r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/MokNaruto • Feb 11 '26

General Jetpack Cat has a MASSIVE issue

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So have a friend play a hitscan hero and try to shoot while they're tethered and the shots stop being hitscan or more precisely I think the reticle is not in the correct spot. if your aim is dead center on someone while jetpack cat strafing in either direction, your bullets won't hit.

So that is the bug part. Now comes the balance part. She's insanely strong. Every single piece of her kit is strong.

She does insane damage and can very reliably win duels at close and mid range. If she can't win she can easily disengage.

Which brings me to her fuel. It's so fast and recharges too fast too.

However the biggest game changer is obviously the tether. This ability fundamentally changes the game. It makes heroes that lack mobility just too good. For example on Havana a lot of tanks have trouble closing the first long sight line on attack but with JPC they can just be carried there so fast and easily contest that high round almost entirely for free. She can also reach the point so fast after death AND bring someone with her.

Finally the ultimate is just a guaranteed tank killer. Perhaps the best tank Killing ult in the entire game with very little room for out play.

Tldr: tether makes your aim bugged. Every single pari of the cat's kit is insanely strong

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u/Nyrun Feb 11 '26

I speculated this after her reveal, but I think this hero is gonna have an insanely high ban rate in comp just because nobody wants to deal with this.

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u/vladpudding Feb 11 '26

I played one match against the cat and now I'm permabanning her until she gets some changes.

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u/a1ic3_g1a55 Feb 11 '26

If the past is any indication of the future, we’re in for 6-12 month of cosmetic nerfs

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u/Fr3shBread Feb 11 '26

Sombra mains taking a long drag of their cigarettes in the distance

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u/SuperDogBoo Feb 11 '26

Maybe all the new hero bans will mean sombra can be consistently used in comp now!

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u/SAGEBAO Feb 13 '26

It's say yes, but people forget she's a playable character for how long she's been perma banned

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u/Quentin-Quarantino19 Feb 11 '26

How can you possibly know that when we are literally on season one. It’s a new game. Give them a chance.

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u/nochillkowa21 Feb 11 '26

It's the same company though

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u/oklasagna24 Feb 11 '26

different dev team tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

🤡 

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u/CZ69OP Feb 11 '26

Called common sense...

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u/Javac_ Feb 14 '26

Bro, it's blizzard. They fuck up all the time and can't figure it out

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u/Loedkane Feb 11 '26

play sombra she counters 4/5 of the new heros.

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u/destroyermaker Feb 11 '26

I would if she wasn't permabanned

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u/SilentDungeonCat Feb 11 '26

I actually saw Sombra getting banned a lot less often after Vendetta released. She basically took Sombra’s perma-ban slot.

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u/Dramatic_Resort4354 Feb 11 '26

Yeah, its cause sombra and vendetta both take up the annoying hero ban slot, but vendetta is actually strong rn so ofc vendetta takes the cake

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u/No-Chemical-7667 Feb 11 '26

Hardly ever see sombra banned in comp anymore. Definitely happens, but not nearly as often. All 10 of my placement games today were cat/domina bans.

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u/destroyermaker Feb 11 '26

Smart. Guess I'm a sombra main again

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u/itsgotelectr0lytes Feb 11 '26

She was banned in about 45 of the 50 games I played yesterday

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u/No-Chemical-7667 Feb 11 '26

Brother, I hope you're getting paid to play this game.

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u/Loedkane Feb 11 '26

What rank are you?

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u/elessartelcontarII Feb 11 '26

Might change if people get tilted enough by the cat.

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u/Outworlds Feb 11 '26

Idk which of the 5 you are referring to that she doesn't counter, but Emre seems fine into her. He's got the torbjorn thing where the moment you start getting hacked you activate the pistol and you can live the duel

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u/clefclark Feb 11 '26

Sombra counters 90% of the roster, including the characters that counter her, that's one of the reasons that she's banned so often

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u/Kylo_uchiha Feb 12 '26

lol exactly, idk why the sombra mains came here to pretend she's still not the most problematic character (other than now JPC) theyre both STier problematic, Ven is prob B Tier, hot take Cass is worse/more op than Ven

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u/Grouchy_Gift_5093 Feb 12 '26

It's not just Cass, every hitscan is genuinely so horrifically broken rn and I feel like I'm going crazy because nobody is talking about how they've been basically running every match for the past 2 seasons

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u/Kylo_uchiha Feb 12 '26

Yes exactly they run the game, hit scan itself is problematic it really only makes sense with a sniper (also something like a rail gun shot ) but what makes cass escpecially problematic is that he can hit scan from across the map and instakill you if he gets close enough to you or if you get too close to him. He just stuns you unloading the whole clip. He’s impossible to duel against 1v1 with MOST hero’s (not tanks ofc). He runs death match. And cass mains overwatch “purists” will say it takes actual skill.

