I think they're just gonna put a cooldown on it so he can't burst tanks. The issue is the double fan combo. People need to live with the fact that if you meet McCree close range he's going up kill you. That's what he does.
Well he also does more damage than most at mid range too, so it's not just up-close that McCree is dominant, and the issue isn't that he's good at doing what he does, he's better at it than anyone else in his tier of character. McCree is build like a solid all around mid-close kind of fighter, Reaper is the one that should be dominating up close, but Reaper is just a free kill to McCree. The guy that only has two shotguns to fight, can be instantly killed in close quarters with no opportunity to respond. That's a huge design oversight.
I think if he stays the way he is, even with fan the hammer given a small cooldown, it wont shift his presence as the best competitive attacker, which would cause people to continue to complain, and Blizzard will feel the need to address it quickly, otherwise the influence it has on variety in the competitive meta is going to be rather negative.
I think his stun needs addressing more than anything else. No character should offer an instant-kill if you get within 15 feet of them, regardless of the close range presence they are supposed to have. . The biggest problem with FtH is that you don't get to fight back. You can't outplay it, or mitigate its efficacy with your own skill, he stuns and that's it, your dead, and there aren't many ways to avoid the stun.
Take a look at Roadhog, he's a comparable character with a instant-kill up close, the difference is that there's a possibility you can miss his skill shot and he doesn't have an alternate power with similar functionality. Even if McCree misses stun, he can just FtH the can roll and FtH again.
As Genji I have been at the other end of this far too many times. I parry mcree and cause him to stun himself, logically I outplayed him here but it just doesn't matter, he can FtH anyway and even if that doesn't kill me, he can roll and do it again. The bigger issue is how easy the stun is to land though. Maybe it should need to be a direct hit to work, maybe it should work as a flash bang with a small aoe, rather than a stun?
I am ready to get into shooterman.
