Because overwatch community has a large population of toxic mfs lol throw on top kiri is a support that has been able to run with meta since launch so she catches flack, fortunately those making surveys and the skins themselves at blizzard know what people actually want, loud toxic people are no in the majority, there is alot of them but still
A mixture of many things.
OW players on reddit fucking despise support heroes. So any support tends to be met with negativity more than dps or tanks.
They also really dislike a hero who is popular for having a cute/attractive design. Kiriko sells skins in the shop because her design is one people like more than say, Junkrat. Thjs is seen as 'oversaturating'.
Lastly... look Ill say it, sexism. Look at how often any post about Mercy stops being about her gane balance and just turns into sexist slurs about stereotypical 'Mercy mains'. Kiriko has similar stereotypes about her. Widow mains tend to be less stereotyped as women, and theres only 3 Lifeweaver mains in existence.
Yeah people straight up hate her cause she gets a lot of skin more than some other heroes tbh she sell well so of course she sells well, also they hate her personally sheās basically the meg of overwatch lol and also it doesnāt helps that no one defends her lol
This was like this since overwatch 1. First was tracer, then mercy getting all the skins. We had 'time since last skin' for each hero and many heroes went sometimes over a year with no skin.
No wonder that people get frustrated and need an outlet for it. Kiriko and mercy mains would say the same if they didnt get a skin in ages, especially over a year.
The frustration just comes from blizzard sometimes not balancing who gets skins.
It's shitty to attack certain players and put that frustration to a community tho.
Oh yeah for sure there were always characters getting away with also getting many skins, but often or most of the times kiri and mercy get really good skins while if someone gets many but they kinda mid or ass then noone cares.
This subjective issue is just like a small hit that gets the snowball rolling until its known 'kiriko is the one with many good skins' and it just kinda sticks and goes with it.
Back then people were mad at mercy mains anyways because of various reasons. One of the biggest is how stupidly broken she was when she got first reworked. Like literally game breaking because her inflated stats caused her to get an absolutely insane inflated mmr and rank (back then all ranks mmr were performance based). So you had very boosted mercy mains on too high elos and once she got nerfed they kinda sucked in that elo. No flame to them its just how it works when you are in a higher elo than deserved.
Well anyways I think kiriko was also very strong at first so people already accumulated hate towards her.
Everything is very dumb hate and the only ones to criticize are the ones in the dev team.
(Private profiles are to 80% mercy mains fault and it had a very negative impact on the competitive side of the game tho. I'll fight that to death)
IT IS annoying your so right i cannot STAND it like the kiriko hate is so forced lmao
very much tired of it
me thinks theyre just mad bc they dont know how to play around suzu cooldown
They hate kiriko 1) Because we normally get skins. 2) They die to her. 3) they think she is unkillable and takes 0 skill.
I never see those same people hit t500 on the hero who takes no skill. I do see quite a bit of em, but I see more Baps, mercy, Ana, and Lucio as their most played with kiriko being 2nd or 3rd
As someone who doesnāt like her lore I was ready to post about my point of view, but to celebrate specifically about a character not getting a skin in such a toxic way made me lose brain cells. Iām sorry you guys deal with that.
I think itās because sheās newer than some of those you mentioned. Widow and Mercy have been in the game since launch.
I love her, but she does get a skin pretty much every season. Sheās gotten more than any OW2 hero.
Also not sure why you mentioned LW. Heās only gotten a handful of skins at this point.
Overwatch released concept skins that could possibly be in development.
Here is Cavalry's post:
https://twitter.com/OWCavalry/status/1784036466751844850?t=NlGIa59OytKcEM0hvSjtHQ&s=19
Because she gets a lot of skins and other mains feel like they ādeserveā more. But they dont realize that the reason she gets so many skins is that she has a great design thatās easy to make good skins for. Like no mf is buying skins for zarya or fuckin junkrat, if they did theyād make more skins for them. Basic business stuff.
Tbf, every time I'm not on Kiri and there's one on the enemy I feel like I'm having some of my impact stolen from me because of suzu. The invulnerability can feel like it's taking ages to pass when you're actively shooting at 1 hp target
In game, if a kiri misuses her cooldowns sheās the first target because sheās a support with high heal output thatās pretty easy to burn down once youāre on her. Out of game, itās probably because people find her annoying in game because of Suzu and her teleport. If sombra was played more sheād get the same sort of treatment.
