So ngl this new mccree buff has made a huge difference. but in a bad way. as someone who really likes mccree and has his gold gun i really feel it was an unnecessary buff. I know the overwatch team is trying to get rid of goats but i dont feel this is the way. Maybe to get rid of goats you could give someone an ability that makes it so your shots do more damage to armour or just generally buff damage to armour? Although even with goats as meta playing tank isn’t fun. hasn’t been for awhile and i think (in qp at least) it’s the least picked role because its just, not fun.
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Goats is played mostly in GM at 4k2+, outside of that it’s rarely played.
McCree’s buff is just to make him a bit more valuable as a glass cannon, he still dies super easily since he has basically nothing to protect himself except the flashbang and you probably won’t pick him on some maps or against some comps, like Cree against Bunker is still useless.
So far he hasn’t struck me as broken OP like people claim, he’s just doing a bit more dps.
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How did they buff him?
faster firing rate i think by 20%
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Ahh, thanks. That’s acc not a terrible bad buff for ol’ MCcree. i guess time will tell if this is a good or bad change.
Casually ignore the fact that mcree has been one of the worst heroes in the game for a LONG time. His roll is terrible for actually dodging stuff, his ult is a free headshot for widow, and his alt fire is RNG based and inaccurate.
Even after the buffs, I still feel they didn’t address the core problem with mcree : he just sucks compared to widow.
It’s neither a good nor bad buff. All it seems to be doing is making him another roadhog counter.
It didn’t change what actually needs to be changed about him. His damage output was never too high or low.
what do u think actually needs to change for him then? his ult?
I agree, they introduced Ashe earlier this year, and buffed McCree twice since then, and those two on top of Hanzo and Widowmaker and (to a lesser extent) Ana… It has made Pharah absolutely unplayable. Every team seems to have atleast two of these characters now and playing Pharah is now considered throwing because she will get shot out of the sky the moment her booster rockets are heard.
Yes. His ult just feels super weak to me. It’s an open invitation to get shot since you basically have to stand still.
Yeah it’s one of the worst in the game just because of how vulnerable her is. Didn’t they buff his ult too a few months ago? i don’t remember exactly but I think they increased the distance he can lock on to enemies or something with high noon.
They increased the damage… kinda.
Basically, it’s more effective at shooting through shields now… Hooray. That doesn’t matter when you have a widow bullet through your skull.
There’s a reason high ranked players will just tell you to reload with his ult.
His ult is weak (i usually use it to kill healers or just a single person) so u dont die while using it. But in my ELO which is mid to high plat there tends to be a lot of players with high mechanical skill for aiming but never rank up due to not being good at communicating with the team. Hes really powerful since he can get tanked by a mercy and be unkillable
Literally just pick any of his counters. He is not unkillable by any means.
Here, I’ll give you a few choices :
- Pick soldier and outrange him.
- Pick widow and remind him that widow is literally better in every way
- Pick hanzo and remind him that hanzo is literally better in every way
- Pick d.va and pressure him with help from your team.
- If he’s being pocketing by someone, pick Ana and antinade him.
or just pick widow again lol