User blog:Tolis12345/Talking Playstyles

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How does one playyy
Anyways. Before Version 1.0 I want to adress the playstyles of the heroes that aren't going to be reworked COUGH COUGH MERCY D.VA COUGH COUGH.

Pharah
Pharah is an off-healer. Her main focus is healing while her second ability is in cooldown. She wants to use her secondary ability to become other heroes and help her team filling other roles when she can. For Example, if you have brigitte-ball and another mystery off-tank hero on your team, pharah can become a bastion so that she can protect her team for a short duration.

Widowmaker
Widowmaker is quite different fro mother supports as she has no healing apart from ultimate. Widowmaker focuses on peeling and helping her team in other ways. Her charm allows her to effectively force enemies or allies from going anywhere and her cleanse ability is the best supporting ability. You mainly wanna run widow when you know that you will be more useful to negate CC instead of spam healing and that you want to protect your glass cannon damage dealer that flanks a lot.

Ashe
Ashe is still in the damage role but instead of focusing on large amounts of damage she focuses on utility having some healing and damage taken reduction in her kit. Ashe is mainly to be played when your team doesn't have good supports or good tanks.

Zenyatta
Zenyatta is the best definition of a glass cannon. Zenyatta is really powerful if left unchecked being safe with his passive and range but he really can't do much if focused. He requires help from his team so a widowmaker can also peel for him if he has stranded too far away. Pick Zen when you know you need a lot of damage and that your team can peel for you

Mei
Mei is the definition of crowd control. She has her cryo freeze which freezes enemies nearby and her self but can move forward and jump while in cryo. Her wall is as annoying as always and her ultimate is on steroids being able to throw the ultimate as normal as well as freeze all nearby enemies at activation and freeze whoever she looks at with secondary fire while she is using her ultimate. Mei can be run when the enemy doesn't have a lot of cleansing effects or a lot of peel so a widowmaker or bastion are great counters to her.

Sigma
Sigma is probably the safest damage hero yet. Sigma has great damage in his abilities, can absorb and deal damage at the same time, has good vertical mobility and mediocre horizontal mobility, and his ult can delete anyone under 200 HP who doesn't get healed during sigma's ultimate. Sigma loves to play with his team, Even though he is really safe he isn't a flanker as once his absorb ability is down he is very squishy with only 200 HP. Play sigma when you have some good peeling available or your team is mainly grouped up. Bastion and sigma have the greatest mobility.

Bastion
Bastion is hands down the best example of a tank. He has a barrier that is very powerful under the right hands but also has to recharge, he has a very balanced knock up ability and can cleanse himself. Bastion works best for teams that want to stay grouped up and loves to tank all the CC just to cleanse himself from them. Play bastion when your team doesn't require much mobility but instead wants to push as a team and capture objectives or get kills.

Reaper
Reaper is a bruiser. He is basically like roadhog, he can be an ult battery or a very useful asset on your team, he has healing, self barrier and counters tanks and himself. Reaper is to be picked when your team needs a flanker or the team doesn't perform well in team fights. Reaper doesn't require much peeling so he is also a good pick for when you don't have any healing on the team.

Brigitte-Ball
Brigitte ball is an odd case. This character is more of a flex pick. They can became wrecking ball and flank around the map annoying the enemy or they can be brigitte who can just be an off-tank and make the enemy's day difficult. Pick Brigitte-ball when you want a reliable flex pick for your team. I can't list any notible synergies as that depends on form and team but I would say that most of the time Brigitte ball is reliable if you know how to play them.

That's all for now!

 * -Tolis[Constantine]