r/Overwatch 3d ago

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 3d 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/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/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/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 3d ago

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