u/BabeAssignment

Keep being loud, guys. Don’t give up. It feels hopeless, but emergency patches do happen.

Don’t wait. Beg, if you want, lol (I have). Say you just want to have fun as Torch and we already tested it and responded and it’s time they gave us some tweaks, because this was a big change for him and it needs tweaking this season. Say anything, lol. We have to speak up or it’ll keep doing nothing.

I am exhausted of it all, but keep doing the things I mentioned here and contact them everywhere you can and don’t let them make you discouraged enough to stop. We all have to do it or it won’t matter.

Not even a team-up. Cannot fucking believe this tbh.

Well I can but I still hate it, I am sitting this season out no joke

Season 8 announcements start tomorrow. We will likely see the balance patch at some point. Maybe I won't even be watching obsessively to share it here within the nanosecond it's posted (I probably will; sorry).

So here's a cope thread to hang out in. How are we all doing? What are we hoping for?

p.s.: unneeded, but: durability (I also hope they tweak the dash some to not feel so clunky, but mostly I want freedom from requiring pocket support)

It has been hanging around while fun teamups disappear for no reason, time for it to go

yes that's the entire rant

The Reed mains are seriously campaigning on the main sub - I'm not saying we should do all that (I'm tired, boss), but this is just a reminder: we should still be asking for buffs. Even if you like the dash - and yes I know we all have to live with it, lol - Johnny still deserves some actual buffs (durability, plz...), and the dash could certainly be a lot smoother.

It won't be a crime to give buffs without some kind of weird nerfs on top to a character who has been rock bottom for ages and who should break free of needing pocket heals etc etc.

I like to think they are hearing us, but if we stop, they might not bother. Let's stay loud, all. <3

I just do. He’s no longer fun to play, and the dash is clunky and gets you killed.

I have tried to like it. I really have. But I hate it so much.

“Skill issue”- I was very good on Johnny. I still do ‘fine.’ But I was doing so much better before, and that’s what frustrates me about all this gaslighting that he’s “buffed” now (a buff would make us all better). I do fine on other dash characters, even, and I also actually have fun. I’ll go 0 deaths on a character whose dash has no windup and isn’t clunky and/or gives overhealth/they have overhealth from another source to flank with/isn’t on a massive cooldown. This dash is just hot garbage.

“Relearn the character”- he isn’t as good at doing literally anything as he was before, including flanking.

“You’re just mad”- Yes. Yes, I am.

Johnny is my favorite superhero. I can’t believe they did this to such an already low pick rate hero who is infamously just not good (especially without an Ultron) and somehow convinced people to call it a buff. It’s not. And he lost his character from it, too. At best, one could argue this is just different and makes nothing actually better. But it genuinely makes him worse for gameplay and worse aesthetically and hurts his actual characterization (what little he had). He cannot do so many things now that he could do before if you just knew how to play him, and he sure doesn’t feel like playing as Johnny Storm.

”Flame on with a plan” really was an insult, and they knew exactly what they were saying when they said “make his movement more predictable.”

And guess what? He still needs pocket support (usually a personal Ultron) - and it’s even worse now. He has no freedom of mobility, and it was one of the only things he did actually have. They didn't even give us durability to pretend this change should be okay (note: I still do/will hate it, but they could have at least pretended to soften the blow).

Just had to get that off my chest. It’s sad watching other mains subs (other than our sisters in arms, Widow) getting to talk about things and meme and meanwhile we’re arguing about getting slapped by the devs, love or hate, when we were just supposed to be getting “tweaks” instead of having his entire kit torn apart by a crappy dash that is such an afterthought, untested, clunky, fun-removing wheelchair with a wind-up time and an insane cooldown (because Johnny needed another one) and an ugly animation and no voice line and- yeah it just feels so insanely low effort and we didn’t even get durability to escape pocket heals on top of all that. I’m just sad, you guys.

There are so many things they could’ve done and improved and changed for the better. I’m open to change. But giving us the worst dash in the game is just an insult.

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