#Possible New Hero Leak?

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dim field
sage elk
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spoiler tag

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pls

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everyone sees the picture

hollow forge
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I removed the embed, feel free to repost but i did not want people to see the picture

dim field
true cargo
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I can hear the fareeha!!

dim field
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I was about to ask that yeah!

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That's so cool if she's going to be anran's offical va ingame

hollow forge
tough pecan
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||another dps?||

honest basin
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well

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cant be as bad as water college

sage elk
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Also I think if Anran a dps I will have a bit of a laugh they are undoing their hard work of evening out the roles

tough pecan
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i do wonder if it's really gonna undo it by that much

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it's not gonna help queue times thats for sure

honest basin
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Queue times are forever dead for overwatch lol

sage elk
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Role queue queues have always been fucked

honest basin
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Until they make tanking enjoyable in 5v5 it will be the bottlecap

sage elk
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and will always be fucked

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you can not have role queue and fast queues

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that what you give up for the format

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and the team set on making tank in current 5v5 the least fun

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So it will be the bottleneck for queue times

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And what crazy is tank in 5v5 was popular

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for the first few seasons of ow2

drifting silo
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Brooo, the next hero better not be a fucking DPS.....

severe night
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Very funny to me how many people are like shocked about this

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Like dear they both got Overwatch invitations at the same time and are obviously gonna join together

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I thought we all assumed they’d be added very close together

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Esp with them starting to actually invest in the story again

sage elk
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yea Anran to me was locked in since they redesigned her visually for wuyang short

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and gave her a weapon

severe night
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Mhm

sage elk
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I am just surprised that if her playtest is this season

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Then that means she is coming out in s21

severe night
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Oh also they like stated after Wuyang’s like story or smth that she was in development at that time too did they not?

severe night
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Would be cool tho

sage elk
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given how ow development works

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She been in the making for atleast a year

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Since wuyang was pretty much ready a year ago seemingly

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With the broad strokes

severe night
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But also i feel like they want that 1 season with no new hero so they can focus more on getting the new guy to be around everyone else’s level

sage elk
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I would say that

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but look what the other game doing

severe night
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I try not to if i can help it

true cargo
severe night
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Ive seen too much of Wade’s ass already :/

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I mean hell if it happens ill be hyped regardless

sage elk
# true cargo

this is really giving the vibe we are seeing her today

severe night
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I can main both siblings :)

sage elk
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If next season a hero season somehow

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Explains why they see it as so big

dim field
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I like anran so I'm not too fussed lol

sage elk
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A new hero is a pretty big thing to drop

severe night
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Would also kinda explain why this season has felt so dry

sage elk
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So soon after Vendetta

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well that happened last year too

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Before s15

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Which was the big one

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Basically moving everyone to the big season asap

dim field
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Imagine if season 15 and 16 content combined into one season holy shit

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In terms of introducing stuff

severe night
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This was also the first time we didnt get a new hero in stadium at midseason no? At least for a season that had a hero launch

dim field
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Who did we get in Season 18?

sage elk
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that tied to them also doing less stadium heroes

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it only had 2

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Quality over quanity

dim field
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Idgaf about that where is lifeweaver nianMad

sage elk
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Wuyang and Doom plus Cassidy got a rework

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Anyway I think Stadium no longer set with the amount of heroes

true cargo
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Some people think it's just Vendetta on the shirt though

sage elk
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That would be really funny

severe night
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Would be very weird if it was

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Fareeha just there for the bit ig

dim field
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Bruh

sage elk
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I will say

dim field
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I kinda hope this is just a one time thing if anran is next season and not, oh one new hero per season now

sage elk
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The lore piece is arguebly also so Anran foucsed

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Doing this piece then doing something related to her makes sense

true cargo
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I kinda hope Anran is the hero AFTER our next one tbh

severe night
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We also havent seen like anything else to suggest someone else is coming yet

dim field
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I do want to know more about her journey aside from being wuyang's brother cause she seems cool

sage elk
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Basically nothing

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only other hero we know coming Emre

