Out of all the 3 roles support was the one to not ban 2 heroes… that’s literally 30 percent of them
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Better question is why not? Look at how it’s impacted the metagame. Yeah the selection for supports are going to be somewhat limited but it really does open up the option when you think about the two supports that were removed and the combination of the damaged hero and the tank they’ve removed.
They did specify that there was not necessarily going to be a restriction on just the two damaged heroes. Furthermore I would point out there are still more support heroes available in the current game than what there was when the game first launched.
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I thought that it would always be 1 tank 2 dps 1 support because of the amount of heroes per role. I wonder what the impact of this change will be.
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There are also more damage heroes (we went from 4 to 7 Supports, and 12 to 16 Damage), and at the start of the game, you could stack multiples of a given hero. So when you ask:
It’s because we now have RoleQ, we can’t pick multiples of a single support, and they’re knocking out two members from the smallest roster when DPS queue times are already a horrendous issue. It is not a good idea to be banning multiple tanks or supports for that reason alone, nevermind the additional frustration this causes for Support players who already feel that they often get the short end of the stick and are now being disallowed from using two of the more-effective options in their roster.
Even as a DPS main, I think this is a bad decision, and I think praising it as otherwise is putting on some excessively-rosy glasses
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You can post this in every thread. But it doesn’t make it feel any better to support players who now have even fewer options than before.
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Only if they’re one tricks.
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It’s just 1 week man, you’ll survive.
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game as a support is totaly unplayable, getting rid of the best healers at the same time is just a joke, after nerfing the rest of them into garbage. i thought it would be 1-2-1 like jeff said. if you bann 2 healers, then bann 4 dps and 2 tanks asweel, like wtf you mean. thats just the most stupid thing in along time from blizzard. playing support never felt worse, cause you cant do anything with this trashcan heals
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It doesn’t hurt only one tricks. It also hurts the people who would switch to one of those heroes in order to deal with a certain situation. When the roster is so small and you take away more of those options it limits the ability for that role to flex.
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Not sure, I’m expecting the meta to be similar to OWL meta last week since Reinhardt it banned, but in the event it defaults back to double sniper or some Widow meta nonsense it’s best to just wait it out until the next hero pool
7 heroes is already very limited.
Ban 2, now there’s 5.
Only 2 of the remaining 5 can fill the main healer slot.
Your team mate picks first, and it’s an off support. Now your choices are narrowed down to 2.
I cackled from laughter when i read the highlighted part lol
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The point of these bans is to open up new possibilities for comps instead of sticking to old methods.
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Banning two supports. What a freaking joke. I won’t be queuing for support at all for the next 7 days. The last hero I want to be forced to play is Mercy.
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Really need to stop thinking that Blizzard intentionally designs Supports with an “off-healer” design.
Much like the Tank role, there is no such thing as an “off-tank” in Blizzard’s eyes. Never has been, never will be.
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i feel you, never played this trash hero cause its boring and has little to no impact on the fights. ana,zen and baptiste are the way to go, but after they nerfed baptiste into garbage, hes out. so only ana zen left for me, and zen alone cant do anything against this unbalanced dps pool, that got huge buffs from goats that got never reverted. actually the biggest joke in a long time for me
Aren’t you supposed to be some kind of player representative of Blizzard or something? Be mature and take this trolling elsewhere.
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Playing Zen isn’t a viable option since Doomfist exists. I haven’t been able to play him for awhile sadly.
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Forum MVPs are not Blizzard representatives, I am allowed to have just as much of an opinion as you do.
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Been a broken parrot about this from day 1. I flex in the tank role and it’s what I found the most fun and effective thing to do as a solo cuer who has to figure out what I can do to counter the enemy.
Limiting players doesn’t “open up new possibilities”
If a player doesn’t play Lucio/Mercy/Brig it’s prob for a good reason. Now if they get constantly dived they cant swap Moira the support they usually pick to counter a Geni/Tracer/Doom who are murdering them.
Limiting supports is only making the entire role more frustrating.
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Time to learn to get better against those heroes with the supports available then.
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