Why don't we have 3 RAW heroes, 1 in every role?

1 Tank: Shield only. No damage, no healing, nothing but providing defense for your teammates.
1 Damage: DPS only. No shield, no healing, nothing but raw damage.
1 Support: Healing only. No damage and provides healing and sustainability for your team.

  1. Fortress
  2. Burst Cannon
  3. Ambulance

Basically Mercy

basically junk or doomfist

that would probably be kinda boring

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But yes. We already have this.

Rein

We already have hero archetypes. Imo

No Mercy would be the right comparison Moira spends about half her time doing damage simply as a must due to resource that disqualifies her for a close description to the want

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I disagree. I believe Moira is not only representative of a pure healer in kit but also in lore.

they didnt ask for a pure healer they asked for a healer with no damage, Moira is literally duality of half healing half damage automatic disqualification

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Moira doesn’t have to tho. She says one hand gives, the other takes. Not some alchemy thing of equivalent exchange

And mercy has more destructive power than Moira in both pistol and dmg boost.

There are 3 heroes designed to be as close to this purity that you want.

Reinhardt, an extremely easy to play and impactful tank that doesnt get the hate another hero gets when they are the most picked in spite of being so easy.

Soldier:76, another very easy to play hero designed just like Reinhardt to be the intro DPS you can pick up and play even if youve never played Overwatch before.

And lastly, Mercy, who just like the former 2 is very easy to pick up and play.

All these heroes were designed to be the “pure” ones in their role and all except Soldier have been the best in their role for atleast some time, which in my opinion they should never be over more difficult heroes to play but I digress.

(Soldier was meta and the best DPS for a little while but not as long as the other 2 have been).

Point being, those already exist and are as close as they can get to being “pure” in their roles.

They all need to have something beyond what their role is so that they can be easy to pick up, accessible, and impactful, but with the exception of Reinhardt, their other functions are very limited

(Reinhradt has no healing, but has braindead good damage even with just firestrike, Soldier has a limited AOE heal, but its mainly meant to be used as a personal heal, and Mercy’s damage is the absolute lowest of the roster in actual practice, even if you add her damage amplified stat to her own damage)

In practice yes, in reality not at all.

Moira has to do damage to keep her resources up :thinking:

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I mean i guess you can have fun waiting 35 seconds to fully restore your resource but thats a pretty bad healer

but im already done I just remembered who you are and how you are about this topic and its just a circle i dont feel like being in

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All heroes have to be able to do some damage. They have to be able to defend themselves. You couldn’t make a pure healer or pure shield hero.

I mean, that’s more a balance thing. Not kit or theme.

Mercy could be balanced to be more like Zen… :woman_shrugging:t5:

If she wants. But just like heal beam mercy…Moira has the choice to use her whole kit. Which includes hot

Why is she running out of resource?

Bye then.

You could.just not with ow s current trend

Maybe because heroes who can only do one thing and provide no other utility are really boring to play and annoying to have on your team. Moira is probably the easiest example. Does literally nothing but heal. Compared to a Lucio who can make everyone go fast…or a Zarya who can give you bubbles.

Who knows. It could be very interesting.

Mercy has damage boost and can only heal a single teammate except for valkyrie. She has also a pistol to damage enemies.

Point taken except Doomfist has self-heal sort of but it’s temporary shield.

Because it would be awful to the balance of the game. That’s why.

If you have a tank that can’t do any damage then you have to compensate by making him twice as tanky. You’d have a reinhardt with double the tanking ability but no damage. Then you combine that with a bastion that has double the damage and no healing… There would be no reason to choose any other heroes.

I would say tracer and widow not rat and doom as the boys have cc .

Not widow or tracer

That’s only if you refuse to use her ultimate. Her ult is there to push through barriers and chokes, causing the enemy to scatter because of the damage.

Refuse to ult …for dmg. She heals quite well with it too.

Just like mercy, not using all the kit, is a choice on moira’s end

I find it quite good for things like shatter or torbs or Winston’s ult.

Things that take time for the pain to be brought

Oh yeah I totally forgot to add “no cc” in my post ty for reminding me