Agreed with X on the less team fight stuff. Generally, the skirmish dps style gameplay is more popular, but that's a double edged sword because it's also more generic. The audience who likes every hero to be FPS-skill based will quickly drop this game for the thousands of other games that offer similar gameplay. The audience who likes Overwatch as a team-fight game will not ditch because there's few games that offer such an experience, especially of the first person variety..
@@iooosef6006 valorant, apex, destiny2, paladin, also r6 and fortnite to a degree. or any other team-based shooters with abilities added as a flavour instead of the core of the character
Honestly, it's more fun that way. The game feels way faster and rewards risky plays more, compared to just hiding behind double shields waiting for a mistake to punish and then instantly snowballing.
Man I'm so excited for this glorified patch. Hopefully changing the format, heroes, and adding new heroes all at the same time will make for the most balanced state of the game ever. 0_0
@@ottomatedcylinder533 most people aren’t overwatch players right now considering the game doesn’t even fucking work! This game is an update and a bad one at that.
@@accidentalmadness1708 I just played ow2 after writing that comment and Oh My God you have got to be the most wrong person I have ever met. It is the most fun I have had with any Activision Blizzard game ever. The lack of cc means your team can push based on numbers, the cooldowns mean less now due to the overwhelming power of positioning. Things die less so when someone does die it feels more like a battle than a numbers game. The audio and visual queues make the game feel insurmountably different. When you take damage it doesn't feel like a pike stabbing into flesh it feels like a pebble bouncing of plastic. I can't even explain here how much better it is.
No one ever does that below masters. The one buff I really wanted for her was longer defense matrix. It doesn’t have to go back to 15, maybe just a 12 or 13 would be nice
Countering Widow is also insane, she becomes a pretty easy target, since she need to be still to charge her shots, while Kiriko can delete her while strafing, while invulnerable, etc.
If hanzo can oneshot u with a random ass arrow across the map than Kiriko can throw her kunai's too, if u get hit by it twice in a row then thats just your fault
That dmg reduction idea is pretty great, something a smart Winston main would say🙃👍, basically in a 1v1 you're a bit tanky, but the legend multiplier is a nice quality of life improvement without being overpowered. In all seriousness, that is smart, I personally would like to see some free movement on window's grapple hook, like hammond as it pulls you in
Guess X forgot that reins pin damage should get reduced due to how much easier it is to land AND the game reduced the amount of CC in multiple hero’s kits. On top of that, rein has an additional flame strike so his burst is still there for mid hp hero’s. Literally rein shield took a hit but my guy is more lethal when he’s in range.
Bap was already broken idk why the fuck they thought it was a good idea to buff him that hard. He's now basically unkillable without a sniper and he can out DPS McCree and Soldier. Support btw.
Mccree literally just one taps ppl now, reaper is simply good, mei deserves to die and junkrat's buffs don't do shit, he's a spam character not going for direct hits
@@sirdank2899 It's funny that i don't see people saying the same for every fucking new CoD... and this "patch" has far more than any new cod game compared to the last one
I agree. I mained Orisa during the beta when I rarely played Orisa in Overwatch 1. And speaking of fun, Overwatch 2 is the most fun I've had with Overwatch since 2017, its so refreshing! Only people who are saying they don't like it are people who hate on it just for being Overwatch. Like how people hated the lootbox system and now they hate the Battle Pass system. The game is the most balanced it's been since about 2018 with GOATS comp and Double Shield. It has reduced CC dramatically where a lot of stuns are removed. Yes it may only be an update but it's a great one, and I can't wait to play PVE in 2023!
Not sure I like the Soldier nerfs completely, the only buff was headshots with tac visor which is okay. I wish they would bring back sprint speed at least
I'm so glad they scrapped the orb idea from beta on Moira. Her damage orb is unfun but you know what's more unfun? her hitting you with one ability and being able to literally stand still tanking headshots and still being able to out DPS DPS characters.
"Same game OMEGALUL" meanwhile you guys still buy new cod, battlefield, nba 2k, fifa, madden, remastered versions of games that already exist AT FULL PRICE EVERY YEAR.
