This week Andres & Rob sit down with TossarN, a coach and top GM player to doing a going deep on DVa. Relatively unknown, but a really great coach we found through Jayne’s Youtube channel, we’re excited to do our last show of 2018 with TossarN!

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• GAME NIGHT: 12/28

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• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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  • Ashe Stat Analysis Article

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• Ashe scope sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link

Going Deep D.Va:

• D.Va Reference Source

• What is the fundamentals for D.Va or what is her job in a game? The core of the hero for ALL ranks.

• Can we chat about positioning and how to use your position/presence and movement to maximize damage and pressure?

• Okay let’s kick things off with your bread and butter: D.Va’s Defense Matrix and mixing it with Damage.

• Let’s talk about using Micro Missiles and effective use.

• How to do we get the most out of Rocket Boosters ?

• Self Destruct breakdown

• Baby D.Va aka Pilot Mode

• How Map Dependent is D.Va?

• Now let’s work on proper engagement and disengages.

• Now let’s talk synergies and matchups. What heroes do you need to be careful of for being countered and others that you really think are great/necessary for your comp.

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Rob:Twitter,Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres:Twitter,OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud
TossarN: Fiver Link, Twitter, Twitch, Discord: TossarN#5554

This week Andres & Rob have a full show for you this week talking all about Ultimate tracking!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 12/28

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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  • Ashe Stat Analysis Article

• Humble Bundle Monthy Affiliate!

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• Ashe scope sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link

• Season 13 expected to finish on Dec. 28/29!

• Next Week DVa going deep with a Coach who was featured on Jayne’s YouTube that coached him from Fiver!

Ultimate Tracking

• What is Ult tracking?

• Why is it important?

• How can I improve at ult tracking?

• What are some key indicators for when someone has an ult?

• Advanced Ult tracking.

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Andres:Twitter,OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

This week Andres & Rob have Switch joining us to talk all about Ashe stats, new Winter Wonderland, and the brand new data about the new Brigitte Meta thus far in the new changes that hit the game.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 12/28

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

• Omnic Meta: (Homepage)

  • Ashe Stat Analysis Article

• Humble Bundle Monthy Affiliate!

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• Hero 29 (Ashe) has a 1.5x scope requiring sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link and set the bottom to 66 & the top to your Ana/Widow scoped sensitivity to calculate! Reddit reference

• Winter Wonderland - Dec. 11th

Winter Wonderland

• Skins

  • Zarya, Widowmaker, Lucio, Symmetra, Mercy, Junkrat

  • Ashe, Bastion, Reinhardt

• Emotes

  • Torbjorn - My Babies

  • Genji - Paper Stars

• Victory Toast Poses

• Highlight Intro for Wrecking Ball

Ashe Stats

• Damage Per 10 Seconds

  • Just under Hanzo, but barely

  • 2500 higher average than McCree

  • 2500 lower average than Junkrat

  • Doomfist, Genji, Widow all far below (but, just in dmg, as the other heroes confirm more)

• Elims Per 10 Min

  • Ashe competing with other top picks to contribute

  • Ashe seems to have more of a curve up from Bronze to Diamond with the skill ceiling being high to play.

• Final Blows per 10 Min

  • Somewhat lags behind others, but not by much (a margin of 2 at most)

  • Hanzo and Widowmaker presenting the highest in the category

• Deaths per 10 min

  • Ashe has far better survivability overall than everyone

  • Most avg deaths remain about the same across all ranks

  • This could have something to do with promoting a safe style of play & an ultimate that allows pressure without being in a risky position.

  • Ashe also has a displacement to move around when she is threatened similar to Hanzo & Widowmaker who are also fairly low in deaths.

• Dynamite vs B.O.B.

  • Bob’s kill secure is roughly the same as a Junkrat Tire, Pharah Barrage, or Hanzo Dragonstrike

  • Genji’s Blade is much higher on the ultimate confirmation

  • BOB’s function seems to also be less about securing and more to do with disruption like Hanzo’s ult and also the knock up & zoning.

  • Dynamite is contributing to a whopping 28% of her kills in bronze and 35% in GM

• Pickrate vs Winrate

  • Like any new hero, the pick rate is absurd to start off competitive in their release into the scene.

