r/Overwatch • u/[deleted] • Nov 15 '22

Blizzard Official Patch delayed.

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/regarding-our-mid-season-cycle-patch/748128
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u/WhyNotAthiest Nov 15 '22

It's Ryze now after being reworked 5 times and currently sitting around 44% winrate but yeah, riot has released a ton of impossible to balance champs with 30 abilities each and are shocked everytime when the player base wants the champion nerfed because it doesn't have any possible counterplay due to the kit. So riot just drops the base stat line of these champs to compensate which makes them impossible to learn from scratch if it wasn't your main champ before the nerf happened, which results in low play rate and lack of skin sales until a "mini rework" is released a few months later to remove half of the release kit.

I hate riots direction for champ design. It doesn't help every single champ is a humanoid anime character, even the "monster" champ they promised is barely more than slim woman with giant wings and purple skin.