Overwatch

xzi_sl said:

I love Winston a LOT but he seems to be more situational than all the other tanks. He can actually dish out an insane amount of damage if he's on you (and you're not a tank, etc).

On all the KOTH (king of the hill just incase anyone wasn't sure) maps, we were destroying face running 2 winstons and 2 lucios. It's like impossible to break with constant shields going down. One lucio stayed movement and one stayed heals and we just bunkered down on the point and that was that. 2 winstons hitting you at the same time may as well be insta death.

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I wouldn't say it's insane damage, it's fairly low. It's consistent damage and it's hard to avoid due to being aoe, but it's like the second lowest tank damage output iirc, behind Zarya when she has no charge. Because of the nature of the damage, it's also super garbage against armor, although that tends to be mostly only relevant versus other tanks. 2winstons is definitely more annoying though since he doesn't die that fast and they both aoes so you can have a fairly large overlapping area.

Generally to counter winston stacking, you want Roadhog or Reaper(or both), both melt him in seconds, or position a Bastion in the right spot and pray they're not paying too much attention, or use a D-va to soak damage/deal damage back although that relies on the Winstons being kinda dumb and picking the wrong target. Tracer can also bomb them and Reinhardt can clear one out by pinning him into a wall assuming his ult isn't up. I mean there's a bunch of ways, but need to swap quickly if you want to win, a bunch of picks are terrible against Winston stacking. Also the more Winstons you have, the better he is I find. I mean up to a certain amount, but I'd say 2 is better than 1 and 3 is better than 2. After that not sure.