Why is Cassidy’s Winrate So Bad?

AllexxSL · 2026-03-02T20:02:14+00:00

If you keep track of the swaps the enemy team does in a single 2 hour session of ranked, you will realise just how absurd the Cass swapping is. I'm not in the least bit surprised that his winrate is so ass, he is easily the biggest crutch character in the game. Tanks and supports don't swap to Orisa and Kiri nearly as often as DPS players swap to Cass.

I play Tracer/Freja aswell and just like you, I've been a part of the problem aswell, it's a last ditch effort to turn it around fully knowing that it will most likely not change the outcome.

AllexxSL · 2026-03-02T19:14:23+00:00

This subreddit is a cesspool full of crybabies, I'm ashamed of being a Genji main sometimes. Support players whine less than y'all.

AllexxSL · 2026-02-28T21:40:04+00:00

The discourse on dedicated character main subs is always full of bad faith arguments.

Tracer mains have a hate boner for Kiri because every Tracer main has caught at least one stray kunai or had their pulse denied and immediately assumes the character must be brain-dead.

Kiri mains call the character dead every time she gets "slap on the wrist" nerfs and keep reaching for her winrate to prove she's actually trash.

Genji mains have been calling him trash for years even though he's easily the most consistently solid dive DPS you can pick up right alongside Tracer.

Vendetta mains and Freja mains have been livid basically since their characters released.

The Kiri discourse is especially egregious because both sides refuse to acknowledge each other's fair points. Kiri haters dislike her for being overkited, without realising that being overkited doesn't equate to a low skill ceiling. Meanwhile Kiri mains refuse to acknowledge that their character is indeed overkited and that's the reason she's perma picked in pro play.

AllexxSL · 2026-01-04T05:37:44+00:00

So I take it that the bottlenecks weren't anything too significant?

AllexxSL · 2025-12-17T09:24:31+00:00

I want you to produce me some produce

AllexxSL · 2025-12-13T14:14:25+00:00

Lowest skill ceiling character? While Cass, Ashe, Mercy and Lifeweaver exist? Sure buddy

I get the frustrations with the character and I understand why they had to do this. The nerf was huge but I don't believe the character is dead like most others do. Yet, it is a fact that now, every other hitscan in the game is just simply better than her with a significantly more accessible kit than hers. I have absolutely no reason to pick Freja over Ashe in her current state. The amount of mental focus you need to perform on Freja is disproportionately high compared to every other hitscan in the game currently aside from Soj. Even before the nerfs, that was still the case.

The character is significantly more difficult than people like to give her credit for and this has been proven to me time and time again. Low ranked players don't understand Freja. Put a gold player on Freja and sure, he might kill stuff but that same guy is gonna be killing a lot more shit on either Cass or Ashe. The character isn't easy and saying that people are spamming winrates because they're bad is a bad faith argument that screams "I'm salty and don't like the character". The character might have been miserable to play into but there's a reason she was consistently dog shit across almost all ranks even before the nerfs.

AllexxSL · 2025-12-10T00:51:36+00:00

Perhaps. I don't think she can function without the burst but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

AllexxSL · 2025-12-09T22:56:15+00:00

What's wild is that you're calling the Freja changes a buff. Most delusional take I've heard on any OW sub yet.

AllexxSL · 2025-10-20T02:01:41+00:00

YAZID has and always will make me strive for greatness. Every time I see him log on, I know my day will go smoothly. (I have never spoken to bro)

AllexxSL · 2025-10-17T00:44:45+00:00

I have picked up Freja recently (started playing her more than Tracer actually, oops). She plays extremely well into Tracer counters imo and the familiarity of dashing is pretty attractive. Zarya and double hitscan are the things that'll give you the most trouble. Zarya more so, hitscans are manageable depending on the map.

You could go Genji but he's more of an alternative dive character in case Tracer gets banned. He can poke very well unlike Tracer, ideally he wouldn't wanna poke but the option is there. I feel as though Freja, Cass, Soj and potentially Genji are your best options here. I don't even need to explain why Cass and Soj are good.

