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- 5 years ago
Well from what I've read, bloodhound has a low win rate, does that mean he's no good and needs a buff ? Stats only paint half a picture.
They know that wattson is only really picked in high level play. And they don't want to change her incase they ruin pro play. I feel that's a bad way off looking at it as it's only a small percentage of players that are pro.
Her ultimate can be destroyed easily, and there's not always a good spot to put it in the open, caustic can throw his ult and separate a full team or multiple teams, causing lots of damage, and scatter gas cans also
- 5 years ago@JimmyLad993 Lol then I guess skill paints the other half because Wattson is a lot harder to master, but more rewarding. They try to balance Bloodhound is picked a lot more than Wattson, so is Octane both aren't winners though, so they kept getting buffs.
Wow a patch of gas that can be avoided and canisters that are easy to destroy and if they pop only last seconds. As opposed to a pylon that neutralizes everything including that gas ult and canisters. Not to mention a smaller character that is harder to hit as opposed to a sumo sized grim reaper.- 5 years ago
Caustics gas isn't easy to avoid all the time, if you've taken cover in the open and he throws it you take damage and are slowed then forced to move into the open, and can easily get beamed, paired with a horizon ult, your in for a bad time.
Wattsons fences are easy to destroy if you block a door in most cases if a enemy opens the door they can easily get a line of sight to shoot them, caustic can block the door from being opened and if placed right and the doors opened the trap will set off straight away.
Wattsons fences you can spot from across the map, and if someone walks through them the damage is nothing compared to gas, also if Gibby throws his dome in the line of the fences It blocks them leaving a team free to push past them, making her fences useless, caustics gas destroys her fences to.
Yes he's big but he also takes less damage, wattson is smaller but takes more damage so if your half decent at hitting your shots it makes no difference.
- 5 years ago
Win rate statistics are completely irrelevant. Win rate only shows that people happen to win while playing certain legends. That gives absolutely zero explanation of why they won. You don't need any legend abilities to win games. I've won games at Wattson without using her abilities at all because I never needed to. I have seen three Wattsons in ranked and public matches since this season started. She is useless in King's canyon. Her fences don't cover areas worth spit because of how open the map is, and even if the fences are utilized successfully, they literally do ten damage and slow for half a second. Also, she shouldn't have low profile as a defender with zero mobility. And on top of all that, her ultimate negates friendly projectiles, so she is quite literally a liability to the team. You can forget about running Gibraltar, Caustic, or Bangalore with her. She needs a complete rework and low profile removed. The development team is exercising an absence of logic and reasoning by modifying mechanics based on completely nonsensical criteria. Nerfing Wraith because win a lot with her is stupid. Making smaller legends take more damage but then making an exception to Pathfinder, a very tall legend, because he has a mobile tactical, is cognitive dissonance because Octane has infinite speed boosts with a now-meta mobility ultimate. Several other legends have mobility boosts too. It's ridiculous.
- 5 years ago
@SugaryJuiceHow are win rates irrelevant if it's something they look at and mention in patch notes? Also sure I have won games where my whole team doesn't get a kill, but if win rates are irrelevant then why do pro teams apparently run the same characters? I have seen 3 wattsons in one game of ranked my guy because I remember a buddy and me making the comment we hadn't seen so many wattsons in a long time he killed one early and there were two in top 5. Of course it has always been pretty rare to see a wattson I don't think her pick rate has ever been above like 3 percent. Do you really play wattson though? Because you seem a little behind with stuff her fences do 15 damage and you can throw grenades and use abilities with her pylon as long as you are inside the bubble.
- 5 years ago
@Ironflower196Win rates are irrelevant... you take someone like Backoffmyjankz they can win 5 games with horizon with #1 win rate and you can put him on rampart with one of the smallest win rates and hes still going to win the game regardless because hes just that good at the game period, he doesn’t even need to use abilities at all because he has that good of aim and is smart enough to have good positioning and rotations
which is what we were saying, wattsons kit is not good... yes we may get a win on wattson occasionally but we can do that on any other legend in the game, Wattson is in need of a rework or at least some buffs because of Caustic’s gas trap damage buffs, Fuse’s tactical and grenade spam, and she relys too much on her ult leaving her fences defenseless whenever she runs out of ultimate accelerants
- 5 years ago@SugaryJuice Exactly, Whenever I play wattson I rarely even use her abilities and will get 5+ kills each game but I can do the exact same thing on rampart or any other legend... win rates and kill stats don’t show you the whole picture
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