I played 8 matches of QP and he was on BOTH SIDES in EVERY MATCH.
It’s driving me insane, I HATE this character. Why is he suddenly meta?
Nothing even works against him anymore. I swap to Bastion and he jumps me while I’m in turret form and somehow kills me, and is not afraid of Reaper AT ALL.
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Finally some good news coming out of overwatch, winston is meta. Perhaps there is a god.
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Just checked and my last 7 games had no Winstons. Maybe it’s because you’re on Genji?
I’m on everyone, I play all characters.
Except Genji. He’s pretty much the only character I will never touch.
He’s in a good spot , but he’s in no way overpowered, hoping you get a road hog or dva to help prevent him from rolling your back line.
I hate Winston in general. His entire gameplay is to jump on you, bubble so you can’t kill him, kill you and then jump away before he even gets down to 70% health.
If you get him even a little low he pops ult and survives and then leaves.
Now I’m getting him every match. He is insufferable to play against.
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aww…but winton is so cuddleable (not even a word but im using it!)
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reaper hasnt counterd him in years, bastion only countered him because he got giga buffed out of niche pick and into the frontline of the meta.
only hog and bastion counter him, dva soft counters as she was nerfed, winston mirror is a strong counter.
rush counters him but people instinctively want to split up against him, not enough things to boop him in the air.
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Yep seeing lots of Winstons lately. Its becoming a game of whose Winston can drop the other side’s supports first. Its annoying but he isn’t unbeatable IMO.
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I’d rather face Winston than Dva currently, 725hp that can matrix for 2.5 seconds and destroy a squishie with one combo.
bastion isnt that reliable anymore in countering him since the armour change, unless your whole team concentrates on him
now when i play winston, im more concerned about what the other tank plays than his dps’ counterpicks
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Against Winton, I play Torb. I shove that gun right into his side, overload, and shotgun blast until he pops. If he jumps away in fear, I still did my job.
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Instead it taking others trash advice on counters, consider playing against him the proper way first…
When Winston pounces on you, he is on a timer before he has to leave or he dies.
If you’re support the question is- how do you survive long enough so he’s forced out? If he’s forced out his team is being offered little to no value. He doesn’t have to die, he just has to be denied value.
If you are dps you can either ruin his dive (attack him in the air it’s super easy) and then follow up on his landing, if done right he can die if your team helps…
Or you dive his team while he dives yours since he quite literally is leaving his team helpless while he’s diving, and dps divers kill WAY faster and more efficiently than Winston.
When his support lifeline gets cut off by your counter dive/when his dps lifeline gets cut off to save him because you ruin his dive, you severely mitigate his value as a tank, and your team begins to have a massive resource advantage very quickly when his dives are unsuccessful. Even if he lives he becomes a massively unproductive resource sink for his team if he doesn’t net that crucial pick.
If you are more of a precision hitscan type you can also hold off angles near health packs with say Ashe… stay where coach gun can save you and pick his team off while he’s unable to assist them unless he goes straight after you. But with the right position you can deny him the fight easily and waste his time.
Do not go reaper. Don’t. Seriously. It doesn’t work.
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Reaper works but the effort to make reaper work in general in a match is tough.
Though if they run full dive without any ranged heroes he can hit better on squishies.
good, I’ll try out winston because maybe that might make dps’s life miserable
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Yours or theirs 
I still feel df is better.
Reaper used to work. You could punish Winston and deny him by playing body guard so you could kill him for diving.
You CANNOT kill him now unless he makes a horrid awful misplay. You absolutely are wasting your time on laying body guard if it doesn’t result in killing him, because you can’t stop his attack and while he’s diving you and your support your team has a dps doing nothing else of consequence (you) meanwhile both of his dps are full able to be anywhere.
I.e. he is guaranteed to occupy you and your support every dive, and that’s super nice consistent value for him. He’s probably also occupying the second support since they need to save them because you won’t be killing him in time.
Now this could be useful if not for the fact that Winston can jump back out and once he’s far away you hit like wet paper, while most other dps can hitscan him on his way in or out or have mobility to be diving in and out of his vulnerable backline.
Reaper is forced to play Winston’s little game or let his supports die instead, but he can’t keep up with Winston or punish him when he leaves, and he can no longer kill him when he comes in, which was the only thing making him a Winston counter in the first place.
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Just a guess but armor got buffed and he ignores armor.
That explains pick rate but your struggle to deal with winstons, especially on bastion. I dont know what to say.
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You do more damage with the left click.
I enjoy taking away his bubble privileges with Petal Platform >:3