Blizzard Brawl 2025 first impressions

Alrighty, Blizzard Brawl, second year, let's do this!
(This is not super duper duper thought through, I'm just getting it out there)

Spoiler: DPS

Tom - Still needs to be removed or completely reworked. Long-Range High Damage is not a good idea unless the game is built to house it, and Blizzard Brawl is just not.
Rickeo - They killed him, he's still annoying. Complete rework. Unsalvageable concept.
Irlok - Dash being the damage dealer is not fun to play or fight. It should probably just be a dash. Slam is much more fun, and much more fair, because of being dodge-able.

DPS Classes are just a problem. The role they fill is just damage, which every other class already fills, DPSes are just more annoying about it. They're just dead weight.
On Tom and Rickeo, I found this really interesting. I think that the victims of a Tom don't really have agency in their deaths. There is no mistake to learn from when dying to a Tom, except "do not play."
Rickeo has a similar issue, though he's kinda dead now, which is good. By being in the basic range of Blizzard Brawl, mid range, you are punished by being lassoed and burned and stunned. It just doesn't work.
And on Irlok, I think the Slam gave much more agency to the victims than the Dash, and it's just way more fun to use (and fight).

Spoiler: Tanks

Theorick is still pretty fire. (I guess not really, but still)
Dr. Legendary is still kinda stupid, not gonna lie. His abilities feel scattered and too spread out. Is he a Tank? Yeah. Is he a DPS? Well, seems like it... Is he a Support? Well, that over health is pretty supportive if you ask me.
When you have a ton of rockets being thrown at you, it kinda sucks to get slowed down, such that you can't RUN AWAY. He has a lot of potential as a 'Push Class' of sorts, or, in English, a DPS Tank. He's just really weird right now...

Spoiler: Support

I love Gawrick :)
Hailey is really lovely too, no complaints (Though, Hailey shouldn't be able to charge Ult on full health targets, that's just OP)
Yahya... He's just a bit too OP. He's a bit too good at being a DPS class and a bit too bad at healing to be a Support class. Salted plz fix.

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i like the yahya ult bc it gives u few seconds to get ur mind ready and ur cooldowns on

 

Oh yeah, wanted to say,
Yes, I know reworks must wait, just want y'all to know. Maybe put the classes on hold until you can rework them, like what you did to Rickeo,
And, I've noticed that the BB team seems a bit scared to add proper drawbacks to some classes, which is bad because the only thing to do when they're unbalanced is to nerf them into the ground (see Rickeo), and double bad because even if they're made useless by nerfs, they're still annoying, because they still aren't held back. (see Rickeo)
By "Proper Drawbacks" I mean drawbacks that can't be nullified by skill.
Tom is the most egregious example of not having proper drawbacks, because of a higher skill floor being the only "drawback" in sight.
A good example of proper drawbacks is actually Hailey, because, no matter how good you get, Hailey still has bad self-sustain, and terrible damage, which makes her want to heal her team, so they can protect her.

 

Oh, and PLEASE add team-based Matchmaking (making team Elo even, so that teams are less likely to steamroll) if it ain't there already. I DON'T WANNA STEAMROLL STOP QUEUING ME WITH SWEATS AAAHHHHHHH

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This game is practically on a timer, and when it's up, the game dies. Once people are skilled enough, they will just steamroll every game, and it'll become even more of an unapproachable sweat-fest.

 

CRACKPOT IDEA!!!
Butcher health packs for Gawrick so that he relies on his team.
The classes need to have a hole in their strength that is filled by other classes, so that they can't just solo. No player wins alone. (Or at least no player should be able to)

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OMG I JUST REALIZED YOU GET MOST PLAYER FEEDBACK FROM DISCORD. OMG.
I am so, so sorry you have to listen to them. Whatever those Tom players say, don't listen, for goodness sake.

 

Apparently Legendary and Yahya got nerfed.
Pretty cool, pretty cool. I'd call y'all responsive, except for the fact that Tom is still practically untouched. (AKA he still exists)
I dunno what those Discord people are saying, but, if Tom is staying in cause of them, I'm scared for Blizzard Brawl.
People who don't want Tom gone are most likely a loud minority. I play Hypixel, so I have lots of experience with that kind of thing.
I am begging you, put him on hold until you can rework him, he is killing Blizzard Brawl.