  • Diamond picking her up in more cases than others at around 38% of games, but the average being around 30%

  • Genji at the time is one of the most frequent picks to synergize with Ana

  • In the DPS category, Ashe has the highest Winrate at #1 slot

    • 53% in Plat and 56% in GM

    • Junkrat is the only hero besides Ashe and Doomfist to hit 50% in Gold Tier

    • Silver Tier shows Ashe, Genji, Hanzo, & Junkrat all being right around 48% with Doomfist taking the #1 slot at 50%

#Rework Mercy Movement

• Mercy & Moira have below 10% pick rate in GM (<20% in Masters)

• Mercy has 20% in Diamond

• Ana has over 70% in Diamond+ for pick rate

• Moira, Mercy, & Ana are the most picked in Bronze to Gold

  • Moira (50-60%)

  • Mercy (38-48%)

  • Ana (34-40%)

• Moira, Mercy, & Ana have the highest healing output in order overall in all ranks

• Brigitte with the highest overall win rate average across all ranks

• Lucio & Mercy have similar data from Platinum to GM for win ratios

• Ana and Zenyatta soaring to the top for Diamond+ but Ana drops in winrate steeply each rank below that.

• Moira has a steady decline in chunks of 2% at a time, while others only differ about 0.5%

• Reworking Mercy?

  • Team Rez Ult Mercy?

  • Buff Mercy existing Kit?

  • Leave her alone?

  • Boring Hero?

New Patch Reminders

• Brigitte’s Nerf (Shield Bash Dmg & Barrier blocked)

• Doomfist’s Nerf (Air Ctrl with Uppercut Seismic Slam Range & Meteor Strike)

• McCree’s Buff (Fan the Hammer)

• Bastion (Recon Ammo/Gun Spread in Sentry)

• Torbjorn (Ultimate Dmg)

• Soldier 76 Adjustment (Helix Rockets during ult)

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Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres: Twitter, OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud
Switch: Twitter (Personal), Twitter (OM), OmnicMeta Site, Omnic Meta Stat Tracking

This week Andres & Rob meet up to talk through what they’ve been doing to play better and climb this season. We also talk a lot about what we’ve been working on for the current season and look for in game play to observe improving.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 12/28

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• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

• Omnic Meta: (Homepage)

  • Ashe Stat Analysis Article

• Humble Bundle Monthy Affiliate!

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• Hero 29 (Ashe) has a 1.5x scope requiring sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link and set the bottom to 66 & the top to your Ana/Widow scoped sensitivity to calculate! Reddit reference

• Winter Wonderland - Dec. 11th

  • Zarya & Lucio Skins announced so far

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

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Rob:Twitter,Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres:Twitter,OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

This week Andres & Rob meet up together with one of our longest community members and fresh into Top 500: Shockmaster! This week we want to spend a good chunk of the episode talking about Gibraltar in another map guide with him and then also chat about all the things he’s been up to since grinding Overwatch in the beginning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 11/30

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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• Hero 29 (Ashe) has a 1.5x scope requiring sensitivity Adjustments! Click this calculator link and set the bottom to 66 & the top to your Ana/Widow scoped sensitivity to calculate! Reddit reference

 

General Tips

• Payload maps in general (ideal setup for attack & defense)

• What to consider when choosing a composition on Gibraltar

• How teams make composition changes based on Points A, B, & C

 

Point A, B, & C

• Map locations: Box on high ground, Stairwell, Mega Health Pack room, Stairs hallway, Catwalk, Rocks edge, Final catwalk, server room, two mini health pack spots

• Attacking/Defending

• Composition considerations

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Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres: Twitter, OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

Shockmaster: Twitter, Twitch

This week Andres & Rob meet up together for a super patch extravaganza! With missing 2 weeks of large patch updates for Doomfist & Brigitte along with a few other notable discussions on the state of the game spurred by Seagull’s video this week we’ve got a full show for you!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 11/30

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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• Hero 29 (Ashe) has a 1.5x scope which is why there needs to be a major in-game adjustment instead of copying settings. Here's a tip I received from discord user RePeteTV sending me this Reddit link about the sensitivity adjustments

• For Ashe, this is the sensitivity calculator needed to make her sens like Widow's and Ana's her magnification is different so the math is different. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/1a0o5z7ova

• Set the top slider to your widowmaker/ana scoped sens and then the bottom bar to 66, does not matter what your sens is, this has to deal with FoV and Ashe's is arbitrarily 66.

