Wattson in a good place ?!
I don't understand how people think wattson is in a good place, she has probably the lowest pick rate, even in ALGS, she is hardly picked. Caustic is just the more logical pick, he deals more damage...
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@JimmyLad993 Wattsons win rate is top 5 she may not be fun but there is no denying she can win games for you. She is way more useful in the open than Caustic because she is small and just needs to get cover to drop her pylon and neutralize grenades, ults, and tacticals while recharging shield. You can use her offensively by locking ppl in a building.
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
- @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.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.
- @JimmyLad993 Hitbox size definitely does make a difference. Wattson in a no abilities 1v1 would smoke a Caustic. He can't even peak without a quarter of his hitbox being visible first.
- @Ironflower196 thats kind of suprising to me octanes dont win as much, i guess though its probably because having all that speed a lot of players think they can solo push as him and die from those mistakes.
I agree they shouldn't look at it the way they do though stats are one thing but do not paint the whole picture of what is needed for each character
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