Can Hanzo be fixed? | Hanzo Rework Idea 

New passive - Poison Arrows, give hanzo arrows that deal 100 + 25 damage over time, similar to widows venom mine or anas sniper (maybe in between those ttk) - for a headshot he will hit 200 + 50 poison damage, allowing him to kill an enemy in one shot if they don't use an ability to save themselves (most heroes can) or they can get healed the slightest amount. This will make playing hanzo more rewarding for hitting difficult headshots in 1v1 situations but make his one shot potential unlikely to kill someone when just shooting down a choke, he gets the benefit of the dps passive lasting longer with the poison effect and the benefit of feeling rewarded for hitting headshots, instead of the hanzo feeling useless they will feel like they got an ability or the enemy team reacted fast enough to his damage

As a Hanzo main I looked at all the comments and watched the entire video and concluded it was great input by everyone.

The sword slash for Hanzo goes against everything in his character lore. Despite being a beast with the sword he put it down forever after he thought he killed Genji. It would make more sense if he did a stab with an arrow or something like the Sniper taunt in TF2

Something thatd be nice for dragon is if it had a cone around it, showing where exactly the hitbox is. I cop the shit out of it flying around as lucio

They can increase his arrow speed and fire rate by some amount And rework his mobility give a speed boost to dash for 3 seconds after use Or give him a scattershot mode for his storm arrows ( 3 at a time instead of 5 maybe) Or make the first storm arrow higher dmg for headshots, or headshots for 10 seconds after ultimate Or give him a smoke bomb for evasive action Or make his sonic arrow projectile much larger for easy headshot when you get rushed Or decrease the speed of his dragon/ increase dmg by 25% Or increase his melee dmg They can do stuff like this and make hanzo fun again Or just restore him to original hanzo Something should be done though, im not at all against 2 shot snipers for headshots- many games have them and to be fair widow should be the better pure sniper But hanzo was never a true sniper Hes a some type of hybrid and the best/ most fun play style is high risk high reward So if i were gonna rework his kit and playstyle, i would do the following 3 arrow scatter shot mode for storm arrows by tapping e again Faster arrows And a smoke bomb arrow for sonic, swappable by double clicking shift

These changes would either break Hanzo beyond OP or to utterly useless. I’m not sure which, but that’s the options

One shots are aweful because generally it feels like it isnt player vs player, it feels like my engagement was being the target for target practice. *Hear me out* A perk of hanzo is that he does actually have 'travel time projectiles' or just _projectiles_ so these _can_ at certain ranges be dodged, so maybe this one shot offers the receiver at least a little more engagement with the duel. Hanzo is cheesey when hes just spamming choke, because this just feels random. I wonder if exaggerating hanzos projectile arc would be a reasonable cost of getting oneshot back. This would reign in the effectiveness of choke spam; given he has to elevate his aim according to the distance of the enemy. With all this said. Pakourzo sounds so much more baller

new ability: sonic arrow deals an additional 5 damage

Every character can be fixed, I think it's a just a point of if Overwatch can create a narrative that supports a characters new direction.

i don't think hanzo needs a new movement ability but i like the idea of keeping a percentage of your charge if you climb. i think instead of adding a new movement ability, tweaking his old abilities could be good. for example a shorter dash cooldown or dashing resets his wall climb ability. this would keep his core mechanics the same but give more variables to tweak.

next one is sombra and widow obviously

ngl i don't like this rework, just play genji at that point. hanzo's whole thing is that he's simple and this is just making him a combination of genji and lucio.

You have terrible ideas but amazing concepts

Hanzo should remain as is for game's health in terms of dmg, ur utility ideas seem fun. Widow should be nerfed to 1st April 2023 state, her bullets should poison enemies, so they will die shortly unless healed. Widow was never good for this game, or fun hero to interact with. There is a reason heroes announce "SNIPER OVER HERE", because she is super far and super dangerous, 0 risk 100% reward.

Hanzo cant be fixed. Snipers dont belong in overwatch anyways. Even though hanzo is not really a sniper(or atleast anymore) he's actually a mid range hero but has projectiles so he doesn't have a fall of range. With no fall off range and the old 1 shot he could be played anywhere and be a threat just by existing(plus the bs sonar arrow). There's no counter play against 1 shots after all. The thing about hanzo is he's too ez with the one shot and hurts the game, but without it the slow ish fire rate makes him unviable (ignoring storm arrow) Hanzo is now more than anything just a spam hero, which he already was to be honest. I come from shooter games so i have a bias that projectiles are better than hitscan, fast projectiles at least. The reason why projectiles are better is simply because they have travel time which makes them "forgiving".(You said skill shots Pff i laughed out loud thanks). That's why most projectiles in this game are slow as fuck (to make them near useless at range) and well because heroes have to follow composition archetypes. Thats why Hanzo has been problematic since release. Look up the fastest projectiles in the game it goes: Sojourns rail gun/ Ult 160m/s (which i thought was hitscan LMAO) Ana's unscoped shot at 125 m/s. (Why the fuck do you think ana is not allowed to headshot?!?!?!) Torbs Alt fire at 120m/s And finally Hanzo's arrows at 110 m/s. Next its actually Orisa at 100m/s but ignore that. Whats next? its Zen! At 90m/s. You know how they balanced Zen? He's a glass canon with no mobility. Zen essentially has a "1 shot" volley but thats much slower in travel time plus long charge time, Lowering its damage per second potential. But hanzo? No he's perfectly balanced blah blah blah. Most "Fast projectiles" are balanced in one way or another Except for rail gun. But Hanzo? He has a bow and arrow! You cant balance him very well as he only has 1 form of attack: Arrows. That's why storm arrows damage is nerfed in damage but compensated with fire rate.