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Whidon
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Just go to group finder for quick play. I had a lot of luck getting good groups this way recently when leveling an account to 25. Not everyone is gonna be good but it's far more likely then doing 2 stack qplay.
I Played that Paris map.. was excited at fist because i thought it was control at first for some reason.... I don't now what they are thinking giving us another 2CP map. Even a better version of volskaya or Anubis is still a bad map you dread to get.
I Played that Paris map.. was excited at fist because i thought it was control at first for some reason.... I don't now what they are thinking giving us another 2CP map. Even a better version of volskaya or Anubis is still a bad map you dread to get.
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My fave overwatch streamer lady Dolphin is a support GM, and they have a rough time of it. Often the game will give her another GM support and then diamond or masters dps. Then the other side is like a 3 stack of owl pros.
The whole team knows they are doomed haha. They start negotiating trying to get someone to take a 50 sr hit for the team.
The whole team knows they are doomed haha. They start negotiating trying to get someone to take a 50 sr hit for the team.
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Araxen
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He's on PTR today. He will be for March's content update to the game so expect him to sit there for 3 weeks. His unlocks aren't on PTR yet.
Patch notes: Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – February 26, 2019
Nothing sticks out as a GOATS killer, and I don't believe the new hero will change things either. It may reinforce the meta. I thought for sure they would nudge Mercy's heal rate up a tick or two, but surprisingly they didn't.
Patch notes: Overwatch PTR Patch Notes – February 26, 2019
Nothing sticks out as a GOATS killer, and I don't believe the new hero will change things either. It may reinforce the meta. I thought for sure they would nudge Mercy's heal rate up a tick or two, but surprisingly they didn't.
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Valderen
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It doesn’t look like he counters GOATS but he doesn’t seem to fit in either.
He might enable new comps, now whether they will be strong enough to change the meta and challenge GOATS I don’t know.
He looks pretty fun to play though. I can’t wait to try him out.
He might enable new comps, now whether they will be strong enough to change the meta and challenge GOATS I don’t know.
He looks pretty fun to play though. I can’t wait to try him out.
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but what seems so bad about the new character?
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So watching the video, looks like a good mobility aoe healer. The immortality field doesn’t seem to stop all damage, just damage up until a certain health %. Also looks like you can shoot the drone making the field to stop it. His ult looks like an aoe Zen discord orb, which should help with stacked tanks
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at a glance it looks like it's just going to make something like goats even better than it already is lol adding another AOE based healing support, with counterplay to things like dva bomb & junkrat ult are good but still.
who knows though, maybe it'll just end up making Pharah a monster comboing her with him and mercy lol i'm cool with seeing pharah being a monster
edit: im actually really curious about pharah and him now, i can see that shitting on goats. Mercy boost + matrix + pharah barrage shielded by a immortality field? delete everything.
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I tried him on the PTR a little, he’s a lot fun to play.
I love his gun, it has a good feel to it, it doesn't do tons of damage and has a fairly substantial damage fall off for long range, it's really a medium range weapon. The secondary fire is the healing grenades, these have quite a small healing radius but heal for a decent amount. Fun to use, while it's a skill shot, it's not at the same level as Ana for example.
The immortality field is a nice ability, it's very powerful obviously but has a lot of counterplay. The device itself floats in the air and can be destroyed, it's high enough that I don't think it can be hidden behind a barrier so it's fairly easy to destroy. Also, you do take damage while inside the field, you just can't get below 20% life, meaning if you're not healed when it ends you will most likely die quickly being only 20% life.
I think at high SR it will be destroyed almost instantly and it's usefulness will be limited, but at lower SR it will be a very powerful ability. It is on a long cooldown though, I think 15 seconds or so.
The healing pulse is a point blank AOE heal over time. It's a fairly powerful heal, and once it has pulsed you don't need to stay around him to get the effect so it's nice. It's also on a long cooldown, I think around 15 seconds too.
His exo boots allow him to crouch and charge a little jump meter, and when you press jump he jumps really high. It's a 2 button ability to use, crouch to charge, jump key to activate the jump. It's movement ability seems very similar to how Ashe's gun work, seem to be similar height, but less horizontal movement, it has no cooldown though so it gives him a lot of mobility. While it works as a disengage, it's not great, the limited horizontal movement means that if you don't have high ground to jump to, you will not be able to disengage very well, the charge time means you'll also take a bit of damage before you can jump.
His ultimate is pretty cool, it like a mini Mei's wall that boost damage and healing that goes through it, you can reoriented it like you can with Mei's wall. It's small though, smaller than a Reinhardt's shield. I think it will be an interesting ultimate where it will get great results sometimes, but often be useless. It requires good positioning for your team to take advantage of it, also somewhat easy for people to get out of line of sight. It charges fairly fast.
I think he'll fall into the main healer category, he can output a lot of healing. He has nice utility, and is extremely fun to play.
I don't think he will change the meta. We will still see GOATS. He might be slotted into GOATS but I don't think he will make it stronger, just allow for various version of GOATS.
He may enable some other comp though, whether they will be able to compete with GOATS remains to be seen.
I think he will make bunker comp much stronger, an Orissa and Bastion shooting from behind his ultimate will be extremely powerful, and his immortality field will make it a bit harder to break the bunker. I think this might end up being horrible at lower SR which often has a difficult time with bunker comps.
