IS BALL BUSTED??? 

The title is a question but more importantly a joke.

Ball community: we want skilled counterplay to cc. Blizz: best we can do is spiderball

The mine health change prevents it from being instantly killed by doomfist slam which is nice, thats the only real benefit ive found from that change so far

14:30 Certified Hammond moment.

he's just hanging there... menacingly

He’s mobility is insane but he still doesn’t do much as far as damage is concerned. I like it and I do think the shield generator is a good step in the right direction for ball.

14:30 that looks like my Wrecking ball gameplay

Ball is better imo, retract is kinda slow but im sure u can pull some sick clips with it, overhealth for teammates is just a situational thing

So, now hacking an hanging ball is like fruit harvesting 😂

One thing I've been doing is using both fireball and retract and the same time when going for an engagement, which essentially makes the engagement so much faster and harder to counter for the enemy. Really interesting how you tried using it to set up more, rather than for going in. I think this rework has a lot of potential!!

From “The fall of ball” to “Is ball busted”

It could be just its a new feature to his ability, but I do love how using the retract function sorta just dumbfounds people into now shooting you as effectively. Like they are unable to comprehend three dimensional movement.

Was waiting for your gameplay for this! And you did not disappoint. Let's go yeat!!

dont know about anyone else but my ball busted after this patch

Been waiting for this one

Toronto kicking makin a come back

I think they should make his primary fire not have spread and compensate with falloff and maybe adjust damage per shot. Honestly, I feel like tanks as a whole aren't rewarded for good aim as much as they should be and because of that the tank abilities often end up either overtuned or useless.

0:01 holyy I’ve never seen that brig skin. Coool

I love this set of changes. Beautiful.

He’s insane on clash It’s awesome seeing Yeatle happy about playing ball again too. Being able to slam and then still be able to swing around is awesome

naw this title is villainous

I've also noticed that you can tighten the arc when swinging on grapple. Might lead to some insane moves with Ball

One thing I don't understand: why did they not give his boop more damage? I mean lucio did. Queen got more damage on her carnage. Why can't ball get a dmg buff for the new health pools? Idk just something I find odd. Same goes for minefield to be honest although to a lesser extent

Sheesh! Yeatle on ball again is a sheesh worthy moment! Let’s goo!

The fact the overhealth stays even if you distribute it last minute is really nice: You can always give it at the last sec and you don't miss out on anything as you were about to lose it anyway, just have to get in the habit of pressing the ability again right as its ending every time

It seems the grappple retract speed and normal grapple speed is additive, add to the fact decreasing the radius of your swing while doing a circle increases angular momentum, a max range grapple into fireball and detract as you swing around will send you flying

Seein Yeatle play ball is such a joy tho

So I played a bunch last night the main tech and new Playstation of ball is either playing a safe engage or a greedy engage. You can start by rolling through enemy team grab shields get out then rush with team give them shields while u use retract and grapple fire ball to fling into the backline faster Which is a tech from the retract just grapple a wall fireball jump retract release and you go flying. Ball is in a really good position right now I feel he is good and actually not op while not being hot garbage. He can adapt to his counter picks which is what every tank should be able to do instead of counterwatching. If they have sombra you can poke her dive her and save shields to help your team live against her flanks. The real strength of new ball is counter diving if they dive your backline doom genji u can get shields and give them to your team to counter the dive and actually book them further into your team making it harder for them to escape

I appreciate this analysis

If you retract while going up in fire ball you go flying

Hey Yeatle! Try fireballing then retracting, you get crazy speed and can even U-turn push people if youre grappled on a small ledge like Circuit bridge. If you fireball, retract, then detach mid retract you can go REALLY far which can help setup dives faster.

When you grapple high and have a flames going, if you retract while going up you fly

So this opens up old Miro Winston, wait on a sign (rip the old school spot on Lijiang Night Market), drop on enemies then bail strats. Hit and run

Yeatle is the guy the main character meets at the beach bar while on vacation

if you retract while i’m bash mode, you go further into the sky and fast when you launch yourself at enemies

I like that the change in hook means if I misclick / let go of a grapple instantly by mistake I don't just lose the CD.

