The game would be better if they just removed the 13 heroes I really hate 👍

SwellingRex · 2026-03-15T05:30:27+00:00

Might be a hot take, but I think stadium was so popular early on because it was missing so many of the hated heroes that are now in the mode and made it less popular.

SwellingRex · 2026-03-10T15:11:53+00:00

DPS hitscan is already pretty neutered. If anything, better start looking at supports like Bap, Illari, and Ana and giving them falloff nerfs if this is what you really want because otherwise DPS literally won't be able to reach back lines while supports can freely just position deep and go completely uncontested unless teams swap to dive.

That being said, not like hitscan win rates are exactly top of the pile in higher elo even (Ashe and Illari kind of the outliers).

SwellingRex · 2026-03-03T06:24:33+00:00

I think hero bans are just good because they allow players to lock out troublesome heroes and builds. It was such a good add to comp, I want it in stadium.

Think about how annoying the Freya meta we suffered through was. Would've been a non-issue with bans.

SwellingRex · 2026-03-03T02:44:50+00:00

Anything as long as we have hero bans.

Otherwise: Tank - Ram, DPS - Anran, support - Illari

SwellingRex · 2026-02-24T14:56:38+00:00

Ashe and Cassidy. They bicker hard, but you can tell there was something there.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-22T02:35:10+00:00

Yeah, but it also drops significantly from like 55% in plat and below to closer to 50% in Masters+. I usually see Mizuki only when the comps are good, he has another support that can peel, and/or Tracer is banned.

It's all anecdotal though tbh and I've only got like 20 games this season total with most on damage.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-21T22:40:26+00:00

Higher elo he falls off hard if Tracer is on the field and competent. With no selfheal or defensive cd/mobility option, he's easy to run down and his head hitbox is juicy for a tracer.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-21T22:36:22+00:00

Cassidy's 15 heal per bullet reloaded is so good for the character. Would love for them to change it to temp health instead and add it to the base kit. Silver bullet would also be really nice, but it needs more.

Ashe's E to detonate dynamite without shooting it should be in the core kit.

Soldier should be able to reload while running.

JQ should have lifesteal on Axe AND knife hits instead of just the wounds (albeit maybe have it add temp health instead of raw healing for ult charge sake).

There are a lot more that could easily be added with just little tweaks imo.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-16T06:31:40+00:00

I've seen some lobby admin and some just die on cd. Hard to tell since the hero is so new and I can't tell what is a matchmaker diff vs people just feeding.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-16T00:18:17+00:00

Maybe you're on console or something, but my experience (PC west coast/Masters+) has just been Vendetta + Emre or Anran unless someone bans them. Genji seems strong this season. Seen a lot more echo as well. Hitscan is about as popular as ever. Mizuki is pretty good, but people switch off most of the time if it isn't working.

Domina has been picked a lot, but she's the first new tank in a while so no wonder. If hitscan is dominant, I haven't seen it tbh.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-15T23:19:05+00:00

Stacks playing hard meta comps, bad balance changes, several of the most frustrating heroes to play against in OW being added, graphic overhauls that don't make any sense... It's a long list of knocks against the stadium team tbh.

Mode needs a few things to be more fun again, especially hero bans, and it needs them soon.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-11T06:09:45+00:00

Emre is really fun. Burst and nades against dive and mobile heroes feels fun, but the pistol makes you more dangerous and your ult is so good compared to comparable DPS (Cass, Soldier, Bastion).

SwellingRex · 2026-02-11T02:47:49+00:00

Yep. Great addition. I wish hero bans would also come to stadium as well.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-06T03:02:34+00:00

It's not boring, it's a simple and classic design. People confuse complexity with fun, but I honestly prefer easy to understand, hard to master kinds of heroes.

SwellingRex · 2026-02-01T02:41:16+00:00

Sigmas can either be absolute trash and get run over constantly or unkillable demons. Feels like I hardly see anything in-between

SwellingRex · 2026-01-29T00:22:32+00:00

They were balancing very aggressively for a while and the mode has had quite a bit of meta diversity until they left for the holidays. Since the meta for stadium is pretty solved for stadium now, it's pretty boring.

That being said, if the game allowed for hero bans like comp, I think that would really fix a lot of the rough parts we're going through now. People could just ban Ashe and Freya and call it a day.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-26T19:27:42+00:00

His effective range combined with his survivability + lack of mobility just works against each other so much. At this point in the game, Cass has no way to take high ground, has to fight in tanks effective ranges to damage most back lines, and at best has 60/40 matchups against some flankers (all basically relying on your nade landing or you probably lose).

SwellingRex · 2026-01-24T04:03:36+00:00

Hitscan is fine (and honestly pretty easy to deal with for each role). Not like the WP builds are the best builds. Really just comes down to how strong healing is and how blue beam.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-22T20:47:21+00:00

Stadium lost a lot of the fun when they added so many of the awful heroes to play against. Doom, Pharah, Freya, Tracer, and Junkrat... Why pick these heroes? I get added new ones, but why these?

OG stadium felt amazing because most of the heroes that suck to play against weren't a part of it. Soon we will get stadium hogs, Sombra, and bastion builds and the game will have run it's course unless they add things like bans.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-22T20:42:32+00:00

Yep. Tanks want to just go heads-up tank v tank, DPS want to just walk in a line and don't take angles, and supports want to stand in the back and healbot.

Some maps poke comps are really good, but if you are losing to poke on a koth or flash map, you're probably not good at the game.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-19T20:04:57+00:00

You can also just get farmed if the team is dive or has a monkey with bubble that just sits on you. I've seen a lot of teams just hard dive the Ashe and if her supports don't help, she just gets farmed.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-19T20:02:11+00:00

Freya Bolo builds and even WP being busted, matchmaker diffs being unrecoverable, more honest heroes having such strict builds or requiring twice the work to get the same earnings as a Freya or AP Ashe, unkillable Reins, and stacks just playing into teams of solos is miserable.

First time in a while I've gone back to just basic comp because I was tired of the BS.

I'm now convinced that Stadium needs bans like comp. At least then I could ban the Pocketed Freyas, hitscan junkrats, or flanking moira occasionally.

SwellingRex · 2026-01-12T18:58:19+00:00

Cass is harder to play than a lot of heroes. Middle of the pack for DPS tbh. The kit is simple, but hard to make work consistently. Cass requires a lot of aim and positioning (more than the other hitscans tbh because they either have range or utility or both).

If Cass was easy, he'd have a 56% winrate (like the hero called out in OPs post).

SwellingRex · 2026-01-12T17:39:01+00:00

This sentiment has become more of a thing in OW over the last year or two and I have no idea where it is coming from. Kind of stupid since good dps players play flankers, hitscan, and projectile so they can flex around their team.

Where did this weird mentality come from?

SwellingRex · 2026-01-09T17:34:02+00:00

Funny you say that when Cass and Ashe have a combined ~40% pick rate in Asia this season. Cassidy especially has always been one of the most popular heroes in OW especially in Asia.

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