Kiriko: Invulnerability, Speed boost, cooldown reduction, fire rate buff, teleport, wall climb, cleanse effect, two-tap right click on headshot Moira: Balls and leaves existence for 1 second. Good luck.
@@Relevart9169 You are just delusional. Kiriko requires too much skill for the average player to get as much use on her as they would on braindead Moira. Kiriko does no damage if you can’t headshot and her suzu requires timing and patience plat players wouldn’t have.
Reinharts Charge doing less dmg and not able to one shot mid health targets IS GOOD... and XQC talking about it being hard to land and thats why its a one shot skill,... YES but they said in the video if u LISTEN that its A LOT easier to steer now.....
I think the game will feel better in general. The game turned into a tanky, shield and heal fest that ruined the game and made it a lot harder for skill based players to shine with all the support and tankiness going on. Now that there is one less player and abilities habe been altered. There will be less of that going on for the most part. Which is a good thing. Teamwork will still be important but you will have people with opportunities to outplay or make big plays on their own which is big plus.
@@lucasbruh5453 Im sure it will still exist but it feels more healthy and less like you are not making a dent in their health or shields like before. Game isnt perfect still but it does feel better
'Teamwork will still be important' so far in every lobby I played not a single soul talked. This has become a generic game without the team aspect of it
The problem is the team based aspect of the game turned into a tanky shield and heal deathball fest. It wasnt fun to a lot of players so thats why overwatch got less popular overtime. You need to have a balance where the team aspect remains but you have players that can still affect the game solo if they are good enough to do so. It makes the game more fun in general
@@Mike-hy8cs In order to keep making it team oriented they have to add more shield tanks. Right now the only really good shield tank is sigma who I know they are going to have to nerf at some point.
@@babypatrick4926 shield tanks are what killed the game in the first place though. I think they just need to put higher cds on shields. Healing was fine for the most part
the sheer irony of a bunch of kids who have nothing better to do than watch a schnoze with arms on the Internet all day every day spamming Nerd at everything LULE
My biggest problem with OW were the constant hero changes buffs nerfs because Blizzard wanted to dictate the meta. Really lost my love for the game there.
if you think every hero is quote on quote busted than that means the reworks are making them all viable options and no one character is going to dominate
Someone explain to me why Mercy is still in the game when she does 55 HPS, and Moira, while only healing 50 HPS, has an ability that can either double her healing or damage output and has one of the no-skill damage primaries in the game, while Mercy has a pistol that does 10x body/5x headshot kills. I mean, shit, if you die while trying to Resurrect you have to swap heroes real quick as a cheese cooldown because it's literally the only ability in the entire game that has a cooldown persist through death. If she's going to be outshined in healing she needs a more independent movement ability and massive changes to her DPS ability.
Only hero that can resurrect, very mobile support second only to kiriko (who was designed to be mobile) and while her healing isn’t the best, its consistent and she can also consistently damage boost. These all make her an amazing pocket support for squishy dps since she can amplify their damage, heal any damage they take (mobile dps can often get out of range of the most potent healers who aren’t always as mobile) and revive for more costly mistakes or misfortunes. She definitely has a unique role that no other support can best her at, she is the best pocket support. Kiriko is now another good pocket support however kiriko is more of an assist assassin than a pocket healer.
@@cahan557 Yea but being a heal or boost bot whose only gameplay loop is flying around trying to not get shot at gets really boring. She's the only hero that almost 100% depends on your teammates to actually be good, and with just a pistol you have no means of taking matters into your own hands outside of Valkyrie as you'll get smashed by even the most decent DPS. Every time I get frustrated with it and just go full BattleMercy with my ult, I end up having much better results. I've gotten 3 POTGs since OW2 came out as Mercy which is more than like the last year and a half of OW1.
