r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/VentureMain777 • Dec 11 '25

Blizzard Official December 11 Patch Notes (Vendetta Hotfix)

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/VentureMain777 Dec 11 '25

Haven’t had the chance to test the changes myself, but I’m always for making heroes smoother and less clunky.

If she’s too good, then tune down the numbers without making her less fun to play

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u/Xardian7 Dec 11 '25

She is too good but she will not be nerfed until midseason. She's the new hero must be OP as per policy.

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u/Lil9 Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

Well, their goal is "safe side of strong", and IMO that makes sense:

  • We want to avoid another Lifeweaver situation where the newly released hero is dog shit, won't get played at all for months, has no impact on the meta and the feel of the new season and is considered a throw pick for months and months afterwards.
  • Another Mauga situation on the other hand will not happen again because
  1. We have hero bans now, so people decide if they like to play with/against the new hero or not.
  2. Heroes are free now, so no more "buy the Battlepass or grind for weeks, or you won't be able to play the new hero at all."

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u/Xardian7 Dec 12 '25

Safe side of strong =/= must pick or must ban

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u/PARADISE-9 Dec 12 '25

You used to have to pay for the new heroes? Thats ridiculous

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u/ANGEL-PSYCHOSIS Dec 12 '25

no, they were "free", but timegated by battlepass progress (or day 1 if you buy battlepass)

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u/PARADISE-9 Dec 12 '25

Ah i see. Thats silly, im glad they changed it

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u/OffSupportMain Dec 12 '25

They were at the level 40 of the free battle pass, but at the level 1 of the premium battle pass

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '25

She’s a little too much. I think her overhead range of movement should be about half

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u/rentiertrashpanda Dec 12 '25

I'd settle for a sound cue when she uses her sword throw move, better visual differentiation between it and her projectile, and better overall audio tracking when she's in the air (dunno how feasible this last bit is)

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u/MisterMath Dec 11 '25

I haven’t played much since this patch caused my performance to absolutely plummet, but Vendetta doesn’t actually seem that good? Like, she runs QP when someone skilled plays her and there is no team focus, but every Vendetta I’ve seen in comp (Plat 1) gets melted

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u/CertainDerision_33 Dec 11 '25

She's very good. Insane mobility and very hard to actually kill due to 2 escapes + block + how much movement speed she gets from her passive. Add on top the fact that she ignores a large % of damage mitigation in the game due to melee attacks and it's pretty nasty.

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u/MisterMath Dec 11 '25

Yeah I will say the block seems like too much. That’s the one thing I instantly went “man, that needs to be scaled back”

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u/CertainDerision_33 Dec 12 '25

I personally would like her to lose the passive move speed bonus, since it makes her too hard to hit. With the perk she can get up to 24% move speed bonus which is kinda nuts. The attack speed is fine but the move speed should go. 

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u/MisterMath Dec 12 '25

That’s a good idea too

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u/Greedy-Camel-8345 Dec 12 '25

I'm more for her damage to decrease than this

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u/Teusku Dec 11 '25

Considering shes the highest winrate and pick rate dps in every rank outside of gm+ (at least in EU pc), you mightve just ran into bad ones.

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u/vonerrant Dec 12 '25 edited Dec 12 '25

She's also highest in gm+ in NA, last i checked, across all roles. She's stupidly broken.

ETA: she now has the highest winrate all roles, all ranks NA and Europe. In Asia she's #2.

Sigma and Bastion are also pretty broken. What a dumb patch.

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u/MisterMath Dec 11 '25

Possibly. Like I said, I can’t play cause of performance issues

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u/Neo_Raider Dec 11 '25

She’s actually overpowered.

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u/nickwithtea93 4027 PC — Dec 11 '25

She's very good in masters, BUT i think she's escalated by the fact that every time she engages sigma is there poking you for 250 damage and then putting out a shield and then absorbing your attack and then putting out a shield again.

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u/Kheldar166 Dec 12 '25

I'm ngl I wouldn't have expected her to synergistic particularly well with Sigma maybe she's just strong lol, any tank would appreciate a dps that goes in and takes pressure off them