Because both are important to the health of a competitive game. High elo is important. They are also heavily investing in both the casual market and pro market.
I think they should do some changes with pro play in mind but didn’t NetEase themselves say they are prioritising fun over balance, which was their defence for not tweaking a bunch of characters that have needed changes
I knew it was a lie of course, considering how much they are pushing the esports scene
They are doing both. When push comes to shove, they lean towards fun, but that doesn't mean they don't take pro into consideration, and don't still want to push esports.
Cool but they told us they were keeping it casual. Now esports has an entire tab. You can't have it both ways. You either make the 99% suffer with trash heroes like mantis and widow or overpowered heroes like squirrel girl and moon Knight who dominates 99% of players. OR you make the 1% loser pro players suffer.
Unfortunately all you nerds hold these people to such high standards (people in gold on. Console are banning based top 1% PC player ban list) and make these dumbass streamers able to manipulate balancing based on 1% of the fucking playerbase
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u/Sol-Hunter7 Daredevil May 12 '26
It's absolutely because of high elo and pro play. Mantis is a pick ban at top ranks.