DPS is just a useless role in this 5v5 format. Support is fine, tank is fine, but DPS just feels utterly worthless. If you ever have two DPS on your team, it’s just an auto-loss.
Saying dps as a role seems unfair, when multiple dps heroes are op asf
Reaper seems pretty strong. He can melt tanks.
dps is strong, but I guess you can’t OTP unless you’re really really good at your hero and know what to do in all the matchups. certain heroes will be weaker than others, but that’s on balance. you actually now have to be good at widow to make crucial picks. your tanks also give you more space and distract the enemy way more than when each single tank only goes for squishies in 5v5RQ.
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I felt two tanks was very enjoyable as well but mainly dps doom was the best character i ever felt playing (not the punch that feels cheep and unfair to oneshot if it is too fast but using it to do rollouts felt like heaven a little bit.).
2 2 2 Its 12 seems fine both 5 and 6 seem great however maybe giving 1 dps and 1 healer the option to switch might be the solution 5v5 might help with lower playerbase queue times just as dps doomparkour helped with queue times (custom gamemodes).
Did they make any tank balance changes or did they just lower the health by 150 and call it a day
Depends on the team. My team melted a double tank team with a 1-2-2 comp.
I could check my teplay code for you, just a warning that it’s a gold match XD
They made no changes to the oq tanks for this.
It’s just OQ settings.
Where tanks are still power crept but with lower hp.
One shot heroes would be best, or really hard hitting hitscans like widow/ashe prob thrive here.
But I can see it change depending on the team comp.
I get you, it feels like dps is less than a support…
It depends on the comp and the map (as always), but I found that a few have a potential in many situations.
- Bastion or Reaper to melt tanks, Zarya + Rein.
- Sombra vs Doom and Ball to make them much less impactful
- Echo and Pharah to ignore them and go for squishes
- Hanzo seems stronger as consistent damage and 1s-shot on squeeshes potential
- Widow or Tracer to do what they do
- Torb in certain situations
- Soj might havce easier time to build up her charge than before if you’re good with her
- Cas if you’re good with him
- Genji with dive
- Junk, Ashe, Mei, Soldier, Sym and Venture feel much less impactful
Not always. but 2 tank and 2 dps and only 1 support actually feel stronger. Virtually no games are poke anymore. Just dive or brawl. Kill them before they kill you. A lot of trades.