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.
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.
@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.
@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
- @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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