New Torb Is just like New Sym

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as the title says, New torb, is just like New sym… better than the old… but still trash and unplayable…

trouble being… the turret… yes you can throw it… but as soon as you do its dead from the massive amount of burst damage in the game so its kinda pointless even having it… shrugs

the only way to fix it is to either 1. give it a massive amount of health… and im talking in the thousands… 2. give it a personal shield of at least 1000… or 3 make it invulnerable as its setting up…

stationary objects in this game are complete trash unless they are extremely tough… sym turrets, torb turrets, bastion in sentry… all useless because of the burst damage available… lets be honest its not difficult to shoot at a single point no matter what rank you are…

as for being able to throw them… yes good in theory… but you cant throw it into a good location because 1… ranged heros exist and they can easily snipe it… and 2. you cant get any support up there to protect it… so the whole rework is moot…

not to mention how easy it is to hit torb himself… meanwhile his primary weapon feels so clunky and random…

for instance… i was point blank with a phara… shot a shotgun volley into her… did about 25 damage… from point blank range… in other words… pathetic…

sorry blizzard… but you are dumb… and so are your ideas… unless you massively buff those poor heros at the bottom… they will never ever… ever compete with the more mobile… and more bursty heros in this game

after all… why even bother setting up a torb pill box committing at least 3 of your team to it… when 1 tracer with a pulse bomb and her 1 clip kill potential can do the same thing…

and again, new ult? area denial… AOE… and armor counter… awesome idea… but in reality? “senario - ohh… you made the floor dangerous… thats ok i will use my infinate mobility to go around it… no biggy”… see what i mean?

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I mean, he was playable before but his player base was tiny as he just doesn’t have that zing that other characters do (same with sym).

But again he was totally playable before

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Holy hell, what’s with the storm of ellipsis? That was awful to read.

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Playable… if you want to be banned from false reports of abusive chat and game sabotage… yeah just like sym

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I played him and didn’t get banned, the majority of players that played him didn’t get banned.

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i got banned so many times for beign torb otp. after my season banned i quit playing this game.

torb was op i climb 3700+sr with my torb otp account. i cant even reach diamond with my main. but they dont let me play. stupid report system. screen from my banned account.

https://i.imgur.com/rwJm9Zx.jpg
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I feel your pain bro

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Torb was not OP, though he had everything. Primary for distance, alt for close range, armor packs to heal, and turret to distract. But, he was very hard to play. One mistake and you’re dead. While, if you play Tracer, one mistake, you press E - like nothing happened.
New Torb will be better, a lot better I’d say, but still he will have even less survivability(no armor packs), so he might be even harder to do good with. OWL/tournaments will probably never have Torb in roster(because who wants to watch turret vs turret?), so he prob will never be meta, and will always have people like “You picked Torb? Fine, I’m throwing.”.