• So far, we have no better method of finding our sensitivity and no surefire way to know for sure, but this calculator gave Kephrii his sens and he said it was much closer to his Widow sens than others as have I used this and believe the same.

PTR Nov.14, 2018:

• Also included is the Build from Nov. 20, 2018

• Bastion:

  • Recon: Ammo Increased 25 -> 35

  • Sentry: Weapon spread decreased 33% while firing (slow and slight accuracy increase)

• Brigitte:

  • Shield Bash cannot go through or stun through barriers

  • Shield Bash DMG down 50 -> 5

  • Inspire (Passive) CD down 1.5s -> 1.0s

  • Inspire (Passive) Duration up 5s -> 6s

  • Inspire (Passive) Total healing up 80 -> 100

  • Dev Notes: Reduces Shield Bash’s damage reduces her total stun combo damage potential while still allowing Whip Shot and her basic melee attacks to retain their full strength. Brigitte is a hybrid tank/healer, and lately we’ve been reducing her effectiveness by reducing the power of her non-healing functionality, but we want to make sure she is still a viable pick so we’re increasing the uptime of her Inspire passive to help increase her overall healing output.

• Doomfist:

  • Rising Uppercut: Loss of Air control down 3s -> 0.6s

  • Seismic Slam: Max range down 20m -> 15m

  • Seismic Slam: Victims no longer lose air control when being pulled in

  • Meteor Strike: Inner ring damage radius up 1.5m -> 2.0m (still deals 300 DMG)

  • Meteor Strike: Max DMG outside the inner ring down 300 -> 200

    • This is where the falloff happens, still reduces the DMG down to 15 at max range

  • Comments: Doomfist’s high mobility allows him to engage and disengage from extremely long ranges. Decreasing the range of his targeted aerial version of Seismic Slam requires him to get closer before engaging an enemy and makes it slightly harder for him to escape from combat. The loss of air control on Rising Uppercut was a frustrating mechanic for players, but it allowed Doomfist to set up combos. We’ve found a decent middle ground by limiting the time Doomfist has to line up his next move.

  • Comments Nov. 20: The PTR Doomfist changes are all about trying to give his enemies more opportunities to effectively fight back, and these changes are no exception. The Meteor Strike changes will make it harder to secure a “free” kill on heroes without mobility such as Zenyatta or Ana, while still preserving its max potential damage when aimed well or when combined with other abilities such as Graviton Surge or Sleep Dart.

• McCree:

  • Fan the Hammer DMG up 45 -> 55

• Reinhardt:

  • Bug Fixed preventing Earthshatter from going over some terrain.

• Soldier 76:

  • Tactical Visor: Helix Rocket no longer auto-targets enemies

• Torbjorn:

  • Molten Core: DMG up 130dps -> 160dps

• Sound Bugs: Varying sound bugs having to do with Windows volume settings have been fixed.

  • Most notably an issue with scoping sounds on Ana.

Known Issues List 11.22.18 (edited)

• Ashe: Coach Gun: can launch you into orbit by shooting a Genji Deflect

• Ashe: B.O.B. can move Sentry Bastion & cryo-freeze Mei

• Ashe: B.O.B. LoS is blocked if Mei cryo-freezes on top of him

• Ashe: B.O.B. no audio call out for nano boosting B.O.B.

• Winston: Jump Pack: sometimes knockbacks enemies without dealing any DMG

New Bug Report

• Ashe: Scope for Viper: when scoping in or out it massively drops the in-game FPS down

Also the current PTR is getting feedback on the same issues before live in this post

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Rob:Twitter,Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres:Twitter,OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

This week Andres & Rob sit down with GM DPS main & streamer personality Fareeha to talk all about the new Hero 29: Ashe (and B.O.B.)! We were pumped to connect with Fareeha at Blizzcon a bit and want to get to know her as well!

Let’s Get to Know our Guest!

All right, Fareeha, tell us a bit about yourself! Who are you & some of your background, tell us about your stream, and tell us your skills in the game!

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 11/30

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

  • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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Going Deep Hero Breakdown:

• Ashe Reference Source

• What is the fundamentals for Ashe or what is her job in a game?

• Can we chat about positioning and how to use your position/presence and movement to maximize damage and pressure?

