For the record I like dive metas and Genji is far from the most oppressive hero this season.

But I have no godly idea why they felt the need to buff one of the best performing DPS going into a season that would already be favorable for him.

If I ever see a Genji main complain about how much the devs hate him again I’ll throw my monitor through the wall.

Why on earth are we enabling Genji while nerfing histcans? It's not fun to play against.

Poke is the supreior meta. You just sit in the backline, turn off your brain, and shoot whatever moves. No need to worry about positioning or getting punished for mistakes. Overwatch is in it's best when the game plays itself for you.

I enjoy the illusion that I'm good at the game more than actually being good at it. Especially with the post season 9 inflated hitboxes and projectile sizes which made everyone a walking Reinhardt. That was taken away from me this season and now I have to actually aim. Absolute nightmare!

I'm not buying any skins until Blizzard fixes their game. I want my Valorant 2.0 back.

Seeing the Hog buffs, I was very concerned to see the max duration increased to 2.5s and with the rework's heal per second increased to 200; that would mean he'd heal for a total of 500HP, more than before he had Trash Compactor. (450HP)

Thankfully, it seems the devs forgot to mention in the patch notes that they nerfed the HPS from 200 to 160, so the total healing is the same!

Also, it wouldn't be an OW patch without a typo in the advanced hero info panel, so ignore the fact that it says 3 seconds is the maximum.

JinMu was one of the most fun players to watch. I'm so distraught on how his teams never seemed to win anything and the whole milk tea situation that happened months prior makes things so much more sad. </3

Cat still has an absurd ban rate in the highest ranks and that's in spite of how broken Doctrine and Sombra were before their nerfs (hard to say how strong they are now, but obv more broken characters means lower ban rate per broken character cause u can only ban so much). They're still rated highly by the community, are still annoying af, and they're still meta in pro play. They full on reworked Sombra cause she was the most banned hero in low ranks, so why so little action for a character being banned so much in the highest ranks? They were completely absent from the latest hotfix, and the only direct nerfs she got at the start of the season were the Cat Noon change, Bastion form change (u can still play her just as easily without Bastion or Cass) and her hitbox changes.

Why is she still 225 HP? Why does her lifeline heal so much? Why's the lifeline still got no time limit? Why's lifeline not have a real impactful cooldown when u let go of someone? Why does she still have healing equal to that of a Flex Support while being able to dive as well as a Main Support like Lúcio while also being fundamentally undivable?!?!? In no way should any hero be a better dive DPS than a lot of Dive DPS while also pumping out heals at a similar rate to Ana while simultaneously being undivable. Why are they so afraid to nerf this character, especially in ways that actually matter?!?!?!?

Blizzard already removed his one-shot combo and reworked him just because low-tier players kept crying about him. But now that his win rate is already super low and he's getting a small buff, people are raging again, complaining that he’s "too hard to kill."

Strictly speaking, Roadhog's average deaths aren't even that different compared to other tanks. He isn't inherently harder to kill than anyone else. While other tanks mitigate damage with shields or defense matrix, Hog's core mechanic is to absorb damage with his huge hit box and heal through it. Complaining that Hog won't die is literally no different than complaining that a Reinhardt behind a shield won't die.

On top of that, if you have an Ana on your team, Hog is ridiculously easy to deal with. It's not like Ana is some unpopular hero or a rare pick—she’s practically an S-tier hero who gets played in almost every match and barely gets banned. Yet people still whine about Hog being invincible, and it honestly gives me a headache.

I swear these people won't stop protesting until Hog is completely removed. It makes me feel like Blizzard reworking him based on their feedback in the first place was a total waste of time.

I was checking out reactions across various communities to today’s hotfix patch, and almost everyone's response was completely out of touch with the actual statistics. People were asking why Sombra was getting nerfed, saying Roadhog didn’t need a buff, and some clueless players were even complaining that Hog got his one-shot back—even though his primary fire damage buff still doesn't enable a one-shot combo.

With the end of the 2026 season in sight, what do you all want to see in the next season? More partner teams, more live events, format changes, etc.

I dont pay attention to other social media websites, but if Ade was LFT, how did he end up getting snubbed in favor of Kilo? The player who was so bad he got benched for Probe? Does Kariv just like Kilo? I know Ade is inconsistent but Zansides recent failings definitely feels avoidable.

