I would rather face Roadhog and Mauga in one game than face a 5v5 format Zarya. I want to repeatedly bash my head and paint the walls red every time I have to deal with her annoying kit
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Are they one tricks or something, or are you able to tell?
I ask because whenever I go up against a Zarya, it seems like they only play her for a round and switch.
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I think so. They start off the game and finish the game on her. If they’re bad at Zarya you can usually tell because they mismanage their cool-downs.
I just don’t get what is the fun behind making a character that discourages shooting in a shooter game. I would at least tolerate it more if the “bubble” was the size of the actual hitbox or if they switched back to her 6v6 format that doesn’t give everyone in the lobby an aneurysm
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Doesn’t help they just gave her a perk that straight up removes one of her biggest weaknesses for free, which is her ability to contest highgrounds.
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She wasn’t so bad on heroes that aren’t dva, but then they had to mega buff her bubble to last super long and have more hp. Now she is annoying no matter who I play. And dva had nearly every buff from that patch erased because of a bug with Juno ofc.
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yes zarya is bad.
i think we all know that besides the 4 otp.
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lol yeah that’s me 99% of the time, though these perks have definitely encouraged me to branch out. I’ve been having fun with Sigma and Queen.
I find good a good rein can counter me well. It’s easy to tell, as players who aren’t too familiar with rein will just stand there with their shield up and let me destroy it and it’s like “oh… thanks! dont mind if I do!”
Zarya has become the oh-I’m-losing-so-I-just-pick-Zarya-and-win-hero
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Zarya is the best designed hero in Overwatch. She offers complex counter based gameplay and demands discipline to play as and play against. She has a good skill ceiling, and engages the player’s tactical sensibilities as well.
If you’re struggling against Zarya just counter swap to Reinhardt or Winston or something
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Best designed hero is one you arent allowed to shoot at without making them more powerful? 
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Spam Winston bubble or watch your team get lasered is indeed a gameplay of the Overwatch
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A pocketed Zarya is unstoppable.
Way too much damage and survivability even on her own, and the perks she got are like a giant middle finger to the enemy team.
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The amount of dps-brain in this thread is hilarious. They cant be deprived of the left click dopamine hit without complaining.
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was playing junkrat the other day quite a bit and yea i been noticing zarya in every game lol… one game she freaking just kills everyone while pushing w at full charge.
maybe it was my fault as well for spamming grenades heh
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No, the one where you have to time your fire at strategic points. This bit is actually a video game trope that people have played against for decades.
You can’t just spray bullets everywhere willy-nilly. You have to think first
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Zarya…. At least I can fire my guns…
Dva is the most unfun hero in the entire game to play against you literally cannot play the game unless u swap to something that goes through dm
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I’d rather deal with Zarya over half the tank roster.
Zarya is the Fun Police. She counters nearly everything just by looking at people. She even counters Widow by bubbling flankers.
You can try to lure her into overextending, but that relies on her player being bad.
Your best bet is to focus her teammates, and hope that she’s too selfish to bubble them.
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I don’t mind the bubbles, it’s the whole shtick that she can shoot you while you get punished for shooting her during then that annoys me. Add to that how they cleanse and she can put two on herself or an ally and it’s just obnoxious.
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Heroes that are seriously unfun to play against and that have something in common
Zarya
Symm
Mei
Moira
You figure out what is unfun about them? Beams. They are much less fun to play against. Especially beams that get charged up to be super strong like Zarya and Symm. Beams are too easy to track with and you just feel helpless if you are caught within their range.
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