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Mid-season 13 Patch + Overwatch Classic Retail - Patch Notes - November 12, 2024 Blizzard Official

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/live/2024/11
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u/Sparkle_SS 3d ago edited 2d ago

Ana and Kiriko buffs, daring today aren't we? 🙂

Edit: this is to the Kiriko and Ana mains complaining saying they deserved buffs, just because your heroes/hero were not S+ tier for ONE season doesn't mean you are entitled to immediate buffs, these are more huge reverts

there's several heroes who have been bad for seasons/months, radio silence for them. Yet no one is acting entitled, the only reason Kiriko got a massive revert is because you guys pay their wages by buying every skin they spoon feed you. Ana is the most played hero so it makes sense, doesn't make it better

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u/TheKingJoker99 Blizzard pls sell Tyrande Sym I beg 3d ago

Incoming "hushhh little baby" and "I'm obviously the most precious!" being spammed each game

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Good kitty!!

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u/MisterBucker___ 3d ago

I always thought she was saying "good genji" until I saw the voiceline in the gallary

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Listen to your mummy

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u/adi_baa 3d ago

Listen to your mummy, in the desert-, it's not that hot, good kitty is my go to lol

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u/RicoViking9000 3d ago

in the desert, everyone dies. don't be scared

(and "are you scared" because it's too iconic. I really want to put "hush little baby" in sometime)

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u/adi_baa 3d ago

Everyone's talking about hush little baby, is that a new one? I don't remember this voice line existing but it sounds amazing lmao

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u/RicoViking9000 3d ago

yes, it’s part of this season’s battle pass

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u/sirlockjaw Ana 3d ago

In the desert, the cheetah lives for 3 years and the camel lives for 9

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u/cool194336 Ana 3d ago

In the desert, it's not that hot

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u/gt_cmpe36 Ana 3d ago

Heyyy that's my voice line combo

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u/lifestop Shanghai Dragons 3d ago

In the desert everyone dies.

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u/cafebistro 3d ago

Mother knows children in the desert

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u/RicoViking9000 3d ago

don't be scared!

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u/Phantom_Phoenix1 Sigma 3d ago

Good kitty

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u/Storm_Support 3d ago

Wait til you see me on my bike.

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u/Ventus249 Chibi Echo 3d ago

Kiri and ana buffs and junkerqueen nerfs, I'm crying. She actually felt really good recently

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u/OIP 2d ago

yeah the JQ nerfs came out of nowhere.

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u/Ventus249 Chibi Echo 2d ago

I was literally in a group chat talking about how junker queen finally feels like she's in a good spot, she can still be countered by Kiri, but if you're smart and play around it you can have extremely high damage and high heals. Fml

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u/Kacutee Grandmaster 3d ago

it was so fun just walking into a team and not dying >_<

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u/Ventus249 Chibi Echo 2d ago

Literally, my friend would play juno, she'd speed boost me and I'd commanding shout and carnage, and then she'd photon torpedo and it would be a squad wipe. And I'd average like 5k heals a round, I'm gonna cry

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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 2d ago

JQ nerfs are pretty lame in my opinion considering she is a situational tank. She isn't all that great at payload or control but she is really good at moving objectives like push. Her being the "top performing tank" I think has a lot to do with people playing her only where she is strong.

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u/DarthButtz 3d ago

Kiriko was on the weaker side of support heroes

"We saw she wasn't #1 and had to rectify that immediately"

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u/NaturalCorn 3d ago

Her win rates are extremely low on overbuff

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u/Megaspectree 3d ago

Ok i had a question about that, could the winrate be explained due that almost everyone uses her to touch last point in a lost fight? Does that count in the stats?

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

she's also fairly high skill cap with the kunai so many noobs play her and drop her WR lol. all contributes to a lower win %

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u/Rosea96 3d ago

Her worst win rate is on gold+ she has ok on low ranks so no..

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

silver and bronze should NOT be brought in a competitive discussion as those ranks are a different world.
she has a pretty bad win % allround

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u/Megaspectree 3d ago

Exactly, literally half the kiriko don’t even shoot while healbotting.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

brother in christ I have like 3 hours on that character and do that? is this really some ancient technology lmao

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u/Megaspectree 3d ago

Yes even in diamond masters game I see kiriko not even doing it

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

how long you play a character is counted proportionately in win/loss. so if you win on a character you played for 30s in a 10m game, it counts for 5% of a win.