@@Hyrule409 I mean I play support cause I like healing so mercy’s gameplay loop is quite satisfying for me. Her pistol is often underestimated and I’ve killed many a diving genji or tracer who think that just because the dps died, I’m free to kill. I’m not against her getting a reworked weapon because I think a pistol is really boring compared to her design (she wields a magical healing staff and a suit that can both heal herself and fly yet carries around a standard pistol). I’d say they could make her staff sap health to stay in line with her design but that would just be moira’s weapon so I dont know. As for her ult, going for kills is a really good use of it, she has unparalleled mobility during valk and her pistol damage output is enough to secure dps kills as they can’t typically escape and the initial damage from the first pistol shots makes most dps try to flee rather than effectively return fire, obviously just don’t run off to do your own thing if the rest of your team are close together at 10% health. All in all, I’m not opposed to a rework as she is a very simple character compared to modern characters (this happens to every game like this where as the game devs fill out all of the classic archetypes, they start having to develop more complex characters so that they have unique gimmicks) but I’m not sure what I would even change. Her revive has to stay imo because I think its pretty balanced and a good unique power. Its not like old ult revive where it just undoes a losing team fight (its slow to use, leaves mercy vulnerable and is on a long cooldown) but it puts her into a unique position of being able to fix mistakes that other supports cannot (peaking a corner when widow is aiming there for example). As a final note upon reflecting on what I might suggest to be reworked; I realised her passive is kinda terrible now that all supports have it (since other supports were given a way to self heal but because mercy could passively do it, she lacks a self-targetable burst heal) so I think her passive should be changed (I know she has angelic descent but that’s more of a feature of guardian angel than mercy tbh). Could maybe make it that her staff applies 20% of the opposite mode to heroes you are healing/boosting (i.e. healing a player would boost their damage by 20% of the normal value or boosting would heal them 20% of the normal value). Or perhaps more in line with her character design, while resurrect is on cooldown, interacting with a teammate “grave” reduces respawn time by 20% and gives them a rapidly decaying movement speed buff when they leave spawn.
Less team focused gameplay = better balance for casual and solo players. I dropped ow1 2 years ago, cos it was boring af. And u we're forced to play meta. Now, ow2 ireminds me of those first days of ow1. Good old times.
Been a while X, hope to see you in ranked 🙂
Hello KarQ, xqcL
WOOO KARQ COMMENT
The guy
RUclipsrs watching each other is wholesome af
Nerd
I like how he has to watch a video because you can’t play the game to see the changes.
Fr I’ve been sitting in front of my monitor for two hours trying to get in
@@didask627 Its never worth waiting thru the tech issues, just come back tomorrow
@@BlackbirdSJ change ur servers to europe and u get in instantly and the ping is literally the same
Frrr
someone has never played a game on launch and it shows
This looks like a fun game! He should go pro in this game and main winston.
Lmfao
Greek profile pic Pog.
“TriHard 7” pepelaugh
i hope he never has any issues with any of the homosexual players in the league if he does!
@@FanaticalLikeADemon AHAHAAH
"oh guys i got headshot by the support" LOL
lmao
Agreed with X on the less team fight stuff. Generally, the skirmish dps style gameplay is more popular, but that's a double edged sword because it's also more generic. The audience who likes every hero to be FPS-skill based will quickly drop this game for the thousands of other games that offer similar gameplay. The audience who likes Overwatch as a team-fight game will not ditch because there's few games that offer such an experience, especially of the first person variety..
what are those games
Where in the video does he talk about it?
@@iooosef6006 valorant, apex, destiny2, paladin, also r6 and fortnite to a degree. or any other team-based shooters with abilities added as a flavour instead of the core of the character
Agreed. My favorite thing about overwatch is the coordination of cooldowns/ults with your team.
This is why it was kind of boring after a while for me in the beta
"Hanzo and Reaper killed people too fast lets nerf them"
Meanwhile Sojourn one shotting people with a single right click that has a massive hitbox:
11:28 100% already feeling exactly what he's talking about after playing. It doesn't feel like a team game, feels like a skirmish
Which is fine. I want to win not rely on dogs with no eyeballs. It gives solo players a better chance to climb
good.
Honestly, it's more fun that way. The game feels way faster and rewards risky plays more, compared to just hiding behind double shields waiting for a mistake to punish and then instantly snowballing.
@@sleepyheartss it's not fun, those team games in ow1 where everyone was in vc can't be replaced
@@mannb1023 i dont think you played ow1 then. Theres always some idiot whos not in vc while hard feeding.
I love when they go something like "They increased his health by 10" and X pauses the stream and goes "wait wtf wtf!".
Overwatch players freak out over any small change, hence why they think this balance patch is a whole new game
@@luisa3447 no one thinks it’s a whole new game lmao.
