Why do you nerf pharah?

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She is not really flyable now, her jetpack is more like a glider to me. Maybe I dont play the game long enough (only 57 rank). But lets talk about it.

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What are you saying? Pharah doesn’t need a nerf and I can’t see anyone else who is saying she does.

Unless, there is already a nerf coming that I am not aware of?

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She just got buffed actually. She can pretty much indefinitely stay 20m+ off the ground

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bruh and i thought i had no sr… 57 sr?

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Rank not SR. He’s 57 levels into the game I think is what he is trying to say.

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yh ik i was joking lol, thanks anyway haha

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They didn’t though, they buffed her.

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im actually seeing pharah quite a bit in the games i play, she is scary and i play her quite a bit… i hate going against her since usually in my games everyone blames each other for not taking care of her

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I thought this was a necro from like 3 years ago.

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I think they are talking about the experimental change. I assume they think it will go live

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Oh

To Op: That change won’t go live.

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ehhh… I doubt it personally considering theyre talking about Pharah’s ability to fly, not her taking more damage while on the ground and less while in the air

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I don’t see where OP is asking to nerf Pharah, they are asking WHY was/is she nerfed.

5% less damage taken while in the air is a joke of a buff. That’s 6 less damage from a full charged Widow body shot of 120 damage.

Meanwhile she will now take 77 damage from a McCree body shot or 132 damage from a Widow while Pharah is on the ground.

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That won’t go live.

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Source?

Honestly you don’t know what will and what won’t at this point.

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They’ve said these changes are only for tournament.

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we do, cause they said it in the patch notes

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Still, my point stands, the “buff” is nothing and even IF they went live wouldn’t change Pharah any in high ranks. So in the end it’s only a buff to low rank Pharah and still a extreme small one at that.

This change WILL NOT make her played anymore than what she already was in OWL, which was almost never.

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Yes there is a nerf coming. She will get 10% more damage while on the ground (but 5% less damage in the air). But she can`t fly for a long time actually.

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Pharah is fine just hitscan is too powerful.

A buffed pharah would be living hell for plat or gold as the dreaded pharmercy would return the reason she isn’t good now is because of the hitscan dominance - mccree especially