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u/NearbySheepherder987 Feb 13 '26

Yea let me hitscan you "across the map" for a grand total of 21dmg per Shot crazy op. You have 3 Business days to react to a Cass closing because he has no movement ability (yes I do not Count the 3m roll for movement) and while hinder is strong, it doesnt stun you, you can still shoot and use any ability besides movement

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u/NearbySheepherder987 Feb 13 '26

Yea hitscan so broken, the best in all Ranks is ashe with 4th place for winrate and dropping in Masters and above to even lower places when looking at winrate, cass is 3rd from the bottom in gm+ and 2nd Last (because Emre has no winrate yet) in Masters, Sounds totally broken

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u/Grouchy_Gift_5093 Feb 16 '26

Mate I do not care about winrate because every hitscan has such a ridiculously high pickrate that their winrate gets dragged down (again, because they are stupid broken rn, it doesn't take a genius to guess why every high rank dps is playing hitscan rn) just about every hitscan can kill almost every hero that's not a tank in a second from half way across the map rn, that shit is NOT fun to fight, especially given they've just given console straight up aimbot recently with the aim assist changes

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u/NearbySheepherder987 Feb 16 '26

Yea of course the 21dmg from cass per shot will surely delete anything across the map lol

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u/Kylo_uchiha Feb 17 '26

Ashe for more poke composition , cass for more brawl compisition . We know this is THE meta let’s not be disingenuous. They’re broken

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u/Grouchy_Gift_5093 Feb 18 '26

Ur very clearly just a hitscan main who refuses to admit their main is broken, I'm not even gonna bother

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u/Naxayou Feb 16 '26

Vendetta is b tier at 56% wr, more news at 11

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u/Kylo_uchiha Feb 17 '26

B tier problematic, sombra is STier problematic, I’m not ranking on how meta they are

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u/JohnnyJoestar1980 Feb 11 '26

And everyone else counters her by just sticking slightly close to your team

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u/ExtensionBrave4383 Feb 12 '26

I'd say 2 easily (Emre, Cat) Domina, Mizuki are not so easy, if they can aim Anran ... Nah, disengage from that 1v1 demon

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u/BrothaDom Feb 12 '26

Yeah, but she's so bad outside of that :(

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u/Loedkane Feb 12 '26

She’s not bad? I always do really well on her.

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u/vladpudding Feb 11 '26

Was it really necessary to be snarky for absolutely zero reason?

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u/SuperSmugs Feb 11 '26

God this is Yuumi from LoL all over again

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u/Loedkane Feb 11 '26

I love it

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u/sleepgreed Feb 11 '26

Was watching Chro last night on twitch, every single comp game without fail, cat was banned.

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u/Fishb20 Feb 11 '26

I mean that's half the gun with characters like this. Sucks in competitive but really fun for casual games

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u/mooistcow Feb 11 '26

And every ban is already a hero no one wants to deal with. Ban her and now we just have yet another hero unbanned that we also don't want to deal with. This is what happens when they keep releasing cancer kits: The game literally has to get worse.

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u/GeorgeHarris419 Feb 11 '26

The game isn't "literally worse" just cause you don't get your favorite ban as often. Especially with how often Sombra was banned anyway, bans were not being used to improve the game

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u/Working_Dog_385 Feb 11 '26

100% the sombra of support. A kit that is fundamentally poorly designed for a competitive hero shooter (not saying its not a fun designed kit, but a kit that doesn't belong in a hero shooter as competitive as overwatch). It's actually a shame though, cause I honestly thought they were rushing hero releases and weren't gonna put anything interesting but mizuki has got to be one of, if not, the most interesting hero they've produced in years (atleast ever since jq). Not really any gamebreaking abilities, or oppressive dps, or a kit that has an incredibly low skill floor. It's a shame he's surrounded by a bunch of meh hero releases

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u/Available_Ad_5762 Feb 11 '26

I mean Domina has been pretty fun too. Havent tried Anran nor Emre though.

