I wish they’d just move away from this gimmicky close-mid range playstyle that no one enjoys. It’s just wild how hard he is outranged by other mid range heroes. There’s always the comparisons to Ashe when you mention his terrible range, but we have to look at his power level compared to all hitscan. Even the support hitscans outdamage him at range.
Baptiste at 25-45 which is what Cowboy used to have
Bastion, Soldier, Ashe, Illari are at 30-50
Widow and Sojourns alt fire are at 40-60
Ana with no falloff
No one that plays this hero wants to play him as a close range hero. It’s all about clicking heads at mid to long like other hitscans and similar heroes. Longer range projectile heroes like Sojourn and Hanzo are pretty strong and it’s hard to contest them with the falloff too.
They could remove magnetic grenade and fan the hammer but give him back the range and this hero would feel infinitely better and more fluid
I don’t think he is in nearly as bad of a spot as you say, at least not across all the ranks. He might struggle in GM/top500 but so many heroes do. He IS the close-mid range hitscan. When he had long falloff range he was unstoppable.
I would not mind if flashbang came back but I really hope he gets something else instead. 75% of the time, it’s the tank that’s getting flashed and while it’s “one of the shortest stuns”, it still stuns which we really don’t need more of in OW2.