So we know that most CC abilities are being taken away from DPS and Supports. Mei can’t even freeze anymore with primary fire. Doomfist will not function the same way he does now in OW2.
Eh this is debatable. I think in the lower elos Doom is better because slam and uppercut are AoE abilities. Idk about upper ranks because I haven’t reached Masters yet with Doomfist.
If she’s paired up with a hard carry dps then rip your backline.
But like as was seen in the 5v5 workshop mode…she cannot take space vs a reinhardt.
Could you further elaborate?
Tracer is way better than doom.
That’s obviously true, without question. Tracer can actually do stuff without requiring a Zarya bubble. I’m just saying that maybe in the lower elos Doom is better because it’s easier to get energy from him and slam uppercut is generally easier to hit people with
Pls add on to that, that there’s more than likely going to be a global CC nerf as well, meaning even more counterplay against dubb bubb DPSs’ is going out the window.
We can only hope that zarya is forced onto an internal cooldown for bubbling the same target that isn’t herself. Because Nanoblade is going to be nigh uncounterable with chained bubbles and next to no CC.
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Oh you’re on about lower ranks, of course noob stomper heroes are gonna be good down there.
They said that doomfist and other heroes that need heavily cc’d are going to get reworked. Currently, zarya’s bubbles are tied to her own so if you use two on doomfist, she has no personal. (It’s very early in development though)
That exact mechanic existed for Priests in WoW. Once you used Power Word Shield on someone they got a debuff stopping them from being shielded again for a period of time. They should bring it in for OW2 (but not have it apply to the Zarya herself).
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KarQ streamed some OW games using a mod trying to emulate the OW2 changes we’ve seen so far. It’s not perfect, but universal bubbles are in. I imagine that’s what Harmicist is referring to, unless they’re talking about their own experiences playing the mod.
Here’s the start of a game KarQ runs with some viewers where he tries out Zarya, but has no joy using her. You’ll have to copy and paste, I’m afraid, because the link won’t respect the timestamp otherwise.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1030597360?t=03h29m41s
Any hero with 2 bubbles and either:
A single Ana nade, a harmony Orb, or a mercy pocket sounds like an absolute nightmare. Even if cc wasn’t being nerfed (non-tank cc is confirmed to be seeing some nerfs) the resulting double bubbled hero will feel awful to play against.
They’re also toning down CC across the board. It looks likely that the game is going in a direction where flankers and snipers will be king and everyone else will just have to deal with it. Especially now that there will only be 1 tank to maintain space.
Pretty sure they said they wanna rework him, so lets see if he is still the same CC based hero.