No other support can stop heals on targets. Ana having sleep for genji or nade for a zen is never ever able to be countered with any other support character. No the overlap is never enough to choose one character instead of another. However, they keep making release schedules of 1:1:1. Blizzard has needed to prioritize closing the gap between tank/support for ages to give these roles variability and more overlaps choices. DPS has the most overlap, but that makes sense given there are literally 2x of them compared to every other role.

There is overlap all over the place, but enough of a difference to make the heroes distinct. Lucio and Brig challenge each other for weaker AoE heals and CC, but do it in slightly different ways.Īshe is a cross between Widowmaker and McCree while Sojourn is the projectile equivalent to S76. Hammond was pretty much doing Winston’s job without a shield.ĭoomfist is largely doing what Hammond does in OW2 without the massive speed perk.Įcho is Pharah flight traded for verticality vs horizontal mobility.īaptiste encroaches upon Moira’s turf with massive AoE healing, but is more vertical than horizontal. Orisa was just a Rein shield that didn’t move with a super charger that Mercy could already do on top of a halt that was like a minigrav. There is no replacement for this character… you have to use it. Because when someone says, they have a Widow… the counter is a Widow. If you aren’t creating heroes with overlapping abilities… you need to actually balance the game properly. The characters that are created don’t overlap, so unfortunately this is why we get huge metas when one character is a have to pick.

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