I think he is trying to say that all his complaints were answered. I played paladins for the first time this year and...it has overtime... don't remember what I was playing.. probably wasn't rank tho.
He forgot to mention some upcoming changes. Paladins used to be a better looking game, but because they wanted to port it to the switch, they removed a lot of content and detail from the game. They're bringing it all back now that the switch port is gone. We'll have previous game modes and maps that are 3 times the size with all of the map details that it used to have. It'll be so much fun!
@@Yorkshire42069 I heard it's either being removed or separated from every other platform. But for sure, everything else is being brought back. AndrewChicken on TH-cam has a recent video on it
@@fuscello All OW has over paladins is visual/budget. It wouldn't matter even if paladins met the same standard since blizzard fans call every game in a genre a "blizzard clone"
I've been playing paladins almost since it came out and I quit it for a while (2 years) and started playing ow2 but this made me remember this masterpiece.
same, i took a break too from paladins and played ow2 religiously when it came out but it got so stale with all the issues in the game. Back to paladins now and i realize how amazing the gameplay is.
@@xntrk4282 it not the same which is good you don't have makoas hooks or shields builds that dominant but it nice to see the meta change from makoas to every tank is viable now
I played this game at released the game is shit now I come back to the game just to have to unlock all the new characters with the slow progression and borning gameplay
@@thebaguettegod9769 I mean, that is your opinion, and I respect that. At release, it got no talents, no Seven, no Vatu, no Koga and Tiberius. Now that we have all these mobile champions, I can't relate to what you're saying that is boring, because it is not boring for me. Hope you find your game that is not boring. Kudos
Personally I have never seen shalin as a hanzo clone back in like 2017, because he had different abilities, could turn invisible while dashing away, stun enemy, then there was the planted ability, but then hanzo was reworked to have a dash, removed scatter shot, and an ability that is planted ability but you could move instead, and surprisingly paladins just decided to rework shalin too and now both characters are far closer in similarity than they were back in 2017 lmao.
@@skar6432 Well the cassie bow did not work the same as sha lin or hanzo, and i believe the abilities is still the same as before, so the only difference between cassie now and before bow removal is cosmetic change, replacing bow with crossbow.
Great video, 1 complaint. I understand this is targeted to (mostly) Overwatch players but I don't think its fair to call some of the characters Overwatch clones. Paladins released a bit later but both games were in development around the same time, supposedly Paladins even started first and both games are inspired by the same things so it makes since for similarities to pop up. I fully understand the process of people calling them clones but characters with basic outlines like 'Guy with bow' or 'Knight with large shield' are in a lot of games.
@@OhSo_Bear just look at skye(added on 2015), in the game since the alpha, a purple girl with a submachine gun that can turn invisible and with an axplosive ult, and then look at sombra(added 2016), the second hero released post-OW launch, a purple girl with a submachine gun that can turn invisible and with an explosive ult. Wait a minute...
Well he never said that he did extensive research before making the video. Clearly he's just going off his impressions and overall feelings, opinions of both games, nothing wrong with that. Paladins never copied Overwatch character's. They were in production the same year, but because overwatch came out before that is always a repeatedly regurgitated misconception even though some of overwatch later characters coincidentally resembles older Paladins champions, but hey. So I'm pretty sure that ideas and concepts were probably borrowed from each other but they worked uniquely so clone is a strong, offensive term. I personally enjoy Paladins way more than Overwatch because of the freedom to play a ton of different play styles.and approaches. The card system is truly a brilliant game changer. Paladins is a masterpiece.
Another game I think should get into is pvz gw1. Even though it’s 20$ (same as the price of an overwatch skin) it’s worth the price tag. It has the same kinda loadout system as paladins but it’s even better. I also think a lot of people sleep on both paladins and this game
I started with paladins and played it a lot but then switched to overwatch years later I went back to paladins and the engine felt so bad and lag made it unplayable
I’m playing Paladins for about 4 years, practically daily. No matter what other games I try, they all get forgotten but Paladins remains. There are so many characters, so many different ways I/others can play a champion that every match is a fun learning and unique experience. I consider it a masterpiece, no other game was ever able to keep me hooked like this
This is probably one of the best made videos comparing the two games, coz of how the mechanics such as loadouts and items are explained Most OW content creators I've seen do videos on Paladins (and even OW players in general) lately label them as unnecessary or too complex without actually taking the time to understand why they exist
Yeah the last video i watched comparing the two from an ow player was just a guy sh****ng on the game for twenty minutes while complaining that talents, load outs and the shop are too complicated when ow players are also complaining about not getting a similar feature (tech trees) in their own game
Oh man. All the memories. I played in like Beta of Paladins (even though it still feels like it's in beta) maybe like twice, then really got into it around 2019. I ended up maining Pip and had loads of fun playing him in whatever way I felt like because of the unique systems put in place. When OW2 was released, I practically dropped Paladins cold-turkey, and went into it maining Ball and becoming basically a Ball otp. Funny because Pip and Ball are, for their respective games, the "either your team hates you, or the enemy team hates you, or both." characters.
