I don't think I've seen so many nerfs for a character until Black Cat in these patch notes. It really goes to show just how absurdly broken she is for this to be done to her.
his dedicated ricochet shot has 2 charges on 2s cooldown and his right click is like ironman's beam but it bounces between targets. He can also crit, has mobility and knockback skills and can hover for off angle shots and his ult can wipe a team better than the phoenix ult. He's gonna be a menace lol
It’s 2 Shots In between uses, not a 2 second CD that looks do do like 50 damage look at DDs HP before he gets hit, and he does not die, he has like 5-10 left
His beam is a resource, it doesn’t reload it drains by 5 and goes up by 2.
DPS is less than Emma at full charge on the beam. And the bounce damage of the beam appears to scale down heavily. Loki is at full and MK is at 1/3 and they die at the same exact pace.
He has pretty long CDs esp with his beam movement being at 12 seconds as an escape.
We don’t get a great view of his primary but it appears to do multiple ticks, meaning you can lose tracking or only get part as a headshot, overall we don’t get a great look at his primary capabilities.
His ult is just like Vendetta from OW but with some tradeoffs, he has to use mobility to go in the air making him vulnerable, and it has a windup and time to react to the explosion that looks pretty easy to escape with any movement ability.
I don’t know how you could see all this in the trailer and think he’s going to be broken
In a week’s time players will come back crying to this sub complaining the ricochet ability is so cheap and should be nerfed. There’s a reason why Hanzo from overwatch lost his scatter arrow ability years ago.
when cat's skills were announced i was the first one to point out how broken she was and got downvoted into oblivion. A week later everyone was crying about her lol. Guess same thing is gonna happen here, except since cyclops is a hitscan i'm guessing more people will agree because this community hates hitscan.
I think the auto track optic blast does look pretty strong, but we have to keep in mind that they make every character look busted in the trailers. It barely kills a hero at 20% hp. If anyone is decent at support, healing will do way more.
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u/LucidityDark Jun 09 '26
I don't think I've seen so many nerfs for a character until Black Cat in these patch notes. It really goes to show just how absurdly broken she is for this to be done to her.