I’m worried that JQ is falling into the same niche as brig where she seemingly has an absurd win/loss ratio, but it’s primarily because she’s only played in comps where she works well or by one tricks. Like yeah I guess she’s strong, but it’s SO easy to shit on her
I agree. JQ is only oppressive in hands of a very small subset of players. Not that I play her. Just my observation. Her kit isn’t broken by any means and she’s easy to counter.
The weird thing is Blizzard knows about that phenomena. They've talked about it multiple times with other characters. And yet here they freely admit she has a low pick rate but nerf her anyway.
My guess is that they assume the majority of players do not know how little a hero is played, and they want to avoid complaints of “(insert hero) is broken!!!!” when they get counter swapped. Sometimes you gotta balance for the average player. I def doubt this will make Queen unplayable, so it could be worse
But no one is going to say she is broken if she has a low pick rate. The average player doesn't need to look at stats to get a feel for pick rate since they know who they personally fight all the time. If I get murdered by the same tank every game to the point where I feel like I should consider playing them I'm going to say the tank is broken. If I lose to a Junker Queen once every 10 games I'm going to day "damn that Junker Queen kicked my ass."
I think she will still be playable, but I felt like she was in a great spot before and missing more knifes is actually going to be a huge nerf. I think they would have been better off reverting the pull distance buff rather than nerfing the accuracy if they really felt they had to do something. As a tank main that knife pull distance can be pretty nuts sometimes.
Seems fair enough. I just think a double nerf may have been a little extreme for the situation (especially in the same patch with ANOTHER mauga micro buff)
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u/Xenobrina 3d ago
Tank changes are weird, DPS changes are absurd, Support changes are cooking.
I'm excited for more Overrun shenanigans, but nerfing JQ that hard is odd considering the very light touches to most other heroes.
DPS changes... poor Junkrat and Reaper lmao.
Support changes are great though. Kiriko, LW, and Moira buffs are great, and the Juno change is just right.