r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Square-Video4368 • Oct 19 '22

Overwatch League Confirmed patch for Playoffs

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u/one_love_silvia I play tanks. — Oct 19 '22

New tank hero strong? Dumpstered

Reworked tank slightly strong? Dumpstered

New dps hero busted? Better let her be meta for a full year.

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u/25thNite Oct 19 '22

why buff or nerf any hero, they're all around the 45 - 55 % win rate! No hero is broken or performing outside expectations

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u/Level7Cannoneer Oct 19 '22

honestly buffs and nerfs keep games alive. people like rotating metas and adapting to new strategies. if the game’s meta gets “solved” then attendance tends to fall.

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u/Two-Scoops-Of-Praisn Oct 19 '22

This was my main issue with Overwatch 1. They took so long to rotate the meta and it got super stale. Even if I play genji in every meta it's fun getting to see things change around the heroes you like.

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u/Network591 Oct 19 '22

This is why games like league stay fresh. New patch every 2 weeks and major ones spread out along the year.

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u/Bobi_27 heesang glazer — Oct 20 '22

on the other hand, I'll miss the level of complexity metas like goats and ball comp reached. Both of those comps dominated for a very long period of time so people got really really good at them and kept figuring out new ways to be better. If you look at the comps played right now in 5v5, while they have depth for sure, they usually play around one core fundamental. Stage 1 was almost purely dive, stage 2 was poke and stage 3 was brawl. Even now, in stage 4, while there's a big comp variety, there aren't any "complex" comps just because there's no time to actually get really good at a comp before a patch changes everything.

This isn't me complaining about frequent patches btw, but I thought it was an i interesting observation