i've given up trying to convince people that wanda wasn't bad pre-S10, so i won't bother writing too much on that, all i have to say is that wanda may have a low skill floor and is easy to pickup and play, but people who just play using her primary all match don't get much further than gold/plat, to play and succeed with wanda beyond diamond, you really have to understand this game extremely well, know the heroes well and what they do, to be able to counter and outplay them.. wanda has always had a kit that allows her to fit into any situation from back to front, and its unfortunate that the general consensus about wanda is that its "auto-aim, no skill" hero, when in my experience playing as wanda for several hundreds of hours is that.. 99% of this playerbase doesn't actually know what wanda does, how to use her kit properly, and is just bad with her then project that onto her.. and players are bad with her because she attracts bad players because of this misunderstood concept of what she is.. unfortunately..

the irony about pro players using wanda in S10 is that.. all the S10 changes did was lean more into her primary.. which is still weak, and marking multiple opponents doesn't really do anything because her primary is still weak even if its hitting multiple targets, all it's doing is feeding.. wanda's main source of value was never from her primary.. value from wanda comes from her secondary attacks which require nothing but pure aim, in fact harder.. because its projectile based not hitscan so you must lead your shots at range to predict opponents movements.. its very strong, and when you play it with her freeze properly, wanda can dominate the space around a team and really enable so many eliminations for the team, save teammates, lock up dives, shutdown and cancel things, and force out aggressive fragile/tank dives.

while playing to GM today, i still get people who trash talk me for playing wanda all match saying im doing nothing for the team, just for them to end up getting hard diffed in the end, it was no different in S9, its no different now in S10..

im a little disappointed they leaned into buffing her primary aspects, but it doesnt really matter because most of her damage comes from secondary still anyways, and instead of feeding across multiple opponents, you want to be using her strange teamup to burst down singular targets anyway.. the same its been in S9 and S9.5, so people making a big deal about wanda this season.. make no sense to me, she's been this good since S9.. even earlier imo.. people are just finally giving her a fair chance now and finally seeing what she actually does..

also, anyone who's going to sit here and tell me GM isn't anything special, this is literally on the day of season reset, everyone im going up against is former GM/Cel players.. and its incredibly annoying to constantly be told by this playerbase what wanda is.. by players who don't even play wanda, its ridiculous. i play wanda, im very good with her, and i understand what she is and how to play her very well. you have all been wrong about her.

wanda was never bad.. just the players