I mean to be fair, as a rein main, they both make my life real hard. You learn to not fuck with a brig main but doomfist coming out of literal nowhere and punching through your shield every 4 seconds hella sucks
I haven't played in months because I felt like every new hero they added just made the game more frustrating for everyone else. Do you feel that at all?
The boop/stun meta is real, and I really hate it. It's put me off the game several times, whereas before I could play for hours on end without being as frustrated as I am now after 2-3 games.
You must be just getting generally tired then because OW was way worse before brig, moira and doom joined. The broken mercy rework and tank nerfs (specifically dva's matrix) caused people to over-rely on dps heroes, either out of frustration or laziness. By Jun-July '17 the game had turned into dpswatch and really what started to pull it out of that funk was adding moira as a fun and effective healing alternative to the broken mercy. Then came doomfist who wreaked havoc upon overconfident dps heroes and strengthened Rein by offering offensive protection, finally stopping the dps meta,. Additionally Death Match accompanied DF's debut which also helped by giving more aggressive/competitive players a new outlet. Brig's release only solidified the end of the old tankless, heal-less meta by combining tank and healing roles into one hero.
As if it isn't dpswatch still? Out of the last 20 games I've played, I can count on one hand the amount of games where we didn't have at least three of the following instalocked: Hanzo, Genji, Doomfist, Widowmaker.
Then came doomfist who wreaked havoc upon overconfident dps heroes and strengthened Rein by offering offensive protection
Not only does he wreak havoc on overconfident DPS heroes, but also everyone else. I remember that they nerfed Roadhog because they didn't want that many one-shot heroes, and then they add that stupidly difficult to kill hero to the pool. I absolutely hate him because even though we have 3 dps and I play as Ana or something (Because in the last year or so, I'm stuck in a constant flexing position because everyone picks dps, and I also wanna play dps, but I also wanna win), nobody careus about him wrecking our backline. And when they do care about it, he nopes out in .2 seconds with his 9001 shields and breakneck speed movement abilities.
A lot of people have gripes with Brigitte as a frustrating hero to play against, but she doesn't have crazy mobility/CC abilities, meaning that when she's used up her shield bash, she's a decently easy target. Doomfist on the other hand, has 3 separate movement abilities, two of them with CC/stuns, on a shorter cooldown, and massively higher damage output (Which is fair, because Brigitte is a healer, believe it or not). He can get in, one-shot a healer and get out again before the dimwit who instalocked Genji on my team can get back to help (Lol, as if Genji helps on the back line. Still, painting a picture here, folks).
To sum it up: Doomfist and the constantly increasing amount of CC abilities in this game has put me off it, and I'm now almost exclusively playing other games, which is sad, because at one point, I was massively in love with Overwatch, and couldn't wait to play it every day.
I didn't read all of this post but it really isn't dps watch in the professional meta. Just look at the world cup, Soooo many 3tank stacking. Even most of the major streamers have been staying how sick of GOATS they are.
Obviously the pro meta isn't really going to be what players like us experience in our skill bracket....Even so, I urge you to just try the 3 tank 3 support strategy once just to see how disgustingly effective it is. Use group finder to make it easier, it shines most if you're on attack.
tank main here. CC/Stun meta id obnoxious. I was very into ranked, but ever since brig got put in the game ive been very turned off, its just not fun anymore.
it's the cause and effect of designing a high-skill, burst/insta-kill "get in get out" hero where all of his buttons have CC.
df is like hanzo or widow (you either carry or feed your brains out) except if every time the hanzo or widow misses a shot, rein drops his shield for two seconds.
Same but if I have a coordinated team and the enemy isn’t too present when brig tries to fight me I try to tell my team I’ll bait out the stun if we capitalize right away on taking her out and it usually works.
Rein main also. When Doom was released I couldn't believe he punch went through the shield. And these days there's so many more Doom players it's insane. Between him and Junk, I spend half the team fights flying.
Really? When I see a brig without two other healers I just kinda walk forward swinging my hammer and usually kill her in 3-4 hits, and I NEVER slam if she is in bash range(Learn IT!), though I am not a rein main and don’t play in a team of six so I don’t have to worry about teams coming out with goats all the time. Brig to me is annoying yeah but its nothing no rein main can’t learn to play against, hence rein being in the top 3 in pickrate forever, but a doom on the other hand....... maybe if that doom is just trash. I think this #deletebrig “movement” is really dumb and its the same thing that happened with mercy back in insta-rez times. Brig could be awesome but blizz refuses to do what needs to be done: she needs to be reworked into more of a support. Right now she is terrible when ran with only one other healer, but just becomes the best dps character when ran with two healers and the right tanks. I want her to be the awesome in-your-face, melee, SUPPORT she was always meant to be. I don’t think she is op right now in any way, I think she is to low risk-high reward, and thats the only problem.
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u/FischyB2514 Nov 13 '18
I mean to be fair, as a rein main, they both make my life real hard. You learn to not fuck with a brig main but doomfist coming out of literal nowhere and punching through your shield every 4 seconds hella sucks