What I still don't get is why no one ever asked for Lucio to be nerfed before the Zen buff, but now people are asking it like crazy. I don't understand. What changed that affected Lucio?
Certain people were talking about it during the last patch. There was just a bigger problem at the time in the form of Mercy. During Pharmercy meta, fights were entirely dictated by Mercy and that was very apparent and overshadowed the rest of the game. Literally every single fight was a team rez. Sometimes a Mercy even got two a fight. So everybody cried for a Mercy nerf to bring her in line.
This is where things got to where they are now. When they nerfed Mercy, they also buffed the living hell out of Zenyatta. 50 health is a huge buff, but 4x the speed on orbs is insane. So since they did such drastic changes at both the same time, they switched out Zenyatta for Mercy essentially.
Thing is, Zenyatta alone is not as crazy as Mercy was. Meanwhile, Lucio snuck through several patches with no changes. His speedboost with Zenyatta now in meta created such a fucking scary set of interactions that his influence became way way way more apparent suddenly. So like, before we knew speedboost was dumb but people just accepted it. Now, we know how dumb speedboost can really get along with even more insane ass interactions that were popularized during this meta.
Lucio has always been there, but it's just been "hey, he does this thing and that's what we're used to and it's not breaking everything." The longer it goes on though, the more apparent it is that pretty much everything is going to have to be designed around "what happens to it when it gets speed boosted?" Also you need to figure out "is this good enough to be in a game where entire teams can have double speed on command?" for every new character/ability.
That can be fine in theory, just have a whole game built around the speed boost ability, but to me that seems lame and limiting. The fact certain characters don't meet the criteria to exist in the same meta as Lucio is already a warning sign that somethign about it is fucked up.
I dunno, are you? You retorted by making a tone argument.
I retorted by putting out stats, facts, and observations that I have laid down multiple times on here to your non argument. As far as I can tell, all you have to say on it is "speed boost makes him unique so we shouldn't touch it, the meta is fairly new so give it time." Lucio has had time and is only getting worse over time. Zenyatta is admittedly a new thing but having a near 100% pickrate from a 0% pickrate while edging out a few characters is enough to say "hey, let's try toning this down a bit."