• Okay let’s kick things off with your bread and butter: Healing with the Viper in and out of the scope.

  • When do I Spam?

  • How do I know when to pop out of scope?

• Let’s talk about using Dynamite and effective use.

  • How do we set up to use it?

  • Do we use on cool down?

  • How do I hit the dang thing consistently?

• How to do we get the most out of Coach Gun?

  • Movement tips

  • (Don’t worry about hitting a surface with the gun)

  • Using Offensively vs Defensively

• Proper timing for B.O.B. breakdown

  • When to use, where to be, who to prioritize

  • General Use & Setting up

  • Communicating with Teammates

• How Map Dependent is Ashe?

• Now let’s work on proper engagement and disengages.

• Now let’s talk synergies and matchups. What heroes do you need to be careful of for being countered and others that you really think are great/necessary for your comp.

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

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Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres: Twitter, OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud
Fareeha: Twitter, Twitch, YouTube

This week Andres and Rob talk all about what happened at blizzcon and include a super cool group interview we had with Michael Chu!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 11/30 - Next Game night

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server. Ben has a Masters in Sport Management, Finance and Data Analytics as well as experience in sales, marketing, and company development. His services are free, and they will stay that way as long as demand allows it.

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• Con Before the Storm - Released in the feed

Blizzcon 2018:

• Blizzcon Experience

• People and Event

• Ashe & Overwatch release

• OWWC and esports contacts

• Michael Chu interview

News Updates:

• From a stream at Blizzard HQ, LA Gladiators Surefour talking with some devs on stream indicate they are working on pushing some changes to the PTR for the following heroes:

• DOOMFIST - Video timestamp

  • Reverted the internal change to Rocket Punch distance (when canceled with a jump). They tried reducing the extra distance by 40%, but it felt bad during internal testing.

  • Seismic Slam range reduced from 20 to 15 meters (max damage from 85 to 65).

  • Enemies affected by Rising Uppercut only lose air control of their character for 0.6 seconds (essentially just during the ‘knocked up’ portion)

• BASTION - Video timestamp

  • Bastion’s Recon clip size increased from 25 to 35.

  • Bastion’s Sentry minigun gets a ‘reverse-spread’ effect: the longer he shoots, the more precise his shots become. This was specifically described as a change that “may or may not make it.”

• MCCREE - Video timestamp

  • Fan the Hammer damage increased by 10 damage per shot.

Special Thanks to Diamond Sponsors & New Patrons:

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Rob: Twitter, Twitch, Velen's Chosen Podcast, Concept Craft Podcast
Andres: Twitter, OWL Recap, audioblender.studio, soundcloud

Welcome to the Omnic Lab. A podcast that focuses on the strategies inside of the game of Overwatch. We learn through trial and error in the lab, even if things get a bit crazy and blow up sometimes! We’ll brew up team composition strategies, stir in some tips to play better, and hopefully equip listeners with the instruments they need to gain a strategic edge!

This week Andres and Rob get Blevins and DeathBlow back on from High Noon Productions to hang out and talk about all things pre-blizzcon, news, new PTR, and more!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• GAME NIGHT: 10/26 - REPORT

• SPONSOR: Top Score Solutions

• • Ben aka “INeedPeeling” is offering free business consulting in the eSports field. If you are aspiring to coach, starting a team, developing an app or service, trying to boost your subscriber base, or just want to work in eSports, you can visit his website at topscoresolutions.com, get him on Twitter @topscoreEsports, or join his Discord server.

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• Con Before the Storm - Overwatch Panel Nov. 1, 10pm-11pm (4th Floor, Anaheim Hilton)

  • IcySorrow, Blevins, BlazzinBob, TotemlyDrunk, iPlaiGames, notrob

Overwatch News:

• New Torb is Live in Comp to finish our season! Thoughts?

