I played Paladins for years before I played Overwatch (because it was free), and I used to get so mad about people not giving it a chance because it was an overwatch ripoff. Now, after playing Overwatch I understand. Paladins is an Overwatch ripoff, but it's also it's own game. In my opinion it actually plays differently and can be a lot more fun than Overwatch, but it's for the wrong reasons. I found this game fun because it was so unbalanced and broken that nobody took the game seriously. Nobody got mad at people for throwing or playing certain characters, everyone was just there to have fun. The vibes I got from the people playing this game were so good, and I'm sad that I'll likely never find another community like it.

I actually really like the deck building system. It gives the game a massive amount of depth and refining your build based on your playstyle is super fun.

What I actually don't like, are the champions. I'm sure most of them are fun but I wouldn't know that since unlocking them all f2p seems borderline impossible, especially since they add new champions at an obscene rate. This is one of the few games where I wish they made less characters, there has to be like a hundred at this point. Most of the champion designs also suck. All of them look either hopelessly generic or overly sexualized and/or ugly. Mal'damba is the only good one. Shoutout to all of the snake fans out there, ya'll the real ones.

I think there should also be more siege maps. The count just seems far too low which makes everything boring since this is supposed to be the main gamemode.

This used to be poor man's Overwatch. Nowdays Overwatch is poor man's Overwatch, and this is just Paladins. I'll likely never play it again since they decided to stop Switch support for whatever reason, so if it ever gets better, I wouldn't know.