It all started 10 months ago where a movement patch went out - it affected Lucio and Mercy where Lucio could no longer gain speed, and Mercy was given a skilled ‘bug’ which allowed her to bunnyhop.
Lucio’s movement was kept the same, being nowhere near as skillful as previous, and Mercy’s bunnyhop was just removed.
Later on, Lucio gets a “buff” which means he easily goes around corners and wallrides over the walls - essentially removing any skill left in him. Wallriding now requires very little training past a quick google search of how to wallride and becoming a healbot in lower ranks, while in higher ranks being a speed bot with healing on the side.
Then Mercy’s 10 something nerfs came in turning her into a heal bot that has spectator mode if you want to eat your food - it’s just as if Blizzard wants to make the support category very easy and as a starter category. I’m not forgetting Ana, her main skills are positioning and aiming, but and she has no movement skills). And Moira isn’t difficult to get good at.
Blizzard is intentionally trying to remove depth to the support category and it’s really disappointing to see my favourite hero that I put hundreds of hours into become an easy to learn speed bot with no depth but wallskimming.
sigh if you want a better explanation, here’s a Cliff Terios video explaining the whole Lucio skill fiasco about 10 months ago.
I’d say there’s MORE skill required now, if anything, except in the case of Lucio. Zen can’t rely on cross-map burst snipes, Ana’s grenade isn’t OP anymore, Mercy 2.0 has a much higher skill ceiling than 1.0 did, Moira can’t heal through barriers anymore, and Brigitte has to do multiple jobs at once instead just being a healer. It’s a much more interesting scene now, I’d say.
No one asked for the lucio wallride change, and most lucio’s were against it. So much so that we got one of the few reverts to a patch while it was still in ptr. And zenyatta takes more skill than most characters.
Flying in and pressing Q was harder than knowing when and how to pull off a casted rez and how to best use the 15-second Swiss Army Knife of an ult that is Valkyrie? She also has extra mobility options with her “Mercy hop” and slingshot abilities. Nothing about 1.0 was more involved or had as much room for skill as 2.0 does.
Theres no real point in adding additional skill to healers besides from an entertainment aspect given that healing won’t ever scale with skill as DPS does. It just makes it harder for the sake of being harder.
My wall riding gets messed up more often now than before they changed it so I really don’t like the change. I get they put it in to attract more players to him but it still messed him up some.
Right? they said it would make it more consistent but the only consistent thing about it is that it is inconsistent. Frog boi attracted enough people with his sheer meme power and sick beats.
Nothing like going for a jump to another place and then realizing that due to the change you are now quickly in a spot that won’t let you make the jump like you used to be able to do. I ran into this in Hollywood, Eichenwalde and one other that I can’t think of right now but I ended up in spots that I wouldn’t have nothing like suddenly going through a doorway because I held on a half second to long and then getting stuck in a hallway trapped by the enemy.
That thread is just a list of somebody’s opinions. It doesn’t debunk anything. Adding more tools and ways to use them can only increase both skill cap and skill floor.
Also, mass rez was also the most low-effort ability ever. It could only be used in one situation, which is when people on her team were dead (meaning Mercy didn’t keep them alive). Mercy didn’t even have to worry about saving it for the next fight in most cases because it took an average of 45 seconds to charge, even for bad Mercy players.
I’d rather you use your own arguments rather than post somebody else’s.
Actually Mercy’s Bunny hop bug was a result of her rework being introduced onto PTR and her having zero air resistance for a time, allowing you to shift cancel and then hold space for a full momentum boost. This was many months before the movement patch.
Not quite. The bug was fixed in the October Halloween event update, and a few days later they added in an official Bunny Hop feature whereby pressing/holding Spacebar at any point during GA allows you to bunnyhop, and there is also a superjump feature via holding crouch/shift at the same time and using bunnyhop to gain immense vertical height.
The great thing for Lucio’s shots is that they can do a lot of damage if they connect but they are also a great area denial attack, meaning you spam an area and it deters people from going into it as quickly.