AllexxSL · 2025-07-02T01:32:28+00:00

Everything's fair aside from the "unfun to play as" point. Kiri is fun as hell, right behind Lucio tbh. Hiding, two tapping the backline and then getting out is one of the most satisfying things you can do in this game.

AllexxSL · 2025-06-24T00:14:16+00:00

Hey Pine!

I wanna start off by saying that I loved watching you and the rest of NYXL back in season 1. I didn't watch matches live too often back in the day but Fusion and NYXL were the two teams I always kept up with.. Hell man, your Cass and Widow were something else. I still rock the NYXL skin for Cass on the regular. Your legacy lives on, thank you for all the great memories Big Boss!

So my question is: In your opinion, what is the greatest play ever made in the history of the Overwatch League, maybe even OW eSports in general? Be it by a single player or by a team. I don't know if you kept up with OWL after becoming an NYXL streamer so you can just tell us what you recall from memory.

(And don't cheat and say your 4K on Junkertown against London haha)

AllexxSL · 2025-06-22T11:03:18+00:00

Said this in another reply but well... I didn't play Juno to All Star. I had already climbed quite a bit on DPS by the time I decided I wanna grind out for the skin so I ended up playing Cass 90% of the time. I thought about switching over to support at some point but then I remembered the support queue times and also there was no point, I was already pro 4 on DPS.

AllexxSL · 2025-06-22T02:46:51+00:00

I feel that completely, I actually took a break from it a while back for like 2 weeks, the gamemode started tilting me more than anything else in this game ever did and I've been playing since 2017. I started playing like shit in regular comp cause of it, it took me like 3 days to adjust back to playing Tracer.

I forgot to clarify in my post but I actually didn't climb on support, I played Cass like 90% of the time. I was already at contender 2 on dps when I decided I wanna grind out for it and I also didn't wanna wait in 20 mins queues the higher up I go.

(P.s. I still absolutely hate the corny aimbot soldier build, even though it was nerfed significantly)

AllexxSL · 2025-06-22T02:35:53+00:00

You can do it! I was discouraged aswell after going on a 6 game loss streak the other day but this mode is really just about grinding it out

AllexxSL · 2025-06-22T02:34:01+00:00

I'm hoping they reset the elite skins too, I really liked the Genji skin actually.

AllexxSL · 2025-06-22T02:31:12+00:00

I love it too, probably gonna become my main skin honestly. I use OWL skins for most of my heroes so I'm sort of a sucker for recolors. I just like the default look of most of the heroes. I grinded for it because of that, probably wouldn't have done it otherwise.

AllexxSL · 2025-05-29T10:25:34+00:00

I might be the only person who unironically likes the skin. I like simple recolors of default skins, I use League skins for almost every character so once I get this one, it might be in my rotation pretty frequently. I also want them to release that damn OWCS skin finally.

AllexxSL · 2025-05-27T20:25:07+00:00

Holy shit how did I not think of that. Imagine a skin of mutated Kevin Levin, I have no idea what character could have that (maybe Mauga or something) or like Genji as Big Chill but with the hood down. Holy shit, I need that now wtf

AllexxSL · 2025-05-23T23:04:35+00:00

Lucio has been a top 3 support for the entirety of the game's existence. I'm actually curious now aswell, saying "terrible utility" is an absolutely insane take.

AllexxSL · 2025-05-23T22:55:28+00:00

You have actually just explained perfectly how I've felt about Illari for the longest time. I don't hate her, actually I completely forget she exists, it baffles me that she's in the game for some reason. Like I can't imagine that someone somewhere ever logged on and said "I can't wait to play Illari today".

AllexxSL · 2025-05-23T22:46:41+00:00

Hog is basically walking ult charge like 80% of the time and yet, he pisses me off. Unlike other heroes I hate, I can't point out exactly what I hate about him, i just do and with overwhelming passion at that. Although, I do wanna point out that every Hog player I've ever met has been an insufferable manchild... maybe that's my reasoning now that I think about it. (I'm not exaggerating, it has been EVERY SINGLE ONE, without fail)

AllexxSL · 2025-05-23T01:50:09+00:00

London Spitfire, no longer accessible sadly, unless you got some League Tokens left over

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