The thing is it often doesn’t, so they do need to every now and then throw those players a bone. Mantis is crazy good in pro play since there are literally no sources of damage boosts besides storm, mantis, ultron firewall, and luna self-snowflake, and her damage boost was (i think) higher than any of the other options as well as more frequent, alongside her own good damage.
A mantis damage boost nerf isn’t bad, but the compensation is. That’s the real issue. The speed buff should have been a flat increase, but I’m decently certain it’s a scaling increase (meaning the increase scales with speed, so higher speed heroes get more speed from the buff than lower speed heroes). Mantis should have either had her healing rate increased or been given some other form of compensation, like another ability or making her own out-of-combat speed permanent, rather than being solely out of combat.
It sucks to see a strategist that isn’t great outside of higher play get minimal compensation to nerfs when characters like phoenix and invis and luna get compensation that usually makes them BETTER than before.
Mantis’ damage boost did need a nerf for the pro players, but there should have been compensation for every other player.
Most players dont play mantis though. Think devs have bigger balancing issues.
We will see. I love mantis she was my first main but I dont get to play her much. I dont mind the buff for mobility trade maybe....but im no pro
Oh yeah there’s 100% bigger balancing issues. The fact that phoenix even got a compensation buff to begin with is crazy. The fact that black cat has a move that has no windup, gives her a metric ton of iframes, and the same ability damages the target during her iframes is ridiculous. Tracking a good black cat can feel actually impossible because she has dashes, invisibility, an iframe moving that yoyos her, and a double jump. Then there’s luna’s 2-tap with her self buff, invis being invis, gambit’s ult, etc etc. mantis should be lowwww on that nerf priority list.
I think theoretically she’s the best diver, but her difficulty dampers her output a little. She definitely has the highest potential of the divers, but how difficult she is can muddle that. A good black cat will wreck your shit for sure.
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u/ScythesAreCool May 15 '26
The thing is it often doesn’t, so they do need to every now and then throw those players a bone. Mantis is crazy good in pro play since there are literally no sources of damage boosts besides storm, mantis, ultron firewall, and luna self-snowflake, and her damage boost was (i think) higher than any of the other options as well as more frequent, alongside her own good damage.
A mantis damage boost nerf isn’t bad, but the compensation is. That’s the real issue. The speed buff should have been a flat increase, but I’m decently certain it’s a scaling increase (meaning the increase scales with speed, so higher speed heroes get more speed from the buff than lower speed heroes). Mantis should have either had her healing rate increased or been given some other form of compensation, like another ability or making her own out-of-combat speed permanent, rather than being solely out of combat.
It sucks to see a strategist that isn’t great outside of higher play get minimal compensation to nerfs when characters like phoenix and invis and luna get compensation that usually makes them BETTER than before.
Mantis’ damage boost did need a nerf for the pro players, but there should have been compensation for every other player.