He will work well with DPS classes, a Widowmaker shooting from behind his ultimate can kill 200HP hero in 1 body shot. A Tracer can 1 clip a Roadhog from shooting through Baptiste ultimate.
I think Baptiste is a nice addition. He won't be meta changer like Brigitte was, but he's a well designed hero which is fun to play and fairly unique.
They need to fix GOATS soon. I wonder if the nerf to armor from beam weapon will affect GOATS a little, I mean Zarya, Winston, Symmetra(a little) and Moira are all going to do about 30% more damage against armor, and armor is a big part of why GOATS work. It doesn't need much to kill GOATS since most people actually don't want to play it...they just have to because it's so good.
I love his gun, it has a good feel to it, it doesn't do tons of damage and has a fairly substantial damage fall off for long range, it's really a medium range weapon. The secondary fire is the healing grenades, these have quite a small healing radius but heal for a decent amount. Fun to use, while it's a skill shot, it's not at the same level as Ana for example.
The immortality field is a nice ability, it's very powerful obviously but has a lot of counterplay. The device itself floats in the air and can be destroyed, it's high enough that I don't think it can be hidden behind a barrier so it's fairly easy to destroy. Also, you do take damage while inside the field, you just can't get below 20% life, meaning if you're not healed when it ends you will most likely die quickly being only 20% life.
I think at high SR it will be destroyed almost instantly and it's usefulness will be limited, but at lower SR it will be a very powerful ability. It is on a long cooldown though, I think 15 seconds or so.
The healing pulse is a point blank AOE heal over time. It's a fairly powerful heal, and once it has pulsed you don't need to stay around him to get the effect so it's nice. It's also on a long cooldown, I think around 15 seconds too.
His exo boots allow him to crouch and charge a little jump meter, and when you press jump he jumps really high. It's a 2 button ability to use, crouch to charge, jump key to activate the jump. It's movement ability seems very similar to how Ashe's gun work, seem to be similar height, but less horizontal movement, it has no cooldown though so it gives him a lot of mobility. While it works as a disengage, it's not great, the limited horizontal movement means that if you don't have high ground to jump to, you will not be able to disengage very well, the charge time means you'll also take a bit of damage before you can jump.
His ultimate is pretty cool, it like a mini Mei's wall that boost damage and healing that goes through it, you can reoriented it like you can with Mei's wall. It's small though, smaller than a Reinhardt's shield. I think it will be an interesting ultimate where it will get great results sometimes, but often be useless. It requires good positioning for your team to take advantage of it, also somewhat easy for people to get out of line of sight. It charges fairly fast.
I think he'll fall into the main healer category, he can output a lot of healing. He has nice utility, and is extremely fun to play.
I don't think he will change the meta. We will still see GOATS. He might be slotted into GOATS but I don't think he will make it stronger, just allow for various version of GOATS.
He may enable some other comp though, whether they will be able to compete with GOATS remains to be seen.
I think he will make bunker comp much stronger, an Orissa and Bastion shooting from behind his ultimate will be extremely powerful, and his immortality field will make it a bit harder to break the bunker. I think this might end up being horrible at lower SR which often has a difficult time with bunker comps.
He will work well with DPS classes, a Widowmaker shooting from behind his ultimate can kill 200HP hero in 1 body shot. A Tracer can 1 clip a Roadhog from shooting through Baptiste ultimate.
I think Baptiste is a nice addition. He won't be meta changer like Brigitte was, but he's a well designed hero which is fun to play and fairly unique.
They need to fix GOATS soon. I wonder if the nerf to armor from beam weapon will affect GOATS a little, I mean Zarya, Winston, Symmetra(a little) and Moira are all going to do about 30% more damage against armor, and armor is a big part of why GOATS work. It doesn't need much to kill GOATS since most people actually don't want to play it...they just have to because it's so good.
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Regarding goats, akm was on the insight show Thorin does and talked about scrimming eagle gaming when he and mou and rck and ... someone I'm forgetting were in europe. One of the guys on the show said Eagle could easily win stage 1 of owl because of their mastery of goats and nobody disagreed.
They also brought up the point that europe is where everyone should have recruited from instead of korea for this stage. There are guys like Zappis out there that have been playing tank heavy for years.
They also brought up the point that europe is where everyone should have recruited from instead of korea for this stage. There are guys like Zappis out there that have been playing tank heavy for years.
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Yep, that's gonna hurt the GOAT herd. Glad to see this stuff (and kinda glad to see that slight Reaper nerf). With Zarya's damage to armored targets already being nerfed her role as a "dps" is gonna be very limited. The Sym thing is weird though, they are making her primary fire take longer to ramp the damage up? Am I reading that right? Was it a problem before because I dunno? That change feels weird.
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The zarya change is interesting. The analysis guys were talking about how Sinatra goes almost entirely right clicks into the back line. AKM wasn't really sure if it was better to do that or beam on the rein shield. Almost seemed like Sinatra was boosting his own stats at the expense of the team, and indeed he set some kind of new damage record on king's row vs Titans. (but still lost)
You get faster gravs but they don't necessarily win you fights. And you feed heal charge.
You get faster gravs but they don't necessarily win you fights. And you feed heal charge.