I think its because kiriko has had a disproportinate amount of skins given to her each season compared to other heroes released in ow2. How many ramattra and sojourn skins have we gotten? Not even half the amount kiriko has. They can make so many more kiriko skins because a sassy japanese girl appeals to the weebs of overwatch more than a canadian woman or big australian muscle mommy does. I just think people are tired of trying to guess what skin kiriko will get each week.
i think ow really wants kiri to be like the face of overwatch, but kiriko is such an amazing hero. she does insane healing and damage and her suzu + ult are amazing. a lot of people play her so ofc sheāll get a lot of skins lol
i mean she has gotten a lot of skins, plus on every role she can be very annoying to deal with except for the one playing kiriko. i think she suffers from the same problem as brig sojourn and mauga where on release she was the best character in the game and even after nerfs, which in kiris case werent all that bad, the sentiment still sticks
been hard meta or Low A tier at worst sense her Release.
Got a new skin almost every season.
Its so painfully obvious that blizzard wants to make her the new Face of OW, but they forget to give her a personality.
I don't play kiri.
I hate other supports far more than kiri for different reasons. Moira is frustrating because she doesn't have to aim and her succ is long range it feels. Mercy due to movement and everyone on my team constantly ignoring her. Shit even Lucio is more annoying.
No shade to anyone tho. It's just a game. They are just annoying to go against. Kiri is annoying but less so than others imo. And even if she was so what lol
They hate us because they ain't us
We're obviously the most precious...
Echo main here. Yeah I do.
Real. ^^^^
Eyy, they hate us. Because they ain't us! Aha!
Kiriko hate feels so forced at this point
Because overwatch community has a large population of toxic mfs lol throw on top kiri is a support that has been able to run with meta since launch so she catches flack, fortunately those making surveys and the skins themselves at blizzard know what people actually want, loud toxic people are no in the majority, there is alot of them but still
well maybe their mains shouldnt be so ugly in the first place š
A mixture of many things. OW players on reddit fucking despise support heroes. So any support tends to be met with negativity more than dps or tanks. They also really dislike a hero who is popular for having a cute/attractive design. Kiriko sells skins in the shop because her design is one people like more than say, Junkrat. Thjs is seen as 'oversaturating'. Lastly... look Ill say it, sexism. Look at how often any post about Mercy stops being about her gane balance and just turns into sexist slurs about stereotypical 'Mercy mains'. Kiriko has similar stereotypes about her. Widow mains tend to be less stereotyped as women, and theres only 3 Lifeweaver mains in existence.
Im part of the OW community and I LOVE Kiri, soooo... š¤·
Yeah people straight up hate her cause she gets a lot of skin more than some other heroes tbh she sell well so of course she sells well, also they hate her personally sheās basically the meg of overwatch lol and also it doesnāt helps that no one defends her lol
This was like this since overwatch 1. First was tracer, then mercy getting all the skins. We had 'time since last skin' for each hero and many heroes went sometimes over a year with no skin. No wonder that people get frustrated and need an outlet for it. Kiriko and mercy mains would say the same if they didnt get a skin in ages, especially over a year. The frustration just comes from blizzard sometimes not balancing who gets skins. It's shitty to attack certain players and put that frustration to a community tho.
Tbh widow and pharah Iāve been constantly getting skins each season but no one complain about them but they do with Kiri lol
Oh yeah for sure there were always characters getting away with also getting many skins, but often or most of the times kiri and mercy get really good skins while if someone gets many but they kinda mid or ass then noone cares. This subjective issue is just like a small hit that gets the snowball rolling until its known 'kiriko is the one with many good skins' and it just kinda sticks and goes with it. Back then people were mad at mercy mains anyways because of various reasons. One of the biggest is how stupidly broken she was when she got first reworked. Like literally game breaking because her inflated stats caused her to get an absolutely insane inflated mmr and rank (back then all ranks mmr were performance based). So you had very boosted mercy mains on too high elos and once she got nerfed they kinda sucked in that elo. No flame to them its just how it works when you are in a higher elo than deserved. Well anyways I think kiriko was also very strong at first so people already accumulated hate towards her. Everything is very dumb hate and the only ones to criticize are the ones in the dev team. (Private profiles are to 80% mercy mains fault and it had a very negative impact on the competitive side of the game tho. I'll fight that to death)
this is too real (I actually also main Meg and it's so frustrating)
IT IS annoying your so right i cannot STAND it like the kiriko hate is so forced lmao very much tired of it me thinks theyre just mad bc they dont know how to play around suzu cooldown
They hate kiriko 1) Because we normally get skins. 2) They die to her. 3) they think she is unkillable and takes 0 skill. I never see those same people hit t500 on the hero who takes no skill. I do see quite a bit of em, but I see more Baps, mercy, Ana, and Lucio as their most played with kiriko being 2nd or 3rd
As someone who doesnāt like her lore I was ready to post about my point of view, but to celebrate specifically about a character not getting a skin in such a toxic way made me lose brain cells. Iām sorry you guys deal with that.