IS BALL WHAT!!!!??????? 🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨

THE BUFFED HAMPTER!!!!

that slow rise to the lifeweaver at 6:21 was so ominous 😹

They have to release a patch to be able to remap the retract to any button.

Def need to add a detract after this retract change lol, would be cool if you can find spots where you can keep changing the length and go around pillars and other stuff in your way while spinning (would be even cooler if this could all happen while in fireball but that would prolly be busted

Omg babe look Yeatle’s back 😍

You can fireball during retract but if you have enough velocity while you fall. For example if you try to be spiderman-ball after several hooks 5 second cd will block you from contunuing. Idk how broken it is if you just retract - shoot - retract - shoot in the air instead of playing normally

Thoses new mechanics are really awsome ! giving shield to other can really give tool to people with a very very high level of "game reading" !

Oh my God, the blushing hamster is so cute

Due to shields lasting 4 sec on allies regardless of time remaining, I think the play is to ALWAYS distribute shields right before the duration is over. Free overhealth is free overhealth. Don’t go out of your way to distribute but always do when given any allies in range and it’s about to expire.

My hamster got a couple new toys in his box, nice

The Spider Hamster is finally awake

Wait, i havent played since they added ramattra, they made it so that ball can hold grapple infinitely again? It was always funny using that to hold objectives

I think you should be able to hold to retract and release to descend.

Christmas Ornament style for the win!

1. I think the retract needs to be a bit faster because it’s so awkward slowly retracting upwards 2. Mine damage needs to be increased because of the HP buff 3. Make ball grapple out of spawn 4. Increase his gun damage because of HP buff

seeing 1000 hp by him hitting e is so funny

The shield change almost encourages you to either follow up on someone else's engage, or counter-engage when the enemy dives your team. Your shield is best when you're surrounded by enemies AND allies, which doesn't really happen with typical Ball gameplay. Don't think of it as a way for you to do normal Ball things better, think of it as a way to kinda-do some non-Ball things. You can actually stand with your backline and protect them from a dive or get into a middle of a brawl and have a better JQ shout. I do think it's a bit awkward and they could try to make it better for normal Ball activities, but it's fun when it works.

Change decent but like adaptive shield give is to short and using slam is still super high risk for medium reward

How to fux ball: Give him a self destruct button that makes him explode like dva mech but it kills him and and anyone in 10meter range

we love ball busting🔥

I cant tell if this video made me think ball was giga nuts, or if Rein was even more giga weak

Ayo the change to the cooldown wtf that completely changes his skill requirements that’s wild Literally the earliest most important step to learning ball is how to setup a PD without using grapple I guess it’s still there since fireball makes the cooldown longer, but still that’s huge for new players (and ppl like me returning after a long time not knowing any of the maps anymore) 6:16 YES THIS IS WHAT I MEAN HOLY SHIT this DEFINITELY raises the skill floor!!! I love it!! Wrecking ball can use his PD on CD without wasting grapple or needing to do a tech or find high ground? This is insane, might be broken tbh, but now since PD can actually be used on CD we can see its full potential in combos and they can adjust the cooldown and damage accordingly!! I have a feeling this is revolutionary for Wrecking Ball, they might’ve just made him relevant to 5v5, he doesn’t need to go find off angles and weird high grounds if you don’t know the wallbounce tech (also, that tech is inconsistent especially on controller, like, it did not allow PD on CD, especially for newer wrecking balls) he can be a frontline tank, like, it’s not his strong suit, but a wrecking ball in front of the team, giving them shields, bouncing in the enemies face instead of needing to start somewhere weird he can attempt to work his way forward into the team instead of backward, but backwards is obviously still the move, all of this is just a wordy goldy way of saying his skill floor is lower People like Yeatle will show how it needs to be adjusted

This might be a little OP, but I think ball shouldn’t be removed from ball mode if he gets CCed (ie sleep, hindered, hacked, etc.) That way Ball still gets stopped but isn’t just sitting dead in the water. They also can’t come out to shoot or enter fireball so it wouldn’t really allow them to do damage. Basically just helps his survivability when going up against this comp, sorta like how Mauga can’t be controlled when he does his charge

I love the rework!

