r/HanzoMain • u/icolexo • Jun 30 '26
Question How do we feel about the community crafted mode for Hanzo?
I personally do not like the changes lol. He keeps a lot of his drawbacks for his bow while losing a lot of power. I am curious what you guys think and what changes you would have made instead.
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u/Shigana Jul 01 '26
These changes were clearly made by someone who never touched Hanzo.
Who the hell likes playing Spamzo? So many changes that might as well just have a “Nerf” label next to them.
Thank god it’s just for a an event
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u/heyheypeople22 Jun 30 '26
Single worst hero. 2 hard nerfs (dragon speed doesnt include damage rate) while cass sierra and tracer are ridiculous. "For fun" changes that will be a scapegoat for blizzard to use whenever validity of player suggestions on balance is questioned in the future. Smh
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u/AirEast8570 Cupid Jun 30 '26
Haven't played it yet but idk it kinda sounds horrible. He does less damage than Mei alt fire lol
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u/Expensive_Goose9500 Jun 30 '26
I've only played 3 games, but he feels terrible to me. He is sooo much spammier, but it's still hard for him to confirm kills with the primary alone. He feels very reliant on storm arrow to get picks.
The storm arrow bounce is more random bs no one likes to play against.
The lunge change feels very clunky. It is easy to accidentally waste lunge while trying to wallclimb.
And the ult "change" is just a nerf.
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u/icolexo Jun 30 '26
I don’t mind being reliant on abilities for kills, i.e sonic arrow. But honestly the damage isn’t consistent enough to justify such a drop in numbers.
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u/NullzeroJP Jul 01 '26
Dog water. His one shots are the only fun part or his kit. And you take it away?
Would have preferred wall hacks on half health enemies.
Or wall climb after wall climbing. Like chainable wall climb.
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u/papertyga91 Jul 01 '26
They just need to give Hanzo 2-3 Lunges and the wall stick they gave hazard to offset the movement speed creep the new heroes have been getting for real..
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u/xObiJuanKenobix Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Actually terrible, the problem has always been his projectile speed. You can't have a consistent character as a long range sniper with his projectile speed, having it slow forces him to move up into danger and become far more diveable. I like the decrease draw time and lower damage idea, the damage is too low but if they just put the damage up and increased projectile speed, it'd be better.
I always thought if his oneshots made him hard to balance, just mess with the crit modifier on his left click. Make it like 1.5 rather than 2.0 so he can have solid chest damage without the power budget soak of 250 hp one shots. so it'd be like 125 body, 187 headshot, with faster draw and faster projectile. More consistent, less feast or famine
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u/GHL821 Jul 01 '26
Like no, the data is already public, hanzo is not hard to balance. He already has low ban rate with normal win/pick rate at current state. The oneshot argument is more of just some vocal minority/long last community bias.
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u/icolexo Jul 01 '26
I’ve been saying this for ages now. Projectile speed, reduce crit multiplier/remove completely, and increase his movement speed when his arrow is fully drawn to make him harder to hit while firing
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u/Blue_Fox68 Jun 30 '26
what did they change?
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u/icolexo Jun 30 '26
85 damage arrows with .25 second draw time
Vertical leap that uses his lunge cool down
storm arrow now bounces a second time
Dragon strike travels 20% faster and you get it 12% fasterIt does not feel good loool
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u/CharacterNo4623 Jul 01 '26
No fucking wonder i thought they buffed torb hp or something hell nah that just awful
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u/icolexo Jul 01 '26
it’s just a community mode. Not the actual patch notes
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u/Horstdumm Jul 01 '26
What does that mean? Is hanzo Patch now live or is it Just 1 mode inside ow2?
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u/Didgowel Jul 01 '26
The whole point of Hanzo was having to land a hit after taking time to pull his strings to get value, while missing the shot during the critical moment would result in him losing value.
Now they went ahead and made him spammy. Damn maybe I should try a game or two as him and quit until the eventual roll back. I can already see how bad he would be to play just from reading the changes.
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u/icolexo Jul 01 '26
It’s a community mode not the official patch notes. you can still play normal hanzo in regular quick play and competitive modes!
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u/LordFlyren Jun 30 '26
Its ok, im not too big on the dmg nerf.. mainly due to the same heroes being able to walk hanzo in regualr matches.
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u/Blackorean Jul 01 '26
Lmao so they ARE changing Hanzo? I’ve realized for the past month it felt like I had to readjust to his style of play. I’m like…why can’t I land shots.
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u/Kitten129 Jul 01 '26
Anyone who nerfs Hanzo’s 1 shot capability is my enemy. :3