Zenyatta needs a healing orb buff

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I think Zenyatta needs a little buff towards its healing orb. I think it doesn’t heal enough, imo. But I think buffing the healing rate of the orb would be broken on someone like Tracer. So I had an idea that Zenyatta Healing Orb should scale with how much Maximum health someone has. There’s two options on how we can calculate the healing rate.

Option 1: Old healing rate of Zenyatta + extra heal with max HP scaling.
Option 2: The heal of Zenyatta only relies on max HP scaling.
Option 3 : Option 1 or 2 but the healing rate on max HP scaling has diminishing returns the more max HP someone has. So the more max HP someone has, the less its gonna be significant so the difference of the healing rate between 150, 200 and 250 HP would not be as significant than like 400, 450 and 500 HP.

A problem could be that because by example, Roadhog and DVA would have too much of a good healing because of their max HP compare to some other tanks. So the Healing Orb could scale with HP but doesn’t scale over 400 Max HP so all tanks receives increased healing at the same rate. 250Hp heroes that plays riskier than 200Hp heroes would have a little more healing rate making Doomfist and Reaper maybe more viable. This is just an idea, I just wanted to give some examples to how we could balance it but I think it is a good idea because I think Zenyatta isn’t viable enough imo, but I am only a Diamond player and I never see him getting picked on Diamond and lower but it may be different on higher elos so please don’t send a Bitcoin hitman at my home /jk. I would appreciate having your thoughts and critiques.

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The problem with this would be higher up.

Right now, Zen Brig D.Va Ball is quite strong. Zen played properly is more about DPS and discord, with the ability to top up a flanker or dive tank if needed. Whilst having a life saving ult.

You would have to take away some damage if you upped his healing.

(I 100% do not think upping any healing is a good idea right now)

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That’s a little what I thought, its just rare you can do good with Zenyatta on solo Queue on unarranged Comp because he requires a coodinated team to do the job. I don’t know, Zenyatta doesn’t feel like (the pick) for lower ranks, nobody loves him down there :frowning: I would personally agree to nerf Discord Orb to make his heals more viable because it will make Zenyatta getting played on more elos but hey this is only my opinion.

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It isn’t that hard. It is just all on positioning and awareness.

But upping healing is a bad move right now. Seeing as they are trying to heavily reduce it in OW2.

They were testing that after taking damage, healing your received was reduced by 25% for 4 seconds.

All because current OW has a massive issue with the strength of healing.

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Zen is a DPS healer, increasing his healing would be a bad move.

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im totally for it.

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if you pretty much remove zens right click or decrease the effectiveness of discord orb would you be able to justify a healing orb buff.

but as is, not all supports are good “healers” and that’s kinda what makes supports a more varied role than it would be otherwise.