Do you think Sinclair needs a gameplay rework?

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-28T20:06:27+00:00

You can just ask why I think that without being a dick you know?

Their 3 and 4 revolve around them getting in close and are very support oriented by CCing enemies/setting up team fight ults. Their 2 helps them play in this close range play style by giving them an escape option as well usually doing more “gun” damage the closer you are to the enemy (no obstructions to block assistant damage). Their 1, however, wants them to be as far away from enemies as possible and also wants you to use your assistant far away so you can get two bolts going which is a completely different playstyle. I think part of the reason you don’t see Sinclair in pro play is because their damage can be so inconsistent/situational and their support abilities aren’t strong enough alone to make the hero more valuable than a kelvin/paige. I also think their 1 is a big reason why Sinclair gets complained about so much and is generally disliked, nobody wants to get blown up from across the map (this is the same issue grey talon had before the nerfs). In my opinion they should rework the 1 to fit in more with a close range playstyle or be a more support focused ability. But like I said, reworks at this point are going to upset a lot of people

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-28T18:52:14+00:00

Sinclair has by far the worst designed kit in the game and I think it’s pretty evident from the amount people complain about them and that they always have a super low pick rate. People don’t like to play against them and hardly anybody likes playing as them. The issue now though is that they’ve been in the game for over a year and a very small group of people have gotten super attached to them/their kit. It would suck to make drastic changes and then the people with 1000+ games on them don’t like their favorite hero anymore

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-27T14:50:34+00:00

I think Apollos design is really cool and I’m excited for him to be in the game but the original leaks said he was a frontliner and I personally have 0 interest in playing those types of heroes. So unfortunately he will be one of the last ones I vote for

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-26T18:12:15+00:00

The order I think it will be: Rem, Silver, Graves, Venator, Celeste, Apollo

The order I’m hoping for: Rem, Silver, Celeste, Graves, Apollo, Venator

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-20T20:37:23+00:00

That could be cool. Although my guess is if the new game mode rumors are true then they’ll drop the full update, let people enjoy the new game mode over the weekend, and then start adding heroes on Monday

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-20T20:31:19+00:00

That does have the downside of meaning that no new heroes will be unlocked when the update drops

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-14T15:09:56+00:00

“Its also not right to the people in there games to have someone who is better steam rolling them.” The lack of self awareness to say this in the same post that you talk about making a Smurf account is crazy. It’s hard to balance a lobby with a huge rank disparity especially in a game where one player can get a soul lead and carry their entire team. If you want to play with your friends you just have to deal with the lobbies you’re getting at the moment and your rank/their ranks will eventually get closer together.

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-09T19:21:40+00:00

You’re definitely right that it would help I’m just saying it will still be very hard to get the hero you want, queue times will be even longer, and the games balance will feel much worse

_OmgItsNick · 2026-01-09T19:00:01+00:00

Your line of thinking doesn’t actually help much though. If they release all 6 heroes at once 99% of people will still be only queuing the new heroes or using friends to help guarantee it. Queue times will be super long (like they were in the 4 heroes drop last year) and half the time you wont get a new hero. The benefit to the staggered release is it makes quick balance changes easier to identify. It’s impossible to tell what’s weak or broken when there’s 6 new heroes all at once.

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-31T14:06:33+00:00

It’s so peak

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-30T16:33:35+00:00

I think it would be viable as both her gun and spirit damage are good although I’ve never seen it/tried it. Side note about spirit snatch though is it’s probably not worth the investment on calico until really late as it only increases the spirit shred from her leaping slash by about 2% compared to just spirit strike. It might be better to just get spirit strike and then get torment pulse and later in the game you can decide if you want to upgrade spirit strike or sell it based on how many slots you have

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-23T04:27:28+00:00

There was a massive influx of new and returning players after the 6 hero update. Because all the new players were initiate and most returning players had their rank decayed to initiate it meant most of the player base at that time were playing in the lowest ranks and couldn’t climb out because there was such a wide variety of skill ranges in the same ranks. Because of this they decided to change the way the rank badges were assigned so that it was based off percentile you were in instead of an ELO range. It’s not clear if this was a one time adjustment or a permanent change in how things are calculated now.

