Why is “good balance” always tied to a certain clique of heroes?

[CrazyDiamond-11904]

@Ranulf-1999

Genji and Tracer dominated pro-play for the first 2 years of the game but 2 weeks of Sym being a decent pick is Unforgivable And Anti-Skill, apparently.

Are we really pretending the “bugfix” didn’t make both Sym and Zarya wildly consistent and high damage?

I forget the dev quote but the fix increased her and Zarya’s damage by something like 30% when that’s not what they intended. Don’t try to pass that off as player bias.

Edit: This was the quote

@JoshuaNoh-1358

Aside from meta considerations, it’s important to prioritize individual hero balance which is why we’re tuning Zarya and Symmetra damage output. The recent beam bug fix was much more potent than expected, with those heroes on average seeing a 20-40% increase in damage. Their original damage values were tuned without knowledge of this bug.

@trashbot23-1521

Anything outside of these heroes that may become viable to win with is considered some “cheese”, “no skill”, “low IQ” and this bad for the game.

Players generally don’t complain about the skill of Reinhardt/Winston/etc? Could it be that the problem is not mechanical skill but actually ease of use compared to reward?