Fun Fact: The Sonic Ball suggestion in this video is actually how ball's beta design worked. He would spin in place, then roll into a hero, knocking them down. Back then he also had dual flame throwers instead of the LMG's.

Hot take: map decorations and ornate edges of walls should not be physical geometry that the player character can get stuck on. The most frustrating thing about playing Overwatch compared to every other competitive game I've played is how often I find myself unable to move because my character is being slowed due to collision detection with a potted plant

Ana should have the option to nano herself

Hot Take: Lifeweaver (LW) would be more interested (and better) if he gave a Heal Over Time with his Healing and inflicted a Damage Over Time effect with his Thorns. When a target receives the blossom from LW, they recover 30% of the value he gave them 1 second after. (Therefore if he healed 60 HP, the target then recovers 18 HP one second later.) In addition, If LW lands 5 Thorns on a target within a short timeframe, they gain a "Poison" effect. Poisoning a target causes them to take 10 damage per second for 3 seconds. In compensation for these buffs, it would be best to lower LW maximum Healing from 70 to 60 (or even 55). I'm still in the boat that LW doesn't contribute enough damage to matter consistently, but I would agree if the damage got nerfed with this change.

Hot take: Roadhog should have a windup for his hook to increase its range. This way it truly becomes a punish for bad positioning. So winding it up for about 1.5 seconds then throwing it is the max range, and just tapping it just throws it, but with less range. It would make playing against him much less frustrating. I think the animation would be really cool, swinging the chain around before throwing it. There could be another compensating buff somewhere in his kit, maybe make it pull targets a bit closer to him to allow for easier one shots. But the swing has a clear sound effect and visual to see and hear

Hot take?: Give Sigma is old accretion scaling. Stun used to scale with distance and if you hit an enemy with a rock while close the stun was short. If you hit them from very far they would be stunned for longer which was very fun and skillful to land. Pharahs would actually touch the ground due to its stun duration if you hit from range causing them to die sometimes.

Hot take: make Ball a Damage hero so they don't have to prioritize survivability as one of his main attributes (since he's a currently a tank). This would give the devs flexibility in where they adjust his abilities/values. Ball's survivability comes from his mobility, but high mobility doesn't always mean he's the best tank (especially at low ranks with less coordination). Moving him to damage would give devs more freedom in designing/balancing him.

Hot take: i feel like they should make sojourn into a glass canon in the upcoming patch by keeping her at 200 hp or maybe even lowering her to 175

14:38 HEYYOOO!

Hot take, Overwatch should have more melee heros. Like Brig and Rein

0:58 Hybrid is my favorite mode, and Kings Row is the best map❤

Hybrid maps have the stupidest tiebreaker rules.

Lol I wasn't saying to bring back sniper Cassidy, I was saying that they should cap hi minimum damage up a little bit. Right now it takes FIVE CONSECUTIVE HEADSHOTS on a 200 HP target to kill them past like 35m, tune that down to three or even four consecutive headshots and suddenly he can actually function at range as long as he's SIGNIFICANTLY better than the other person. I feel like my comment got completely misunderstood by chat even though I wrote it in a very specific way to prevent that exact confusion lol.

Oh hey I was that first guy To explain, my issue is that it feels like, unlike other game modes, it is extremely easy to get an easy W or get absolutely rolled on OW1 Hybrid, like, 50/50 save from the occasionally intense point battle. It feels like there's a continual ebb and flow of point control on basically every other game mode and it feels like that's kinda uncommon on these maps. Like, I don't think it's a skill issue since, like I said, often i'm on the team dominating. Im not smart enough about the map meta to know exactly what's going on here, all i know is that i rarely have fun on Hybrid OW1 maps.

First guy is outa his mind. Hybrids are goated! Kings row and Eichenwalde are the epitome of tank maps. You have the most fun on tanks. Feels like you are actually a team on these maps

Hot take: the game is fun and always has been. People just get burnt out. I think people just like to hate and complain about any and everything.