honestly, if they invest in making a sequel like how overwatch did (or just reworked it) i feel like they could genuinely explode given the amount of vulnerable ow2 players that quit. My only problem with Paladins so far is that it just has an unpolished feeling, just feels off.
@@BobOrKlaus if you like Ball bc of his mobility and aggro potential you're gonna love Pip. Sure he's a support, but he can hybrid like no other, and hop around the map while doing it stylish asf.
very well put together video, you made very good points about the pros and cons and did a very good job explaining niche mechanics that arent seen from the outside until you really get into the game. as someone who has over 7k hours in paladins i can proudly say this game is worth the try and if you like overwatch, surely you will like paladins if you dont mind the polish and a few bugs here and there (they have cleaned up a lot of bugs over the years and i rarely encounter any now)
As a person who played a 1000 hour of both, Paladins just has so much more variety. Not only are there more heroes, but every single one has at least 3 different ways to play, if not more
One thing I love about paladins is that you can mix and match character skins and weapon skins, which gives you even MORE ways to customize your character.
It used to be even more customizable. You used to be able to completely customize your skin by mixing and matching parts of different skins. Sadly they got rid of it cause it introduced many bugs. Honestly if it wasn't for paladins code being a buggy mess this game could've been glorious. If they were to ever make Paladins 2 with decent optimized code and they were able to get rid of bugs and introduce all the features they took out of the game due to spaghetti code this game would be the best hero shooter ever by far.
Paladins was quite underrated. On the other hand the problem with the game is that it comes from Hi Rez. Everybody who played Tribes, Realm Royale or other shit that was developed by this company knows what I am talking about. Still much better than Blizzard which is the worst thing that happened to gamers of XXI century.
I just starting playing paladins 2 days ago and I can say that it's been one of the most fun games I've played in a while There are bugs but I really don't mind it's basically ow2 but with the variety of pve but in pvp It's fucking awsome
Just came from Overwatch2 yesterday. I've been a consistent Gm player in overwatch for a few years now and that game is going so downhill with the stale team comps and the boring dripfed content. I started playing this game with 5 of my friends and we genuinely are having the most fun time in a game in years. We steamrolled kids for the first day until the matchmaking put us against better players and its so much fun seeing how different builds and team comps wioth over 50+ champs play out on each map. I hope that more OW2 refugees will make their way over to this game and that the traction will inspire HighRes to add to their workforce and realize that this could comeback to be one of the best hero shooters on the market.
For me Paladin will always have a place in my heart. I remember my younger self playing plaldin with my brother bcs we didn't have the money for overwatch. I started playing overwatch 2, even if the game are rly similar paladin has some rly interesting features and i kind of miss it.
I've been playing paladins since around 2017. I'm glad the game still gets updates despite going through so many drastic changes that almost killed it but the devs managed to keep the game alive even with limited resources. Paladins will not die, not yet amigos!
Diehard paladins player. Paladins has its issues and bugs and balance issues but paladins has a very small team and it's out job to support the developers working their ass off to give us what we want and balance things. Paladins is a hidden gem that deserves better because it wasn't a AAA title.
Saw the title, came here to recommend Paladins, was not disappointed Also I played for years without touching ranked, but after I started ranked I much prefer it, I play casual more to learn different characters or goof around with friends who are just starting, but other than that ranked is more fun imo, at least with friends
@@125conman Exactly, I've played maybe 3 matches alone once, every other match (of hundreds) has been with friends and I wouldn't play ranked otherwise.
u enlightened me omg! i’ve been trying so hard to get my friends to switch to paladins bc i enjoyed playing a match of siege lol even though i had no idea what i was doing…they still refuse to get into it and are obsessed with apex now *sigh*
I rly like Paladins but damn its so abandoned by Hirez, its like they dont want the game to success. Idk why there are no new Hero shooters, we just have the 3 prehistoric ones.
