Most BROKEN STATE of EVERY HERO in Overwatch History (2016-2022) 

yeah, being able to one shot tanks is way stronger than damage mitigation

Back then you could pretty easily one shot with just his primary fire

I came here to find this. Title of video is most broken state, jello-wall hog was busted

yeah ive been playing hog since beta and he was strongest with 4 shots and broken hook, u could one shot anyone but the tanks and even then u still could shred them like paper

The problem was that he had garbage survivability though. His vape did nothing if you didn't use it 50 meters away from the enemy, and you turn into a target dummy coupled with an all-powerful ult battery. Yes he had stupid one-shots, but todays Hog is far better with much better survivability and still a very consistent one-shot on almost all characters.

I was thinking that too I’m not experienced enough with the workshop but someone has got to make one all the stats are right here

Agreed; everything op = balanced Although I think mercy would be must pick, I mean the infini res is hard to top

@@HuyNguyen-vj1uw Yeah, but there are so many possible counters with all these broken abilities

Plz no, not that brig again

@@bryanruiz2434 yea the meta i hyptohesize would be moth brig

just because scatter "could" 1 shot a zarya randomly doesnt mean it was even close to ass good as pre nerf storm arrow. dishing out a consistent 480 damage from body shots every what 6 seconds is retarded. any damage boost/headshot added to the point even further. he could kill legit any character in the game in a few seconds and no aiming.

Yeah "Shotgun Bow" Hanzo at release was nutty.

The problem was that Scatter was on a 10-second cooldown, meaning that Hanzo could only potentially do something every 10 seconds. This was because his arrows were slow as shit, and his Sonic Arrow was just awful; it had a whopping 20-second cooldown. The only reason he was played at all outside of throwing, was because of his Scatter

@@charKT-7461 Being able to do something as close as eliminate a whole as tank/sup with a single ability every 10 sec is OP as fuck wdym? Imagine, you are in a 6v6 and a hanzo just hit one of your sups, with scatter, it´s enough to literally destroy your chances, eliminating a shieldess rein, a zarya on full HP. It IS op. No matter whatever the problems you wanna get it.

@@gIV-EN I wasn't around at that time but wasn't that possible only in doorways and closed spaces in general? also wasn't it super predictable since that was all hanzo did anyways and you could just bubble it?

Oh yea, I remember back when I press right click, melee, and dash at the exact same time, doing 164 melee damage and 1 tapped tracer with zero skill, making her the least played hero in genji meta xD No head shot required, just all body shots. Head shots made genji the most OP high ceiling heroes, giving birth to the likes of seagulls who then gets genji nerved hard.

yeah also ult still had 120 damage

Genji swift strike use to add a bleeding effect too

@@eddystone777 yeah but that was way way back, it didn’t even made it into the launch build

"Rodhog is stronges now" ow2 : :)

Truth from the master Sombra himself❤

Hi fitzy!

Pffft, how would you know? 😉

I argue the Overwatch 2 Pro Player Showcase.

Did she still have instant EMP out of stealth back then? Or was it the same decloak/cast time as mentioned in the video? I can't remember.

It should also be mentioned that it was more like two months before bastion was changed for console. It was the year me and several friends dropped off the comp system due to this frustration.

There's a 50% DMG reduction cap? For all heroes? I had no idea

Honestly I think he was significantly better back when he had his own 1000 hp shield. Idk why we’re just ignoring that.

@@apple-de8tx Yea, it's for all heroes

@@kosmonautttt That was in beta. Never reached release

Blows my mind that people want that change for zen. If supports hate being killed by doom genji and tracer why would you want to make them twice as strong?

@@kinderx16_38 true lol

@@kinderx16_38 to be fair, zenyatta had 150 hp back then and 100 of it was shield. his movespeed boost also didn't exist when ulting. if you were picking zenyatta it was *exclusively* to put orbs on people and fuck off. it's not even just about twice as strong. he was making someone else twice as good at the cost of his own fun.

