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Elie Gould

Overwatch's hero ban system is being reworked, which means we may be able to ignore the role-limit rule and ban a 5th hero

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How do you go about deciding who to ban in an Overwatch game? Perhaps you have a couple of go-to heroes who simply cannot be allowed to play, or maybe you ban based on your team comp and the map you find yourself playing on. However, no amount of planning can overcome the problem which is that there simply aren't enough slots to ban all the heroes you need to.

Overwatch introduced the hero ban system back in Season 16, answering the prayers of players everywhere. But the catch is that out of the now 51 heroes, only a maximum of four can be banned per match, two from each team. This is decided by each player ranking their top three bans, with heroes that get the most votes having a higher probability of getting banned for that match.

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