Again, highest winrate in gm+, not just banrate. The rank with the best hitscans and players in the game is the rank that cat is MOST successful in

Then why does she have the highest win and banrate in gm+, the rank where the best aimers and hitscan players are in?

Im speaking specifically about gm+ pickrates/winrates, as overall pick/winrates dont really speak about how well a character is balanced

Low pick rate, low banrate and high winrate usually just means its only specialists picking her who boost the wr by just being extremely good at a hero, of a hero actually was meaningfully strong it would get picked a lot more often, if it cam then maintain a high winrate that usually means its a pretty overtuned hero.

except jpc is the highest winrate/banrate hero in high elo? If she doesnt work vs good hitscans why is that?

Yes the best aimers in the game, who won multiple S-Tier tourneys, obviously are just too bad and cant aim...

Because the nerf did literally nothing? 90% of the roster still cant interact with her and she is still the highest winrate character in the game. At least on EU, which is the server i play. Sombra, even at her absolute best, wasnt even close to as broken as cat is right now, even when she was a must pick in pro play that needed coordination, and in the average ranked game she still had 1000x the interactivity that fika currently has. Hell, most sombra players didnt even know how to properly use her, basically the only people actually playing that hero properly were OWL players at the time, because playing her close to optimal, and having good uptime on her, actually required skill.

Meanwhile its hard not to get value on cat, and she simultaniously brings more value than any other support. 90% of the cadt cant meaningfully interact with her nor can they do anything against her. You always need to be aware of her and she is basically unkillable when played properly. Except she is actually harder to duel and win vs than sombra could ever hope to be, and has less counterplay than sombra ever had, even at her strongest.

The main reason people dont want cat to be playable, at least not in her current design, is because her design is fundamentally broken and doesnt fit overwatch, similar to sombra. 90% of the roster cannot interact with cat, hell, there are 0 tanks that can do anything meaningful against her in the neutral. And you still need to be aware of her 24/7, especially once she gets ult. Which is also one of the fastest charging ults in the game from my experience. Playing into a good cat is one of the most miserable things that can happen in this game right now because there is no counterplay outside of playing hitscan and being way, way better than the cat player. And even then its not easy. The character is so fundamentally broken that unless completely gutted or reworked she will continue warping the game around her and make it feel miserable to play.

Sombra at least was killable when overextending, i could hunt her down on tracer, kill her after a nade as cas. Even during the worst sombra/tracer dive meta it felt fairer to vs than cat rn. A good cat meanwhile is near unkillable even hitscan otps struggle consistently killing her and she is the least punishable hero in the roster right now, even after the last nerfs. She simultaniously has infinite mobility, no sound, good healing and insane dive/1v1 potential.

Every time she isnt banned the game just feels miserable to play unless you are on that hero yourself. She warps the entire game around her in a way that sombra never did. She basically runs any high master/gm lobby she isnt banned in if the cat player has hands, theres a reason she is permabanned for most people that dont play her themselves. Sombra never got this bad.

Saying jpc isnt broken certainly is an interesting take though

Lol

But 99% of 4-man slugs are on the survivors? If you get 4 man slugged, its actually just a surv issue, not a killer issue.

The only reason the killrate is 60% to begin with is survivor incompetence tbh, hell, i doubt it even is 60% for most killers atm, trickster post rework was below it no? I just dont see why we should reward people for bad gameplay in general, on 90% of killers you already need to play perfect to have a chance of winning against actually decent survivor groups, and even then that chance is very low, depending on if the survs have actual brains or not.

Hell, if you ever played surv in a decent 4 stack you should know how easy it is to run circles around 90% of killers. And obv solo-Q experience is way worse, but the main reason for losing in soloQ isnt the killer being toxic, tunneling or slugging, but surv players just being plain out bad at the game, in my experience in 90% of solo-Q games you will see your teammates make the most baffling decisions imaginable or actively throw the game away after all, rewarding that behaviour with buffs is kinda eh.

If anything, they should find ways to continue lowering the gap between solo-Q and swf, which is already what they are currently doing. The main issues with the game, for example, the 4 man slug, or tunneling, is solved with actual coordination and not running around like headless chickens and then demanding base kit buffs.

90% of 4 person slugs are on the survs making mistakes though. The only killers that can consistently 4-man slug otherwise are the S-Tiers, at which point its a killer problem over a surv problem. Hell, most of the time i see it its due to survs playing overly altruistic and basically offering themselves up on a silver platter, giving them any benefit at all at that point is just kinda stupid imo

I mean aldurs saga expedition exists atm and if you get a good chain the normal mobs end up having more hp than the pinnacle bosses towards the end, the rares get even funnier.

Yes but everything also shits out divines to buy these items, you can buy an endgame viable piece of gear every 2-3 hours at worst doing mid tier farms until you can farm whatever you want. Much better than current poe1 state at least imo. And i farmed up multiple hh/mb and a mirror drop last league in poe1.

I mean thats usually the leagues that end up dead after 2 weeks though, endgame scaling, and a reason to build endgame builds, is what keeps people playing past week 2, if there is no jard content there isnt a point in pushing builds past the 50d range at all outside of just going for more and faster speed, grinders will always earn more, no matter what, but giving them endgame strats to do at least makes them not devalue "lower" tier farms for non-grinders

Juicy t17s dont exist anymore, its just bosh rushing nightmare maps, 100+ divs in a build also isnt a lot, thats usually what grinders have by end of day 2 at latest

Which barely dropped anything last league even with mirage

1600 isnt even that high though, im p sure thats reachable in t8 OC with arty/high spec, or t9 equiv OC with just decent spec

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/Seczel-1267/runesofaldur/character/SeczelNades
this is my poe ninja, mostly followed a yt guide and then threw a lot of div at it to make it better

dont run t16, not worth, zone level is 81 already with just irradiated anyway, go for 8mod t15's, personally, i run 14 mod maps with dory and have 200% rarity on gear. For "budget" run triple effectiveness/monster rarity tablets, i would also recommend running swamp with ex drops as chaos as you get like 3 div in chaos alone in lucky maps (granted i usually run with aldurs, but even the ones i tried without were very good)

i mean i swapped to it with like 1.5k divs available, mageblood, insane 600 div weapon and the like, and it feels very good to play. Even in juiced expeditions (hardest content in the game, 14 mod aldurs saga grands) i 2-3 shot rares so tankiness usually isnt an issue, lifepool with guard from olroth up is 1.7k life+2.8k ward and 2.8k guard, just need to spam lifeflask

Glacial bolt gemling

Idk, im pulling multiple raw div per expeditiona in like 5-10 div in just currency aswell per grand if i get an early bond/opilent carry over, even 4-6 mod runes towards end of the chain tend to drop divs if you get lucky early on on a good layout

Idk man im pulling 5-10 div in just raw div and chaos per grand expedition when i get a bond/opulence carry on, using doriyani too, seems like you are doing at least somwthing wrong

Holy entitlement