​@@kinderx16_38 it should work for harmony orb but not discord orb

@@Ferrichrome you know what unobstructed vision on harmony orb would do to supports? Make that one annoying genji or sombra or reaper even more annoying to deal with when they flank you from behind and got healed by 50/s without needing direct line of sight from enemy zen. It was broken AF. Today, those annoying flanker wouldn't have 50/s heal, and of course, remove that annoying "I need healing" genji scream, cuz now he must come to my LoS to get healed instead of calling me noob for not healing him from 15000 light years away from behind 50000 planets.

Man he hooked your ass through dimensions 😂 If you're familiar with Dota2 felt like the Navi TI fountain hooks. If you aren't I highly recommend you look it up and you'll see what I mean immediately lol

Hell yea I remember me and my friends would win comp games with 5 support and 1 roadhog. Then again we weren’t really the highest rank so maybe that’s why it would work lol

Yeah but he also had to stand completely still while using his vape and it didn't reduce damage, or build you ult charge. I think that alone makes him worse.

big agree, and when it couldnt break on walls, not even good position could save you

@@jibbs_aim Avoiding the Hook was a foreign concept back then, since the Hook wouldn't break on LoS and had a giant hitbox

I love you

They need to nerf bastion already.

@@AJ-gt7uy ??

@@AJ-gt7uy lmao bronze

@@tclfan0180 seriously, I’m in bronze but taking down Bastion is as easy as a close flank

It was bigger though, so you'd see people get environmental kills with it (which would grant more ult charge).

@Epic Gamer he forgor

Reaper, Moira and orisa can still do it

@@apple-de8txI know but back then rein, tracer, genji and some other could too

Symmetra can get an entire team out still

And personal shield

@@realchiknuggets holy shit I forgot about the sigma shield that she had for while

But that was her first rework not her start

That was her first rework which happened 8 months after launch, not at launch actually. At launch she didn't have Shield Generator, she had an active ability called Photon Shield that you aimed at a friendly and activate to give them (iirc) 25 shield HP. That got changed later (in the patch she got her first rework) and got replaced with projected barrier called Photon Barrier that if used well was incredibly useful. Let you close on people in a straight line safely, could save yourself and/or others from D. Va bomb, go through chokes safely, etc. On the down side, she only had 3 sentry charges instead of 6 and the CD for them was 12 seconds instead of 10, and her Teleporter was her only Ult, and had limited charges.

Back then she was the worst hero in the game xDDD

That's still possible

@@Xyrer no it’s not wym

@@Xyrer you can turn your camera to pull the target left or right but you can’t pull them all over the fucking place anymore, it was a wild time

Remember when his hook was so broken that it went through walls, that was most broken hog

@@pnutthescrublord9916 I do lol

Yup, 4s DM was absolutely her strongest state, could out-duel every character in the game and shut down an entire push/ult combo

I think dva was the strongest at end of season 2 and season 3 dva went from 100hp/ 400 armor to 200hp /400 armor and got a movementspeed buff while shooting. The reason being her primary fire tho. Her primary has slower firerate, but more dmg per bullet. Her matrix back then was 4 sec, but projectiles had to travel 1m to get absorbed. Resulting in Zarya being able to just grav the ground or things like Reaper ult would go throw left and right. Back then triple tank + soldier, Ana and zen was the meta on most maps. Then she got a primary fire nerf and the matrix buff where she absorbs everything and dive became meta. But I think dva was strongest before that.

@@Dingelnator yeah i would have to agree with season 2 dva being absolutely cracked

Yup!

As a partial D-Va main during those times I agree, being able to outright delete 90% of the ults and abilities in the game nearly made her a must pick for playing seriously.

Scatter arrow was op tho

Roadhog getting his damages halved put him in the gutter for a while. As a former hog main, it was the worst of times.

@@espio329 also take a breather used to not reduce damage...

Doomfist would be funny

@@TheDonkyGamePlay he did this exact video lmao, go watch

@@benro6564 remember when hog couldn't move when self healing

I don’t think that the hog choice was correct, I believe hog hook 1.0 was the most BROKEN state in overwatch.