Yeah you'd think that with this much demand the market would be filled with great hero shooters. Yet we only have 3 (TF2, OW, Paladins) and they're each disappointing in their own way.
i started playing paladins likr 3 days ago or something and i find it really fun as someone who mostly plays ow. i definitely can see why ow is more popular, but paladins is definitely super cool too. i think if paladins was like more polished it would be more popular idk lol
Something random that probably only happens to me is that paladins makes it easier to see stuff for me, probably because of the outlines on every character, lower graphics and the colors on the map, OW makes it harder to see stuff so it took alot of time to adapt but I still cant see sometimes idk
The funny thing about healer skye is that with her speed card on her smokebomb she fills a role similar to Lucio, where is not important to heal a lot but to give her entire team a consisten 40% speedboost, which can make certain chacters, like terminus a menace.
@@Honerkamp unlike damba, whose heals are stuck to thd floor, skye's can go trough floors, in certain maps she can heal up and down, so there are some niche uses.
@@Honerkamp y'know, now i want to combine healer skye and damba to create a shitpost area of heal with 60% speedboost, liferip and ammo regeneration just to see the results.
Tried Paladins back when both game released and somehow didn't get into it back then, but I also didn't look into all the systems available. Thanks for this brief explanation - looks absolutely worth trying again. As a OW support player with somewhat shitty aim and reaction time I would like to learn more about my options here for the best transition. I see some unsurprising similarities with Smite, especially regarding skins and monetization. Mythic skins in OW are special, because they are (slightly) customizable - so unless this is possible in Paladins, that statement about Paladins skins being better might be inaccurate. But as I am familiar with SMITE, I have no doubt they can be great.
Hahaha, same. Support main with bad aim. When I hopped to Paladins, I mained Seris because her healing is very easy and her primary fire is so big you possibly cant miss, and even if you miss, no one would shame you.
For support in paladins you might want to try Seris, her weapon has big projectiles, gives leeway for aiming, and her healing is strong by itself. Later I would recomend Furia, Io and Pip and Jenos, they are more beginner-friendly in my opinion.
Good video Dude!! Glad to see a good review video about paladins! Also 4:39 paladins was in 2015 already before OW xD [yeah you wont belive it but it is] Also they have their original characters that you will not see in OW And some champions come first before the other heroes of OW Skye 2015 Sombra 2016 Barik 2013 Torbjorn 2016 And ow its not even original they also copy paladins too with Ash -> brigitte Lian -> Ashe io-> Kiriko Inara->Ramattra I just want to say it and thats it
I have been playing Paladins since the beta version and there wasn't a time I didn't love the game. It's sad Paladins don't get the recognition they deserve
With events and daily challenges you can get so many chests it’s insane. I just started playing during the anniversary event going on right now and ive gotten 2 character unlocks, 6 chests, and a bunch of other little stuffs in 15 games.
Been a Paladins player cuz I didnt have a strong enough PC back then and ngl I just wished HiRez EM would take some notes on Activision Blizzard's errors and do stuff but no cuz they also are killing their own game and its been like that for a long time, just the fact that they are closing one of their console platform says it all. To me the game is still held on life support thanks to the community and the visible horniness of some devs (Chara designs, some cosmetics). I'd just love to have both games have a huge rise to the top again because it is such a dying genre that is way more fun than people think. To me OW2 wouldve easily been in the game of year competition if Activision Blizzard didnt make the OW devs cancel PvE cuz it wouldnt give them "enough" money
Yes, Paladins offers a lot of customizable options for your champion, not just skins but how you play, with character decks and their individual talents and how it all comes together
I’m playing Paladins for about 4 years, practically daily. No matter what other games I try, they all get forgotten but Paladins remains. There are so many characters, so many different ways I/others can play a champion that every match is a fun learning and unique experience. I consider it a masterpiece, no other game was ever able to keep me hooked like this
Me and my friends got hardcore into paladins during lockdown, none of us had ever play OW but still had a great time with paladins even with its decent learning curve. As someone who had played dins are my primary or secondary game for three + years, I agree with this guy regarding the item shop talked about at 6:36. Every time I've try the OW demo I crave the item shop to counter the champion that most recently killed me. The items shop is by far the most standout cool feature not seen in other FPS games. Although we don't have nearly the time we did during covid, to this day when all the boys get on.... chances are we're playing paladins.