Hot take: i think orisa is actually easy to kill as just kill her supports by flanking then hard focus her

Hot take: The Supports Damage itself is NOT the problem like many DPS Players think. Especially in the 5v5-Format they need the ability to defend themselves but if they do have a high-dmg output they need to be more like a Zenyatta who doesnt have any escape tool (Transcendence not included). There should be more risk for Supports like Kiriko and Baptiste if they take 1v1s. For example: Remove the Invulnerability from Suzu, Kiri shouldnt be able to teleport through walls, Baptistes lamp should get damaged if the Players HP in the lamp goes below the locked health

Hot take: I feel hero’s like genji, ball ,rein would be op if they get buffed since players that can play them would go crazy.

There should be mode in between competitive and quick play something like "practice" for folks that want to improve but are having trouble breaking into comp. As is I feel like I win ~80% of my quick play games and then when I try comp I lose like 90%.

If they want McCree (Cassidy) to be a close range character, maybe they should rework his ult. My crack brain idea is: give him an insanly low reload cool down or 1-1.5 CD on his roll so he can go crazy on fan the hammer; think a close range version of sojourn ult.

Thanks for reading my toasty take, I just thought of something for Ball that would be really funny that might’ve worked 😂 Just a dive tank player at heart

Rein should absolutely have a human shield while pinning somebody. In ow1 it was so frustrating to pin someone close into their team and they can just load their teammates bullets that go right through and into me.

rein should be able to have a good gap closer. he needs it.

I would love to see the roles expanded a tad further. Particularly into main tank, off tank, dps, off healer and main healer. Even if not used in a role queue selection, I feel this would add a little more structure to picking teams and provide easier balancing or at least more distinct role passives. It would also help with characters like Mei and Cassidy find a more supportive niche.

Hey Karq, are wenot getting a tier list this season or did i missed it?

Hot take: I think supports should be balancing around mercy like dps is balance around tracer. Maybe have all the single target healers do the same amount of healing rather than one being better than the others like Ana. Or with AOE healing, maybe it can be weaker than single target healing but succeed in versatility. Maybe Lucio and too a lesser but notable extent Moira can lead that idea. Having a baseline for your character design is better than trying to one up your already established ones.

Hot Take: Dva should not be able to send her self destruct forwards by itself, instead only being able to activate wherever she's currently standing. It has a pretty generous radius (based on my experience of getting killed by it), and she's already able to essentially fly to wherever she wants to be without needing her ult ready, so being able to send the mech on its own only further lowers the risk of an already great reward.

4:50 LITERALLY ME

Hot Take: You should be able to call out enemy ultimates in game without using coms. If you know a reaper has ult, you should be able to warn your team on the communication wheel.

Hot Take: bronze dps should be blocked from any social channels until they realise tryna be t500 won't work when they can't shoot a shield

I think that mei's ability do give tank vibe. But one thing is mei character design. I cannot imagine mei getting GIGA muscle or having a mech like dva to make her look like a tank.

Hit take: if everyone else gets a dedicated “I need healing” button, as a support I want a dedicated “I need damage” or “I need peeling” button.

14:57 they need to give him 2 charges for his boop xD

Hot take: ranked should take more consideration for a bad teammate on your team rather than just looking at if you won or lost the match. This season alone I had 8 people leave in a ranked match halfway in and of course we lost, why should i be punished for a bad teammate in that scenario

streamers would play ranked if they could que with their friends

They could do a carpet bomb ultimate like if you ult in the are they immediately explode when the hit the ground cause he gets ult fairly fast if you are productive enough its just easy to escape his ult or just wipe them all away with say a shield,doom slam, winston. I feel he could get more value if they just instantly explode sort of like if you are caught in zarya ult you are dead 80% of the time unless you predict it.

Hot Take: Sombra’s rework, for the most part, is a success, but Translocator just feels like a worse Genji Dash. There’s no more mind games with throwing your Translocator but not actually teleporting to it in the middle of a duel, and there’s absolutely no planning ahead by placing it near a teamfight for future use. I think there could be a nice compromise between what it is now and what it used to be - if it keeps its throw speed, but it can now stay on a flat surface for, like, 10-ish seconds so you can’t just camp a hacked medkit forever; you would have to make sure that you engage within those 10-ish seconds to get value out of it before it just disappears or you teleport away, and then goes on cooldown.

hot take: high skill ceiling does not mean a character should automatically be good. best examples are doomfist and ball. i personally don’t like playing with them but i don’t think anyone enjoys going against those two and yet they are some of the highest skill ceiling hero’s in the game. fun for the people who master them but horrible for literally everyone else

What is the first guy talking about. All my close games are always on hybrid. They almost always go to overtime.

