of investment to get decent with, but that’s kind of a middle finger to people who play her when she’s the most fragile hero who does some of the lowest damage. Even her ultimate is only really good for killing supports, but like half of them now can just delete her pulse bomb if they get stuck, and now you can’t even farm it as efficiently to influence team fights by plinking a tank. You can dive DPS and supports, sure, but DPS mostly beat you in a fight (some of them even one-shot you and have hard counters to your one ability that gives you a chance against them), and even some supports just beat you (Kiriko two-shots you, Zen two-shots you and even can one shot you with his alt fire, Moira outdamages you and doesn’t even have to aim, and even Baptiste can get lucky). Even landing your pulse bomb on a player in the middle of a crowd rarely nets you an Elim anymore. Feels like she no longer has a role to play.
Aww can your pwecious Twacer not 1v5 the entire enemy team every team fight…
Awww… poow you… boo hoo…
i feel such sympathy for you that your blatantly broken and overpowered favorite who has been consistently overpowered since overwatch launched is now only slightly less powerful…
won’t someone think of the tracer mains?..
Not all of us are sweaty comp players, I play qp exclusively and have never really felt that she’s OP or could take the entire team. I was just able to play her well compared to the other DPS who I suck at and now I’m noticing a major difference because she’s one of like four heroes I’m halfway decent with and the only one of those who is a DPS after the Pharah rework added too much for me to mess with very well (I’m physically handicapped and can’t really use all the controls anymore with her because it messed with all of the binds I used to get away with it before).
thats fair, but you are the tiny minority
Tracer is, has been and always will be the main issue with overwatch… more so blizzard’s unwillingness to nerf her
She is the reason Release brig was a thing
she is the reason tanking became miserable
she is the reason for all of the hard CC in ow1, and why ow2 feels garbage with it removed from all but tanks and Ana
shes also the reason for the move to 5v5 because she made tanking miserable because no tank could counter her properly
and she is the reason 80% of the DPS roster is useless
because her power is so far above and beyond that of 80% of the DPS roster that its just not worth playing them, because playing her instead, even if you’re only mildly competent with her gives more value in more situations
so… sorry but i hold no sympathy to people who play her, because they always claim she is underpowered or feels bad to play, while entirely ignoring the utter hell she makes playing against her feel like
litterally every single god damn match there is a tracer in, i have to entirely ignore everything else and hard focus nothing but her, just to keep her at bay…
and it often ends in our entire frontline collapsing and us losing the team fight
I read through your OP, OP, but I don’t see anything that wasn’t the case before mid-season patch.
Pulse could get stuffed by cleanses and the like before. Any DPS that one-shot you now were one-shotting you before. Any of those supports that outplayed you now would have outplayed you before, except for potentially Brig who has armour and so is affected by armour changes to some degree. Pulse’s damage got buffed this patch as it does more damage against armoured targets.
It sounds like you’re on a bad streak that’s completely unrelated to the patch.
That’s a possibility. I have some other things going on that’s probably affecting my gameplay and the performance diff is sort of an “every other game” thing.
About time for her to sit on the bench. Being meta or forced into every meta nearly every season except some time in OW1 (GOATS), is unhealthy for this game.
She makes tanking and supporting miserable.
Tracer is problem for 1%. Her op power is so far above and beyond the reach of 90% of the players.
People need to stop acting like they’re gm or that her power “trickles down” and causes imbalance for bottom 90% of the player base.
Constant tracer pinging is the real problem.
If I have to hear her say “Enemy over here!” one more effing time… 
She’s still really good tho. Kind of a strange post ngl, seems more personal than something being wrong with the hero. Imo.
no, shes not, she’s a problem for everyone, and even a mediocre player can extract huge value by just existing in a match with her
add smurfs and the EOMM matchmaker to the mix and she becomes a nightmare
people need to stop acting like her power level hasn’t been busted in OW since day 1
her damage is far too high, her effective range is far too large, and her mobility is way way to much
she litterally has everything
in order to be balanced, she needs 1 of the three removed
she needs to have her damage or TTK massively lowered, her range drastically reduced, or her mobility gimped
those are the choices to bring her into line with the other DPS heros
I play against mediocre Tracers all the time (plat across all roles). She’s no better than other dps except the very bottom ones like Junkrat or Sym. I play her myself sometimes. It’s so much easier to extract more value with hitscan (meaning soldier/cass/ashe/widow).
