Why everyone hate Mei?

I started playing a few months ago so I’m kinda new. I’ve been trying to be more active in the community and I’ve realized that there is so much hete for Mei (who is my main currently).

I wanted to ask y’all why is she hated and how do you started hating her. If you don’t hate her, say why you don’t.

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People hate her because of the cc, basically. She is one of the better anti tank heroes and a lot of tank mains are here, so the opinion is more prominent than elsewhere.

There is nothing wrong with her. She is pretty COOL.

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  • Extremely easy
  • has the best cc in the game rn on a primary that doesnt neeed that much aim
  • has the most obnoxious ability in the game (wall)
  • is the best tank buster atm
  • “Oh this rein/winston/ball is doing good? let me go mei and hold left click”

Mei is cheesy, unfun to play against as tank and a cc queen for the game

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Indeed! She can be very strong. Although she needs some support from her teammates.

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Because she’s the only character with hard CC for a primary fire and getting walled off sucks.

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I’ve been playing her for a while and I’ve reached the conclusion that she is one of those heroes that are easy to play but difficult to master.

I secure you that you won’t be annoyed by my walls (they are too bad). You only fight against very good people!

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people hate her for the same reason people in starcraft hate cannon rushing, or people in Call of Duty hated the noob tube. The difference is cannon rushing has never been meta in starcraft.

She is way too strong for how easy she is, and she does it by hard CCing people with 200 ammo.

In competition, being better should matter. Period.

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Mei’s primary function and M.O. are to stop people from doing things they want to do. People really don’t like this.

Her wall keeps people from advancing/retreating and her primary fire makes people stop moving/shooting.

She also has a delay before she can finish squishies off with her M2 which tends to stick in peoples minds more than just dying.

People don’t like the WAY they die to her, that’s the primary problem.

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the primary problem is that she counters tank play as a concept for free.

compare the tank counters to the support counters. And compare the devs solutions.

genji and tracer take at least like 40 hours of play before you can really have an impact on them in game, even in plat.

Mei has a dominant impact the first time you play her. I’m not saying a GM mei one trick isnt better at her, obviously. But the floor is just wayyyyy too low for how much she impacts a game.

Also, the devs created moira and brigitte for supports to straight 1 v 1 their only counters. And those heroes are still extremely strong years later.

Meanwhile, Sigma was tank players answer to mei and reaper. How much of his kit is automated compared to moira and brig? And he got HARD nerfed.

Thats why tank players hate mei.

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Easy to play and medium difficulty to master is more like it

No No i dont
I have seen 3 bronzes from last season all sudden in high plat one tricking mei
and they are the ephinany of hair pulling
Mei for any1 who has played this game for a good bit is one of the easiest heroes and one of easiest to climb up with
stuck at silver? well pick mei guarnteed high gold
stuck at gold well pick mei guarnteed plat

She’s paper in a game where rocks are always played.

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Nice metaphor! I think you are right. People may need to change to her counter…

She needs to move to Tank…

It’s just her “real” role and no Dev wants to admit it, for now it seems.

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That’s the point darling, 2 players can’t switch because this is a category locked game now, so Mei gets free guaranteed effortless value.

Reaper went through the same issue. He’s dealt with, Mei will be too, fret naught.

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but its not just that. There should be some level of dps resources that can be allocated to focusing the tanks and supports. Its always been that way.

It’s important for genji and tracer to be strong options. Becuase harassing the supply line is crucial to strategy and always has been. Healing is the supply line.

Its important for the game’s strategy to have heroes like reaper and doomfist too. And hanzo and soldier (or bastion, in theory). Heroes who have different methods of countering the front line.

checks and balances.

But compare the tank counters to the support counters, and compare the tank answers to their counters to the supports answers to their counters.

Its so blatantly obvious that a specific subset of the playerbase gets straight up coddled and it has been holding the game back for years.

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All the comps run with her in the past, were triple tank or Quad Tank comps.

Her issue is how strong her cc is on her primary.

Sure Sombra can disable your abilities and Ana can sleep dart you for much longer, but those are on cool downs. Not a freely as ammo which is infinite.

Her wall being incredibly strong.

It denies line of sight and walls off both teams from progressing or isolate a pick for a near certain free kill.

Her ult being on par with tank ults.

It’s straight up gtfo or you’ll freeze. Only 3 abilities can absorb or reflect it and a bit more for those that can tank it or evade it. The window to stun her from her ult is narrow and inconsistent doesn’t help.

She also has a self heal (that cleanses) on top of all that which can be used for stalling or hiding your ult.

She seems far better then most tanks now and she’s in a different role.

They can switch. The problem is you are forced to pick Orisa or Zarya to cleanse her freeze while other tanks aren’t as lucky :man_shrugging:

Freeze is a problem for the dive tanks, Rein can handle that and Zarya helps, true, but freeze isn’t the main issue, Wall is.

And Zarya trading a bubble for a freeze is a good trade for Mei 9 times out of 10. 8s CD vs spammable primary fire.

Orisa before was the only one that could survive the ice devil, thanks to the massive survivability of Fortify (the equivalent of 900 HP) which meant Wall could be dealt with. The recent nerfs may have put a lid on that.

Mei also has a very good “oh crap” button which has been a staple of meta heroes since 2-2-2.

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Last night while playing Sigma, a Mei managed to freeze me three times in a row. That’s why people hate Mei.

pours one out as a former Winston main :beer: :monkey:

I’d argue Rein less so. Unless he starts backing up with his shield, he will get frozen without his team backing him. Do agree on the wall statement.

Depends on her charge percentage and if she can alternate two bubbles against Mei. You can burn a lot of her ammo that way. Then again it’s not always effective in all situations :man_shrugging:

Absolutely.

Fortify is Orisa’s saving grace against Mei’s primary fire if barrier dancing isn’t cutting it. However Orisa is kinda stumbling a little now from her nerfs, so her reliance as a counter option dwindles.

Which imo if they aren’t gonna address multifreeze, wall or her ult. Should have some counter play like being breakable, cap her healing to 100 or at the very least stagger her healing rate :man_shrugging:

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