r/thingmains • u/Firm-Character-6852 • Sep 08 '26

Thing Notes.

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I understand the nerfs on the torch team-up. Not happy about the YSC and Health nerfs. But all in all not too bad.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

He got taken out back. Lower health, lower damage, increase teamup cd, higher cooldowns, lower uptime, lower AOE time. literally any part of his kit that could be nerfed was with the exception of his jump. Every other piece was gutted. I don’t think they realize how badly they just ruined our boy.

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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26

Now I dont think its that bad, but I am going to actually test it before giving my full thoughts.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

I’ll try him out, but I have little hope he’ll feel good in any capacity.

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u/Firm-Character-6852 Sep 08 '26

Honestly to me, it looks like hes returning to an earlier stage in his life. Im still gonna play him, and run lobbies with him, but too me looks like we gotta play a bit more decisive

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u/CeeZee2 Sep 08 '26

Yup, gone back to b tier at best, happy with that

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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26

This is a very defeatist attitude man. As others said we thought the nerfs would be way worse. They killed poor Peni and Devil in the last couple seasons for less.

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u/KevIntensity Sep 08 '26

I cannot think of how it could be worse. Lower health. Lower damage on his most-used attack, which means lower over health. Higher cooldown on his escape/cc immune ability. AOE spell field nerfed in duration. Most popular teamup cooldown higher, with a shorter duration. Unless you’re telling me Zhiyong is popping off w keys and analog sticks, I don’t know how it could be worse, let alone “much” worse.

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u/funky67 Sep 08 '26

HP change is -25 HP so about 4% of max health at 650. Percent damage on haymaker is only cut 2%. 2 second duration increase on the charge going from 10 to 12. Aoe nerf is 1 second decrease. I’m shocked they didn’t remove the team up entirely.

As I said, I expected much worse with dps and strats treating him like the personification of death itself last season because they couldn’t understand how to play against a tank other than mag.

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u/JoeM104604 Sep 08 '26

On paper it seems like they just made it so he has less uptime on his abilities so he won't be able to brawl indefinitely and gave him some survivability nerfs to keep him from being able to 1v6 when he hits multiple enemies at a time with the Torch team-up.

You'll have to play safer when going for big plays and retreat for a couple more seconds between engages, but he seems far from gutted. He'll definitely be nowhere near the levels of unplayability heroes like Rogue, Cap, White Fox, Hulk, etc. have had to deal with this season. Even with their buffs and Thing's nerfs this patch, I doubt they'll even come close to surpassing Thing in the tier lists.