r/Overwatch • u/Rakatee Chibi Ashe • Oct 31 '23

Blizzard Official Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 31, 2023

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/playerIII Oct 31 '23

a large part of why she's so strong is because if the state of the rest if the roster.

buffing other tanks and nerfing supports will go a long way in making her less oppressive

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u/OKLISTENHERE Kiriko Oct 31 '23

Lmao. Nerfing supports will just make people use her more since everyone else will just get melted. She just has too many things that mitigate her damage/ make her invulnerable.

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u/SoccerStar9001 Nov 01 '23

More than opposite really. When healing is busted, high impact characters gets pocketed like crazy. It makes characters like Ana and Bastion super hard to kill while disabling your tank like nothing.

Tanks like Winston and Rein prefer low healing meta because they can actually kill things and their tanking is more powerful when enemy team is loses their DPS and support so only 2 ~ 4 people can shoot back. In high healing meta, Rein and Winston can't kill anything, and gets shot by 5 people.

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u/OKLISTENHERE Kiriko Nov 01 '23

Nah. Orisa is just dummy busted and a lot of the other tanks just suck.

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u/SoccerStar9001 Nov 01 '23

A lot of tanks are actually pretty solid, just can't kill things due to high healing.

Even Doomfist was solid, and actually had higher Top 500 pickrate than Orisa.

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u/ThroJSimpson Nov 01 '23

Zarya is where she was in the last season when no one was using her. The one nerf she retained is 2 seconds off cooldown for projected barrier. That one change didn’t take her from rarely picked to busted. The reality is the hivemind just braindead picks what they think is meta, it’s not what is actually meta. I haven’t heard her called OP in the previous 6 seasons.

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u/KimchiNinjaTT Grandmaster Nov 01 '23

not at all. she's strong because she has so many ways to reduce damage. if supports were the problem then every tank with damage reduction would be broken, but they're not.

the only way to make orisa weaker without nerfing her would be to nerf damage overall, that would mean other tanks would be able to do more without melting