Weekly Recall: Hero Bans

Weekly Recall: Hero Bans

Sombra’s catching bans like it’s her job, ranks matter, and console players have opinions—dive into our first Weekly Recall for Hero Ban stats and trends!

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Very interesting results from the hero bans!

I like the idea of negative votes and I agree with someone else’s suggestion that players should be able to vote to “preserve/protect” heroes from being banned by their own team - these should be weighted equal to ban votes! (Credit: Megadodo)

Also could you show the rank range during the ban phase as selections are sometimes made on this info!

In regards to the map voting feature - will this include being able to vote for the time of day as well?!

I always enjoy maps in daytime much more than their nighttime variants!

:+1:

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You posted less than a min after they did. There is no way you read it.

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It just says page not found. I guess Sombra hacked it because she does not want the truth getting out there.

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I get that hero bans are still very fresh. But the last patch notes made it look like you didn’t know what to do with the data at all.
Making Widow more relevant outside of her niche, with no compensation nerfs, while she has a relatively high ban rate. Joke of the month.

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Have you considered a brief trial run of the ban system for un ranked modes?

I’m not even interested in it being a permanent addition, I’m more so curious to see the difference in hero bans between ranked and unranked modes.

:nerd_face:

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Wow, Sombra has an 85% ban rate???

To the OW2 Players – “Tell us how you really feel about Sombra”

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Very impressed at the specificity of this data and blog, holy

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Only 85%? I told you this place was Sombrero biased.

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93% on console lol

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Proof that console is more based.

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So, Ana and Widow are not only NOT banned as much as other problem heroes, they’re banned dramatically less than them?

Its because people LIKE playing with those characters, or at least don’t think they’re as much of a problem as people on here make them out to be. This forum is an echo chamber where 50 people all say the same thing, and so they think the ENTIRE GAME holds this opinion.

We waited for bans to show up like you guys said. All of you who said “I can’t wait to see Ana perma banned!!!”, what do you think of the data?

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Let’s ban Hero Bans :slight_smile: !

Those were my two cents ! Have a nice weekend y’all !

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If you look at the Console Master+ graph, Zarya has more than double the ban rate of the next tanks, but the text says “While overall, Zarya is the most banned Tank, when we look at Masters and above D.Va handily steals the most banned slot for Tanks for both console and PC”

what am I not understanding?

edit, they fixed their post. the graph initially showed Zarya as most picked, but has been changed to a new graph

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Great blog and interesting data. Thanks!

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OMG, I am sorry Sombra mains. These bozos actually have no plan to save your hero. They always defy my expectations in the worst ways. RIP

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To be fair Ana is the most banned support.

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But the disparity between the most bans is wild. She’s the most banned at over 20%, but Sombra’s the most banned damage player at over 80%! People said Ana would be getting what Sombra’s getting, so I don’t think going “Well, she IS the most banned at a fraction of what Sombra gets” is actually fair at all.

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Both Ana and Widow effectiveness are map dependent, and both require some mechanical aim or else they underperform. Sombra is the big outlier because she does not have as many non-team oriented counter-play options at lower and mid tier ranks. Higher tier players have superior aim, reflexes, and situational awareness, so they are better able to deal with Sombra’s ambush tactics.

Perhaps this will prompt the DEV’s to give her a non-invis-teleport-focused rework? Who knows, but until this happens, Sombra will remain largely a QP / Arcade cave dweller.

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So from what I read there’s no plans to rework Sombra and they’re basically changing widow into Widow76. Oh dear God.

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