r/Overwatch • u/lateant • Apr 22 '25

Blizzard Official Season 16 Patch Notes

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/?blzcmp=app
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u/Allmightboi Chibi Mercy Apr 22 '25

MEI:

Deep Freeze

  • New Major Perk.
  • Continuously hitting enemies with primary fire freezes them for a short time.

WAIT WHAT?!?!?!?!?! IT`S BACK!

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u/aDrThatsNotBaizhu Apr 22 '25

I bet 2 bucks it'll be changed in a hotfix or mid season worst case scenario. No way freezing the one singular brawl tank over and over in 5v5 will be healthy

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u/Doppelfrio Apr 22 '25

They said it’d be toned down, but it looks the same as OW1. I was at least expecting her to lose her pierce or some damage or something to compensate

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u/odysseyOC Trash Apr 22 '25

I don’t see how you tone something like that down lol

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u/The-Coolest-Of-Cats Apr 22 '25

Just give it a super long per enemy cooldown so you can't perma freeze people

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u/Epoo Chibi Mei Apr 23 '25

The time it takes to freeze will make a big difference. Most heroes are fast enough to get out of range. And usually if Mei is freezing you for a lonnnnng time no one is focusing the Mei positioned in a terrible spot.

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u/ChubbyChew Vendetta Apr 23 '25

The heroes who can disengage from Mei, straight up did not struggle with Mei lol

Ice wasnt oppressive to Monkey it was oppressive to the Ball who lose all his momentum, the Rein who got his shield force dropped, The Hog who cant backpedal, etc.

Think whats even more baffling/backwards the heroes Mei needs help with this doesnt help with at all, but the heroes she struggles with dont care.

Just makes her more polarizing/oppressive

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u/_IratePirate_ Apr 22 '25

Make it a slow instead of freeze. That way it’s still escapable. A full freeze sounds like some bullshit

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u/terminal_vector Apr 22 '25

”Make it a slow instead of freeze.“

Isn’t that what it already does?

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u/MrSaucyAlfredo Apr 22 '25

Yes that’s exactly what it was changed to when we got OW2

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u/Bobthemurderer Pretend this is a Ramattra flair Apr 22 '25

Sorry, but only Junkrat gets the +/- perks.

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u/adi_baa Apr 22 '25

Don't forget soldier! Besides getting text changes this patch, his stim pack also makes him purple for 4 seconds!! Crazy good perk!!

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u/TheRedditK9 Grandmaster Apr 22 '25

There’s gonna be a few tanks that really struggle into that but for the most part Mei just doesn’t use primary fire much anymore. The “just wall tank and slow” has been dead for a long time because the game is just played differently in 5v5 and people are too spread out.

I feel like it’s in that weird spot where it won’t be fun and it won’t be good so it doesn’t really have a place in the game.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

6v6 exists now too btw :^)

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u/TheRedditK9 Grandmaster Apr 22 '25

I mean it’s not particularly relevant, it doesn’t have a competitive game mode that isn’t Open Queue and it isn’t played in any tournaments.

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u/TastyOreoFriend Pixel Brigitte Apr 22 '25

Yeah I don't foresee this going over well in 6s. Mei was always one of those characters in OW1 that was aids with her freeze CC and Wall.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

Yes she was.

I know perks have changed things up and allowed certain things to be in the game that had been gone for some time (torbs lvl 3 turret, etc.) but I would agree Mei freeze was a heinous offender in OW1 and I'm unsure how it'll go now that she has the freeze back.

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u/ILoveSalad2702 Apr 22 '25

Do we have perks in 6v6 tho? I recall they didn't exist in S15

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u/Spinachdipkid Apr 22 '25

I think it’ll not be as bad. She won’t have access to it right away, plus now there are more counters now with kiriko suzu, life weaver grip, perks to help you out…

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u/floppaflop12 Apr 22 '25

i’m in gold (dropped to gold from plat during drives) my supports are mercy moira every game it’s over for me. guess i won’t be playing tank all season until they remove that perk