I thought she needed a buff and now her self-sustain is being nerfed, presumably to discourage DPS Moira…?
In the very least buff her healing-per-second from her yellow orb to compensate for it.
Just saying, even if it was intended as a nerf to DPS Moira, it still affects all types of Moiras. Including the ones that heal their team nicely as they should, and choose to use their healing orb to sustain and save their team, instead of using it as an emergency self-sustain option.
Moira in her current state is the most played hero in the competitive across the ladder. While she’s only so popular in high tier gameplay because of double barriers this change doesn’t really effect her initial gameplay, just the 1v1 situations that she’s in as most of her self-sustain comes from the heal orbs anyways and M2 is a way to either get resources or finish somebody off. In lower tiers it’s another thing though since low tier players struggle quite much brawling against her tactical AD crouch spam and terrible mechanical aim and reaction time so this nerf is mostly about discouraging DPS Moira and making it easier to 1v1 her which isn’t a thing primary healers should really be doing to begin with
only ones with bad positioning.
id say take off that healing all together and put it in the orbs then decrease both orb cooldowns to 9
Not really worth losing 20 consistent hps for just one second less of cooldown.
and more healing from the orb with changes to its movement to make it consistent instead of rng
Yeah, remember when she WAS going to get to Fade through any and all CC effects?
And they said “Moira has always been good at healing and dealing damage, but she offers very little utility compared to the other healers.”
Still waiting on that Utility, Blizzard.
Ehh i don’t mind her lack of utility because as far as i know, her niche is supposed to be her capability to 1v1 flankers and escape most situations that would kill her, with fade.
However, now they’re nerfing her ability to 1v1, presumably for the sake of discouraging DPS Moira. That’s what confuses me, her entire thing is that she’s supposed to be able to survive encounters with flankers. Nerfing her lifesteal/self-sustain also affects her ability to survive in these situations.
a support shouldnt 1 v1 any dps
My Mercy would like a word with you.
This prob affects low tiers, high plat/diamond and above, it’s really hard to win a 1v1 any decent DPS.
The reason i play Torbjorn and Moira is because they counter high mobility heroes.
But then they nerf Torb’s shotgun making it a complete joke of a weapon.
And they nerf Moira’s self heal so she’ll be less durable against those heroes now
AND THEY FREAKING BUFF TRACER OMG.
For the love of god i dont want dive and tracer and genji to return. I just wanted doomfist nerfed and widowmaker and hanzo too.
Jesus when is this game actually gonna be fun?
so it affects 97% of the playerbase
Of course a support should be able to 1v1 a dps. And they should win if they outplay the dps via superior aim (like with Zenyatta), positioning (Baptiste fighting from high ground), or ability usage (Lucio booping you off the edge). Supports aren’t just healbots
Prob more like 75% lol. You’re not wrong, I was just pointing it out. It’s hard to balance for all tiers
All nerfs effect “all types” of players, what does this have to do with anything. For all of the people who cry that gamesense and positioning are worth more than aim, have some good gamesense and positioning… All this will do is stop the flagrant out of position plays that Moira could make 1vs1.
So you want an easy win against mobility without having to aim, but you also don’t want to actually use gamesense and positioning? This is a nerf to all the people who want to ADAD crouch spam and hope that the self heal is enough to win the fight.
by " outplay" you mean aiming at general direction
Moira was busted she deserve a nerf
face the truth she s the most picked heroes because she s easy and effective
No… she’s the most picked hero because Ana and Baptiste largely can’t work around shields and Mercy isn’t a main healer anymore. That makes Moira the ONLY Main Healer who’s not garbage when Orisa + Sigma is the meta.
Being the only option that still works is not in fact a good reason to nerf something.
If you need to use the orb for emergency self sustain far too often, than you should try Ana 
It’s a nerf against the DPS playstyle (priotizing DPS over needed healing)
Well, in my example I was talking specifically about Zenyatta, though it applies to other supports as well.
Moira doesn’t win duels with dps by out aiming them. She wins with positioning or baiting a key ability and outlasting you.
phone bad moira bad book good