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But he feels like he is saved for blizzcon

severe night
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If she is a dps please for the love of god dont let her be like a movement focused one like Vendetta is

sage elk
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and he hasnt had as much build up

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as Anran

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Who is getting focus

severe night
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I dont think the game is prepared for 2 of those running around rn

sage elk
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I will say this

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I think a hero next season makes sense

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Because that moves heroes launches

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Which would mean the last hero of the year in october

true cargo
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Big season shake up innit

sage elk
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a month after blizzcon

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Because why show a hero that not out for 3 months

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if it was december

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also if Anran next and a dps tank going to soon have one of the longest waits for a new hero lol

severe night
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Would make it so that few weeks break they have wouldnt be that bad with no new hero coming in right before it

true cargo
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This sorta motivates me to turn my lack of oddballs rant into a full video if she gets announced 😎

sage elk
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you should

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I think there no oddball anywhere near us lol

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I think what was said on the stream was to cover their ass

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and get the community to shut up

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fucking mental it is a big ask for a new robot hero

severe night
sage elk
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lowkey goes hard

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anyway if Anran actually next

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I think people got good reason to be upset

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Doing less robots to add more diversity yea right

severe night
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Yeah it’s fair to be upset about it

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Just kinda shocks me with how big an uproar there is with like considering just how like kinda obvious it seems that this was gonna happen

sage elk
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I am surprised nothing seems to have changed

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Even after the community got upset

severe night
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Like honestly it shocks me more that they didnt launch the two of them back to back tbh lol

sage elk
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obviously maybe this was set in stone early

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but like still a bad look

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the ow team just confuses me alot

severe night
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They probably thought that like adding a pair that are very linked in their lore close together would be more exciting ig

sage elk
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They make choices that seem so clear they will upset the community

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and do it anyway

true cargo
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I still think there is a chance she is hero after the next one, and they're just starting marketing earlier cuz blizzard love to do that

sage elk
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True

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But the lines ingame just what getting me

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That alot

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That not hero still work in progress type stuff

true cargo
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That's my ideal outcome I think - I want Anran, I just don't think I want her yet

sage elk
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if she is a dps it does make me wonder why they didnt replace like Freja or Vendetta with a tank

severe night
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Makes me kinda wonder how long had they considered making Vendetta a tank

sage elk
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tho what I am assuming the case is they needed to do more heroes and dps heroes are just easier to make

severe night
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(I think they said they had considered making her one at one point at least)

sage elk
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for everything we have been told

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And she was always meant to be kinda small

severe night
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Ah then i misremembered that

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I had thought they said she was initially meant to be one but they changed it up at one point

sage elk
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nope

severe night
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Then atp idk

sage elk
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she changed from a good guy to a bad guy

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that what changed with vendetta

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but shapes and kit was basically the same

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for what we have been told

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and her being the vendetta we know was set atleast since like 2024

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like late 2024

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at minimum

severe night
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Would be very funny if Anran somehow wasnt a dps

sage elk
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I would love to see a new tank

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Flame throwers very much a tank type weapon

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with the role normally shorter range

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Issue to me is she is just really tiny

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in basically everything we have seen

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but genuinely I would love ow to surprise us

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We also havent gotten a new tank woman since junker queen

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So were long overdue one

severe night
sage elk
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Gonna be a vendetta issue again

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When they do get close they are going to be killing you fast

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Which idk if people will vibe with that

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After how the reaction to vendetta has been

severe night
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Walking out of choke just to get burnt to a crisp in 0.2 seconds by a damage boosted Anran

sage elk
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I do personly overall like what they did with Vendetta kit

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She basically a mini tank but like that nothing new in ow lol

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Mei has existed in this game sicne 2016

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and obviously vendetta still in her launch season

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There always a chance there something we dont get yet with what they want from ow that in the mixup

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Maybe dps actually getting an intresting passive

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imagine that

severe night
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God i wish

sage elk
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but anyway even with all those negative thoughts

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the team clearly trying alot

