Is she simply too new?
Is she too strong and currently being balanced?
Are there unintended location bugs created by her teleport?
Is it just a bug with my game telling me she’s not available in ranked?
Or is it something else entirely?
Would love to know.
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I would say its because fairness. So everyone can aquire here until the next season.
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i guess that makes sense but in a game where people are going to have to unlock characters individually are they really going to disable characters until a certain percentage of the player base has them unlocked?
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it’s just for 2 weeks. It’s always been a thing that new heroes are not available for 2 weeks after they are released but Blizzard gave the rational “it’s so that people can unlock her”, this time around.
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Wow I actually remember now that during OW1 new characters would be disabled at first.
I haven’t been keeping up with news i didn’t realize she was actually as new as the OW2 client.
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In theory yes. New players could be playing ranked if hardly any of the heroes available if they luck into winning their first 50 games.
probably this
It has always been this way. To gather data on her and pro player opinions on balance. Though blizz has a bad record of listening to pros then releasing OP heros. They fixed JQ before release though so maybe they’re gonna do better
Officially it’s so people have a chance to get her for free without being at a competitive disadvantage. Unofficially I expect it’s so they can identify and patch broken abilities or interactions before they ruin comp games.
why would you think that if people have to buy and unlock characters…
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Precisely. The developers themselves have chosen a topmost greedy approach for this game. Instead of making it “pay to play” and that’s it, now you’ll have the sole option to buy new heroes and skins at super-steep prices. They made purposely the original skins ugly so that payers have to pay 20 euros for a cool Legendary if they don’t want to look like a beggar at a royal court. That’s half the price of the original game which you would buy only 2 skins of the current game. Their greed is without bottom.
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‘‘Its so they can balance her’’ oh did we also get 2 weeks disable on jq and sojurn or did i miss something ? bruh
so why is junker queen and sojourn in comp? hmm? didn’t think very hard about that one did you?
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Nope, I was just parroting the official statement. I would assume because we had the ability to play them in beta and OWL have been playing with them for a while as well.
She should have been available because there are already broken unbalanced characters in this game. Supports also needs a new healer to play around with because the low amount of healers to chose from is pretty sad. So what if Kiriko might be strong, so are MOIRA…
new heroes are always locked at least 2 weeks. Imagine comp with heroes no one has ever played before, would be horrible, pretty logical…
LOOOL how do you think it’s because she’d be strong. It’s about players who would ignore that they have NO CLUE of how to play her, but still do and then games are going south because of that… … The next best thing you’d be doing is a forum post with the question why kiriko was available right from the start :'D
yes you missed the betas :'D that’s about 4 weeks, not done by all, but enough I guess
Some people don’t have her is what i would guess
She clearly needs some nerfs, and it’s not simply because they want to “allow for everyone to unlock her first”. I think it’s moreso they want to see how she’s played and what tweaks are necessary. She definitely needs her damage reduced. No way I should be 2 shotted by a Kiriko. Also, like someone else mentioned; I don’t want people first timing Kiriko in my ranked games. I’ve already seen Kiriko’s do 502 healing throughout the entire duration of quick play games, I don’t want that to translate to my ranked games.