Something to note on Hero Pools -
Historically, no meta in Overwatch stays diverse forever.
Not doing hero pools now would probably have meant not doing them all season long. Then the odds of the meta being ultra stagnant come playoff time would have been incredibly high.
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If you want the good of breaking up really bad metas (which hero pools do quite well), it does come with the cost of sometimes breaking up a great meta before it's completely run it's course.
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@TempoZP
Hero pools definitely serve their purpose well, but there are other solutions to this problem. Balance historically hasn't been enough to overthrow metas, but does that mean we just stop trying and keep this bandaid fix forever?
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There's also a chance of teams carrying June Joust meta over to Summer Showdown, depends on if teams decide whether it is worth investing time re-learning old meta, then they'll be stuck on same heroes for 2 tourneys, if not more. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@TempoZP
The biggest issue with Overwatch historically is taking too long to do anything with heroes in general. Blizzard is always way too slow with any form of balancing in any of their games
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@TempoZP
This is the right take I came here for. In order of greatness:
1. Hero bans by teams
2. Hero pools
3. Nothing
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@TempoZP
Im upset not because of any disagreement with the idea of hero pools, but because Im a Reign fan, and theyre about to get smashed this stage.
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@TempoZP
Honestly, if Hero Pools are just for this tourney, I think I would be okay with it as long as it's treated like a theme, instead of a permanent fixture that affect the next set of tourneys.
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@TempoZP
I enjoyed seeing how Dallas handled not having Xzi. I think applying similar pressure to every team can also lead to more creativity and more entertaining OW. A month gives a lot of time to get an impressive level of mastery as well. Dallas looked masterful to me.
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@TempoZP
Historically, we've not had an aggressive balancing campaign in the months prior to an OWL season until now.
The meta might settle, but the degree to which it does is entirely up in the air. It's just so silly to implement bans with only a month's worth of data. Let it breathe.
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The biggest issue to me is that we average joes aren't even playing the same game as the pros anymore. Sure, there will still be SOMETHING to learn from OWL matches for those that study enough, but why make an already complicated game harder to understand at a high level?
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