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I hope they nail whatever to come next season

severe night
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I do hope the way Anran plays feels kinda similar to Wuyang in some places

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Since he took a fair bit from fire techniques for how he uses water iirc

sage elk
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To me Wuyang was super interesting with how using his primary went

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That was such a good new way to aim

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I do wonder how they might make Anran feel very fire bendy

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That why I think a fire tank could have made sense

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if she wasnt dps sized

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Since the idea of basically a fire DM seems possible

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but not on a dps

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and having her contrast wuyang by being more about holding her ground

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While wuyang way more mobile

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But at gamescom keller did call her a fire mage so maybe she just shots fireballs

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and that the thing

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wuyang projectile but fire ball

severe night
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It would be interesting for her to be a small tank if they go that route

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Sounds like a complete balancing nightmare but it would be a first

sage elk
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Smaller tanks is possible

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Does sound like a balencing nightmare for 5v5 tanks

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but like that how it has been for most of the off tanks

severe night
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And Wuyang’s origin story did show that she’s a capable solo fighter iirc

honest basin
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Tragic

sage elk
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it would be really funny if she just kinda massive ingame

honest basin
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We're never getting a non conventionally attractive 20yr old again

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Idk if that sentence makes sense

sage elk
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I know what your getting at

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if that helps

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it feels like all heroes fall into a very similar problems and age ranges

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Like the art team is being told to limit themself to a very limited scope of what heroes can be

honest basin
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Ye that

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No sigmas or ana's ever only frejas and wuyangs

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Travesty

sage elk
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like the last hero that wasnt east asian or european was venture

severe night
sage elk
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which venture was 2 years ago now almost

sage elk
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But in execution is amazing

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since they made him a weird tall space guy

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which stands out in his own role

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it makes me wonder how the choices for making a hero has changed

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I would do anything to get some actual insight on ow2 making

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Because the art team so closed with how choices get made

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Which is so different from alot of ow1 heroes

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There they were super open on how and why they did certian design choices with heroes

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Hazard the one we got the biggest examples of designs they scraped

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and I would like to know why none of these ideas got pushed further

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Since a lot of these stand out with the shapes chosen

true cargo
severe night
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Probably skin related

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I hate that idea of something being “too silly” for a futuristic world

sage elk
severe night
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Gorilla who is universally loved even by people who dont touch OW no less

sage elk
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The winton plush meme I saw in none ow circles

severe night
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Ive seen many posts of people hating on Overwatch but also saying that Winston is its one saving grace

dim field
true cargo
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Exactly!! Dhxhxh

tough pecan
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the legendary return of the eggs

sage elk
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If there no eggs I think we gotta cancel Niandra

tough pecan
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I will automatically disagree with the video if there are no eggs

tough pecan
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Jsyk every new hero in overwatch 2 except venture, illari, mauga, junker queen, and sojourn are of east Asian or European descent

sage elk
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oh yea we had arguebly Haz, Freja and Vendetta within the span of a year

long badge
severe night
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I mean tank and support are

true cargo
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er did the ark8 hoodie thing get revealed yet

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ohhh it's miko mercy i think lol

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dim field
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they marketed anran quite a bit to then have the merch be on the other asian hero with a skin you can't even get anymore LOL

true cargo
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their latest 3 things are all season 1 items

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neat but quite odd

dim field
sage elk
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Huh

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2 of those skins People havent been able to get for the past 3 years

inner pecan
# sage elk

I rlly like the top right image with the huge fists

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that's prob my favorite concept for him

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also ik anran has a lot of eye rolling but I do like that she uses fans

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more weapons that aren't guns pls

sage elk
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Oh yea I Think hero trial for Anran coming out after spotlight stream ends

dim field
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Potentially if they are releasing her next season

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Wonder if that means they are changing hero releases to be one every season

sage elk
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Since I Think that the real mix up

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Because ow has never done that before

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Also I said it earlier

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That why we got so many dps heroes

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And seemingly atleast 2-3 this year

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The role just easier to make heroes for if you need to do more heroes