bangalore doesnt even get a tiny nerf? every match in both playing and watching is just being in smoke 90% of the time, getting pretty ridiculous, actually a huge fan of the 30-30 but that needed a nerf but for some reason bangalore is just fine with having a 100% pickrate in most matches
@Swarth2300 Bangalore has not been meta in ages. She just this season has been a big pick in comp. If you notice teams are trying out a lot of different legends even in this ALGS. You have some running wattson, some running caustic among many more. Being used in comp for 1 tournament or comp is not anything to worry about as of yet.
In fact Bangalore only has a 7.4% pick rate. Which is far from 100%. Legends are only as good as the person who is playing it. You can see more about pick rates for each legend here.
https://apexlegendsstatus.com/game-stats/legends-pick-rates
Also here
https://www.dexerto.com/apex-legends/apex-legends-pick-rates-most-popular-legends-1587860/
Also here for comp scene which is only applied to this season only.
https://esi.si.com/apex-legends/most-picked-legends-at-algs-championship-2023
i honestly watch about half of ALGS matches, mostly NA and APEC South so i am not sure what is happening in EU or APEC North but the majority of matches i see have at least 18 bangalore's, also watch a lot of scrims similar story(however scrims is just more NA so maybe that doesnt count) and i do hope with the removal of digi on smg's that her pickrate will go down.
reading the links you provided especially with the general pickrates(not ALGS) is very interesting though while i was mostly talking about the ALGS because i only recently came back to playing apex legends so while my experience in the past few days has been a lot of bangalore statistics prove that its not really the case, just the meta in algs has become so stale so that is really my main concern but hopefully the new update changes some things
@reconzeroNo I don’t mean their needs are irrelevant, my point is that their pickrate is influenced by factors that have nothing to do with how good a legend is.
A pro team will ignore such factors, they play what's the best not what they like the most.
on top of that I believe games should get balanced on top lvl and not for avgandy, and most games get balanced like that for example Dota. If a hero is strong and has a high pickrate in a tournament usually he gets nerfed after.
the funiest thing is she's picked because she negate controller aimbot assist otherwise no one would pick her.
@WTF_HuitzoThat's not true at all. She's picked because she blocks vision. One of the first teams to make her popular was old LG cause YanYa was cracked with her and a digi. Now that digis are buffed Bloodhounds going to be in every team because she still blocks vision the best and easiest.
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