Bro I remember the actual disgusting nerf Orisa got even after the shield changes. 7.5 meters to something like 3m iirc. Nerf to Fortify and her shield while giving her 25 extra armor. Legitimately the only time I’ve ever seen an Overwatch hot-fix because someone was dumpstered TOO hard.

Omicron I love your covers and you have a lot of talent!

@@VVheeli ohhhhh then you don't remember the massive hog nerf, where they made him the WORST character in the game. He couldn't one shot anyone, couldn't move while healing, and still took full damage in heal.

@@InnerAwes0me No I legit don’t remember that one. When was that?

Rein is by far the most balanced character

The added hammer damage helped

Brig was an atrocity and a huge mistake like moira. Made genji unplayable and most squishies since she bashed you on a wall and oh you are dead

@@khareckless6769 moira is still a mistake

@@spookysushi4079 auto aim tracking is BS no matter what. Imagine the stress of being a hanzo or even a mcree and absolutely HAVING to hit that headshot or else Moira guaranteed kills you. Stress levels against Moira goes through the sky as a hanzo main.

Yeah, the only thing that even comes close is Moth meta Mercy in terms of hero that was the most broken ever. But it's still not a contest. Moth Mercy made one-shots the only viable strategy. Brigitte changed everything, and it took a format change and 2 years to break free of that... and even *_then_* what she started just never ended until OW2 launch ate 90% of the egregious CC and shielding. I've heard some people say that OW2 should bring Brig back in her launch state. The fools have no idea what they speak.

​@@trevorveillette8415 Moira's right click doesn't have autoaim, its a "Beam" like Zarya and Symmetra's primaries, the size of Moira's beam is just bigger than the other 2. And complaining about a support that has worse DPS than other supports and the rest of the cast is simply a skill issue.

Yes, please. If they can let content creators do this, they sure as hell can make this happen.

Broke Mercy AND Brig at the same time... 😱😱😱

oh nyooo....

Tbh itd probably be bastion bunker with double shield and bap and maybe moth mercy

including vertical-punch Doom lmao

Dude, as a bastion otp with 3 accounts at 3.9 it's a shame hes so shit, he's so fun but so bad, and Jake a no bastion players put in to the new experimental patch where he can't go turret mode, made him a 100mag soldier76, this hero is in such a bad state that they havent tried to buff in properly since 2017 and instead are giving him a shit rework, bastion needs to be able to move in turret as a perma thing not on CD and he'll be fine, i checked the other day 2 people play bastion in top 500 out of 3 regions, but ashe tracer pharah and mcree are in the hundreds

@@nasserkhalid619 The creator experimental patches are definitely more for fun, thankfully, and since we already know what's happening to Bastion in OW2, Jake is probably just messing around with it for fun. Like removing Sigma Shield lol

@@nebulous9280 I hate that there was no shield for him ..

@@nasserkhalid619 they need to nerf the damage or ammo count or something if he's gonna have turret mode at all times IMO, he sucks at high ranks but is near impossible to counter on certain maps in lower ranks, and that's because focus fire isn't as prevalent in lower ranks, and only a handful of characters can solo kill a Bastion especially if he has teammates helping him, the damage reduction on his turret mode is fucking annoying, it's necessary for him to work in his current state (and he still doesn't work) but it's annoying as shit to play against I personally think he should get turret mode as his ultimate, give him one mag of ammo and increase the ammo count, make his ult do a crazy amount of damage, like, he could just use his ult to burn through a Sym wall Then make his current ult (tank mode) a cooldown ability but does less damage, I like his tank modes mobility and think he should get it more often so he can get in cool spots more often without wasting an ult I agree the new rework doesn't look great. They need to change his playstyle, bunker comps need to be removed from the game, make bunker characters more mobile and less tanky and they'll be more fun IMO

He did have a shield, but he couldnt turn around

"Great show of dominance"💀💀

Eish, I didn't remember anymore that Symmetra had a moving shield! I loved to play symmetra due to my bad aim.. And the "rainbow" turret in Eichenwalde? I miss those times xD

Best time in Overwatch so far 😂😅

It's insane how many aspects of hog that are essential to his usefulness just weren't around back then