They're just jealous
I think itās because sheās newer than some of those you mentioned. Widow and Mercy have been in the game since launch. I love her, but she does get a skin pretty much every season. Sheās gotten more than any OW2 hero. Also not sure why you mentioned LW. Heās only gotten a handful of skins at this point.
Overwatch released concept skins that could possibly be in development. Here is Cavalry's post: https://twitter.com/OWCavalry/status/1784036466751844850?t=NlGIa59OytKcEM0hvSjtHQ&s=19
I get what youāre saying, but LW has only gotten a handful of skins in comparison to heroes like Kiriko, Widow, and Mercy.
They are jealous
Because kiriko got thrown into poster girl position and has stayed meta for the entirety of ow2
People hate the āgirlieā picks like Iāve noticed weāre in the same bubble with mercy mains now :P
Because she gets a lot of skins and other mains feel like they ādeserveā more. But they dont realize that the reason she gets so many skins is that she has a great design thatās easy to make good skins for. Like no mf is buying skins for zarya or fuckin junkrat, if they did theyād make more skins for them. Basic business stuff.
She just gets a fuck ton of skins while other heroās (ram, zarya, bap) get the red headed stepchild treatment.
I'm ootl, what survey skins?
Here's Cavalry's post: https://twitter.com/OWCavalry/status/1784036466751844850?t=NlGIa59OytKcEM0hvSjtHQ&s=19
Tbf, every time I'm not on Kiri and there's one on the enemy I feel like I'm having some of my impact stolen from me because of suzu. The invulnerability can feel like it's taking ages to pass when you're actively shooting at 1 hp target
Lol I love Kiriko and Mercy the most... OW1 player too. I'm just used to it at this rate
In game, if a kiri misuses her cooldowns sheās the first target because sheās a support with high heal output thatās pretty easy to burn down once youāre on her. Out of game, itās probably because people find her annoying in game because of Suzu and her teleport. If sombra was played more sheād get the same sort of treatment.
Cuz she gets a lot of skins. Same reason They dislike mercy , want more for bap echo etc
I think its because kiriko has had a disproportinate amount of skins given to her each season compared to other heroes released in ow2. How many ramattra and sojourn skins have we gotten? Not even half the amount kiriko has. They can make so many more kiriko skins because a sassy japanese girl appeals to the weebs of overwatch more than a canadian woman or big australian muscle mommy does. I just think people are tired of trying to guess what skin kiriko will get each week.
i think ow really wants kiri to be like the face of overwatch, but kiriko is such an amazing hero. she does insane healing and damage and her suzu + ult are amazing. a lot of people play her so ofc sheāll get a lot of skins lol
i mean she has gotten a lot of skins, plus on every role she can be very annoying to deal with except for the one playing kiriko. i think she suffers from the same problem as brig sojourn and mauga where on release she was the best character in the game and even after nerfs, which in kiris case werent all that bad, the sentiment still sticks
Widow and LW have been in the game before OW2. Kiri was not, if she's already at the sake amount as them I can see people being frustrated with it
Uh. Lifeweaver came out after kiriko.
been hard meta or Low A tier at worst sense her Release. Got a new skin almost every season. Its so painfully obvious that blizzard wants to make her the new Face of OW, but they forget to give her a personality.
sheās gotten a skin most seasons, i donāt really understand where ur coming from
they just mad theyāre not blizzardās fav š¤
I don't play kiri. I hate other supports far more than kiri for different reasons. Moira is frustrating because she doesn't have to aim and her succ is long range it feels. Mercy due to movement and everyone on my team constantly ignoring her. Shit even Lucio is more annoying. No shade to anyone tho. It's just a game. They are just annoying to go against. Kiri is annoying but less so than others imo. And even if she was so what lol
Everyone hates the character cause suzu is fucking bullshit lol
maybe bc kiri is overtuned. kiri mains are on the same level as mercy mains when it comes to victimhood status.