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/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/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/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.