I love Hanzo. He is literally my favorite hero to play and this meta has favored him really well. All too well, actually.

Let’s just cut to the point. He does a lot of damage, He matches close range damage with Reaper’s and long range damage with Widow. But is he really allowed to be this good at all ranges? Even medium-range he dominates because of his arrow speed buff.

So, where is he supposed to excel? Medium to long range. He is still categorized as a sniper, even though at the moment he sure doesn’t act the part. He’s more of a jack-of-all-trades right now. He outclasses McCree at close and medium-range, Reaper at shredding tanks, and he’s basically a widow at long-range. Maybe not as strong there, but I digress.

I suggest a change. Something to put him back into place. Something that keeps him from literally out-damaging the heroes that used to be better than him pre-storm-arrow. Here is my proposal:

Change Hanzo so that the damage of his arrow is proportional to the distance covered by the arrow. I’ll give you a few scenarios here.

Close Range:

Damage would be minimal because shooting full-powered arrows at close range act very similarly to hitscan shots. Of course the problem at close range would be that Hanzo’s shots would have to be fully charged in order to get some good damage onto the target. If he wanted to increase the amount of damage he did, he would simply use his Lunge to increase the distance between him and the target. This would make him weaker at close range and give McCree and Reaper better aptitude here. He would no longer be as big of a tank buster up close. He could still try to shred tanks from afar, I suppose, but that is not exactly viable.

Medium-Range:

His damage would be slightly reduced mid range, but not as immensely as close range. This is where he is supposed to be good. He should be placed behind tanks, not pushed up point blank storm-arrowing everything to ashes.

Long-Range:

He has full damage at long ranges.

Just overall, he outclasses too many heroes at close range. Storm Arrow is fine, and his arrow speed is fine. But we can’t let Hanzo stay better than McCree at close range and Reaper at shredding tanks. Let him go back to being good at medium-long range again.