Just curious as to why nobody mentions Tracer when they talk about OP characters. Her blinks seem endless and the fact she heals when she does it yet her guns are deadly seem a bit much for one character, Who is her most effective counter? And what character do you hate the most?
Maybe because people dont think that she is OP anymore?
Brigitte
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Lol ask a stupid question, Get a stupid answer I guess. I see her running rings around Brig all the time, Feels like she just frustrates a Brig and not the other way around, Not a great counter to me but I figured she was meant to be her counter.
Are you playing against sbb in Korea top 500?
Brigitte was introduced so non gods could stop somehow a tracer god.
Brig denies tracer anything by just standing afk next to ana.
If you’re really desperate, try hanzo+mercy any dmg boosted body shot will one-shot a tracer. But yeah having to sneak behind and get a kill without getting touched is harder than shield-bashing or arrow spamming around the world. Any little damage is a issue for tracer, unless she’s not like me in gold/plat without any heal the whole game. Instead getting healed by their healers accordingly.
Alone the fact you have to ask for a counter, ofc tracer is somehow good against Brigitte, as tracer is the only hero able to get away from that thing.
An OP hero loses like 80% in pick rate can’t be OP in my eyes.
Sorry but tracer is only OP if the player is a god damn beast, And I’m taking top 1% beast.
A Brigitte is good bc you can’t really fail to stun.
If you think tracer counters brig, then maybe ask for a passive movement increases on brig. Hahahaha
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Was just asking as she seems like the only character I have real problems against but thanks for the info.
Have you heard of Mary Sue?
Yeah, I guess I can understand her being so good as she is the poster girl for OW she is just very frustrating to play against.
Wasn’t meant to be somehow aggressive or anything, also just saw that you might be new to the forums. (7 posts)
I’m a tracer main with inconsistent aim an sometimes crazy ideas.
As my reference and seeing a lot owl, you see a tracer becomes fairly useless if a team is coordinating and uses brig, moira, maybe lucio.
If you always call out where tracer is, she might gets focused more and has to retreat or dies.
It’s painful with not the best aim cause I have not a lot of time to blink in and try to kill someone without dying.
Honestly she isn’t that strong if you’ve got an equal or better Mc, tracer, pharah or soldier. She’s strong and pretty much an infinite skill ceiling but she actually takes skill to get anywhere.
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Blizzard will never touch tracer and genji, we all know that they have been op from the beginning. Why? Because they are the face of the game, advertisement. They need to look good in every demo recorded.
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Cause the devs will never do anything no mater how bad it becomes. People just gave up.
One thing I would disagree with is the idea that Tracer might not be good at lower levels. The key thing to me for a successful tracer at lower levels is just surviving and still being near the enemy team.
Even if she does not get kills she is being a pest. She disorients teams and causes +1 or multiple players to get distracted by her. Particularly if it happens to be one or both supports she is preoccupying.
Having a 1v2 against Tracer and Tracer not die is an amazing situation to have because it means the rest of your team has a 5v4. Likely that 5v4 involves no or -1 support due to Tracer distracting them.
Getting an enemy team to have to make split decisions about say back up and help the supports against a flanker or deal with some other threat can paralyze a team with indecision and confusion and lead to its swift destruction. No tracer kills even necessary.
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Divide and conquer. The same thing I’m doing with my mediocre genji skills sometimes. On some maps (e.g.: Eichenwalde, Anubis) I like flanking behind defending teams with genji and turning an otherwise hardstuck and lost attack into a victory by simply annoying them, often without getting kills/medals or any kind of endorsements. Sometimes what I get is only a “useless genji”. ![:smiley:](https://d1kzxbyyijk9k6.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
Interesting to see everyones opinion on it, Thanks for the replies. I’ve found McCree is my most effective against Genji and Tracer because I just can’t get to grips with Brig at all.
as a tracer main she is not overpowered, her blinks are not endless and she is one of the squishiest heroes in the game. Also her recall can only be used once in a fight in most cases and it only goes back the past 1-5 seconds. McCree can counter her with a flashbang then headshot, brigitte can, any stun hero pretty much also pharra is good because tracer has no long ranger abilities.
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tracer is op.
The fact that blizzard gave us braindead character that anyoe can pick and do decent/good, doesn’t mean she is fine.
Her kit is overtuned like genji. There are a lot of dps that are good without beeing overtuned, soldier for example.
“But hey is not true, genji and tracer are weak”, yeah, that explains why they introduced brigitte just with the purpose to counter these 2 .
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I would say that tracer isn’t op, her kit seems fairly balanced imo, as a decent tracer player myself i can say that there are many counters to her, McCree, Moira, Roadhog, Zenyatta, Brigitte, Pharra and even reaper can 1 shot headshot tracer. the reason tracer is so fast and has a high damage output is because she is very squishy and can be killed easily due to her low health. Instead of complaining try to learn to counter her effectively. Thats what i did and now I can kill Moiras as tracer which i couldn’t do before.
low health = 50 less hp.
50 less hp means you need 1 shot less to die.
4 blinks, one of them beeing a self heal.
Smallest hitbox in the game.
unavoidable ult that does free 300 dmg.
The learn how to counter gimmick is an old meme, if mccree and reaper could reliably counter tracers, we woudn’t have brigitte now.
And even with brigitte, tracer remains a top tier dps just because overtuned kit.
She has damage, mobility, self heal, and a great ult.
Yeah inexchange to all of that has 50 less hp than most dps without heals, mobility and a great ult.
i mean, brigitte is a strong counter for tracer, just needs to catch her a bit off guard and you can kill her 100% if she doesnt have armor, or shields. As you can use a oneshot combo. Stun. Hit. Flail.
Does 190damage, which puts almost every other squishy hero in a terrible position too
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i mean, she has quite a low pickrate nowadays, being only 2.2%, being under even heroes like roadhog, widow, winston, or reaper.
her winrate is also in the lower 6 worst winrated heroes, only above solider, mccree, mercy, roadhog, and sombra.
shes not that strong atm