Since doomfist was moved to the tank role there are now 2 melee tanks and 1 melee healer. Im just wondering whens the melee dps if doom cant be there anymore? Since ow2 dps has been one of the most boring roles for me not just because it straight up sucks but because doomfist isnt there anymore and tankfist feels nothing like DF. it was pretty balanced before with the amount of melee characters in each role but now dps is just stale to me with the closest experience I can get to a melee character there is genji in ult. pls stop using chat gpt to balance the game and get some humans on game balance instead of putting them all to work on skins
Melee DPS is a bit hard to make.
Doomfist had to rely on oneshots/wombo-combos to work (and a lot of people hated it).
Brig has a shield. I don’t think we can actually have DPS’s with the kind of shield a Melee DPS would need.
Symmetra 2.0 was a bit different since she’s not really Melee in the same way, just “short range”.
Since OW2 is trying to move away from the instakill-formula, I find it a bit hard to see how they could introduce a melee dmg hero.
We have Genji in his ult, and he is already hard enough to deal with.
Genji was planned to be fully melee for OW1 but it didn’t work out at the time
But maybe some of the new devs have ideas worth trying, who knows
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Zephyrus was hinted at in Colesseo.
A dual sword wielder who potentially uses wind to dive in and out of combat
we will have to wait and see how true it is
I hope they dont bring a melee DPS honestly. Having a sticky hero that can move in an out on effectively enough to be a threat and dont die would be trash.
In the end this is not a MOBA so DF works decently as a Tank but was a nightmare as a DPS.
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I’m hoping they make Kiriko’s mother into a melee DPS.
Doomfist has something against her and she’s alive,that alone says a lot about her skill.
We need a flamethrower character 
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add pyro 
20characters
Genji is melee-ish since anything outside of close-range is just trash damage.
I played Genji and Doomfist, now I only play Genji. I really feel the hole left in the game without Doom. Its crazy how many ranged-bullcrap hero we get but we couldn’t keep one extra melee character.
I’d love a flamethrower character.
I want Charon from Fireforce please. Or Ogun, both super awesome fire bois.