The ALGS effect
Post ALGS we all assumed that Valk would be the number one picked legend and they gave away Valk for free last season during the anniversary event. Not only that, Seer has been climbing up the pick r...
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@Cheese9Man Exactly. Looking at play data is much better than a survey or some thread of redit or here. People are much too biased to defend their main or hate on the character that kills them most because they see them more or don't know how to counter them.
People forget that Horizon was the height meta right before Valk made height meta even easier. And Horizon was nerfed.
The characters are super imbalanced at this point. Multi height meta and scan meta characters, have shown what Respawn cares about and doesn’t. Crypto screwed? Whatever. Wattson only used in full queue teams at the top .1% of play? ‘Perfectly balanced!’ Lifeline on life support? Totally ok. Just add a new character and keep on moving!
It is saved because it is still predominantly a gun game but you are setting yourself at a disadvantage is what happens. Also, if you aren’t sinking cash into skins, you shouldn’t feel too attached to switching characters. But I think it’s pretty clear why people concentrate into a top 5 group of picks.
- @KelRiever "People forget that Horizon was the height meta right before Valk made height meta even easier. And Horizon was nerfed."
I don't think they can make the height meta any easier rn even if they tried. That says a lot about the direction Respawn wants to take the game in.
Also, Wraith was nerfed too for being even less OP than Valk, same with Caustic and Lifeline who IMO was never OP to begin with. It blows my mind to stand by and see Respawn's decisions.....absolutely amazing. - @KelRiever You are missing one thing tho. Valks height is either by herself or every few minutes for her team. Horizon is every 25 seconds or so, is silent and the whole team can use it. Horizons nerf was essentially nothing and people pretended it was more and are just now coming back around. Kind of like what has happened with Seer. It's why I want a Valk nerf. So I can actually choose to play her again.
- @hayhor I haven't used Horizon very much still, but I was running her last night for a bit (triple-dipped on weekly challenges), and I was really enjoying it. Just the lack of stun when landing, is huge! Finally managed to pull off one of those tac/ult/throwable combos too, so that was fun. I have less than 100 kills with her, but I might have to start showing Horizon some love
Ah, Horizon... she's cool and best body (check). For some odd reason she's my most winning legend, percentage-wise, despite I have no clue how to play her. Go figure. I'd love to learn her though but... if Lifeline is available on the the selection screen we all know what happens.
