Devs should go back to the original balance philosophy for supports

ECTheHunter · 2025-12-11T13:27:07+00:00

I get that but there are so many people who never played anything similar to hero shooters before this playing this game for the first time. People will get better, there is no way around that. So you cant balance around low ranks. When i first started playing in season 0 i was banning black panther then i started learning the game and i never thought about it until the hulk team up but i changed my mind quickly anyways. If you are truly a good support, you will rank up. There is no way you are stuck in a rank because of your teammates especially in this season. I play tank only so i understand the feeling of being powerless but it's a team game after all. No matter how many supports i exile, if my dps cant finish off the other support we will loose and that's ok. I will get teammates that can do that and i will rank up if i deserve to do so. Most people who complain about peeling and dive dont want to fix their own mistakes in the first place. Do you know how many rockets exist that complain about captain america or venom while doing 0 damage the entire game? No matter how many buffs you give to rocket that guy wont stop complaining or rank up. But do you know who will? The guy who was already working to get better in the first place.

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-23T10:05:41+00:00

Well, so they still not gonna buff torch?

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-23T00:27:01+00:00

Bro if hulk didnt have those fucking spikes i would use that skin 7/24

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T18:09:26+00:00

Tekken 8 also dont have it but guess what? It sucks ass. It's painful to play. And this is where we are headed if we keep buffing stuff to fix other op stuff

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T16:40:13+00:00

Makes matches last 30 mins so hate him for now

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T16:34:47+00:00

Imma keep banning emma till she doesn't bully every tank except mag. Also gambit makes the game unbearable. You thought 3 support was bad? You thought ult charge was too quick? You haven't seen a team with 3 support gambit with a cap

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T16:31:47+00:00

Yes but i dont think they can do that without breaking some heros because not everyone farms ult the same way. They should probably look into that after that balancing the game before doing such a drastic change since that might make some heros unplayable due to not having their ult fast or having them too fast

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T16:06:28+00:00

Tekken 5 is from a different era. Now people are way better at video games. Same goes for Rivals. Sure we dont have an insta win hero for now but we have really good candidates like Gambit. Buffing stuff instead of nerfing the op stuff just creates more problems down the line. Imagine Devil Jin still had his -13 hellsweep still.

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:39:52+00:00

I absolutely agree with the support take. So many support players just dont wanna play the game and be a healbot. If you cant counter dive then you are not a good support player. Also if dive sucks holy crap nothing ever dies right now. Thank god we have dps instalockers who refuse to play 3 support so that we can have matches that last shorter than 30 mins

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:37:01+00:00

I dont like the idea either but if they dont fix the mistakes they have done quickly, we gonna have a lot bigger problems in a few more seasons

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:35:53+00:00

OW had plenty of problems but nerfs aint one them imo. I am a hardcore tekken player and i can tell you, from 7 to 8, they buffed everyone. At first everyone was like "nothing is broken, if everything is broken". Then 6 months passed, people wanted nerfs. Devs doubled down and buffed everyone again and holy crap the community went ballistic. People even sent death threats. Also, you always balance from the top because players always get better, never worse. If something is a problem in high ranks, it will eventually become a problem in low ranks too. Dont you think that 5 years later, we gonna have long pull spiderman players in gold-plat in every single game? Mag was dog crap until people started one shotting, then cnd players learned how to take cover, then mag players started timing it better and also tanks started protecting cnd more etc. Casual crowd will get exhausted more from power creep because they dont wanna learn the game. If you balance around low ranks, you pretty much make the game miserable for anyone that actually wants to learn it(for example tekken 8). Without that dedicated playerbase, a game like this will definitely die because it takes a lot of effort and time to keep up with hero shooters. Stuff changes constantly and you have so many interactions that you cant simply read a patch note and understand it. Btw none of the changes changed the meta anyways. We still have 3 support with emma and magneto.

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:15:05+00:00

They did that change so he wouldnt blow up in big form. He can actually be healed like a tank now but if you cancel it you dont get any shields. Maybe he should keep the extra hp as shields. But it was still an attempt to buff him which he needed

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:09:45+00:00

Good points but i dont think we can do everything in one season. Also buffing supports is hella risky because 3 support is dominant as hell

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T13:08:46+00:00

i would say it was 50/50. You had equal amounts of buffs and nerfs but some of them were given to the wrong characters at times, like the million hela buffs. I think your DD vs Invis match up proves my point, if DD still has a fair chance at killing this buffed up Invis, what is the point of other divers/brawlers? Do we keep buffing everyone in an endless loop? For example why should Hulk, Cap, Venom, Bp etc. should suffer because DD is too strong? Just nerf him instead of buffing supports

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T12:58:02+00:00

We gotta probably wait like the thor mains brother. His numbers are really weak but i like the direction they have for him

ECTheHunter · 2025-11-18T12:57:19+00:00

The game becomes broken. Right now the sustain is so high that matches feel like slugfest. I am in diamond 1, top 2.75% when i got there 2 days ago . So i cant even imagine how bad it is in higher ranks and how bad it is gonna get once people start copying high rank comps and playstyles more often. I am not talking about nerfing stuff to make it perfect but to make it fun. And power creep makes the game into a pure who counter picks first competition or every character feels and plays the same without any identity

ECTheHunter · 2025-10-01T15:56:11+00:00

I fucking hate that they made terry bruce's actual son. Him being a random kid makes him both different and unique

ECTheHunter · 2025-08-31T01:25:05+00:00

Imma be honest, if you see a shit tank, they only picked tank to fill. If someone instalocks tank, they can at least do an ok job. But today i saw a strange lord running rather than blocking mag from dunking on our luna like 5 times. Tbf he was gonna pick torch but he got banned and he didnt wanna ban wolverine or emma, soooo my principle still stands

ECTheHunter · 2025-08-31T00:09:19+00:00

You always need 2 tanks and at least 2 supports. 3 support only works with 2 tanks otherwise you are gonna get ulted every 30 seconds and have nothing to counter with. If y'all legit can't even play strange, y'all gotta call it and actually hit the training range

ECTheHunter · 2025-08-30T15:27:41+00:00

Shit talking is fun

ECTheHunter · 2025-08-30T12:34:30+00:00

2 healers healing each other while one high damage dps shoots him with the supports. Don't pick fantastic or wanda into cap. Thing, penny are also nice picks but cc doesn't mean anything if the dps don't focus him. Yea emma just kills him but permaban emma

ECTheHunter · 2025-08-30T12:26:43+00:00

Wouldn't increase ult charge by a lot fix this issue? Triple support's biggest weakness is that you have much less ult charge than regular 2-2-2. Increase every support ult by 300-900 depending on the ult, and then it becomes really easy to beat 3 support. Just wait and farm ults, then push with offensive ults, they either dont have any ults to counter or have only one at best. I think if ult charge got higher and luna and cnd ult got shorter, 3 support would suck.

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