I know about the recent patch and it is cool that soldier and mccree are better now.
Overwatch is a fps title with heroes who dont need aim and heroes who are useless without aim in certan SR/Elo/Rank.
Aim Heroes need game sens and aim where no aim heroes like Mercy and Rein need game sens only. (this is no offensiv)
It is cool that not every hero need aim, but it is not cool that no aim heroes are low risk high reward like mercy. Where Ana is high risk low reward.
In my opinion we should buff aim heroes to compensate the risk.
“NOOO WTF I DONT WANT TO PLAY AIM HEROES AND WITH YOUR IDEA YOU MAKE NON-AIM HEROES USELESS!!!111”
-No, no-aim heroes are still a safe pick and the kit doesnt change so dont worry.
Like I said it is ok and no problem for me that no-aim heroes exist, but at least reward people who take the risk playing aim heroes. I dont talk about a game breaking buff where no one is playing no-aim heroes anymore.
I want to emphasise this : Aim-Heroes wont be op. Even when you have god aim you will never hit every shot it is impossible without a good team/frontline(and btw there are shilds,deflects etc)
“WTF YOU ARE TALKING, WIDOW IS F OP”
-she looks op, because her team is good and protect her sweet juicy a22.
I am no game balancer, but I think Mccree,Soldier,Ana are still under powered.
That is my opinion and I dont want to offend anyone. If you have questions or opinions tell me I am curious.
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So what hit-scan heroes would you like to buff? Because if your answer is Widowmaker then you’re being really unreasonable as she’s top of the meta currently and definitely doesn’t need anything other than downward tuning. McCree? 76? Sure, they’ve been a bit weaker lately but they just received a slight buff in terms of damage falloff. Ana? She was just buffed so nobody can really say anything about her until we have better data on how she’s performing with her new changes
It’s good to remember that talking about game balance below masters is rather obsolete because then the problem is just the lack of skill on behalf of the player and such thing can’t really be considered especially with high skill floor heroes. The only thing that the developers consider balance wise when looking at lower tiers is low skill floor heroes that might prove themselves to be problematic like Torbjörn, Symmetra and so on. It would be unreasonable too that you could just abuse a single hero to climb up to platinum without any real effort so they keep low skill floor heroes in check and currently there aren’t really that oppressive heroes in low tiers
You, like many people have too simplistic a view of what goes into playing heroes. You’re able to identify that Ana requires aim whereas Mercy does not but when it comes to game sense, you assume that every hero is equal or you quickly dismiss anything else other than “this hero requires aim”. This is not true.
Mercy has requirements that Ana does not. Mercy has to remain within a closer distance to her allies because her beams have a finite range. Ana on the other hand can retain greater distance. Ana also has a higher healing rate than Mercy and her healing is instant whereas Mercy often has to move from location to location to heal her allies. Ana has access to an AoE heal that is almost instant. This means that Mercy has to more carefully prioritise the healing of lower health allies and spread her healing more often in order to keep allies from deaths door. Ana can completely shut down the opponents heals which helps in an offensive capacity thus making fights shorter and thus easier to keep everyone healed up through the duration.
I’m not saying that Ana is easy by any means but if you want to build a proper, balanced argument on this then I urge you to not brush aside Mercy as some low risk / high reward hero. It is not that simple.
“Ana on the other hand can retain greater distance.” yeah that is true, but you can not exploit this, because you are then an ez dive.
Mercy is low risk high reward because you dont need aim, you can disengage and you can resurrect people and turn a teamfight by that.
A good mercy will outheal a good Ana 10/10
I dont say that Mercy is no skill, but she is imo low risk and high reward.