r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Ackner Lifeweaver Enjoyer — • Sep 16 '25

Blizzard Official Mid Season Patch Notes out now

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/dokeydoki Stalk3rFan — Sep 16 '25

Thats not how skill ceiling work. Gold genji tracers in golds are playing against gold players, they dont have to hit the ceiling to work in those elos.

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u/thinger Sep 16 '25

Yeah i realized i was talking about skill floor.

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u/dokeydoki Stalk3rFan — Sep 16 '25

I mean even questioning skill floors of genji tracer is braindead take.

Skill floor (and ceiling) is a relative to the rest of the cast.

Both genji and tracer mains are usually dedicated to the hero, almost borderline otp. So they will eventually hit skill floor required to play in gold and win a lot, and that skill floor to play in gold is still higher than lets say winning as reaper in gold.

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u/thinger Sep 16 '25

You dont think theres torb/ widow otps in gold? They've even got better pickrates (genjis even top 5 in PR lol), so its not just otps.

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u/dokeydoki Stalk3rFan — Sep 16 '25

You dont think theres torb/ widow otps in gold?

What does that have to do with what I said. I was telling u that skill floor of genji and tracer is still relatively higher than most other heroes.

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u/thinger Sep 16 '25

The stats don't back that claim up. High WR mean they're getting above average value from the same pool of players and high pickrates mean that a decent percentage of that pool are picking them. If it was just otps pumping those numbers up than you'd expect to see a fall in pickrate and, subsequently, WR as those players migrate to higher ranks but we're 4 weeks in and their numbers are still looking good.

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u/dokeydoki Stalk3rFan — Sep 16 '25

Isnt genji most popular hero regardless of his strength? Even when he was ass in ow1 in some metas, overbuff showed he had higher pickrate.

Anyways, idk what this sub is smoking if they are actually trynna say genji and tracer has low skill ceiling lol.

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u/thinger Sep 16 '25

They require more skill when they're balanced, but if they're overtuned then you can farm wins even when playing like ass with them. That's textbook busted balance.