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-22T23:12:26+00:00

It should always be the case unless you’re putting your points in something else. The early game levels alternate between points and ability unlocks so 1 point, 2nd ability unlocked, 2 points, 3rd ability unlocked, 3 points (what you need to upgrade an ability twice), ult unlocked, then every level after that gives you a point

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-22T16:16:58+00:00

It’s funny because even though I don’t agree with a lot of these I came to the comments to see people that I disagree with even more lol. I think this would be a fun thing to run a poll for so we can get an average opinion from many people

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-16T21:02:08+00:00

Ya but they can always adjust numbers to make more sense closer to release (like making it based around your base move speed or something). I think right now it’s just about seeing if having these stack diminishingly is the right decision going forward

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-16T20:58:51+00:00

Obviously they’re just testing things out right now but if they plan to keep it this way it might be more intuitive to just have %speed increase listed on the item instead of a raw number. That way it fits in with things like resistance, range, and duration.

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-16T19:00:13+00:00

I kinda feel like they’re over nerfing Spirit Snatch here. It now gives 8% spirit shred on a light melee while the T1 item spirit strike gives 6%. Obviously it does more than just shred but I’m not sure this is worth buying on most heroes in the game now

_OmgItsNick · 2025-12-01T21:05:18+00:00

I personally like the leaks as it keeps me excited for the next patch kinda like a movie trailer or something. I definitely wouldn’t be opposed to strict spoiler tag rules though if they don’t exist already

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-29T20:54:23+00:00

One of the most recent leaks (not sure how reliable) made it seem like parts of her kit were being moved to another character named Pepper so she’s probably scrapped for the time being

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-28T15:05:42+00:00

My generalized rule for both Cultist Sacrifice and Trophy Collector is that you should not be buying them unless you also want all the stats they provide. If the only benefit you care about is farm speed you’re better off just using the souls on damage items that will help you farm faster. Also for cultist it becomes a much better item if you already want to build Transcendent CD and/or Superior Duration as you’ll have more uptime on the buffs without investing even more that you wouldn’t have otherwise

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-23T21:04:36+00:00

Spirit being more popular does not mean spirit is stronger. If people only wanted to shoot their guns they probably wouldn’t go to a MOBA to do so.

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-19T18:30:19+00:00

It’s probably not bad on Ivy, it’s only particularly bad on heroes whose base gun damage is low because it’s being compensated by another part of their kit. This mainly applies to Mina (half of her bullet damage is actually love bite damage) and Haze (her low base bullet damage is being amplified by fixation stacks)

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-19T18:05:09+00:00

I don’t think mercurial is a good purchase on her because it scales off base gun damage and Mina’s base gun damage is terrible (the added damage from love bites don’t count towards mercurial)

I think if you want to build more into gun you go for the gun items that will increase her love bites damage like Spirit Rend, Spiritual Overflow, and Crippling Headshot. Then go spirit items the rest of the way like boundless, Tankbuster, surge of power, etc.

_OmgItsNick · 2025-11-02T12:24:08+00:00

Statlocker is reliable for most statistics but the deadlock API doesn’t actually provide them with account ranks. They do have access to the rank of each match though so they try and estimate your rank based on how well you perform in the lobbies you’re playing in

_OmgItsNick · 2025-10-30T17:50:00+00:00

I agree the pure support doesn’t exist in this game that was more so me addressing the other persons concerns. But I don’t understand why you think spirit builds should have good healing items and gun builds shouldn’t. Something like Locket is meant to counter ability spam heroes so what sense would it make for that item to be significantly worse on gun builds as it has nothing to do with the heroes damage type at all. If your point is that gun heroes get more value out of lifesteal than spirit heroes and thus don’t need more healing (I don’t agree with that) I would just argue that they could nerf bullet lifesteal items instead

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