I think machine guns still need a buff because of how hard it is to kill a half hp ana. Or buff head shot damage at least. More consistent damage

My first instinct when I loaded up the patch is to retract while fireballing and he didn't even think of it?

What a handsome young man

No yeatle, you’re busted.

every time i watch your gameplay... i realize ... i know nothing about playing ball! now i know how jon snow feels by knowing norhing

Ball do be kinda cracked

This title is crazy ngl☠️☠️

omg I'm wearing that old navy shirt right now!

Yeah and blue as well. Busted blue balls!

I don't see how it makes it easier to get value from him. It slightly increases his max value, but his value floor is still close to zero if red team decides to go counters.

the fact that hack/hinder doesn’t reduce hooks cd when not getting ramming speed shows how out of tune they are with the game, i’d love to see how many hours devs with actual sway have in heroes like ball and doomfist have total, it can’t be more than 200hours across the company

Did the slam damage get a buff scaling from height?

Still needs COMPLETE immunity to CC to be effective.

does the hinder stop grapple? so if you are hanging can he just throw that shit up at you. hack will probably work i wonder what else couzld stun you out of it. a doom probably and a flying ulting brig :)

*instantly forgets how to do walljumps*

mines not being instantly cleared by doom slam is a very nice change

I play on console but I bind retract to swap form because primary fire will swap you out of ball form automatically. Idk how this will translate on PC.

I think ball just needs a passove that only he has that reduces all cc he gets in ball form by 25/40% so if ur scattered in ball form it only last 2.2s or something.

I'd call this the Nutsack update for ball

Haha, I see what you did there ball player... "I need to be more mindful..." Mine Field. YEP.

The *STACHE*

Yeatle, I heard you played with a controller for a while and climbed pretty high. I find some tech really tough on console. Any tips on things like wall jumping? I can’t do it consistently at all.

Its actually busted, as you can get "super speed" when grapling a high point, accelerating and retracting and basically fly in a straight line across the map. (and the enemy has basically no time to react) Or catapulting to the sky ceiling and effectively getting out of LoS/range and then pile driving back down.

grapple won't break? Time to play as a chandelier. Wait, if grapple doesn't break, doesn't that mean u could do that bounce back wall bump unlimited times?

They should make the retract just a lil faster

just wanted to say i like your shirt🙌

LET US USE SHIELDS WHILE SLAMMING!

These changes just continue to prove my theory blizzard doesn't fundamentally understand their game. Which sucks I wish they did. Ball didn't really need these things other than the mine hp buff I guess. They don't address any of his issues other than: high skill floor at first glance

Nothing will fix tank counters but 6v6. This is a fact.

THE CHARACTER FEEL SO BAD STILL THE FIRST WRECKING WHERE U HAD MORE FREE MOVEMENT IT WAS GOOD

Do you think they should do something to prevent counter swapping? I personally think it's a core problem with the game. I actually can't play anything without 3 people in the enemy team switching to counter. It feels like shit to steam roll the enemy team just for them to switch and suddenly it doesn't matter how much better you are.

Didn’t ball already have the retract option? Or was it just a different function

ball busting

Ball max health is 1025. Absolutely nuts

I played against ball in comp yesterday. Wrecked my team. Seemed like he had infinite grapple.

Well it's clear that ball is busted when Yeatles locks him at least.

new ball opinion dropped

Ball needs better guns. For both short and long range

Does this mean Yeatle is back to playing hamster? Also this seems great for hammond makes him a bit more fun to play and a bit more useful.