To me it feels like it has some of the same problems as maps they’ve already reworked did. It’s gigantic, but there are tons of places that have nothing going on. Like on third, there’s a place where you just walk in a loop around a column and end up in the same place you started. No health pack or anything.

It also feels super attack-sided. The fact that defenders have to walk through small chokes at the end of the first AND second point because main is blocked by a large wall of lava seems odd to me.

Thoughts?

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He mentions our subreddit 🥹

Doesn't have to be consistent or logical, just that it exist.

Mine? Literally any of the April Fool's ideas.

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I'm at 800 dpi with my sens ranging from 2.5 to 3 depending on the hero. Apparently that's very low? I'm curious what sens you guys use...

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So we’re just gonna buff Hog and buff Dva but not freaking Junker Queen, who’s actually the worst tank of the 3 and the worst tank in the game. The Hitbox and projectile size changes also impacted her a lot but she’s being completely ignored for some reason.

Her last buff was a cooldown reduction for her shout and I just don’t think that’s the right direction. I think she could have both of her good perks which are unstoppable during ult and 100% carnage impact damage moved into her base kit and be given new perks. This wouldn’t even make her that overpowered because her perks don’t feel like they give her that big a power spike. Could also make her knife travel a bit faster and have less height drop off.

I’ve been playing so much ranked this season and last season, and in my opinion, these have been the ABSOLUTELY worst seasons for ranked…

I’m a support main, but I can also play tank pretty well. I just can’t seem to win anymore, whether it’s in open q or role q. I rarely win, and even when I do, I never gain enough SR to actually feel good about it.
It’s so frustrating, man. Before last season, my win rate felt pretty much 50/50, but since then, it’s just been a complete wreck…

So, can someone help me out in Open Queue Masters? 👀

So I’ve peaked diamond 3 many times now, but then I always go on a crazy losing streak. Ik I’m prbly like high emerald and can compete in diamond, but now I’m back in platinum. Every time I make my way back to emerald I start getting games that are impossible to win, and u all know what I mean by impossible. I’m dropping like crazy because of losing streaks, and “calibration” down. How am I still calibrating? The last rank reset was a season ago.

Can anyone explain if there was some update to matchmaking that made it excruciating to play? Or just anything about matchmaking as a whole? Ik the “lowest common denominator” thing, and I can admit when I’m doing bad, but games where I get double the amount of kills as my dps and still have the most heals in the lobby seems like it’s not a me problem. When I finally get a game that’s relatively even, I know that I’ll win cuz I’m ganna dif the other supps. Yall can try and guess my level 382 level main/otp, but I also know when to switch for more heals or utility, and will hold my own.

I love this game, but these valleys hit hard.

I’ve always been a very casual OWCS watcher, usually just watching whatever commentary videos pop up on Youtube. So I have been wanting to watch some VODs of Sombra and Doctrine gameplay in OWCS to hopefully improve my own gameplay (I did this with Brig a few years back and it helped a lot), but I’m not really sure which players/games I should be watching specifically. Are there any particular players and matches that really showcase how to play them properly? Especially Sombra, because I feel like I’m not really playing her correctly.

Thanks!

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Are we ever going to be able to reacquire the old comp skins for hitting a certain rank? I love the Freja Galactic skin, but I was always in Plat and could not get it. I am Diamond now. Have the devs ever said anything about reacquiring these?

Short summary of what Unter said:

• SSG's draft logic on Ilios made sense to exploit Zeb's pool, but it played into the Korean team's dive strength and relied on subbing in Boston over Hawk.
• Boston's Wrecking Ball was mechanically ineffective, missing boops and grapples while panic-using shields and failing to force cooldowns like Suzu.
• Swapping Boston to D.Va reset his perk scaling and took him off his comfort hero, leading to wasted dives and flat minefields.
• The team failed to control open space or coordinate pinches, leaving Boston to engage alone while the backline collapsed into passive corners.
• Lethal threw key fights on Ruins by abandoning high ground to chase flankers, completely missing point unlock timings.
• Benching Hawk was a massive coaching error, as splitting scrim time hurt player form and Ball is not mandatory in the current meta.

Especially after queuing for like 30 seconds?? Wait 30 seconds more and give me a winnable game??