I remember playing this back when both it and overwatch started out and I was surprised at how much more fun I had with a f2p game vs blizzard's overwatch. Haven't played in years but paladins will forever be the better game
My favorite loadout is my custom Viktor, who I set up to be able to more or less spam grenade Seriously, it makes me a MASSIVE threat in team fights and I get ult quickly
Hohoho i have that blue (normal) and red (recolored) Abyssal skin for Fernando, called Sanguine. Also, one charm about Paladins is it has limited skins, and that one is, so you cant get it. That skin has so many great voice lines and a massive personality switch up. My personal fav voice line is when u spam an ability on cd he'll say "remain calm." in a firm and calm voice. To snap you out of panic mode and calm you down.
And paladins is having its anniversary right now so now is the most perfect time to give it a try in the event battlepass(completely free) you can get 1 limited skin from the anniversary chest and a completely random skin later down the line
i played paladins since 2019 and i think its hilarious how a game that got called a ow ripoff is slowly becoming a game that kinda replaces ow in some ways
As a 1800+h Paladins-Player I love to see this video. Paladin may be a buggy mess sometimes-but it has a lot of heart in it. Maybe Hi-Rez stops to neglect it someday and giving it more than 25 devs
Smite is hi-rez's biggest earner. if OW2 was too die totally then paybe 10-15% of the playerbase from it would pick up Paladins and then make Paladins have a bigger playerbase than Smite
I used to absolutely love paladins, it was all until they removed play of the game…I just feel like I wasn’t playing for success anymore because after winning a match, you weren’t really granted anything special. I see the dragon character as a mix of wrecking ball & Bastion (I haven’t played the game in ages). I think I stopped playing a few weeks after Furia was released, I loved the character but the whole concept of play of the game felt too important to me
You forgot to mention the mounts. They might seem dumb to an Overwatch player, but who is get back into battle quickly and who is having to pick a Champion with movement abilities so they don't spend 5 minutes running across the map? I'd take the mounts any day.
ranked is different than casuals in Paladins. I never played it cause I thought it was the same but once I started playing it felt like a new game. The skill difference makes the game feel fresh
hello, i just stumbled upon this video, i am right now downloading palandins and i will play for 20 hours before playing ANY overwatch whatsoever to get a fair grasp on the game also decide with whcih game do i stick with, maybe play overwatch on big content updates but not like this, i hate this game now thank you for offering a new perspective
Me and my buddy is just into paladins maybe 4 or 5 days ago. I’ve been playing overwatch for a long time (since torb had level 3 turrents😉) and man I actually really enjoying paladins a lot. But it’s a shame that the player base is so small. It’s taken anywhere from 5-25 minutes just to find a ranked game. I would play it so much more if the player base was bigger. Wish I would have gotten into the game back when it came out
Im so happy to see paladins getting more love that it deserves by more youtubers, letting those be aware of it. Id hope overwatch’s downfall only uplifts paldins and makes its rather small community larger. Rarely is their content of it on TH-cam or at least GOOD content for the matter let alone a large player base. Ive been on and off the game often. Its unique, exciting, a fun choice of champions and a shop system to counter certain annoying characters. The only bad thing about the game is its low quality and form of organization along with balancing. Maybe if things go smooth and more people join a fresh improvement will be added to better the experience.
After 7 years (ish) in overwatch, I am trying paladins out for first time. I gravitated to frost witch Evie for similarities to mei's survivability; however, I love the extra diversity with a trace blink and mercy/echo fly/glide. To other Ana mains out there, without an anti heal, Pip's slow is very similar. This took a while to find and with not much internet information out there. Unfortunately, there is NO TUTORIAL about loadouts or items. It took about 7 levels to figure out on my own. Also, bugs, smurfs, cheaters have been experienced in both games, evenly. TIP: the audio of footsteps in overwatch is a bit off. As a Support main, first thing I miss starting paladins is ROLE QUEUE! I remember overwatch 1 before this, grumbles...
THIS! i recently swapped from overwatch 2 to paladins. paladins is way more fun, and you dont feel like you die to bs as much. even with less maps, modes and worse graphics, imo the gameplay is MUCH more fun and rewarding.
