but what if it’s her big poofy jacket simply hiding her stomach
She has a bit in her snorkling spray
That’s pretty much implied, and I’m fine with it. I’m talking about her Honeydew skin, both her LNY skins and Pajamei where she doesn’t appear to be fat at all.
I’m trying to push this idea for a year straight, what about if, instead of her primary fire, she had snowballs that would freeze squishies with 3 shots and tanks with 6 shots or even 7. It would still have the 10 meters range and even go to 13 or 15 meters if it’s not broken. While surely make her less frustrating to deal with, and need much more aim to freeze people.
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Tanks need damage to be threatening without it Mei as a tank would be the easiest tank to murder.
Reducing one of if not the lowest dps heros dps even further would make her even more useless as a tank…which she isnt suited to be.
Practically every part of mei (except of the size of the character and hp) feels like what you would expect from a tank. before role queue was even out i used to joke and say “dont worry ill go tank” and i pick mei. to me she was always closer to being an offtank than dps, at least after the buffs she received after goats.
Mei was my go-to “offtank” for whenever the enemies were using too many tank busters and it wasnt fun to play a “real” tank anymore.
so yea i feel like mei would fit better into tank role and it would be far less annoying playing against her if i knew that the enemies were trading shields for cc/walls as a method for controlling space.
only issue is that she has been dps for so long, im not sure people would accept such drastic changes to her.
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Maybe she’s in a reeaalllyyyy tight corset?
Pfft
They would whine even more.
I wouldn’t like Mei to be moved into tank. It would mean she would get a rework and even after three nerfs already as she is, people still complain about her so they will continue to want to nerf her even as a tank.
It would probably feel better, since she’d no longer take up a dps slot the match would have 2 tanks again.
It’s not so much that I hate getting frozen, it’s more so I hate how accurate Mei players are with her secondary. Which isn’t a Mei problem, it’s a “How is every Mei I come across this good” problem. Which also isn’t a problem, more my own personal bias.
it would be more than simply changed the role, you’d also be removing a tank slot. If she is assumed to be so much a tank right now that she is able to just change roles, then atm in the game there can be 3 tanks versus 2 if she was moved to tank role
This is the same thing as saying “Would symmetra players be happy if Symm was a support?”
It either makes no sense and/or it will never happen.
But Symmetra would obviously need a rework whereas Mei could just have tweaks to the abilities she currently has
Moving any hero to a different role would require larger changes than just small tweaks. Its why whenever you see things like “Bastion should become a Tank”, its usually accompanied by a large list of suggested reworks or buffs/nerfs.
Its why even moving Doomfist to a tank role would require him to have more health, stronger abilities, and a meaningful ultimate.
But Mei as she is currently is arguably the most tank-like dps whereas Symmetra currently is nothing like a support. Then there’s Bastion as you mentioned who has tank like aspect but would still require a fair amount of changes to become a tank
I’ve been advocating for Mei to be moved to the tank role for quite a while now.
Remove the freeze from her primary fire, give her wall some more HP and give her some armor on top of her existing HP and you’ve got the game’s newest main tank!
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She already had acceptable nerfs recently and people were still crying.
They literally don’t want her to have any attack or any role. Unless her only power is making snowcones inside the spawn for her own team, people will keep crying about her endlessly, as if she’s the only DPS or CC in the entire game.
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Agree with this. If it remains an extremely easy spray ability that freezes people in place for easy follow ups than people would still hate it.
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mei game plan is kind of what it is now. split the enemy, sustain and cc. she will be more utility styled tank than a damage tank. she already isnt used as a damage option but a utility option. so trading damage for hp would actually be a buff towards her. i also highly doubt she will be the easist to murder if she has sustain like road but better utility, also anti nade not working on her really helps too.