Jeff Kaplan addresses the trials and tribulations of Overwatch hero balancing and the metagame. Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan was asked about the future of hero balance over on the forums and he had a lot to say on the topic.
“It’s never our intention to have a hero be perceived as a ‘troll pick’, but that will inevitably happen sometimes,” wrote Kaplan.
The question asked if the effort to balance characters would eventually do away with particular heroes being shunned by the community for being “troll picks.”
“It’s a weird analogy, but it is very similar to hero balance in a game like Overwatch.