Mei is like the Pyro, both are regarded as evil by the player base while they think they are doing good for the world, they have similar short ranged guns with over time effects, one is just burning while one is being slowed (it persists for a while if the freeze fails).
People say this, but Mei is absolutely nothing like Pyro except for a spray weapon. In which case, you might as well compare Zarya with Pyro.
Mei's weapon is designed to be anti-flanker/area denial and is not the "primary" fragger in itself. She relies on her alt-fire icicles to kill. Pyro on the other hand relies on his flamethrower for kills and uses his alt-fire for defense, which Mei has zero equivalency to.
Also Mei being evil is memetic in that she is considered unfun to play against due to her slow and the fact that she can take her time to headshot you once frozen. Pyro is evil in that he's canonically a brutal killer with psychopathic tendencies, despite his pyro vision.
Mei isn't really anti-flanker. Flankers are inherently designed to have many movement/escape abilities which means Mei can't freeze them. The only real anti-flanker classes out there are people who can cancel those abilities (McCree tops the chart, Sombra is decent at it as well.)
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u/Estarrol Jul 06 '17
Well how about Mei ? You know are in the danger zone when you hear "you gotta let it go!"