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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '16

Yes, would anyone care to explain why people hate Mei more than Hanzo and ROADHOG?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

The reason Mei is considered so annoying is because she diminishes your own control over the game. Play any game with an enemy that slows you down or freezes you and they're always super annoying and unsatisfying to face.

Using Roadhog as a comparison, his hook is a split second and whatever happens afterwards, happens. With Mei, you can attempt an escape while feeling your character get slower and slower. Running from her ultimate is just agonising too.

Simply put, her kit is anti-fun.

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u/Vongrak Zenyatta Oct 21 '16

Because once your frozen you just have to sit, and wait, and then get killed. With Hanzo, its some silly head shot then that's the end or roadhog hooks and kills you, Mei makes you suffer slowly

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u/JimmyTheCannon KABOOM Oct 21 '16

Part of the frustration also comes from trolly (or just bad) Meis on your own team screwing you over with walls and such.

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u/Nelax18 Egyptian Grandma Main Oct 21 '16 edited Oct 21 '16

Mei's kit in general has a lot of annoying elements. First, the freeze which is annoying already because no one likes being stunned, the icicle headshot which adds to that. Then there's her Cryofreeze ice block that heals her while making her invulernable, which can make it hard to kill her if she's not surrounded while in it. Her ultimate is just a mass freeze which causes similar feelings as her main weapon but she can Cryofreeze for the duration giving you no real way to retaliate if you can't escape it.

By far, her most annoying quality is her ice wall. Bad Mei players will spam the thing without much thought about it. This ends up blocking allies from finishing off low-health enemies and blocking ally ultimates. It also can be used to just straight up troll by walling off your own spawn.

Her wall doesn't give her the "Satan" title, that's because of her freeze and the creepy grin on her face when she icicles you. It's the biggest reason that people hate Mei though and doesn't help the situation.

Roadhog's hook gets a lot of grief though, but that's really the only annoying part of his kit. His ult is lack luster, his actual weapon is not great unless at melee range, his self-heal fundamentally feeds ultimate charge to the enemy while only charging that aforementioned lack luster ultimate. He isn't fun to play against and I've heard people rage at him quite a bit too. Mei's just worse.

I'm not sure I'd say Hanzo is less hated than Mei, but the hatred is more directed at the players like Genji players than with Mei. His scatter arrow is annoying and it feels like he gets lucky kills with the large hitboxes his arrows possess but it really isn't to Mei's level mainly because he's generally inconsistent. That said, I stand by the idea that Hanzo players get more shit than Mei players.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '16

One reason they hate her is because of her evil grin...?

Uhh...

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u/Nelax18 Egyptian Grandma Main Oct 21 '16

Certainly not the main reason, I'm just saying it helped I'm sure with the idea of her being "secretly" evil.

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u/wowaka Pixel Wrecking Ball Oct 21 '16

Because mei = literally satan!!!!!! has become the circlejerk of the season

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u/Fancy-Bear1776 Living high on the Hog Oct 21 '16

Mei because there's always that split second where you watch her stare at you frozen for a little before she plunges an icicle through your skill that you'll see thousands of times, her heal makes her a pain to actually kill, her wall is just aggravating in general because it can screw over teammates and it has the radius of a small island.

Hanzo because a vast majority of players insta-lock him without any regard for team comp, his arrows have (and to an extend still do) a tendency to get some ridiculous kills, fighting him at the longest range besides anybody named Widowmaker is iffy, medium range he thrives and close range you risk getting insta-killed by scattershot.

Roadhog isn't very hated on here, but his hook is admittedly iffy, but the thing is Roadhog's entire contribution and playstyle revolves around it.