Smurfs/MM are a different story but that’s not Tracer’s problem.
Her power has been busted since day 1 for top players. She was never dominant outside of that. Never. Not in any single patch of OW1 or OW2. If you’re GM or even Master, I’ll not argue. If you’re metal rank to diamond and claim she’s unstoppable op monster, it’s gaslighting.
Yeah…no.
She’s just fine.
Yes, but I’d say it’s not even busted at the top. She’s the strongest, but she’s not a Noblesse or anything. She’s contested by several heroes depending on the meta.
no, you’re just a typical tracer main who wants their hero busted so you don’t actually have to try same as always
Tracer is my 6th most played dps. She was 10th~ around season 3 and I did try and play her a lot for a few seasons. And her being a mediocre dps at mediocre ranks is my conclusion based on playing her myself and playing against her.
The forums would disagree. I haven’t seen a single ‘remove Tracer’ thread.
Sombra on the other hand…
With the recent armor revert, Tracer is going to feel the most impacted. So yeah, she will be harder to gain value.
With that being said, Tracer is still the strongest pick. She can fit into any composition. Her kit enables both defensive and offensive play. She can attack and engage from so many angles, it gives her an advantage maybe only Sombra has. And she’s still a stronger pick then the ire-inducing latin hacker.
I don’t care what the forums think.
Tracer is my most played DPS now, but I’m not even that good with her and that took a lot of effort to get to where I’m at now with her, which I did because once the Pharah change happened I had to find a new DPS to play. Up until a few patches ago I was only averaging like 2000 damage /10min with her, and I’m still only at around 6400 with her now and have always just had to deal with a number of heroes just beating me even in 1v1’s. What’s changed now is I don’t have the survivability to get into a fight and I don’t do the damage to help out in a fight. Tracer has a very high skill ceiling but also a relatively high skill floor. Heroes who really offer a crutch are like Moira.
This is extremely untrue, she is a menace for the majority in plat even(SO NOT GM, NOT EVEN MASTERS).
With the bullet changes she has an easier time one clipping then before(When people had 200 health, not 250)
Also plat is the second rank that has the highest amount of players after gold, so no not only a 1 percent thing.
Even if u look at it with brig(she was made to counter her), she outranges her, could one clip the character that counter her without actually needing to aim like before and can one clip her shield. they nerfed her with 1 second on e, which litterally made her 1percent weaker cause you will never die wit hthe 1 second on e unless you make an extremely stupid mistake, it did nothing.
So please don’t say tracer is a problem for only gm’s, cause she is not if u just play the game and look for yourself. If you can’t see it you’re just being ignorant.
hmmmm
idk
but tracer only became good (for everyone) when it had the bug (damage distance) and when they increased its damage, before it depended on the player knowing how to play with it, which may be what is happening
Shooting the tank has never been a good decision, but it’s not the worst one, you apply the dps passive, but now dealing less damage, the supports can keep the tank alive more consistently
going for the supports is always the best decision, because even if you doesn’t kill them, it distracts them and creates an opening for your team, but even if it’s distracting, if your tank or other dps don’t have high damage, the probability of your team losing is high because they have less damage because they are going against the enemy with less dps
going against dps is basically a skill check, tracer has disadvantages against some heroes, some I wouldn’t even go in 1x1 (bastion/Torb)
So if you’re going to play dive with friends it’s still op, if you play solo with random formations, the best way is to position yourself at medium distance, do damage until you notice an opportunity (when you see someone isolated or with low health, This is the opportunity, always with recall.)
pulse has always been an unnecessary ult, use it whenever you want, you’ll probably farm 2/3 before anyone else
If you play with high ping, keep in mind that you will be playing in the past, which for tracer is the difference between life and death, so use your blinks and recall with more hp than usual.
what? No, Moira doesn’t outdamages tracer, I think that even if you miss more than half of the shots Moira still does less damage