Hot Take: Genji needs the old bleed passive back on his dash. If everyone is getting a health buff, and JQ, Mauga, and Ashe all have damage over time abilities, fuck it give it to Genji.

Possible hot take: I get the feeling that blizzard is trying to make the game more casual friendly, we see the experimentations for quickplay, the bigger projectiles, and mauga who's bread and butter is body shotting because you get headshots for free and just targeting the tank because you get the most value out of your heal with it. Personally I'm fine with them making the game more casual or reducing the barrier for entry I just hope they don't completely ignore making high skill ceiling heroes or mechanics that are so satisfying to master.

Hot take: Mercy shouldn't be able to continuously heal without powering up. Most of the games i play as tank the Mercy has an enormous amount of healing just because they farm me and everyone else. I get the fact that they want to heal and that sometimes you require more healing than power up or the fact a Mercy benefits some dps with a pocket (specially if they are popping off) but, at the same time i feel some Mercy's tend to overheal thus negating ult-charge for the other support. I rather have someone nanoed on my team earlier than a popped Valk and discord, 'nade, lamp, suzu or even speed before a perma golden beam behind someone. (even tho good mercys can be scary lol)

Hot take: Sigma is one of, if not the worst, designed tanks because when he is exceptionally strong, the game becomes insanely slow paced and can really feel like it comes down to who has the better dps to get a pick. I'm not sure if this is how it feels in every rank, but at least for me in gm1, every one of my games on Havana, junkertown, or circuit are just really lame because if you don't pick sig and they do, it's incredibly hard for you to win. He should probably be reworked imo.

Hot take: remove cass hinder grenade and instead make a buffed version of his right click into an ability. This would play more into his hero fantasy of being a gun slinger while both being more fun for the cass and your opponents

This could be considered a hot take: I think it would be cool if hero’s that have movement abilities with momentum would keep going for a short bit after the ability stops. Take Rein for example, he could charge and instead of stopping on a dime he keeps going for a bit and could possibly make more space. It could amp his swing damage by a small amount, using the momentum for the swing. Of diva can keep sliding and knock people out of the way a bit. Same for ball or doom. Just an idea

Saying lucios beat is bad is crazy lol. When you compound it with a speed amp and your team follows up it’s one of the most deadly things in the game

The hot take of cc/negative effects reduction on tanks has being said since forever and would bring a good quality of life change for the tanks players but the devs seems to be scared to do it

I would LOVE for Mei to become a tank. I OTP’d Mei I. OW1 and play her occasionally in OW2, and I honestly expected it after they announced Doomfist as one.

Hot take: your performance in the match should determine your SR gaining, not just winning or losing the game.

Hot take : genji should have cool dragon projectiles during ult

Nerf doomfist into the ground but give me my Broken uppercut, I've never laughed so heart

Hot take: sometimes a value of skin is on it's rarity not it's visual. even if it looks trash i might like just cause it's rare. most of the times these are event skins like alien zarya, lego bastion, pink mercy.

Hot Take: Bastion voicelines should be free

players playing comp doesn't mean its competitive, i play comp just because a longer game is more fulfilling and i can get golden guns for my weapons id argue more people actually play comp casually than competitively

hot take rien but fire strike does less dmg and doesn't have a cooldown. thoughts?

Maybe a hot take?? Sombra having invisibility at no real cool down cost and a very easy to land ability that does 50 damage over time (more if target is hacked), and teleport away in any direction, including vertically (which makes her go nearly instantly invisible as well) seems a bit too much. I wouldn't say she is OP, but come on. She already has effortless access to the entire map with increased movement because she is invisible meaning that even if you position safely against the enemy team, she can just pop up next to you and your cover when she chooses to engage without you being able to see or hear her and it costs her none of her abilities. At least with other dive characters you can see and hear them AND they often have to use their abilities if they wanted to get in such aggressive and optimal positions that Sombra can get into AND those abilities other dive characters would have to use are the same ones they may need to save in order to escape. Sombra just gets all of that for free without spending a cool down.

