He received a small nerf earlier where his GU mines would only be invisible for both teams when out of direct line of sight, which didn’t really change much. Lesion is a pretty balanced operator with a good gun and good gadget that allows him to gather intel. Along with the removal of her passive ability, she has also lost her resistance to concussion mines similar to Zofia. In this update, the developer nerfed her once more by removing the passive ability that gives her an extra Grizmot mine while in a DBNO state. Ela got nerfed after that, making her gun more challenging to use. Her pick rate blew through the roof because her gun had no recoil while having high damage, high fire rate, huge magazine, and three-speed operator. When Ela came out during Operation Blood Orchid, she was the best defensive operator along with Jager.
#Pro league operator pick rate update
Each Yokai drone had a 20-second cooldown between every two shots but the update reduced it to 16 seconds. Now, that duration has been reduced to 0.5 seconds to deny plants quicker. The Yokai Drone used to take two seconds to stick to the ceiling after coming from the floor. While this doesn’t really make him stronger, it does help quite a bit, especially during plant denial. To improve his play rate, the developer reduced the jump cooldown from three seconds to two. After the nerf, Echo seems to be under-picked due to the fact his Yokai Drones are visible. His gadget, Yokai Drones, used to be invisible and had unlimited concussions that would disorient players and deny them to plant.
Pre-nerfed Echo was the most banned operator in R6 Siege, along with Mira. We will be looking into the defensive operators receiving nerfs this time.
#Pro league operator pick rate pro
These operator buffs and nerfs are mainly targeted towards the competitive audience, and some of them are huge that will affect pro players in the Six Invitational. But these changes might not make it to the live build, depending on the feedback from players. Ubisoft, the developer of the first-person shooter game Rainbow Six Siege, released the latest developer notes showing tons of new changes applied to operators.