Overwarch porn was so good they finally make it into game pog
Man I'm so excited for this glorified patch. Hopefully changing the format, heroes, and adding new heroes all at the same time will make for the most balanced state of the game ever. 0_0
"glorified patch" SO TRUE OMEGALUL
Spoken like a true non overwatch player
@@ottomatedcylinder533 most people aren’t overwatch players right now considering the game doesn’t even fucking work! This game is an update and a bad one at that.
@@accidentalmadness1708 ddos attack is why the servers suck
@@accidentalmadness1708 I just played ow2 after writing that comment and Oh My God you have got to be the most wrong person I have ever met. It is the most fun I have had with any Activision Blizzard game ever. The lack of cc means your team can push based on numbers, the cooldowns mean less now due to the overwhelming power of positioning. Things die less so when someone does die it feels more like a battle than a numbers game. The audio and visual queues make the game feel insurmountably different. When you take damage it doesn't feel like a pike stabbing into flesh it feels like a pebble bouncing of plastic. I can't even explain here how much better it is.
thats really cool that you can double melee with dva while boosting
No one ever does that below masters. The one buff I really wanted for her was longer defense matrix. It doesn’t have to go back to 15, maybe just a 12 or 13 would be nice
@@staryo1726 it’s literally the best tank ability in the game now though because it lasts for forever so enjoy that while it lasts
Mercy only heals 2.5 more than she used to per second, not 2.5 more than other supports now, he misread it.
Kiriko is like insane if you think about it, she can go along with flankers, deal damage with them and heal them while doing so.
Countering Widow is also insane, she becomes a pretty easy target, since she need to be still to charge her shots, while Kiriko can delete her while strafing, while invulnerable, etc.
Pog Ayaya kiriko can throw kunai with no falloff while rifles got falloff damage
Game developers think that a gun is weaker than a fist lmao
It’s not a hitscan
If hanzo can oneshot u with a random ass arrow across the map than Kiriko can throw her kunai's too, if u get hit by it twice in a row then thats just your fault
well that shit is almost impossible to land if u get hit with two of those from that far its on u
That dmg reduction idea is pretty great, something a smart Winston main would say🙃👍, basically in a 1v1 you're a bit tanky, but the legend multiplier is a nice quality of life improvement without being overpowered. In all seriousness, that is smart, I personally would like to see some free movement on window's grapple hook, like hammond as it pulls you in
Guess X forgot that reins pin damage should get reduced due to how much easier it is to land AND the game reduced the amount of CC in multiple hero’s kits. On top of that, rein has an additional flame strike so his burst is still there for mid hp hero’s. Literally rein shield took a hit but my guy is more lethal when he’s in range.
CC?
Man, sure hope the design issues that tanked the last game don't occur a second time.
This guy knows how to find the differences in Overwatch 2 heroes
Happy they gave WInston a buff. Junker Queen is so fun and interesting, seems to have a skill cap that will be tough and engaging to reach.
"Zarya is bad" her being the best tank rn because on how good genji and dva are rn
dude I feel like I'm having an aneurysm ... background music, video voice, xQc talking, TTS...
actually seizured out at 13:55
+ xqcs stuttering
holy moly
one of the few xqc reaction videos where I actually care about his takes
imagine zen flanking your ass and kicks your entire team off the map. man i cant wait to see that sht
Most important thing I gathered is DPS are less effective and tanks are even harder to take out now. Interesting dynamic change
i like that some heroes now have actualy mechanical options, not just stiff ways to use abilities
Yet they completely remove Mei freeze which was her only individual mechanic
@@frostcall4047 no she still has ice wall
@@audiex0867 the only part of that that's individual is a physical barrier, damage stopping wise there's plenty of options
Bap was already broken idk why the fuck they thought it was a good idea to buff him that hard. He's now basically unkillable without a sniper and he can out DPS McCree and Soldier. Support btw.
The hive mind chat is real, with everyone agreeing with “Zarya is bad now” single most broken hero and is not even close.
