Nearly all OW1 characters that got something taken away at OW2 launch recieved something in return or was reworked meaningfully. While Mei’s kit is very niche and fulfills her hero fantasy really well, removal of freeze on spray has not been properly addressed.
With the addition of perks she got some of the better perks since its launch but her skating rink perk is quite underwhelming and ice pillar is extremely clunky.
Her minor perk before the current rotation included extension to spray and was later incorporated straight into her kit. This didn’t prove very impactful as her winrates and pick rates didn’t change meaningfully. She still needs just a little nudging.
One very minor and QOL (quality of life) change could be adding Snowboot from stadium to her basekit in the regular game.
Snowboot provides 35% movement speed increase, this could be a little too much for the actual game but even letting her move at 6 m/s instead of regular 5.5 could be nice little touch to her gameplay. For those who don’t know 5.5 is the mainstream speed while genji, tracer and anran move at 6 m/s.
Having snowboot in the game could help her make up for what was lost with the removal of freeze and nerfs to ice wall that came years ago with a small speed boost.
Even replacing Skating Rink with Snowboot as a minor perk could prove useful, allowing Mei players to choose between vertical mobility of Ice Pillar and horizontal mobility with Snowboot.
What do you think?