From my perspective as a demo player, nothing ruins my enjoyment of the format more than dealing with a sniper that is hitting shots, and I would be ecstatic if sniper was no longer in HL. I understand that it is a biased opinion, and I am curious if my wishes for sniper to not be a thing would be destructive overall.

My main gripe about the class is that considering how powerful sniper is, the best way to kill him is to hope your sniper wins the SvS, as teams will devote lots of resources into protecting their sniper. There are many situations, such as during a fight, that you have to stand in the sniper sightline and hope he doesn’t hit the shot, which is completely noninteractive from the receiving end. You cant slow the game down to completely avoid the sightline, unlike 6’s, where I think sniper improves the format. I also think the skill of both team’s snipers matters too much. If your team’s sniper is not having a good day, then your team is likely to get demolished by the enemy sniper. In my opinion, it is much harder to mitigate having a weaker sniper than it is to mitigate weaknesses in other classes.

How would the meta change if there was no sniper? Would it be worse off? I have been told that the lack of a sniper would make demo and heavy too powerful. I agree that demo and heavy will be stronger, but I think its better to have those classes be stronger, than have sniper be strong, as there is more counter-play and interactions are more interesting than “hope you don’t get headshot.” I am completely open to discussion and I am curious about what other players think about sniper.

• Upsetting the #1 seed as the #8 seed in RGL HL season 6 Main playoffs and hearing people’s reactions to it after the game.

• On the last map of the 3rd place season 4 6’s Main playoffs, down 0-4 in the second half, and coming back to win the map 5-4 and the series 3-2.

@wish How so? Is it because defending teams can take more aggressive positioning without a sniper?

From my perspective as a demo player, nothing ruins my enjoyment of the format more than dealing with a sniper that is hitting shots, and I would be ecstatic if sniper was no longer in HL. I understand that it is a biased opinion, and I am curious if my wishes for sniper to not be a thing would be destructive overall.

My main gripe about the class is that considering how powerful sniper is, the best way to kill him is to hope your sniper wins the SvS, as teams will devote lots of resources into protecting their sniper. There are many situations, such as during a fight, that you have to stand in the sniper sightline and hope he doesn’t hit the shot, which is completely noninteractive from the receiving end. You cant slow the game down to completely avoid the sightline, unlike 6’s, where I think sniper improves the format. I also think the skill of both team’s snipers matters too much. If your team’s sniper is not having a good day, then your team is likely to get demolished by the enemy sniper. In my opinion, it is much harder to mitigate having a weaker sniper than it is to mitigate weaknesses in other classes.

How would the meta change if there was no sniper? Would it be worse off? I have been told that the lack of a sniper would make demo and heavy too powerful. I agree that demo and heavy will be stronger, but I think its better to have those classes be stronger, than have sniper be strong, as there is more counter-play and interactions are more interesting than “hope you don’t get headshot.” I am completely open to discussion and I am curious about what other players think about sniper.