The end result was that the same 20 or so Heroes comprised the entire character roster at the 2017 Heroes Global Championship, with the other 55 ignored except for in very rare cases. Finally, almost all Supports are Combat Medics in one way or another pound-for-pound, they are actually more powerful than Heroes from the other categories. Meanwhile, at least 25% of the Warrior and Support pool were present in every match, as though being overrun by a bunch of Fake Guest Stars. and they were always 'hyper-carries' who could reliably deliver an entire team's worth of damage ( if properly babysat), of which there are less than 10. Despite this, only two of them were getting picked per match. While this state of affairs wouldn't necessarily be a problem in League of Legends or Dota 2, Heroes is a game about combat 40% of all characters in the game are Assassins (30 of them, 19 Warriors, 14 Supports, 12 Specialists), and there are four or five other DPS characters masquerading as other classes. In the same vein, double-tank became prominent, resulting in a team that had just one Assassin on it. In 2017 the metagame developed to favor double-support compositions, as this allowed teams to quickly and efficiently recover from misplays.Complaints lessened once people learned to include healers in their comps.

Healing was considered this early during the beta, when one team had a healer and the other didn't - teamfights are a big part of matches on smaller maps and especially PvP games and the ability to recover more easily/get healing within them was seen as a major advantage for the team with a healer.A few characters have been accused of being Game Breakers, particularly throughout the alpha and beta.

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