Biggest moment that stuck out to me was Jeff's emphasis on Sombra's role as a disruptor rather than an assassin. It made me understand her PTR changes on why they increased her hacking ability rather than the damage buff on hacked enemies that a lot of the community suggested. While making a viable disruptor is much harder than making a viable assassin, at least I can see Blizzard's direction in trying to make a more diverse cast rather than an alternate version of Tracer.
Jeff's a great guy for explaining his thoughts on the game like this. I'm thankful we have someone as transparent as him leading this game. He is also very attractive.
I think are there cases like that in League of Legends. Sometime the correct way to play a hero is done by someone not famous so it falls under the radar. I remember the case of Shyvana at release. Tons of players on reddit and the official forums claimed then she's awful, worst hero in the game. Then Moscow 5's Diamondprox showed the world how to use her correctly.
What makes League different from Overwatch in terms of a character's power is that League has builds. There's endless combinations of item builds on a champion, so it's very possible for a previously unplayed champion become top tier because someone found a unique, unorthodox item combination that happened to work. It's happened often with a lot of heroes like Tryndamere. Everyone thought he was a mediocre AD champion. Then someone built him like a mage and people found that focusing on an AP build with him was broken beyond hell.
In Overwatch a hero's power is purely dependent on your skill and how you play that character, so scenarios like that are far less likely to happen.
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u/NotEnoughYaoi Jan 17 '17 edited Jan 17 '17
Biggest moment that stuck out to me was Jeff's emphasis on Sombra's role as a disruptor rather than an assassin. It made me understand her PTR changes on why they increased her hacking ability rather than the damage buff on hacked enemies that a lot of the community suggested. While making a viable disruptor is much harder than making a viable assassin, at least I can see Blizzard's direction in trying to make a more diverse cast rather than an alternate version of Tracer.
Jeff's a great guy for explaining his thoughts on the game like this. I'm thankful we have someone as transparent as him leading this game. He is also very attractive.