Zen rn,

@Abdulsalam _XP Genji got a period of being one of the best characters in 2020

wait are you sure there was a time where he didn't take half damage during heal? i thought mobile heal and the 50% dmg were added together

We can all fantasize that it will return to glory...with NO MORE CHARACTER RELEASES

Feel bad for him investing so much of his life into a dead game

@@Dman40000 don't, he's obviously getting something out of it. But he's not doing it for the reward, otherwise he would've move on from OW to get bigger rewards. Which is why I respect him so much. The work he puts in his videos is much more important than many other youtubers and he is doing all that on a game that lost popularity whilst je could've move on to a more popular game to get more views. It says a lot about his personality and it's great to have someone like him on the platform. Contrary to many greedy youtubers how don't give a crap about anything but stats and results to get as much in their pockets as they can.

She's not stronger in ow2, just meta because she can survive.

It’s so sweaty and I never get good teammates

@@ProdLucio same, it's especially annoying in comp matches. I'll play zen, and have gold medals on hero damage, elims, objective kills, and healing despite 3 of my teamates being dps characters. Obviously I still lose nearly every match I play. Nobody ever wants to play characters with a shield, or a healing ability

@@therogue9000 yup, try your best to get at least one decent tank to Q with. Itl make your life a ton better. Or an Ana main, and you guys just play off each other. Me and my Ana friend pop off, with harmony always on her, and discording targets that we both focus. Her anti allows me to finish my picks when the dps aren't doing shit. And, between her sleep and discord. It's rare a single character can kill one of us by diving. But, unfortunately she can't hop on much anymore lol.

@@therogue9000 its cause your playing zen 🤢

@@ItsOnlyGenjutsu I once died flanking an Ana & Zen as reaper. Was only one time though.

that was beta when there was no cc in the game and he had triple jump, ledge dash and 8 second blade. truly the best time to be alive

he also had 35 damage on his shuriken, 8 second dragonblade, and quick melee used to deal 50 damage

Fun fact - that's actually a feature (and maybe an easter egg) in HOTS. HOTS Genji has 2 talents: 1 - If you hit enemies with the point of your dash, they get bleed for 2 seconds I think 2 - after you dash, you leave a shade behind that dashes second time, so you can deal damage 2 times from E

That never made it to live though, so I wouldn't say it was dominant. Genji's most dominant period was 8s Blade and Zenyatta Discord meta in S2. Then his second most dominant period was dive right before Brig was released, though he had lower priority than Tracer.

yep, when he had bleed damage

😂😂😂😂I laughed

lol same thing happened to me with mercy

That’s what I did

ligma

In other words. You’re awful and rely on one broken character to win, then have a cry and quit once they become more balanced

That’s just current Overwatch s/

@SleepyGhost what happened? I have not played this game for like 2 years

@SleepyGhost sad shit

done

Honestly convinced they do this on purpose to keep hype up. I think they were mentally scared from launching Sombra in such a weak state that no one played her for like a whole 6 months to a year and everyone was aggressively underwhelmed by her.

how would that even work for projectiles

he didn't even talk ab Genjis og bnb combo that got taken out

@Mr Jayboo I mean, both old sym and mei was fun only for sym and mei main. But for literally everyone else, it was complete ass. Complete and utter ass to play against. Torb, sym, and mei was the apex of toxic gold rank tier trio me and my friends used to spam in games and got to diamond so easily. Made the enemies tilted like crazy and made some of the most questionable plays, like picking winston and jumping far to a choke point just to clear out sym turrets, then left his team died to madness inducing mei+torb turret combo. It was not fun to play against those heroes back then.

@Mr Jayboo well, idk about torb, I only play in competitive mode, but mei and sym are both fairly balanced to dealt with when compared to back then. No longer I have to be afraid of freezing to death so quickly, I can actually juke around sym's attacks instead of having an absolute timer of death because zero aiming was needed for old sym. While playing them myself still feel nice, though not as nice/easy as before, I do feel it's a lot more fair for everyone else who're not mei/sym.

@Mr Jayboo mei and sym are absolutely not worst than they used to be, though torb is definitely better but that's because they put the strength into the player, instead of the turret like it used to be.

