Psylocke, the world's loudest and immobile assassin

[Xbye]

I could care less about you whining about her 1-shot combo. At least you have to aim the entire thing, be close, and hope not a single regen or heal gets thrown at the target as you start the combo. No, I don't care about your favorite youtuber/twitchtv personality.

Why does Psylocke's kit seem so incredibly lackluster compared to a huge majority of the duelist (DPS) cast?

Punisher has a hook, a smokebomb, a (broken) turret and can switch between long-range and close-range pressure (shotgun better than psylocke btw) and ultimate you can freely control.

Winter Soldier has 275hp, gets shield every ability they use. They have a hook (stuns), a uppercut (stuns), and an ultimate you can freely control, while also being repeatable.

A large majority of the cast (especially anything that dives) have access to huge traversing abilities that allow you to both enter a fight from afar or escape. As well they often have wall climbing, or double jumping available to them. Even a damn rat (Rocket) healer has the ability to wallclimb (combined with other mobility).

So it's clear the devs aren't strangers to mobility. And yet, Psylocke only has two dashes and a measly 3 sec stealth. Trying to navigate to get to ambush/flank positions is annoying and often limiting unless you want to make noise and waste a (long cd) dash.

That's another thing. My goodness, Psylocke makes so much damn noise. Entering stealth, exiting stealth. This almost borderlines on OW1's initial Sombra release, the world's loudest hacker assassin. Announcing her stealth and unstealth with a giant megaphone.

It's almost impossible to sneak up on anyone with a pair of ears as Psylocke. And a single regen/heal just cancels her combo unless she wants to all-in with another dash in which case she is going to die after that exchange if the team is literally paying attention.

Then to top it off we have Psylocke's ultimate. Okay, super flashy and makes her psuedo invulnerable. For starters, you can't even control who you are attacking, and sometimes you can literally be chasing someone down with it but it refuses to attack them despite them clearly being in the circle. I don't know why this got nerfed, when it was already so easy to counter. Just, literally don't panic, heal, and stand near your team. I think this is literally the only ultimate currently in the game that gets weaker if there are multiple targets in it, which is insane.

TL;DR - Buff psylocke, idc about your favorite youtube/twitchtv personality or your high-rank resume. She's slow, lacks mobility, and literally has an ultimate that gets weaker with more targets in it, and has no control over who it targets.

Honorable mention as well:

The crosshair misalignment with shots the closer targets are is really annoying. It's absolutely bonkers that they made a close-ranged ranged character and didn't seem to think about fixing the crosshair misalignment with shots.

[Mochan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUoP9jbYnKA

[Oni-Lyrics]

yea tldr youre wrong and psylocke is actually really strong in the right hands

[Xbye]

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

yea tldr youre wrong and psylocke is actually really strong in the right hands

tldr you're absolutely wrong and I'm done with you steam troll

[Rhiawhyn Zerinth]

Originally posted by Oni-Lyrics:

yea tldr youre wrong and psylocke is actually really strong in the right hands

Any character is amazing in the right hands and the perfect situation with no opposition. Psylocke is decent, but not a good assassin or similar which is entirely counter intuitive to the theme they were going for. Their ranged attack is utterly brutal even at distance which makes them very good for picking off flying DPS and building ult. Her stealth is... vaguely useful if used to reposition more than to hide given the speed buff.

The problem is, just about every diving DPS is better at killing priority squishy targets than her, even if someone is playing her perfectly. Hell black widow can downright delete the presence of a healer, hawkeye is not far from that either. Iron fist is just oppressive if people aren't paying attention to their back line and sp00derman is able to get in from seemingly out of nowhere, bomb a target and vanish again before people have time to turn around.

TL;DR, just because high level players can use a thing to great effect doesn't make it not underpowered. While I wouldn't say Psylocke is weak I wouldn't say she's strong compared to the other options.

[Haruspex]

Bro really comparing an assassin character to a traditional dps.
Win rate says both Punisher and Winter soldier have below average win rates in Grandmaster and above.

Stats don't lie and also you're bad the game don't go into designing.

[ele]

Couldn't*
1 shot and combos are two different things.

[VoiD]

Honestly feels like an ultbot, her ult is great, everything else is quite terrible, she might just have the weakest assassin burst in the game.

Even spiderman weaving web shots + punches canceling animations seem to have a better burst, many tanks have better burst, and let's not forget magik can cancel her spin into dash into an attack, into a "melee" attack to instantly erase anyone at full target, all of that is pretty much a single attack that doesn't require much aiming. She also has far more staying power.

[Burger World]

Originally posted by Xbye:

I could care less about you whining about her 1-shot combo.

so you do care?

[TooHigh2Die]

Bro is complaining about one of the most popular chars in top 500.

[Xbye]

Originally posted by TooHigh2Die:

Bro is complaining about one of the most popular chars in top 500.

Another troll post that doesn't bother to read the problems. Bye.

[Xbye]

Originally posted by VoiD:

Honestly feels like an ultbot, her ult is great, everything else is quite terrible, she might just have the weakest assassin burst in the game.

Even spiderman weaving web shots + punches canceling animations seem to have a better burst, many tanks have better burst, and let's not forget magik can cancel her spin into dash into an attack, into a "melee" attack to instantly erase anyone at full target, all of that is pretty much a single attack that doesn't require much aiming. She also has far more staying power.

Thank you. Someone who actually has an open mind and realizes the issues.

But I disagree about her ult. Her ult is very bad compared to the rest of the game's cast. Maybe it's quick to build, sure, but it's not worth it compared to the others.

[Dio]

shes built for dumb console players this isnt really a issue

[BingusDingus]

She's one of the most mobile characters in the game and can easily assassinate any squishy in moments, she IS the assassin character. The audio doesn't matter much when it's near impossible to tell which direction it's coming from with all the noise around you.

If you play her right she's like a mosquito the enemy team cannot kill.

You can just say that you don't understand her kit and how you're supposed to use it, you don't have to create an exaggerated bible to tell everyone that.

[BingusDingus]

Originally posted by Dio:

shes built for dumb console players this isnt really a issue

She's most definitely not built for console players.

[Dio]

Originally posted by BingusDingus:

Originally posted by Dio:

shes built for dumb console players this isnt really a issue

She's most definitely not built for console players.

she has a shotgun like primary thats not easy to miss with her ult kills for you nuff said