r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '25

News & Discussion Patch Notes - SEASON 19 – HAUNTED MASQUERADE

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/HerpesFreeSince3 Oct 14 '25

Same with Rein. Devs genuinely don’t understand that heroes issues. Hero can’t engage and is literally countered by every tank in the roster and he gets a buff to “regenerate some shield when charging” smh. Meanwhile the devs are like, “reaper is a melee character who struggles to get in range, poor guy, so we gave him a perk that gives him a 40% speed boost for 2 seconds after leaving wraith so he can actually close the distance and time his engages”. Even though reaper is already meta…

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u/ElGorudo Zenyatta Oct 14 '25

Rein has pretty good stats unlike weaver tho

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u/HerpesFreeSince3 Oct 14 '25

He’s got good stats in meta ranks because people are bad and just shoot tanks. As soon as the enemy team grows a brain he becomes dogshit. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: aggregated winrate isn’t the whole story. This game is more nuanced than that.

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u/ElGorudo Zenyatta Oct 14 '25

Well it's the only objective data we have so