…since launch. A fun new hero and ahe gets wrecked by almost every comp. She’s needed a buff for months and is still underpowered with no immediate fixes coming.
If she’s so obviously under performing why isn’t there an immediate hot fix planned? Numbers tweak? Anything?
Leaving her dumpstered this long is a slap in the face.
There may be changes to her in s3 (we can only hope) but she is far from the weakest tank now especially since hog was nerfed. What she needs imo is a mobility option that’s not on a 13 second cooldown
I think her last set of buffs was a welcome change.
She definitely still isn’t top tier, but she is alright now and if played well can hold her own against most other tanks.
The problem with her has always been the nerfs they gave her between beta 2 and release. in beta 2 she was an absolute beast but the pros found a way to use her in a comp that gave the Devs goats PTSD so they very quickly and heavy handedly knocked her down (I think they forgor they were about to add a hero that could completely negate the main part of her kit with one button press.)
Yep she is literally a throwpick and as squishy as a dps no armor nothing dying within nanoseconds (not really how a low/melee range “BRAWLER” supposed to be) esp. when NOT duo Qing with a support who heals YOU and does nothing else in the game, like Guru does with his GF, then but only then she is fun, if you get a personal suzu & healing bot.
She’s fun as hell in open queue competitive - super easy to get a 3+ axe swing.
Open queue quickplay however is a dps cesspool don’t touch that.
The problem with her is that she is a close range fighter in a world of snipers.
Many of her problems are still related to the fact that she doesn’t offer anything amazing as a tank.
Offering a very small speed boost duration and overhealing every 14seconds is not worth it for a team. You can speed boost any team without her as Lucio and more consistently.
Without it she’s just another selfish tank (in the sense all your effects are for yourself) that the other tanks which can do stuff and assist the team are more beneficial. Right now, she clashes too much with Roadhog. He has the better selfsustain without needing support focus. He has the stronger CC ability.
His ult is not as good, but its harder to fully shut down compared to JQ with kiriko in play.
JQ is individually fun to play, but I never pick her under the idea of what can I counterpick? What synergies with my team? JQ is always at the bottom of the list.
They’ve tried buffing her multiple times and probably will keep doing so, they just have slow and infrequent balance updates.
At least you’re not doom.
Was the worst hero in season 1, got buffed (in the worst way possible), and then after a week got nerfed into an even worst state than season 1 and is back to being useless.