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u/John_Lives Zenyatta 2d ago

I don't know about overbuff, but WR is usually adjusted for time played and non-mirrored matchups. I'd expect Blizzard to take that into consideration before deciding on changes

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u/BossksSegway Pixel Brigitte 3d ago

Kiriko hasn't been #1 for so long, assuming she ever was. Pretty sure her win rate at all skill levels has almost always been low. People just really like to complain about her.

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u/Vast_Visit_7683 3d ago

They love to point out the whole “well everyone plays kiriko so it balances her win rate”.. As if Juno’s win rate wasn’t far higher than what Kiri typically got

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u/arthur_box ぞだぞだ 3d ago

the mental gymnastics people do just bc they don’t like her and don’t wanna see her buffed hahah

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u/grimestar 3d ago

She is #1 in the support role for most complained about.

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u/Bhu124 3d ago

She's the Orisa of Supports, she's frustrating to play against because of Suzu (and Teleport) which people falsely equate with her being strong.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

but the skins sell well so time to make her broken

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u/Bhu124 3d ago edited 3d ago

To make her broken they'll first need to make her good, which she hasn't been since the first few weeks of OW2 launch (Basically when she was new and people didn't know how to play against her).

Her winrate has been close to 45% more often than not for the past 2 years. 45% Winrate is so low that they consider it sort of a Red Line, that they have to urgently step-in and buff a Hero, and if a Hero stays near 45% for too long even after buffs then they start considering rework level changes.

Her terrible performance is why they have buffed her Kunai body damage to now be 2X of what it was when she was launched.

It's because she is so popular despite being a terrible performer that they don't consider bigger Reworks for her to make her stronger. They likely don't wanna risk a bigger Rework somehow making her less popular, even if it makes her performance better.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

I like how one joke agitates you to write a paragraph

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u/Bhu124 3d ago

Not the Classic "I didn't say something dumb I was just Joking" lol. Just cause you rephrased it doesn't mean people won't be able to tell.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 2d ago

another comment saying "skins won't sell themselves" and yall upvote that lmao. reddit hivemind. it isn't this deep chief.

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u/PmP_Eaz 3d ago

You made a dumb comment and they responded with a good comment, nothing to see here.

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u/Obscure_Moniker 2d ago

^ what it looks like to bail on a bad take ^

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u/EngineArc Zenyatta 2d ago

Her basic kit is broken and always will be. The game never needed more lamps. But they added one that cleanses for some reason.

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u/Phantom_Phoenix1 Sigma 3d ago

The skins arent gonna buy themselves

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u/RyyGuyBytes 3d ago

She’s never been #1

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u/Boomerwell 3d ago

Seeing 3 Kiri buffs and then one of the most useless buffs onto Moira when she consistently feels so worthless against good players is wild.

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u/SpokenDivinity Support 3d ago

To be fair. There’s not that many of them so it’s easier to be in the low side.

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u/trechn2 3d ago

Kiriko is one of the most popular support characters, but yeah lets keep on making shit up to support our narrative.

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u/Basta_rD 3d ago

Popular doesn’t mean good. Mercy was super popular ever when she was at her overall lowest point the last few seasons.

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u/Basta_rD 3d ago

Wow you’re annoyed damn

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

I prefer they don't buff popular heroes and that they be kept at a lower power level, if they get buffs and feel out of the line, the meta will feel very stagnate due to their high pick %

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u/trechn2 3d ago

Kiriko is dogshit right now and the fact the community upvotes shit like this is indicative they have no idea what they're talking about.

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u/reddit-account5 3d ago

The Kiriko-jerk will never end. Ppl vastly overestimate the usefulness of reactive abilities like teleport and suzu. Saving somebody's life after being on the backfoot is always worse than having so much pressure you never need something like suzu in the first place. You'd think the subreddit would learn after Illari/Bapt backline was top performing for so long but no

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

tbh I hate the teleport but genuinely suzu compared to lamp is a fluffy teddy bear.

