Since i’ve got the game i heard players calling her in this way, then i decided to play her and i asked myself: “why players call her in this way when she has a low pickrate?”. Then when she became useless and underpowered she still was called in that way and she was called even “troll pick”. After the buffs this seems a bit to have gone away but still happens. So, explain me the story of this “meme”, because i never found it amusing.
Edit 1: many players justified this saying Mei smiles or laughts while killing someone, and this generated a meme. Also many players hate get freezed and headshotted, but this is deserved because if you were out of position you should get punished if you don’t react istantly or you don’t know how to deal with a Mei, but don’t worry: you never end to learn. Keep in mind this meme (that could be fun or not) doesn’t allow anyone to report and call “troll/thrower” every player that plays or mains Mei.
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It’s because Hell has always been frozen over.
No, but seriously it’s because when the game was young she was played more and being frozen and then shot in the face after a second of very careful aiming started a meme.
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Mei smiles when she shoot an icicle in a frozen target.
I mean, literally. Her model do that. And that pretty much is the starting point of the whole meme.
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It’s her smiling and saying cute things after she’s just shot you in the head with an icicle after slowly freezing you.
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Imagine someone freezes you solid. You can’t move or scream.
She looks you dead in the eye, smiles and shoves an icecicle through your skull.
It sounds psychotic right?
That’s why she’s called satan
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It all began in the animated short, where Mei broke free of her cryogenic prison, and murdered all of her co-workers by turning off their life support systems. Then she stole their various tools to build her cryo-weapons, and embarked on a journey across the world to serial kill the members of Overwatch.
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All we need is David Attenborough and this serial drama is all set.
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In short it has nothing to do with how powerful she is…
She is called satan because if you think about it…she is kinda disturbing
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Don’t forget she has enough time to say “Hi” before she shoots you as well.
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For me is much worse getting killed ny Spamrat, because he needs no aim and you cant react if you get in the trap or in the air. Also looks like someone very psychopatic
Try playing as a Roadhog or Dva against a good Mei.
Mei is called “Satan” because her cheery, up-beat personality greatly contrasts with her combo, which is to use her cryo-blaster to slowly freeze an enemy in place, then to stick an icicle in their head for an easy kill. This may also involve using her ice wall to first block their escape.
Some Mei players would freeze targets and torment them before killing them, using one of Mei’s ‘cute’ voicelines, saying “Hi,” or running around to the enemy’s face to look them in the eye before firing. Or some combination of the three.
TLDR; Mei’s seemingly clashing character design and personality spawned a meme.
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…we are know what really happened with the Cryostasis chambers in Antartica. That’s how she got her demonic floating powers.
I remember a totally different story: the cryo machines stopped working due to random malfunction
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She giggles like a schoolgirl after beating someone to death. Lore Mei might be wholesome, but in-game Mei is highly disturbing.
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I mean again…im not saying she’s too powerful or bs.
It’s simply the way she gets kills that fits the mold of a serial killer
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She programmed them to fail. Don’t believe her lies.
Ahhhhh, the most evil character in the game.
Well how is this feels like when she freezes you, slowly and painfully. As you are hopelessly slowed and eventually frozen in place, she then gives you a smirk, maybe a cheeky ni hao, before impaling your skull with an icicle. If that doesn’t scream out EVIL, i don’t know what is.
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Also the sabotage thing is part of the joke.
“Im gonna put a rock in this one”
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