Junkerqueen is basically road hog if u direct someone with the knife and recall it pulls them towards u
The rein charge can be cancelled tho so it’s so much easier to hit charges, if you miss you just stop
Theyve basically turnes a very unique experience that was Overwatch into Call of Duty game with some abilities. Rip team fights and team strategies.
some of these changes are big Ls. Like mccree basically being useless, reaper nerf, mei nerf, and god forbid junkrat buff.
how is mccree useless? he is extremely reliable damage, his kit is so boring tho.
Rip bozos. They won't be missed 💀💀💀😎🚬🚬💀💀😎🚬🚬🚬😂😂😂
Mccree literally just one taps ppl now, reaper is simply good, mei deserves to die and junkrat's buffs don't do shit, he's a spam character not going for direct hits
10 years of waiting for the same exact game lmao
@@nastalgica3159 same game new facelift imo
@@nastalgica3159 that's literally just a patch LMAO
@@sirdank2899 It's funny that i don't see people saying the same for every fucking new CoD... and this "patch" has far more than any new cod game compared to the last one
It’s a commitment to constantly adding content to that game, the true ow2 sequel is the PVE
@@Vinzenzx but nobody asked about CoD tho
I don’t know what it is but Orissa is really fun now.
Agree, super fun with the Javelin on a relatively short cd
I agree. I mained Orisa during the beta when I rarely played Orisa in Overwatch 1. And speaking of fun, Overwatch 2 is the most fun I've had with Overwatch since 2017, its so refreshing!
Only people who are saying they don't like it are people who hate on it just for being Overwatch. Like how people hated the lootbox system and now they hate the Battle Pass system. The game is the most balanced it's been since about 2018 with GOATS comp and Double Shield. It has reduced CC dramatically where a lot of stuns are removed. Yes it may only be an update but it's a great one, and I can't wait to play PVE in 2023!
Maybe, but I miss the orb. My days of trolling with orisa are over
Not sure I like the Soldier nerfs completely, the only buff was headshots with tac visor which is okay. I wish they would bring back sprint speed at least
I'm so glad they scrapped the orb idea from beta on Moira. Her damage orb is unfun but you know what's more unfun? her hitting you with one ability and being able to literally stand still tanking headshots and still being able to out DPS DPS characters.
"I feel like zarya sucks now" oh no no no PepeLaugh
"Same game OMEGALUL" meanwhile you guys still buy new cod, battlefield, nba 2k, fifa, madden, remastered versions of games that already exist AT FULL PRICE EVERY YEAR.
Kiriko: Invulnerability, Speed boost, cooldown reduction, fire rate buff, teleport, wall climb, cleanse effect, two-tap right click on headshot
Moira: Balls and leaves existence for 1 second. Good luck.
And yet Moira is the better character in most situations. She has more raw pure heals and is better against mobile champs than kiriko would be
@@genkyo6 Kiriko is still overall a better character. She provides infinite utility while Moira has 0
@@Relevart9169 Playing both is the answer
and yet moira is still broken
@@Relevart9169 You are just delusional. Kiriko requires too much skill for the average player to get as much use on her as they would on braindead Moira. Kiriko does no damage if you can’t headshot and her suzu requires timing and patience plat players wouldn’t have.
I miss when we heard about these from jeff
Overwatch: everyone has a grenade edition
watching xqc play overwatch again is going full circle
maybe he should go pro and main winston while hes at it 4Head
Reinharts Charge doing less dmg and not able to one shot mid health targets IS GOOD... and XQC talking about it being hard to land and thats why its a one shot skill,... YES but they said in the video if u LISTEN that its A LOT easier to steer now.....
u can tell how new xqcs fanbase is just from the chat
its easier to land charge with reinhardt now since steering is so much easier so not one shotting mid health characters is okay
Hopefully we see the return of our favourite Winston Player!
Blizzard forgot about Hanzo 😭
I think the game will feel better in general. The game turned into a tanky, shield and heal fest that ruined the game and made it a lot harder for skill based players to shine with all the support and tankiness going on. Now that there is one less player and abilities habe been altered. There will be less of that going on for the most part. Which is a good thing. Teamwork will still be important but you will have people with opportunities to outplay or make big plays on their own which is big plus.