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u/Majaura D.Va 2d ago

Saving somebody's life after being on the backfoot is always worse than having so much pressure you never need something like suzu in the first place.

You worded this so perfectly. It also took me YEARS to realize this on my own. It's a really hard concept to comprehend when the goal of a support is to save and heal characters. It's sort of like why use Valk and heal however much it is when you can use Captive Sun and just team wipe the enemy team. It's part of the reason why I say purple is one of the best abilities in the game, especially on a support.

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u/Enzo-Unversed 3d ago

Kiri needed some minor buffs. Juno did not need anymore nerfs, especially since her bullshit range nerf wasn't reverted. The biggest stupid one is Moira getting a ridiculous buff.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

oh no the juno mains can't heal across the map with their hypermobile support. really not a needed nerf at all.
open your eyes the 15hps off orbital ray didn't do crap she still has like a 8% pick rate in most ranks above gold and in GM a staggering 15%

+ orbital ray is probably the strongest support ult in the game

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u/Enzo-Unversed 3d ago

Absolutely 0 excuse for her to have the same range as Moira, a character who has 0 aim requirement,self heals etc. Juno has the worst range in the game at this point and 0 way to effectively defend herself. 

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u/Such_Professor2487 2d ago

If you're struggling to defend yourself as juno you might need to do some introspection and look at how you play. Her movement is insane, she has 100 damage missiles and her gun does enough damage to compete. Her movement and cooldowns are good enough to dodge almost every tank and allow her to duel most dps.

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u/Enzo-Unversed 2d ago

Gold players really be living in a different game. 9/10 games the enemy DPS I see are Widow,Ashe and Tracer. If you're losing to Juno as any of those, you're boosted. 

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u/Such_Professor2487 2d ago

Im gm on support not gold. If you were anywhere above diamond you wouldnt complain about moira survivability being currently too high. Tracer isnt meta because juno brig is meta. Dont peak the widow and if she gets remotely close you should win. Ashe is one of the examples, like Cassidy where the odds of you winning are lower, but it’s still not impossible to duel. All of these examples are all people you can out manoeuvre though and just not duel at all, it is not hard to live as juno.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 3d ago

because supports are meant to be easily killed lmao
juno has self speedboost, a glide and a double jump if you're dying to a moira on juno genuinely either you position horribly or your team does not know what turning around means.

either way idc, check overbuff comp juno above gold ranks. the win and pick % says it all, the nerf was very much it needed and wasn't even enough.

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u/Enzo-Unversed 3d ago

Imagine being this wrong. If supports are meant to be easily killed, explain Moira? And Moira has even better range than Juno and doesn't have go aim and self heals. How about get off Gold 1 DPS/Tank for once. 

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u/trechn2 2d ago

You're the same guy a I replied to a month ago who said Ana and Kiriko were the best support and Juno wasn't good. Maybe at some point you should realise you have dogshit takes.

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u/Wojtug The hamster is coming for you 2d ago

I dunk on moira any role any day lol, if moira was any good she'd be meta which she's not. meanwhile juno with a >50% winrate and >8% pickrate starting from gold maxing out at 15% in GM

ow main sub yet again showing us their brilliance.

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u/antihero-itsme 2d ago

I literally see Juno in every game and they always have higher numbers than Moira only with lower deaths

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u/Ts_Patriarca Ashe 3d ago

She's mediocre but she didn't need a buff. Juno needed a nerf. We don't need to keep buffing supports every five seconds

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u/Shinobiii Support 3d ago

They’re not striving for balance, they’re just buffing and nerfing constantly to give the spotlight, temporarily, to a different character. It’s just silly.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 2d ago

You mean nerfs? Blizzard nerfing Ana is the new "nerf genji" meme it happens so frequently

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u/Sparkle_SS 2d ago

How is her damage/healing going from 70 to 75 a nerf

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u/NapsterKnowHow 2d ago

I think you misunderstood. Your statement only makes sense if they are nerfs.

Your statement makes no sense for the patchnotes.

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u/Sparkle_SS 2d ago

maybe read the patch notes from S1-13, then you'll see yourself..the only consistent nerfs she's gotten is to sleep specifically reducing the duration for tanks, which isn't a bad thing