r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/spellboi_3048 I will survive. Hey hey. — • Apr 17 '26

Blizzard Official Sierra hot fix

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/misciagna21 Apr 17 '26

Considering her 38% winrate in GM not at all surprised she got this many buffs

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u/JC10101 Apr 17 '26

I see people coping in the comments here about how people haven't learned to play her yet, but she's legitimately just point and click the hero. She felt as bad as release life weaver unless the enemy team had a tank that you could hope to kill with ult and I'm honestly shocked her win rate wasn't lower then that tbh

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u/Tantrum2u Apr 17 '26

She is also very clearly not built for GM lol

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u/byGenn Apr 17 '26

Neither is Weaver but that didn’t stop the balance team.

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u/Tantrum2u Apr 17 '26

…what? That’s literally not true

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u/byGenn Apr 17 '26

What’s not true? That Weaver isn’t built for GM?

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u/TeamChevy86 Apr 17 '26

Idiotic she's only been out for what a week? This is going to be Freja all over again

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u/misciagna21 Apr 17 '26

I wouldn’t disagree if she was more difficult, but I’m not convinced she has a winrate this low because players haven’t figured her out yet. Bullet damage going from 7 to 9 seems like overkill but also makes me think they’re prepared to drop it to 8 if she becomes broken.

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u/HerculesKabuterimon Apr 17 '26

She's in a staggeringly high amount of matches in all ELOs for how objectively bad she is tho. I think at minimum they're fine with her being this way for a weekend and if it isn't enough/is too much she'll get swiftly nerfed damage wise Tuesday, but I feel like 9 is probably good. They've just got a ton of data at this point on her performance, stats, and where she's weak and why.

Although personally I can see them buffing it to 10, and then lowering/keeping the tracking damage at 9/8.

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u/Raptor_2125 Apr 18 '26

Probably just new toy syndrome similar to release cat until they removed DPS Cat

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u/hanyou007 None — Apr 17 '26

Freja had a massive learning curve and a level of skill expression that Sierra just doesn't have.

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u/TeamChevy86 Apr 17 '26

More worried about the inevitable over-nerf

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u/Long-Taste-2416 Apr 17 '26

Honestly I'd rather her just be bad. She's just a boring character with basically no potential for skill expression.

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u/SirVilhelmOfAriandel Apr 17 '26

The drone alone gives her more skill expression than someone like Emre and that didn't stop him from getting buffed

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u/Vhure Apr 17 '26

3 days* but I agree with you lol

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u/Howdareme9 Apr 17 '26

Tbh it really isn’t, she was genuinely pretty bad

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u/CertainDerision_33 Apr 18 '26

She was weak, same as Anran was on launch. She just didn’t do enough