It’s still heal fest man watching an orisa 1hp get maxed out 1 second then back and fourth 💀
@@lucasbruh5453 Im sure it will still exist but it feels more healthy and less like you are not making a dent in their health or shields like before. Game isnt perfect still but it does feel better
'Teamwork will still be important' so far in every lobby I played not a single soul talked. This has become a generic game without the team aspect of it
why am i watching buffs and nerfs for a game i have never played 💀
so basically they made most of defensive tanks agressive and agressive tanks more on the defensive. wow giga smart
X's gasp when he heard SIX BUFFS for Brigs bash LMAO
I've always thought junkrat needed a buff thank god
i like the team based aspect of the game, now its more like valorant
The problem is the team based aspect of the game turned into a tanky shield and heal deathball fest. It wasnt fun to a lot of players so thats why overwatch got less popular overtime. You need to have a balance where the team aspect remains but you have players that can still affect the game solo if they are good enough to do so. It makes the game more fun in general
@@Mike-hy8cs it’s solved by removing one tank and reduce the healing amount but now just about everything is a skill shot
@@Mike-hy8cs In order to keep making it team oriented they have to add more shield tanks. Right now the only really good shield tank is sigma who I know they are going to have to nerf at some point.
@@babypatrick4926 shield tanks are what killed the game in the first place though. I think they just need to put higher cds on shields. Healing was fine for the most part
@@Mike-hy8cs you had a problem with team comps that included a single shield? If that's what you're saying that's a bit ridiculous.
the sheer irony of a bunch of kids who have nothing better to do than watch a schnoze with arms on the Internet all day every day spamming Nerd at everything LULE
Surely orisa is a balanced character and bastion is in the game
Feels a good as Pharah main to no longer have the worse ultimate, congrats Bastion mains.
bruh it kills basically everyone
@@maxevenz You taking about Pharah or Bastion?
Bruh the bastion ult is actually pretty good
you’re iron for this lil bro. the bastion ult denies entires chokes and can get people off point
@@carrots6249 bastion
I will not tolerate KarQ disrespect in the chat. Don't even give a shit about OW anymore but the man's a GOAT.
2:36 huh
15:32
No one gonna talk about modusponens112 saying, and i quote, “NEW FUTA.”
i've watched the video already. time to watch it again with xqc.
This guy knows to sync chat perfectly
Genji changes:
9:53, famous words before disaster...
My biggest problem with OW were the constant hero changes buffs nerfs because Blizzard wanted to dictate the meta. Really lost my love for the game there.
Junker Queen AntiHeal is Pog against healers
Zen mains about to start boppin people off the map that's crazy LMAO
Bruh supports be doing more damage than dps.
if you think every hero is quote on quote busted than that means the reworks are making them all viable options and no one character is going to dominate
Except for Mei being obliterated with nerfs
DVA didn't need a buff
honestly just glad ow is back, been a while since i had a reason to play
I played vs 3 tanks and 2 healers.
I never wanna see a Moira,Winston,that freaking Hamster or Anna AGAIN!!!
They re so freaking annoying and so OP!
tldr: its just a balance patch
11:01 thats what paladins did with cauterize.
Yea the team fight definitely is gone. Just quick skirmishes now.
Imagine getting one banged by a Zen kick to the head
The horror
FeelsStrongMan we were here first
man why do they keep nerfing the boy rein's shield :((
Man said it's impossible to get a charge in lol. Get better bro. Take it from me.
Wow there was a lot of changes to everyone that’s kinda lit
Xqc should totally upload full overwatch games👀 edited or wtv ofc
you are a couple years late to that party brah
chat just spamming ???? at every single change so quriky so cool
''Uh, that's kinda...'' Top Mr Cow take
lol they really don't want us to use soldier
"you lose a push cuz oh guys i got hit in the head by the support" lmaoooo
lmao so overwatch 2 is just a small balance update
Angelic descent was already a thing, hold jump or secondary fire on ow1 ._.
Had my eyes closed and was pretty tired when I turned on this video, thought they were talking about Pokémon for a sec
Ngl I love the new zarya, I really enjoy it
absolutely omega cooked chat
Let’s go another game selling an update as a new game !!
I don’t play or really watch overwatch but I do know basically every character but I’ve legit never heard of baptiste.
so if a mercy pockets doom they will essentially have 3 dps?