Hot take: saying something isn't fun is actually much more valid criticism to the devs than saying it's unbalanced. Because they know when something isn't balanced. But what we find fun is very subjective. So it's all about pleasing the majority than pleasing everybody. If most of us don't like playing against Kiriko because we find it annoying that she's cluttering our screen with her kunais and suzu, and we get frustrated over the fact that she has an escape tool and we don't then that alone is a valid criticism for the devs to look into. All of that without us pretending we know better than them what is and isn't balanced. You can be elitist all you want, but if there's one thing that Shroud taught us is that this game is more than just aiming, and one thing that Cliff Terios also taught us is that a broken hero/comp does nothing for you if you don't know how to play it.

Ty karq

they just need to fix the bugs for doom. he is really good right now but he nees to not have inconsistency

I'm all in on the petition to give Rein some damage reduction while charging, maybe even only 25%

The hot take of the game being casual is pretty spot on. People play ranked to just have it be a bit more intense most players I come across throw and don’t care if they win or lose

Wow, sorry KarQ, I got another one. 6:10 onwards And I do like to play this game quite much actually. This is not a truly competitive game, at least not anymore. Devs always wanted to cross that gap between casual and pro with OW but never quite managed. Look at S9 updates, they gonna make you diamond and above chads feel more great about the meticulous earned (shooting/ positioning) skills? Yeah no. Us plebs up to gold/ plat? Yeah probably gonna live with it fairly fine. Said it on a flats vid a while ago: This is not a triple A game, at least not anymore. It does not (never did?) get the attention and professional mindset attributed, that it would've needed. (developer side; they wanted too much at start, cared too little in the meantime) The ( as we now know constantly changing) DEV's have NO! idea about how thos game even should work, they do as told from above. So you (streamer guys) are (prob. next to professionals) the most intricate views on the game there is. But all of you guys also won't bite the hand that feeds you. (Stupid thing to do^^; no harm done ) But watching KarQ, Flats, Emongg, jay3, Bogur, ML7, Yeatle, etc........ You are getting fed, or you are in denial 😮

Hot Take: LifeWeaver is the worst support and is a throw pick. Kiri, bap, Ana, I don’t need to explain. Moira does more consistent damage with the same amount of heals, illari can pop off, zen discord and ult are better, mercy can help a dps carry, brig is the best babysitter, and Lucio speed for engage and disengage. There is nothing he does better than another support other than annoy your teammates like a throwing Mei.

Hot take: doom sucks to play with - either your doom is good and the enemy team is miserable or your doom is garbage and you're miserable (Idk if this has appeared yet but still)

Hot take I think sym could make a cool tank if they reworked her and gave her shields somewhat like rams I think her nature as a smart architect fits a tank that creates light structures to block damage and sight lines

I think I get the first take. Hybrid maps do tend to prefer a specific comps. Kings row prefers brawl, numbani prefers dive. Hollywood prefers poke, although that one you can play dive too

Hot take, screw consistent ability interaction. Every movement mechanic should be look at logically not consistently. Tracer should get out of anything with recall but not with blink. I'd give more examples but KarQ will get mad at me

I'm commenting a bunch but the sonic heroes shout-out made my day!

Ow2 Doomfist main who never played ow1 before here 🙋🏿‍♂️. Doomfist definitely feels good but things that prevent him from moving even for a counter for seconds can turn into a death sentence and it sucks especially when power block forces you to be immobile. I personally think PB should be able to block sleep dart and give Doom some damage reduction on charging his punch. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve died by the time my punch finish charging and it feels like I’m being overly punished for using the tools given to me

Imagine taking all of blizzards crap since this game came out and drawing the line at getting kings row or eichenwalde

3:24 "Currently as it stands, you earn competitive points even for taking a loss." How? It's 25 for win and 5 for draw, and then some end-of-season comp points for achieved ranks. Draw is not a loss. How can one earn comp points from loss? I've never understood this, and this is not the first time I've heard someone claim that loss also gives you comp points.

a lot of heroes already have unique passives but i do agree generally with that take of role passives being bad

Hot Take: If I Sleep a flanker, I should be able to burst them and kill them as Ana.