  • Kit Refresher:

  • Molten Core: New Ult LAVA

  • Overload: 150 armor, faster movement & shooting/reloading 30% for 5s

  • Deploy Turret: Lv. 2 Always, self-builds, throwable, targets enemies you shoot

  • Rivet Gun: Single Faster Projectile & reload speed

  • Rivet Gun: Shotgun Lower dmg but faster speed & recovery, new spread

• Season 12 is over!! Oct. 29th at 00:00 UTC (5:00pm PDT)

• Season 13 kickoff is Nov. 1 at 00:00 UTC (5:00pm PDT Oct. 31)

• Rewards reminders:

  • SR 1-1499 (Bronze): 65 CP

  • SR 1500-1999 (Silver): 125 CP

  • SR 2000-2499 (Gold): 250 CP

  • SR 2500-2999 (Platinum): 500 CP

  • SR 3000-3499 (Diamond): 750 CP

  • SR 3500-3999 (Master): 1200 CP

  • SR 4000-5000 (Grandmaster): 1750 CP

• Comp Team Death-Match returns for the offseason!

  • First to 30 kills with 4v4 teams

• The new Story Discussion Forum section has released, people going nuts

  • Speculations abound: New Story mode? New events? Single-player content?

• World Cup Predictions

  • UK vs USA

  • AUS vs SKR

  • Winners faceoff (loser to 3rd place)

  • CN vs FIN

  • CAN vs FR

  • Winners faceoff (loser to 3rd place)

Discussion Points: PTR 10/23/18 HERO UPDATES

• General - All

  • Made jump height consistent across hero roster

• Mercy - Valkyrie

  • Ultimate cost reduced 15%

  • Healing per second increased from 50 to 60

• Dev Comments: Mercy’s ultimate was charging a bit too slowly after her base healing was reduced in a previous update. These changes should restore some of her ultimate’s strength and let it build up more quickly.

• Reaper

  • Hellfire Shotguns - Spread randomization reduced by 50%

  • NOTE: This is currently a nerf, and Jeff said they’re updating PTR with an adjustment

  • The Reaping (Passive) - Life steal increased from 20% to 30% of damage dealt

• Dev Comments: Reaper’s specialty is fighting at a very close range. The more consistent spread pattern and increase in healing from his passive ability will make him more capable of standing toe-to-toe with his enemies.

• Roadhog

  • Chain Hook

    • Decreased the delay before pulling a hooked target from 0.5 seconds to 0.3 seconds

    • Now greatly reduces the target’s momentum upon being hooked

    • Cooldown now begins immediately, instead of after the target has been pulled

  • Scrap Gun

    • Spread pattern adjusted for both primary and secondary fire

    • Spread randomization reduced by 50%

  • Whole Hog

    • Knockback maximum velocity increased by 25% (from 8 to 10 meters per second)

    • Horizontal recoil decreased slightly

  • Dev Comments: Roadhog is receiving several large changes to make his abilities more consistent. His Chain Hook had issues with breaking when enemy targets jumped or fell behind environment collision. It will now slow them down in the air more when the hook lands, and wait less time before it starts reeling them in. Since Chain Hook’s cooldown now begins immediately upon use, so it no longer varies based on Roadhog’s distance to the hook target. We’ve also moved some of the projectiles closer to the center of the spread pattern on his Scrap Gun, which gives him a more consistent damage output for its primary and alternate fire. Previously, there was a long-standing bug that caused close-range targets to fly much further than expected. After this bug was fixed, we still wanted to keep some of the knockback burst it provided, so we’ve increased the overall velocity cap to maintain some of that functionality.

• Symmetra - Photon Projector

  • Primary fire beam charges up 20% faster

  • Dev Comments: It’s still difficult to use Symmetra’s Photon Projector beam effectively, even after its range was increased. By speeding up the primary fire charge rate, it takes less time to ramp up to its full damage potential and will be a stronger option when she’s presented with targets to charge up on.

BUG FIXES

• Doomfist

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Doomfist’s Rising Uppercut from damaging enemies

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Doomist’s Seismic Slam from dealing damage if he hit by a knockback ability the moment he landed

• Orisa

  • Fixed bug that prevented Orisa’s Fortify from canceling Doomfist’s Rising Uppercut air control effects

• Roadhog

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Chain Hook from going on cooldown if it was interrupted before the chain retracted

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Chain Hook from destroying breakable objects when pulling the target backward

  • Fixed a bug that caused Roadhog’s Whole Hog visual effects to cover a wider area than the spread of projectiles

• Symmetra

  • Fixed a bug that prevented Symmetra to charge up her primary weapon on enemy ice walls

• Zarya

  • Fixed a bug that allowed heroes to charge through a Graviton Surge without getting trapped

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