Zarya IS the issue | STOP WITH THE BIAS

[AeLynn-11513]

@HanaSong-11958

She has the highest pick rate, and she has one of the highest win rates.

We don’t have pickrates or winrates. We literally do not have any statistics at all.
What we do have, is the Devs saying this:

@JoshuaNoh-1358

We don’t balance solely off of stats anyway but they help inform us when something could be really out of whack or can give us a slightly more unbiased lens when trying to identify the root causes of gameplay issues.

Stats don’t do a great job of telling us subjective things like how fun something is, player feedback does. We can try to infer a little bit of that from pick rate but there are too many competing factors.

Now, if you’re trying to say that the statistics you’re (falsely) citing are from Overbuff, we need to talk because they’re wrong.

@Skund-2376

Winston: PR 26.5% WR 57.03%
Zarya: PR 20.3% 54.9%
WB: PR 15% WR 55.6%
DVa: PR 14.84% WR 55.46%
Reinhard: PR 11.7% WR 54.34

As someone who has multiple GM friends but plays predominately in Masters pretty casually, the META is Winston and Zarya. “Double Bubble”.
It originates from Korean Contenders, iirc.
It’s not new by any means.

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@HanaSong-11958

And stop saying. “She’s the only good tank left” when she’s making other tanks feel useless. She’s oppressive

OP, you have 26 hours on D.Va (QP), with your next highest being Ball at 1hr.
In Competitive for this season, you have 8hrs on D.Va, with your next highest Tank being Zarya at 20 minutes.

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@HanaSong-11958

Face it, she’s in every. single. match. and you don’t think that’s an issue?

You’re complaining about a hero who directly hard-counters you.

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What we see from this is that, actually, D.Va is the most must-picked Tank by a long shot, at a 66% pickrate. Winston, the next highest, is at 47.7%.

If we adjust the Date Range to “Previous Month”, we get this:
Sigma, the highest, being at 52.2%. Orisa, 2nd highest Tank at 49.1%.

If we adjust the Date Range to “Previous Week”, we get this:
D.Va, the highest, being at 61.3%. Winston, 2nd highest Tank at 53.9%.
So even in professional play, you’re wrong.

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D.Va gets played = Nerfing D.Va threads

D.Va - The character who is actually VERY useful in a lot of situations, is now getting played, not because she’s broken, because she’s a good balanced hero. Now, please, all the sudden people are saying, “She’s broken!!” When she hasn’t been played for nearly a year and a half. D.Va is a BALANCED tank. D.Va is NOT the issue. – Zarya is better than D.Va and people DEFEND her. People DEFEND her. Go rant about her, because last time i checked, zarya’s been in EVERY. SINGLE. GAME. That’s not e…

This is basically a duplicate thread at this point. D.Va got played, didn’t get nerfed (she actually got buffed by the armor changes and Zarya nerfs) and you got angry at those who asked for her to be nerfed.

Why can Zarya players not say the same? It’s literally hypocrisy.
You made the thread saying:

@HanaSong-11958

D.Va - The character who is actually VERY useful in a lot of situations, is now getting played, not because she’s broken, because she’s a good balanced hero.

TWENTY TWO HOURS AGO.
If a character is balanced, they do not need to be buffed nor nerfed.
You said less than a day ago that D.Va was fine, and is being picked.
Now you’re upset and saying the tables have completely turned.

I get that you like D.Va. I get that it’s frustrating to see another hero performing better than yours, believe me. I primarily play Reinhardt > Winston > Wrecking Ball. Double Shield was so awful for me I literally quit the game apart from placements after 118 games of Orisa, straight, who wouldn’t?

But just because something upsets you or you perceive it to be broken doesn’t mean it actually is.

@JoshuaNoh-1358

One of the perceived strongest and one of the perceived weakest heroes have nearly identical pick rate and win rate. I found this personally very interesting and wanted to share.
My post above was intending to get people to consider that this data, while not absolute or conclusive of anything on its own, may suggest off-meta heroes are much more viable on the competitive ladder than players tend to expect, even at the highest levels.