Blimp Tire is best tire

Though he was absolutely his strongest with the first time he had double concussion mines without falloff damage

Low gravity mode

Yeah, surprised he didnt mention this. The flying tire was insane

Junk is still the remaining the most broken hero in the game. So extremely frustrating to get killed from around 4 corners by a random ricochet bomb...

you can't damage boost his ult anymore? i've been doing it this whole time 😅

@@idiotpopsCorrect it won’t be able to be dmg boosted, believe the game treats his ult as a constructible. However I’m not sure if you can still dmg boost the initial arrow for it (not that it’s practical)

He absolutely did not. The 225 health pool meant a HUGE difference for tons of matchups. He could tank 2 dragonblade swipes, 3 storm arrows, and overall just had that little extra survivability which could straight up win him matchups. Coupled with flashbang and the stronger damage breakpoints made him broken

Mcree

@@misterchili5866 he literally calls him mccree in the comment.

Just get in their face. You are talking about missing for the majority of the time and not doing enough damage with those misses.

@@AnimeReference Did you play at launch? Her beam was not consistent at all. Hell, it was patched TWICE in an attempt to correct the issue where you could have the beam on an enemy but because you didn't have it on them long enough, it didn't do any damage. I noticed a massive difference in the amount of damage I was able to do after the first time they patched it.

@@Fools_Requiem I almost forgot about that but yeah, you are absolutely correct. I remember how weird the beam would feel back then. That patch that finally fixed the issue made her gameplay feel so good and how it was supposed to be. Thank you for reminding me, man, this makes me really nostalgic, haha ...

goats

Lol

Not even a question

Mercy + Brig + Zen + Rein + D.VA + Zarya

@@acxdz7441 You must have never played with the OP Mercy. She was more OP than Brig on launch.

?? Shes really not that bad. Easy to counter at higher levels

I was going to comment this as well. As a Genji main (I branched out to hitscan too I promise I’m not *that* Genji main lol) the melee cancel shift change was a huge nerf IMO. The optimal way to do it became right click, Shift, turn around 180•, melee. There was enough time that people could get healed in the middle of the combo, and it was riskier since you had to use your mobility option mid combo instead of at the end when you could guarantee the kill. Prior, if you RMB, melee and you noticed they aren’t low enough to kill, you could hold onto your shift until they were lower on health or in case the enemy team turned around and you needed to bail. It’s hard to explain, but something about shift being the last hit of the combo just made it less risky in general. With it being the middle hit, you don’t have any mobility options left if you don’t get the kill for some reason, and it’s easier to miss the melee since you usually have to turn around first.

@@m0002856 I think what made him so strong was also how early the game was. There was less counters to him and less stuns allowing him to take teams out easily. I used to main genji, bastion, and tracer for dps and genji was so busted during triple jump and I would never really enjoy him after the change

Wtf, I've been playing since day one and I never got what that symbol was. Ty

You're my guy for still calling him McCree, cause thats who he is.

@@roanwolf6389 - Nope. His name is Cassidy now, and going forward he will *always* be Cassidy. The new name is here to stay forever. Sorry you're Big Mad that he's no longer glorifying a scumbag, but you need to get used to it.

@@opo3628 ok boomer. He's still Jesse McCree so whatever you say.

@@roanwolf6389 but why do you care though

@@opo3628 Yes the real life guy was a scumbag and it's truly a shame such a good character got his name from such a horrible person but I like a lot of other people don't associate the overwatch cowboy with the shit-head. I completely understand your reasoning though. Edit, forgot to add: eventually Cassidy will stick but for those who've played for multiple years, it'll be tough to shake of McCree.

His strongest state was the date they added "Lucio o's"

yeah not really if anything they did him wrong with his original design way back pre-rework still loved him though

they did lucio dirty, you gotta work twice as hard as every other healer if you don’t want to get flamed.

Yea lucios heal has to move slower now I feel like when I play him I’m getting outpaced on heals by half time healers like Moira.

