Okay, who is it? At first I thought it was Mei, but now I’m not so sure. Lots of people are saying Cassidy. Of course junkrat, Genji, and maybe Sombra are in the mix (though Sombra can still work well in a dive comp, so I’m not convinced she’s fundamentally the worst option available, or even close).
I may have to take Mei off the pedestal given how well she isolates Orisa. And Orisa is everywhere currently, at least in quickplay.
I’d guess Junkrat, in a general sense.
I’m tempted to say it’s still Sym, but I don’t know. Yeah, she has a beam for Orisa, but you have to hope you can charge it up without getting spun or speared away. Two tap orbs is nice, but doesn’t save the character.
Genji is pretty fine in this meta, sombra’s actually pretty good rn. junk has his maps. mei and cass are bad because they have bad matchups not because they are bad characters, except maybe cass if i am honest. he just doesn’t have a niche rn imo
I’d say Mei.
Especially considering how strong Zarya is and how little she can do against her.
Her wall is probably melted in a second, if Zarya is walled off she will probably have a bubble. Bubble will also make her ult useless (and there will probably be a Kiriko or a LifeWeaver to make it even more useless), dealing with Zarya close range is a victory for Zarya most of the time.
I’m pretty sure Mei is in the worst spot she’s ever been.
Junk or Reaper would be my guesses, but even they are playable
Mei has low dps and has a huge hitbox. That’s what makes her bad. Her only truly viable ranged attack is a slow-firing projectile that’s generally inferior to Torb and Hanzo’s projectiles.
Sym is actually not on the bad dps list this season.
Junk can’t hit fliers very often, if at all. Reaper can’t either. They have other problems but that’s probably the worst thing about them.
Cassidy has range problems.
The slow short range heroes pretty much (add mei to that because icicle is her secondary even though its her main way of doing any damage atm). The sustain supports give out now makes it near impossible to survive unless those heroes get pocketed in some way or major coordination. Add on to that the fact every other hero has mobility options that put them out of reliable range save for mine and icicle and you in for a bad time more often than not.
its easily mccree. its not even a contest. illari literally outranges him and shes super meta
the number 1 ranked dps rn is a junkrat, and ive seen way more reapers have success than crees. feels like mei is in every other game in gm+
the tank busters are staying viable due to the overbuffed dive/brawl tanks running into your backline 24/7
I’ve only seen them die when I’ve played with them and against them this season. Mcree has the issue with illari but I’ve yet to see the others not be forced to swap or else useless most of the time. Maybe its just our player pools?
I feel most DPS heroes are in a good spot currently. However If I had to pick the weakest one I would either say Cassidy or Pharah.
Cassidy is not a bad hero, but he does have to compete with Ashe and Soldier. In comparison to those two, he is generally not as desirable as them. Cassidy is really just about his gun, and brings no utility. He used to have hard CC which made him a lot more desirable, but that sadly got taken away. This also made him weaker in close range fights.
As for Pharah, she is very good at countering certain heroes, but at the same time is very easily countered herself. Unfortunately it is much easier for Pharah’s counters to shut her down completely than for her to shut down the few heroes she does counter.
Maybe not in good hands but sombra in my opinion. I take this question as if a complete noob were to pick up the game which hero would be hardest to get kills on. I’d say that is sombra. Even some of the heros mentioned in this thread a noob can pick up and just spam the left click button down hallways and check points and get kills just due to randomness.
Maybe for basic game play, I think he does have one of the highest skill ceilings, his ult can almost always secure kills, and since his grenades arc and bounce you don’t need to maintain LOS to whack your target, and if your really good you can swap pharah out of the sky with ease.
Right now everyone is OP. everyone dies to fast or impossible to die with both healers on them.
I’d argue reaper. Maybe he’s more viable than others. But he’s really really outdated.
i agree it’s mccree atm.
just out paper’d on paper even though he’s a scissors.
Its pretty telling that people are saying “junkrat is OP” in some threads, and most people are saying “junkrat worst dps” in this one. His oneshot capability at least requires more than one button…
I think that in the right hands any dps can currently be oppressive and seem unfair but few feel underpowered. Which I guess translates as balanced, but the most frustrating kind of dps kill is a oneshot you couldn’t see from across the map. Feels awful even if its skillful.
But I’d vote for Torb as worst dps atm. Turret sucks at anything other than alerting to flankers, no hanzo-like one-shot capability on primary, no reaper-like damage from secondary, and Molten Core area denial requires other team to have no spatial awareness to be effective.
I can imagine that Junk’s got a high skill ceiling but going by how uncommon he is on the leaderboards, the effort involved plus the map factor doesn’t match the pay-off, so I feel justified in saying he’s the worst DPS right now. That’s not to say he can’t work, but if you’re not playing in a close quarters maps then do you really want one of your teammates picking Junk? Probably not.
And this is even without talking about how Zarya’s in vogue at the moment, at least down here in metaltown.
I think Sym is on the weaker side of the DPS roster but at my low level, it’s at least possible to prop up Sym to a degree. If Sym gets resources thrown her way like Zarya bubbles or various support buffs, that Sym’s got a chance of causing more pain than you’d expect. And she gives back to the team in terms of teleporter and barrier (although I wish her turrets’ wallhacks lasted for longer).
Junkrat, though, not so much in my opinion. If the Junkrat can’t stand on his own two feet then that’s that, really. The rest of the team is going to have to work that little bit harder.
i would say sombra
her damage gets outhealed pretty fast
her uptime is her weakness
her …boost´´damage she needs to announce first
and her emp gets healed up fast
Reaper (Range is too low, can’t sneak, easy HS, weak ultimate)
Sombra (Hack is weak, range/damage is low, translocates too frequent)
Junkrat (Too clunky, close range/big hitbox needed for combo, easy HS)
Symmetra (Range is too low, turrets don’t do much damage, weak ultimate)
Torbjörn (Slow, easy HS, turrets also useless)
Mei (Slow, easy HS, weak primary, weak ultimate)
I’d go with Reaper or Sombra right now as I can at least do a lot more for the team on the other four characters.