Someone explain to me why Mercy is still in the game when she does 55 HPS, and Moira, while only healing 50 HPS, has an ability that can either double her healing or damage output and has one of the no-skill damage primaries in the game, while Mercy has a pistol that does 10x body/5x headshot kills. I mean, shit, if you die while trying to Resurrect you have to swap heroes real quick as a cheese cooldown because it's literally the only ability in the entire game that has a cooldown persist through death. If she's going to be outshined in healing she needs a more independent movement ability and massive changes to her DPS ability.
Only hero that can resurrect, very mobile support second only to kiriko (who was designed to be mobile) and while her healing isn’t the best, its consistent and she can also consistently damage boost. These all make her an amazing pocket support for squishy dps since she can amplify their damage, heal any damage they take (mobile dps can often get out of range of the most potent healers who aren’t always as mobile) and revive for more costly mistakes or misfortunes.
She definitely has a unique role that no other support can best her at, she is the best pocket support. Kiriko is now another good pocket support however kiriko is more of an assist assassin than a pocket healer.
@@cahan557 Yea but being a heal or boost bot whose only gameplay loop is flying around trying to not get shot at gets really boring. She's the only hero that almost 100% depends on your teammates to actually be good, and with just a pistol you have no means of taking matters into your own hands outside of Valkyrie as you'll get smashed by even the most decent DPS.
Every time I get frustrated with it and just go full BattleMercy with my ult, I end up having much better results. I've gotten 3 POTGs since OW2 came out as Mercy which is more than like the last year and a half of OW1.
@@Hyrule409 I mean I play support cause I like healing so mercy’s gameplay loop is quite satisfying for me. Her pistol is often underestimated and I’ve killed many a diving genji or tracer who think that just because the dps died, I’m free to kill. I’m not against her getting a reworked weapon because I think a pistol is really boring compared to her design (she wields a magical healing staff and a suit that can both heal herself and fly yet carries around a standard pistol). I’d say they could make her staff sap health to stay in line with her design but that would just be moira’s weapon so I dont know. As for her ult, going for kills is a really good use of it, she has unparalleled mobility during valk and her pistol damage output is enough to secure dps kills as they can’t typically escape and the initial damage from the first pistol shots makes most dps try to flee rather than effectively return fire, obviously just don’t run off to do your own thing if the rest of your team are close together at 10% health.
All in all, I’m not opposed to a rework as she is a very simple character compared to modern characters (this happens to every game like this where as the game devs fill out all of the classic archetypes, they start having to develop more complex characters so that they have unique gimmicks) but I’m not sure what I would even change. Her revive has to stay imo because I think its pretty balanced and a good unique power. Its not like old ult revive where it just undoes a losing team fight (its slow to use, leaves mercy vulnerable and is on a long cooldown) but it puts her into a unique position of being able to fix mistakes that other supports cannot (peaking a corner when widow is aiming there for example).
As a final note upon reflecting on what I might suggest to be reworked; I realised her passive is kinda terrible now that all supports have it (since other supports were given a way to self heal but because mercy could passively do it, she lacks a self-targetable burst heal) so I think her passive should be changed (I know she has angelic descent but that’s more of a feature of guardian angel than mercy tbh). Could maybe make it that her staff applies 20% of the opposite mode to heroes you are healing/boosting (i.e. healing a player would boost their damage by 20% of the normal value or boosting would heal them 20% of the normal value). Or perhaps more in line with her character design, while resurrect is on cooldown, interacting with a teammate “grave” reduces respawn time by 20% and gives them a rapidly decaying movement speed buff when they leave spawn.
They should make a league of legends 2 to also fix the game that has turned into a 5v5 deathball game as well
How do people watch his stream? there's music, the donation bot talking, Xqc talking and the video he's watching.
Ngl I bet if OW1 doom and OW2 doom could 1v1 at an equal skill level, ow1 doom would probably win with dps alone
Xqc talks abt how Reinhart nerf is dumb bc higher players movement is better which is true
OW2: My crush
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Less team focused gameplay = better balance for casual and solo players. I dropped ow1 2 years ago, cos it was boring af. And u we're forced to play meta. Now, ow2 ireminds me of those first days of ow1. Good old times.
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Kiriko is broken and looks really fun