I could be so far away and sniped down by a soldier and have to back up. Also his damage is ridiculously strong too? And let’s not forget the helix rocket combo that just ruins almost every character. What’s up with this game and almost instant kill characters
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Cus they buffed him too much.
He’s getting nerfed tomorrow.
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The wording from the article honestly makes it sound like they feel he’s fine, but are doing an appeasement nerf like with what they did to roadhog, zenyatta, widow, and hanzo. Many heroes are getting adjustments if people complain enough to an extent. The hanzo change they did almost nothing with because they felt he was fine. Widowmaker didnt’ really need a nerf, but they hit her extreme ranges to feel better to fight against. Roadhog is getting a full rework, gutted right away, then got some minor buffs over time.
S76 got two dmg increases, so one is reverted, one is a new cost adjustment for more spam dmg. He got literally a 5% dmg increase. He’ll probably get a 5% ult cost increase.
This will be 100% correct 
He is fine.
Mercy damage boost is the game changer. And this will not change tomorrow.
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If you pull out a spread sheet for his damages with 17 and 18 on dmg bst for both, dmg bst doesn’t let him hit any new breakpoints on 200hp heroes from 17 → 18 dmg that he didn’t already have at 17. He gets some new stuff at 19, but for the most part the biggest increase was on helix rocket gaining +10 dmg. Helix rocket is a guaranteed 0-90dmg finisher move that’s very easy to land. Helix rocket + dmg bst puts it to a 0-117 dmg.
The new -5% mercy nerf and -10dmg will put it at 0-100dmg max, so losing out on a finishing move that helped him really get easy finishers.
I read it as “We are aware that he is OP, but we won’t nerf him yet, because reasons, thank you for understanding”
notice how the OP never said mercy was pocketing him
blatantly shows he is overpowered without a mercy
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Yeah sure, but we know what’s gonna happen, next in the line will be sojourn.
Gold players only think this way, because soldier is one of the easiest dps characters in the game.
Meanwhile echo, tracer, sombra dominating my lobbies and soldier is okay there but not op.
yet im not gold. just because you think a specific way doesn’t make that persons opinion a “low rank”
soldier is dominating in a ton of games, even some pro players have said hes at the very least overtuned.
I get the 19 damage and biotic field change tbh but the helix rocket buff was going overboard IMO. I think he’ll be fine after tomorrows nerf.
Sojourn got gutted not being able to gain double enery on headshots.
Strong where? Where only weak players are playing?
Dude. I get tracers that dominate but I also get soldiers that dominate simply because good soldiers have so much influence over a match