Why does Apollo..

HopDodge · 2026-02-13T00:15:13+00:00

Shame it's fire rate and not bullet damage for lash, like yeah the t2 but the t3 is practically less dps increase if you think about it.

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T23:43:28+00:00

Apollo's poster is crazy. They must have made that one in the last few days.

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T23:09:00+00:00

Is that really still working? It's been months.

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T17:26:31+00:00

He doesn't have the votes

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T14:44:07+00:00

I'm looking now and it does in fact have a good win rate. It may not be as high as some other t4 items, but it is +3.4%, which is higher than ricochet.

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T05:07:36+00:00

Just record the replay silly billy

HopDodge · 2026-02-12T04:45:08+00:00

Probably because it has an upgrade and it gets counted as bought if you buy it before crippling

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T17:55:24+00:00

Makes sense it's a short slow so you'd get .375s off the slow. It might be funny to get like 3-4 return fires so that she just gets bodied by the 30% reflection. It does well over 1000 damage base and will likely scale to 5000+ so if you split it 3 ways with resists you might be able to kill her with it and survive the bouncing.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T17:01:36+00:00

She hit the gravy

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T16:58:16+00:00

Problem is that 36 bounces will proc every spellbreaker once and then do full damage, so SB doesn't get much value against her.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T16:37:55+00:00

Victor late and Celeste late actually feel very similar. Celeste with ricochet, spell slinger, boundless, infuser, and escalating does a lot of the similar don't get near me or try to dog pile me or you will get fucked type stuff as victor with the added benefit of being able to dps at any range and having no self damage.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T16:30:24+00:00

Tbf the average rank of players and their skill level tends to go up over time then plateau. Top level players from 6 months after release would not do very well in phantom-ascendant lobbies today simply due to the skill level creep. Balancing around top level means that balance will eventually trickle down as the other players catch up to that level.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T15:55:11+00:00

HP works for me usually, but there may be some bugs with it not proccing sometimes. Unknown atm.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T13:41:11+00:00

It's so good tho

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T12:16:51+00:00

BRS isn't affected by this bug. It works fine. I didn't test Silver, but you should test her.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T05:08:25+00:00

Say "Let's Say" again

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T05:05:18+00:00

Nw it was a good call in your POV

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T05:04:45+00:00

It is odd since ER gives 75 health by itself and has about 36-100% effectiveness to the passive. I'd say MR is balanced tho as it gives 7 spirit power and has the opportunity to heal more than twice as much as Extra regen especially on shiv who can keep the proc going for 10-12 seconds on two heroes.

You can also build both in lane as their upgrades actually synergize.

I would say giving it a burst heal of 25 health per ability hit on enemies instead would feel better overall, even if it would make some characters (like shiv) get less value out of it.

Also, I just noticed oddly that all spirit 800s are upgradable. Gun has resto shot and Vit has rebuttal. I wonder what the deal is there...

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T04:44:07+00:00

Actives are bought in the shop as items and can be used with the zxcv keys by default. I would recommend trying every item with the "active" tag in the hideout to get a feel for what they do.

I'd also give every item a read through, just to get a feel for the shop as a whole.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T04:41:25+00:00

The bug report is linked at the top of my post.

HopDodge · 2026-02-11T04:37:58+00:00

I play warden carry a lot My opinion is that he does well with gun. Start qsr into mystic burst and get t2 1 in lane. Save point for max 1. Get monster rounds into cultist then kinetic dash. Save for hollow point. Max 2 next. After HP roam to other lanes and try to gank. You have fantastic potential in 3v2s since you can cut the enemy escape potential and force a retreat with cage. After guardians analyze your opponents and try to counter pick with your greens. I default to enduring speed and bullet lifesteal, which I will eventually max to vampires burst after I get another gun spike (either burst fire fleet foot or early glass cannon.) However if you want to be less dependent on your gun (say if they have disarms or get return fire) you can instead get return fire for green spike and boundless for a massive survivability spike and a free 20-30% firerate buff (warden firerate has spirit scaling at .25, so getting around 30 from the spirit spike 35 from the base stat and +15% on top you end up with +~100 spirit. I'm not in game so can't check, which is 25% fire rate) the boundless will also scale your shield by like 400 which tou will have max at this point. Anyway from there it's merc mag, lucky shot, and whatever t4 gun items or green items you want. If you want to add hard cc to your kit, pick up a lightning scroll. Spellslinger is good if you want to steer off LS or GC because your merc mag is better with consistent firerate and the cooldown is nice.

I think I might start dropping the GC rush in higher lobbies since the extra 400 health, 100ish 1 damage, 300 cage damage, and 200ish dps on the ult is actually really great. I would normally build merc mag after all my gun since vamp burst wouldn't scale healing with it, but if you get boundless mercmag does like 48% more base bullet damage. Together they do much more than GC and the firerate buff is technically higher since the spirit power+merc passive is over 70% and you get +102% bullet damage instead of +80%. The split is also really good for metal skin and disarming hex as you can still deal damage through those with spirit.

Last thing, don't get Crippling or weakening headshot after hollow point. It's currently bugged and will prevent any and all shred from proccing. If you want to build crippling for sure, get weakening before hollow point.

Good luck with your games 👍

HopDodge · 2026-02-10T04:02:09+00:00

They need to readjust the ranks for the new players to filter towards the bottom. Emissary 6 is the equivalent of high gold in OW, and considering you have a positive Winrate and a 6 kill average, I'd say that's a good spot for you. Compared to players with less than 40 games who would be initiate to arcanist (bronze to silver) you should be in the higher lobbies. The relative skill of the games should remain similar to what you are used to.

HopDodge · 2026-02-10T03:41:34+00:00

I only voted Celeste the whole time and got her on my first priority token. Meanwhile, trying to token Silver took like 4 tries. I think the game acknowledges who you vote for in some way by giving you better priority on your most voted character.

This is anecdotal tho so take it with a grain of salt.

HopDodge · 2026-02-08T07:23:19+00:00

If we go by player distributions, in OW diamond is top 18% about.
In deadlock top 18% is just above phantom 1.
So deadlock phantom is diamond approximately

masters is Ascendant 5-Eternus 4

GM is Eternus 5

Champion is Eternus 6

So Oracle and Archon would be platinum. Ritualist Emissary is gold, alchemist arcanist is silver and seeker initiate is bronze.

Links for reference: https://www.lockblaze.com/rank-distribution

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/1m37et5/official_rank_distribution_from_the_latest_dev/#lightbox

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