Are rant posts allowed? Idk.
The title basically sums it up. I'm a 700hr+ grandmaster Lucio main who was absolutely in love with Overwatch. On Jetpack Cat's release, I assumed there would be some balancing issues, but I never thought it would be this bad. I'm an ex faceit masters player who adores competing in Overwatch, who now just rides the bench bc the other main support we have is better than me at Jetpack Cat. It feels like the game has just evolved completely past Lucio simply because of Cat existing. The hero feels like everything I want lucio to be, just better. She has the agility and kill potential to assist in dives and escape with her life, solo kill dps and FS's, and just does everything better. It's been miserable since her release. I'm honestly considering quitting the game. I just cannot see how Jetpack Cat can physically fit in this game competitively. I used to love playing main support competitively and now I either can't or just don't enjoy myself when doing so. Wuyang, Illari, Mizuki and Brig are all heroes I loved playing alongside Lucio, but Cat seriously just feels like an unethical dishonest hero. It's made playing the game not fun, and I can't even say that I love overwatch anymore because the truth is I don't. I hate every second I spend playing this game competitively when Jetpack Cat isn't banned, and whoopty doo that's only allowed once per match bc of faceit rules. I rarely even get to play maps on my team because we just roll on the cat comp and the mentality (which is fair, I'm not upset with my team at all) is just "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", so Cat almost never sees a ban at least from us.
I'm making this post just to vent about a lot of this, but I also want to see if any fellow Lucio lovers feel the same about the game right now. Thanks for listening.
P.S I flaired this as help because there's no flair for rants or questions, but it's also not against the sub rules to vent like this. thanks.
TLDR Jetpack Cat has made Lucio obsolete in competitive overwatch and killed my love for the game.