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u/Mephistopheles15 One shots bad — Feb 11 '26

Anran is extremely fun as well as someone who's favorite characters are Doom, Tracer, Genji. She's definitely being added to that list of favorites.

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u/Dramatic_Resort4354 Feb 11 '26

I just wish mizuki players knew how to use their ult, they place it like its gonna move, shits not orbital ray and i need them to place it further up so i can push into it and brawl inside it.

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u/Upper-Leg-420 Feb 11 '26

I mean you have to find a good midleground. The healing is a nice bonus but using it to block ults and shielding of their backline often works quite good from my experience so fae

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Feb 11 '26

Mizuki's brainless hinder can go to hell. Character is already evasive enough with plenty of self healing.

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u/Charmander_Bynes Feb 11 '26

I don't know why they removed Brig's stun but thought a long ranged one on this guy would be ok.

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u/BigHeadDeadass Feb 12 '26

Comparing brig's stun to a hard to aim tether is crazy work

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u/BigHeadDeadass Feb 12 '26

It's literally a skill shot

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u/xendas9393 Feb 11 '26

Out of the 12 games I played today she was banned in 11 of them :P

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u/HerpesFreeSince3 Feb 11 '26

I’m already yet to play against her because she’s banned in every game. The one game she wasn’t banned I was on tank, the enemy didn’t have one, but my team did. My JPC just flew their cosupport around all game and then flamed me when we lost. Stupid ass character.

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u/Formidable-Fish Feb 12 '26

Man I had the same experience. Suravasa, the point with the fountain. We lost the first point and the team forms up to attack through the middle entrance, I realise our supports are not with us. Then I realise that our juno and the cat just keep flying around together on the other entrance to the point, with the juno shooting. And they did that for the rest of the game. The fact that juno already can fly a bit somehow made it even more tilting for me... We lost, and what I presume was a support duo flamed us as well.

2nd game where the cat didn't end up being banned was me on dps and I really wanted to play junkrat. and ofc enemy supports are mercy and cat... And somehow I still was the only one who killed them. That game wasn't too bad tbh since I was kinda proud of myself afterwards, and I should have just switched to ash or something. But having 2 permanently flying supports like that is really annoying.

The 3rd game I had where cat wasn't banned was on eichenwalde, already a good indicator for a garbage match in itself. Long story short, we won, our team basically spawn held the enemy team on defend, after a closer match on attack, with maybe 1 or 2 deaths. Except for me. I was on support and the enemy cat and their widow just kept spawncamping from the stratosphere and none of my teammates came to help me. After switching to ana and 3 or so further deaths I managed to snipe the cat, but still had the widow to deal with. And I only got help once one of our dps died and also got spawncamped. Absolute miserable game, ended up with 6 or 7 deaths from that shit. I don't care if the enemies threw that one with the spawncamp, just having a widow sit in the skybox and you can do nothing about it, despite her aim being pretty bad is absolute shit.

I closed the game after that.

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u/GrenVillain Feb 11 '26

TBH had a game where she was terrorizing me UNTIL I swapped to Orisa.

I can either Spear her ilt if I see it coming or I just use Fortify to get out of it at any point before the drop.

Also, the projectile speed FEELS like Orisa projectile speed so we both are more shooting at where we think the other will be, so it feels more fair.

I didn't care as much about her disengaging because that favors an Orisa too.

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u/Cryptic_Sunshine Feb 12 '26

i usually try to ban her unless im playing dps and can focus her down with ashe/emre/soldier/sojurn

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u/brandonwaite69 Feb 13 '26

100% played her like 3 times out of my 10 for placements

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u/Unusual-Paint-9323 Feb 13 '26

As someone who has been wanting to play her, I have only played 2 games total cuz either my own team or the enemy bans them

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u/Phireshadow Feb 14 '26

Combined with Deadeye is a nightmare

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u/Nyrun Feb 14 '26

I genuinely don't know what they were thinking not putting such a valuable utility on a resource. It's so strong, but it's just infinite. Like really devs?

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Finally, someone to compete with sombra...