I don’t even play doom fist as a main character, but I do play doom fist. I started playing in overwatch 2 and i thought he was hard at first but he’s actually so fun to play as a tank. All the people that want to play him as a dps should just play some open queue, he’s so fun to pair with a rein.

Hot Take: The scoreboard needs to be removed. All it shows is stats with no context and it ends up assigning blame to the wrong person most of the time. I'm not saying we should go back to gold medals, but maybe something like the scoreboard shows only your stats.

Hot take Mei needs a rework into something else I think support her gun would be a beam of heals

I’m still annoyed of the change to cass cause he was my swap to kill phara. Now she take barely any damage and outflys a nad

Hot take: Zen’s harmony orb should heal him, based on the HP healed, like Mercy. Nerf his HP to 175-200/remove some shields to compensate.

If you don’t like hybrid then what gamemode do you want to play? 💀

Hot take: Ball is by far the worst treated hero by the devs and the community, he has been awful for nearly all of OW2, he had 1 season where he was a decent pick, by no means was he OP, but because the community complained he got nerfed. He’s been the worst tank in the game for almost all of OW2, and with his high skill ceiling and mind numbing counters he struggles a lot. But because the community don’t like Ball the devs don’t want to buff him

Lol on hybrid. Hellllloooo push is the worst.

hot take: junk tire should have yellow health. I have 2000+ hours on junk

"if half the players play comp..." they don't anymore. I think there's a reason why they don't release that number anymore.

3:05 aren’t you like good friends with flats or smth?

Hot take: Zen, Sigma, and Echo float so they shouldn't trigger Junkrat traps.

Supports didnt need nerfs, juts bring 2nd tank as they are, op tanks cancel op supports

I play support and tank and mei is my most played dps. Maybe thats why i like mei 🤔 coz shes kinda a tank

In my opinion the reason doom players complain a lot is they either miss dps doom, of if ur like me your just sad they make random balance changes instead of fixing his little issues and bugs and NOT FIXING HIS DAM MOVEMENT AND TECHS MAN ITS BEEN A YEAR AAAAA im still so sad genuinely

Hybrid is my least favorite mode for sure. I dont hate the mode, but the first half of hybrid is basically 2 cp and it reminds me of why I hate 2cp. We’re either stuck there for the whole game or it lasts 20 seconds, no in between. The payload part is carrying that mode.

Hot Take: Season 9 should remove healthpacks

King's Row is the best map. Win or lose.

Hot Take: Lucio's boop sucks.

hot take buff rein please

Hot take: Beam based heroes (Zarya, Mei, Moira, Sym) are not healthy for the game.

Reinhardt can throw his hammer

Hot take: we need more heroes with unusual hitboxes. A dog, a ufo, a dps-sized tank, I don't care what, I want more weird.

Rework lucios whole ult, because its simply not a fun ultimate

Hot Take: Coming back to reiterate my hot take. Role passives would be better off as load out options! Hear me out. The current passives can be default to each role to ease complication, but rather than passive healing going across the board it would add a lot more nuance to the game if that was a choice between healing, fortified, and reload speed (and movement speed as an extra option). Ana might opt to trade (nerfed) passive healing for reload speed to increase uptime or reaper can take on fortified to maintain a closer proximity to his targets. Other than passive healing, role passives are generally negligible during play. I don't think being able to choose your own passive would break the game by any means, but it would certainly optimize the player's style and agency.

Overwatch is no longer a competitive team game is the player problem, not the game. It's the perception of the player in the West. You should try the Asian server, Korea, and China. They only play what they know, DIVE! Monkey, Doomfist, you have the player that only plays the Meta, they know what they're doing because they've been playing for so long and you get team play as a result, even with the 5 random players. NA players are whiney, they play Counter-swap Meta. Trying to counter-swap each other so there is no synergy left. The game devolved into a deathmatch. You have NA Tank complain that if you play Monkey and the other team has Ana+Brig, you can't do anything. That's true, you can't do anything ON YOUR OWN!! In the Korean lobby, if Ana missed the sleep dart, she is dead, even with the Brig standing right next to her, because of the thing called team coordination.