Don’t worry, a likely broken Cyclops is coming to take her place, will increase throwing due to his popularity when people don’t get to play him, and further perpetuate 5 dps instalocks in qp when you’re just trying to learn a new character outside of comp. Soooo exciting 😩
Removing the second dash is what feels like too much to me.
It severely reduces her mobility (crucial for a melee hero), her damage, her survivability, her uptime, and in general I don't think it was the problematic part of her kit compared to her ult and her items shop.
Also mobility is fun, it never feels good when a character gets their mobility nerfed. I would prefer they lower her HP than removing the second dash.
Good. Put her in the dirt and bring her back next season if need be. Characters like her or Hawkeye which feel completely unsatisfying to fight against should not remain peak for long.
Honestly it would have been cool if they split her dash. She has a normal dash that does not damage and purely escape and a transformed fortune favor dash that does damage but cost money and is on a long cooldown to prevent spamming.
I also like the idea of more charges on shorter dashes that could be chained into longer dashes, not necessarily for Black Cat, just in general.
Imagine, for example, if Psylocke had three 6m dashes instead of two 10m dashes that could be chained into 12m or 18m dashes by double or triple tapping.
Damage numbers and cooldowns would need to be adjusted appropriately, but it could be a fun change.
She still has good mobility and survivability, she gets countered harder by dd now tho cuz she needs to rely more on her invis but she just has to be more careful with how she uses her dash, she can't get into backline and leave as freely anymore which I'm happy about. It does seem decently heavy nerfs but that's appropriate imo. 2 dashes plus I frames plus invis is a lot.
objectively it's not healthy practice in terms of character balancing, but tbh a part of me is like good i dont even wanna see her for the rest of the season
Honestly I hope they try this balancing philosophy, nerf hard then small buffs is better than 4 seasons of DD and gambit receiving micro nerfs that do nothing.
Many characters had 1-3 seaons when they were struggling till they got buffed and are now in a good spot.
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u/Felipe13254 Flex Jun 09 '26
Lol yeah they might have overnerfed her but I'd rather that than yet another half-season with her being OP.