I mean, besides Hoggie and Doom?
Uh… Symm and Mei are the only DPS roster characters that nearly consistently get dumb awful balance changes. Sombra’s definitely in there too, but I feel like they like her concept but just keep flubbing the execution and making something that doesn’t measure up without being turbo annoying. My fingers are crossed for her rework, but I have low expectations.
For Supports? Eek. Really hard here I’m not sure they dislike any of them. Um. I’d probably go Lucio and Mercy if you made me pick.
Lucio lost a lot of power with the universal tank anti-boop passive and I don’t think they’ve really made any attempt to add it back or provide any real compensation for his lost offensive capabilities.
I’m putting Mercy here more because they obviously struggle to understand what people like about her and are usually just making her less fun to play or easier with less room for skill expression. See the GA changes starting in the betas through to s3’s/s4’s. I’m also sure they’re sick of hearing people whine about her considering her Boost nerf this season that is functionally just a nerf on paper.
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Roadhog and Ball.
Roadhog for obvious reasons.
As for Ball,
He practically was unchanged compared to the other tanks when they made it 5v5.
He still has his nerfs with the grapple timer and it being on cooldown (and then they add Kiriko who can TP out of spawn.)
The second he gets buffs that help him, they revert some of his changes immediately the next patch.
He doesn’t seem to benefit at all from the tank passive since he just goes flying when he gets booped in ball form regardless. (If you don’t believe me, kill him once in practice lobby and he spawns in ball form. Try any boop on him there and he goes FLYING.)
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Clearly Doomfist…the man has the biggest list of bugs. Orisa…who is so bad that they needed to make her unkillable in a complete rework just to even be viable. Soljorn…bland, barely any changes, literally turns her back on Overwatch, no writing for her at all. Like what does Soljorn provide that another hero can’t just do better, while still having a better persona?
That and along with his body composition being easily bodyblocked or trigger traps easily due to his rotund stature.
I digress though. The reason he get booped further us the momentum his Ball form grants which is double the movement speed of a nornal walking pace. Meaning the dude’s going to go twice as far then a regular hero regardless but the knockback reduction simply isn’t applied here just in his Unball form, because the momentum twice over carries him further naturally.
Its an issue they needed to address for a while now.
It’s quite evident that the developers have a particular aversion to Roadhog. The character has been nerfed to such an extent that he’s practically unplayable now. It’s as if they’ve not only sidelined him but also forgotten to recalibrate and balance him appropriately. The term “roadhogged” has even been coined to describe the act of nerfing a character to the point of making them unplayable.
Ah the memories…He finally escaped D tier in OW2 with 30ish Junk mains being in top 500 on NA, 16 on EU and 21 in Asia…Fairly average. A nice solid B/C tier representation.
Was immediately massively overnerfed and his representation halved overnight.
Fun game.
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Definitely Mei. They did an entire rework that literally everyone disliked just to trash her WR and make sure she is a niche pick instead of a decent general pick like she was before. Its rare to see the devs go through so much effort just to take a hero already in a good spot and make them worse.
Also definitely Sombra. She is routinely trashed throughout OW history and never is allowed to be an average pick for ranked. If she gets close, she gets gutted again. They also largely have ignored her issues for years.
Hog maybe. They aren’t shy about gutting him, but then again they do really give it their best effort to make him good, even allowing him to be meta at all ranks for some time. Not nearly as brutal as they are to Mei and Sombra.
As a Mei player, I can say that might be a blessing in disguise for Junk. If they were to buff him they would probably give him two drawbacks for every buff, like they did with Mei.
We used to just call that being drawn and quartered. It is crazy that we can now use Roadhog as a term to describe a form of execution. That is so metal.
As for the character they hate the most… I am going to go with Brigitte. She has had countless nerfs, including for PvE. Jeff Kaplan famously blamed ME for the existence of Brig and she probably cost Bobby Kotick millions that he was not likely to recoup with her cute goat skin. If they appreciate her, I am literally Mako Rutledge.
Most hated Heroes by the devs are:
- Sombra
- Roadhog
- Doomfist
- Symmetra
- Bastion
- Junkrat
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Roadhog, Reaper, Junkrat, Doomfist, Ball maybe?, Torb in some fashion considering hos far his identity has been downgraded…
I always appreciate a bit of support for my man Torb but I don’t think he’s got such a bad deal. Yes, his turret’s been nerfed, but it’s still useful to have around and (for me) a fun part of his kit. “All he does is shoot and occasionally shoot faster” kinda sums up a lot of the heroes in this game to be honest and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Hanzo fits that description even more aptly than Torb does but people still seem to enjoy playing him.
Imo they’ve been far more careful with Torb than they have Sym or Junkrat. If Torb does get a nerf, it tends to be followed up with a buff; if Sym gets a buff, it’s paired with two nerfs. Junk just gets nerfed if he makes the mistake of reminding the devs that he exists.
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Sombra.
When devs come up with a rework, that means, imo, they don’t like their kit anymore.
Junkrat is one of the most irritating heroes when someone knows what they’re doing. Nearly unkillable
Sombra.
It’s clear they regret ever making her.
Doomfist.
30+bugs since 2019
they fix 3 of them
Almost no buffs ( compared to other tanks).
Symmetra.
It always has been, and always will be, Symmetra.