Huge Winch Nerf Coming

Patch notes were posted for a short time and it says winch is getting buffed back up to 12m, but the stun duration scales with distance pulled and is only .3 seconds for shorter pulls. Which already ruins a bunch of combos with sledge, KS, spear, etc. But on top of that, winch will no longer prevent specialization use. So, lights can grapple or dash immediately after being hooked, before they are even pulled in. Heavies can charge slam and immediately bonk the pulling heavy. Yikes.

When they nerfed range from 12->10 I suspected it was pre-emptive to get out ahead of the fact that winch was the only remaining hard cc after the removal of stun gun. It seems like that suspicion was correct, since these changes work to further remove hard cc from the winch.