Tracer needs a nerf and here is why

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Tracer needs a nerf. She can almost carry her whole team single handedly with almost zero support and peeling required from her team, unlike for example other heroes with high impact like Widowmaker who need the support and peeling from her team to work well.

Many pro players too agree with nerfing Tracer

Here is a video showing the opinion of some Pro players:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQBSySD9n1c&ab_channel=DBLTAPOverwatch

Hopefully Blizzard will nerf her soon because I’m tired of TracerWatch and TracerWatch League

Here is another video explaining why Tracer is OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joApfwZUcX0&ab_channel=YourOverwatch

and here is a comment I posted about the subject on another thread:

" As a Tank main I fear Tracer more than Reaper, at least I can escape Reaper but Tracer is just death lurking around

Some people say Tracer is fine, any changes for her and she will be completely useless, I disagree. Tracer is the only hero that doesn’t have a hard counter. Some people say just play Winstion, I play him all the time and you know what happens? She comes to empty her pulse pistols on me once or twice and escape for 9 seconds to get all her blink back just to come back and empty them again on me twice and RIP Harambe again. And If I tried to chase her I’m even in a worse situation, she will keep enough distance with her infinite blinks so I can’t do anything with my Tesla Canon while shooting me to death.

And some people just say “play Sombra dude to counter her, a hacked Tracer is a dead Tracer”, well good luck trying to hack Tracer while not being interrupted, hacking Tracer is very hard because unlike McCree she can just whip her pistols around and one of those 40 shots going to hit you before you finish hacking her.

Now when I play against Tracer the only thing I can do is hoping for a Tracer in my team too, then winning or losing is going to boils down to who can Tracer better and this is not fun, it even says on the box of the game “change heroes in a constant dance to gain the upper hand”, Jeff, what hero can I pick to gain the upper hand against Tracer? "

Some people will pretend like Tracer is OP only in GM and completely trash and doesn’t dominate even in Diamond and above. Don’t be biased please.

I hope Blizzard nerf her soon.

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Platinum Tracers are 1v6ing your team?

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They’re 1/2 clipping squishes and 1v6ing down here in gold too apparently. Seems since OWL started all the Tracers have improved leaps and bounds with God tier aim. It’s amazing what watching pro matches can do for your gameplay.

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alternatively they could buff the rest of the heroes

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Feels like it was only yesterday that everyone was complaining that “spam meta” was ruining Overwatch, and that Orisa desperately needed a nerf.

And Pharah too.

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Look at the number of Tracers in Top500!! she is overpowered beyond comprehension!!! Yet she has not been nerfed since launch, what a joke!!!

https://imgur.com/a/aGKvC

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Honestly the person telling you Winston counters Tracer is more of a problem than Tracer.

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I know right, but what we gotta do to stop an OP hero, I guess we have to JuSt cLiCk oN HeR hEaD LOOOL

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well good luck trying to hack Tracer while not being interrupted, hacking Tracer is very hard because unlike McCree she can just whip her pistols around and one of those 40 shots going to hit you before you finish hacking her.

Sombra’s hack time is significantly lower than Tracer’s reload time.

You can play McCree, Roadhog, Sombra, Junkrat, Symmetra, Torbjorn, Moira, Brigitte, or Hanzo to counter Tracer.

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The moment tracer gets close to you even in less than a second she can delete you in 1 clip, easy peasy

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You could pick a Brigitte comp and deal with her that way. Since Brigitte came out, I haven’t had a problem with Tracer in a scrim.

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Idk why people have such a problem with Tracer at anywhere below 3800. Tracer’s winrates are actually garbage here and people just can’t deal with the fact that they’re getting outplayed by someone who has no idea how to actually play the hero.

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I see what you really trying to say i agree, tracer needs some sort of a Nerf. but tracer doesn’t 1v6 teams she needs a small kind of a Nerf even though Torbjorn is counter but almost no 1 play’s him, so if tracer gets a Nerf u all most wont see it

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My problem with tracer hard counters is that they effectively counter other flankers as well. That wouldn’t be a problem if sombra and doomfist were in a good spot, but right now it only makes them worse. So yeah, i’m in favor of a nerf instead of adding hard counters

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they wont ever nerf her or gengi since both are posters boys for their game

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Sad but true, they even acknowledged Genji’s broken hitboxes and they have done nothing about it

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Does everyone just forget how much of a bully Dva is to Tracer?

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How can Dva bully her? Dva can only bully with low mobility like poor McCree, try to bully Tracer with her crazy mobility and you will just waste your cool downs for nothing.

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Then manage your cooldowns? If you didn’t see her recall then why would you burn all your CDs only for her to recall. DM deletes her ult and most Tracer’s are pretty obvious about when and who they’re going to pulse.

If you throw your CDs away, that’s on you. A good Dva can give Tracer hell.

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Tracer has way more mobility than Dva, saying Dva can bully Tracer when she has her mobility on 6 S CD is bullsh*t when Tracer gets a blink that can store every 3 seconds apart from her recall