@@voiceofreason2674 That's because Moira's healing is absolutely nuts. Lucio's aura is basically just harmony orb to your whole team, and that's not much. Lucio's role is very limited in todays meta. He only really has a use in brawl comps that utilize his speed boost, and his speed boost is really the only reason you'd ever want a Lucio. He's not a very versatile hero

i was 1v1 clapping roadhogs with just a hammer with those armor packs lmao

Yea but he was worthless in a fight. His pistol sucked and he moved slow. As a winston main I had to learn to not just instinctually dive on him cuz he could actually duel decently after they reworked him

Flashbacks to Torb plays where it starts out with him dying, then the turret gets a 5k

Fair

That's the Legendary Battle Theme for Gen 4.

That's the Spear Pillar music from DPPt

It’s dialaga and palkias theme come on guys

that’s just goats simulator

with the exception of brig cuz no hero EVER broke the game like SHE DID

​@@CrazyKevin22 Fair. Brig was an annoying little bish. But Hanzo with Scatter would be cool in general.

Lucio is probably not fair. The aura radius reduction and main weapon damage increase constitute a massive change in playstyle. 1v1ing someone and flanking used to always be considered throwing until the changes legitimized that playstyle.

@@AnimeReference I mean you have a point, but id argue the difference in playstyle is more a change in meta over the years. The only reasons that heal botting was a viable strat before was because the only character that did more healing than him was mercy.

the numbers mason

Also notable that the *radius* was more than 25% larger... 8 is 33% bigger than 6...

Wait you mean you don't like waiting 5 months for them to make the most minuscule change that doesn't affect the meta in any shape or form? (August 2021 - January 2022)

sigma still very dumb and softbrain tho

@@armoredsquirrel946 how?

@@excaliburblaze3258 how? lol just stay next to a healer and rotate your cool downs and the mf is inmortal, tank with odd hitbox, infinite primary, best shield in the game, stunt, flying ultimate, is basically an tanki with anti anti-tanks buttons

This

I went to Junk immediately and then decided the rest of the video isn't worth watching after hearing the date he put for Junkrat lmao

@@zaehelhm3099 Here was part of the research. I asked a few top junk mains too for their input. Oct 12, 2016 - RIP-tire ability now activates more quickly Nov 15th, 2016 - Global Ult charge cost increase of 25% for all heroes. Mar 21, 2017 - Total Mayhem Junkrat’s explosions no longer hurt himself Aug 30, 2017 - Junkrat two mine patch, Concussion Mine junkrat can now hold two mines. RIPtire tires movement speed increased by 30%. There is no longer a time limit when wall climbing. October 10th, 2017 - Ults are no longer refunded on death/cancellation. Jan 30, 2018 - Concussion Mine now will deal less damage to targets farther away from the explosion’s center. May 3, 2018 - Frag Launcher projectile size decreased from 0.3 to 0.2. RIPtire tire movement speed decreased from 13 to 12. Aug 9, 2018 - Ammo restored after Riptire Mar 19, 2019 - Frag Launcher impact damage increased from 40 to 50.RIPtire cost increased by 10%. March 19, 2019 - Damage boost is now only applied when a projectile is fired, rather than when it hits a target. Apr 16, 2019 - Frag Launcher projectile speed increased from 20 to 25. Grenades now bounce less but explode sooner. August 13th, 2019 - Global ultimate cost increased 12%. May 19, 2020 - Frag Launcher projectiles maintain slightly more velocity on ricochet. Concussion mine projectile speed increased from 20 to 25. Ricochet distance off of enemy players greatly reduced. Total Mayhem bomb detonation time reduced from 1 sec to 0.7. bomb s spread increased 50%. Jun 30, 2020 - Concussion mine trigger delay reduced from 0.156 to 0.1 seconds. RIPtire time to take control of junkrat post detonation has been reduced from 1.5 to 0.9 seconds. Aug 31, 2020 - Frag Launcher impact damage reduced from 50 to 40 (Total 130 to 120) May 5 2021 - Drop tire bug “fixed” Season 6 was ~ Oct 2017. Tough to say, lots of objectively better changes to Junk since then hence why I narrowed it down to that 2020 version.

@@zaehelhm3099 rat main lmao

Well this can all be opinion based.