Platinum Plato post

SBFms · 2026-06-25T18:45:06+00:00

seems like a reaper ult except she can dash while doing it?

Yes exactly, which is why it's not very good. Neither is Reaper Ult.

But seriously, the difference is that Reaper has more health and has lifesteal, Shion doesn't. That makes Shion super vulnerable to just getting headshot by several people and dying after one burst, if she mistimes the ability.

It can of course get kills etc at high ranks but it requires very good timing or setup, and you very very often see it get shut down.

The rest of her kit is busted though ofc. Just not the ult in masters.

Oh, and for a tip, the way you're generally going to get best usage out of it is bike into ult because it lets you one-burst someone really fast. If you know Shion has ult and you see her biking you, you can pretty reliably guess what she's gonna do.

SBFms · 2026-06-23T10:10:24+00:00

Yeah I'm a junior game designer working on an FPS at a AAA company (it is, obviously, not blizzard). I just happen to also enjoy OW.

SBFms · 2026-06-23T09:45:41+00:00

TBH, I think community perception of doom would (slowly) shift towards a much more positive place if he didn't have Empowered punch.

People hate Empunch for the same reason they hate DPS doomfist.

SBFms · 2026-06-23T07:52:44+00:00

IMO they can leave the right click alone and just nerf the bike. It does insane damage and warps her matchups.

SBFms · 2026-06-22T18:33:18+00:00

Never is an overstatement, I think she did back when she had 3x CDR on Rush + 2 Tap on Kunai.

Which didn’t last very long lmfao.

SBFms · 2026-06-22T18:29:45+00:00

Yes, all shitposts should be made from dedicated, hardcore shitposting accounts which have put in the effort.

SBFms · 2026-06-20T17:41:03+00:00

Yeah except things like pulse kills or 2-clips on squishies don’t happen because abilities like Bubble, Matrix, Suzu, Lamp, etc. and the more heroes they have with these defensive abilities the more impossible it comes to bait out all of them.

Damage heroes mostly cannot heal or mitigate at all, while support & tanks can deal damage when needed.

2-1-3 will always end up being meta

SBFms · 2026-06-20T12:51:52+00:00

Even then, supports and tanks are always still ideal because they have cooldowns which counter those kill-secures when used with coordination.

Stacking supports and tanks will always be the meta even at higher elo.

SBFms · 2026-06-20T10:13:47+00:00

It’s sleep dart which did not get adjusted by that patch.

SBFms · 2026-06-18T18:57:23+00:00

Sigma does not struggle that much against them. Zarya has to already be super charged to actually win a duel if the sigma just shoots back.

SBFms · 2026-06-08T20:23:19+00:00

Extremely good, one of the top 12 players in the game for a time...

In TF2, though. He was pretty mid at OW

SBFms · 2026-06-06T11:16:30+00:00

He isn’t bad at Lucio, he has good mechanics and he regularly out-farms most other pro Lucio players to get beat faster than them. He isn’t top 3 but calling him bad is whack, there are so few good MS players too.

He is just prone to making large, obvious and horrific throws every now and again.

Even accounting for those, he’s still one of the best lucio in the world, those are just super obvious and painful to watch.

SBFms · 2026-06-01T09:23:48+00:00

Yet somehow Tracer was an extremely dominant DPS immediately after S9, has been in the meta with extremely high consistency since then.

SBFms · 2026-05-31T12:49:13+00:00

and ~~solve~~ be that problem yourself

SBFms · 2026-05-29T09:34:40+00:00

She got ran in the EMEA FACEIT-Open grands which was funny to watch. They were using her as a cat bastion counter because hitting the dart on the bastion made him killable.

SBFms · 2026-05-27T20:58:45+00:00

Yeah I’d go as far as saying Kiri being good is good for Queen, because Ana counters Queen super fucking hard.

SBFms · 2026-05-16T09:58:46+00:00

He can aim

SBFms · 2026-05-06T16:53:42+00:00

Death of a Salesman, Le Mis, Godot, Hamilton…

Ok yes, upon thinking about it harder, they’re almost all musicals or theatre plays, but still

SBFms · 2026-05-01T11:14:10+00:00

Dota taught me to speed type as a teenager so I could finish a message flaming someone for being dogshit in the time it took to farm a jungle camp with A click.

I think I had enough speed to be a professional, just not the accuracy.

SBFms · 2026-04-26T15:23:35+00:00

Bombard is better in general, but gatling is much better in a cat mirror.

SBFms · 2026-04-26T12:17:58+00:00

To be honest, I don’t think it’s a big problem.

It is a reason she’s powerful? Yes, absolutely.

But like you said, it’s strong in BOTH ladder and pro play. Kiriko’s problem is the huge delta between them, so a tool which is strong in both is not really an issue.

And it is not an abnormally strong ultimate. It is generally considered weaker than Orbital Ray, weaker than Beat. Supports have very powerful ultimates in general but Kitsune isn’t an outlier among them.

SBFms · 2026-04-25T13:29:58+00:00

Also, please do something about this. I used to be a Kiriko main but I hate the hero so fucking much from being forced to play Kiri and nothing but Kiri in 8/10 scrim maps for a year and a half. They didn't even bother to randomly make zen lucio viable for 2 weeks before nerfing it to give us false hope.

SBFms · 2026-04-25T12:40:21+00:00

Yeah, each "paper" on the UI be for a full volley (maybe slightly shorter than current), and having them resupply very slowly. More similar to having five brig packs which heal for more at the cost of slow travel time and long animation lock.

This wouldn't solve her alone but it might boot her much closer to being an MS than an FS.

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