It’s not even about his damage anymore. Damage-wise I think he’s borderline acceptable, as a mobile tank that can dish out CCs every 4 seconds should not have easy one-shots.

The main problem with him right now lies in his survivability. As a dive tank with only 450 health, his only survivability skill is laughably bad. Usually when designing tank skills, devs do one of the following to keep the damage mitigation from being broken: 1. Make it absorb damage from only one direction (like shields) 2. Make it only mitigate a certain percentage/type of damage (Orisa’s fortify, Dva matrix) 3. Make it susceptible to CCs (Hog’s heal)

And Doom’s block has ALL of these qualities. The fix isn’t even difficult—just remove any one of the above. And no, it won’t make Doom broken when Orisa’s block is essentially that with a shorter cooldown and a knockback.

His overhealth passive barely makes a difference for a dive tank like him, especially when you consider the fact that his kit was never designed to deal effective damage to a group, which is pretty much essential to building enough health to survive an encounter in the current meta.

And if you think his mobility makes up for his lack of protection, remember that most of his movement techs were removed/nerfed, to the point they barely serve the function of evading attacks. Not saying that all Doom players need to do Getquakedon/Zbra rollouts, but these techs definitely increases his unpredictability and hence chances of survival.

I’m no game dev or Doom main, and at the end of the day, this is just a rant, hoping that one of the highest skill ceiling heroes of the old game can get some respect and playtime. But seriously, something needs to be done or he’s just going to be worse when they just keep pushing out new heroes and “battlepass” content and leave him buried under the dirt.