As a person who's played Paladins since 2015 and even did a lot of esports casting in the amateur scene, it gives me cold shivers down my spine whenever I hear people mentioning Paladins as being a "new" game... It was playable before the first closed beta of Overwatch so it is definitely not new. With that said, I am happy more Overwatch fans are giving Paladins a shot, just a shame you came in too late after Evil Mojo/Hi-Rez completely axed the esports scene. Maybe this playerbase boom might give them some motivation to get back in the saddle.
Just as a quick note. They are called healer but you actualy need to be doing more than healing in that game. Becaus eit would be stupid not to use you healing off times to take advantage of paladin's suports'pretty good damage and utility (stuns mainly).
Some healers are just healbots though, like Seris, but you’re right certain healers’ values come from their off heal time. Like Mal Damba, who has high damage input and can just flick to an ally to heal or put an AOE on point then use primary to clean up the rest
@@randomplaceinruralamerica9618 I mean the game call them healer. But they really are supports. And you would be surprised how séris can be complex to get max heal potential. Basicly surviving.
@@randomplaceinruralamerica9618 Healers in Paladins aren't meant to be the same. Some are healbots like Seris and Solar Blessing Furia, others are a good hybrid of healing and damage like Jenos, Grover, and Grohk. Just like in overwatch.
while paladins is by itself a decent game, hirez is just about the worst studio ever to be handling a game, this video is a huge trap and I highly recommend NOT playing any of their games. you WILL regret it.
Good video and quite well mentioning what makes paladins stand out, like TF2 and the weapons, paladins with the cards and talents get their own personality and give a very good and entertaining gameplay and I feel that overwatch players fail to see that
This game sounds really really good, played a few rounds yesterday and I quite enjoyed them. Up to more today probably :) thanks for the explanation of some of the systems :)
And while I didn’t play overwatch since the beta, it seems to me like overwatch two is exactly the same game as overwatch with different monitization Mark grass of anti-consumer monetization
You know, as someone who's been around the open beta days of paladins, i enjoy having the last laugh to the overwatch fans who kept calling paladins a knock-off overwatch. The only thing that shared similarities with overwatch was some characters having somewhat similar kit and aesthetic, but once you actually play paladins, you'll find out is a wildly different game from overwatch with talent and cards mechanic to allow you different play styles with each character, so you won't likely face the same player with the same style twice
Just checked and I am pretty sure the category for support says support not healer in Paladins. So don't gaslight people and say they are called healers.
@@Azuraerae Guess they can also be called Medics or Pets (only one champion says that but still) then also as there are voice lines calling support that. Also it is technically a lie to say all voice lines say "Healer" as that is incorrect. Less then half say "Healer" when asking for or thanking support.
imo as a player who's been playing both for a few years now, I don't understand why ow is the more popular one, the only thing i think makes overwatch the more popular ones is prob bcz they're under a more well known publisher and, hits feel nicer on overwatch, ranking system is better, aside from that I have no idea, Paladins has the better skins as well.
i just want to point out (about skins) that one of the skins in the game ( i think IO) one of the voice lines says "your waifu is trash" even if you win a game, if you hear that quote... did you really win
“They were both in development at the same time for years before either game came out. There are some things Paladins did first. some things OW did first”
"Pladins comes a month after overwatch." If I remember pladins is much more older than overwatch. But that 5v5 champion based gameplay was actually in development in the game when overwatch comes out. Pladins was not the game it used to be right now.
I used to love playing Paladins and Overwatch back in 2017, I would play them almost on a daily basis. I still played quite a lot of it in 2018 and 2019, I even played ranked those days, after that I kinda grew tired of them. But even today I sometimes download them again for some quick matches and I find myself returning more to Paladins than Overwatch because of the things you said. While OW is a more polished game, Paladins has a lot more variety, which makes it take longer to get stale. I just disagree with what you said about ranked in Paladins, the ban system is great and could have saved OW. In my opinion, OW got much worse with the role queue (2 dps, 2 tanks, 2 supports all the time) and they only did it to end the goats meta, but all they needed to do was to add the ban system to ranked matches. I think it would have been way better
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I think he is trying to say that all his complaints were answered. I played paladins for the first time this year and...it has overtime... don't remember what I was playing.. probably wasn't rank tho.
I think its very well made. Also sick for using minecraft music
He forgot to mention some upcoming changes. Paladins used to be a better looking game, but because they wanted to port it to the switch, they removed a lot of content and detail from the game. They're bringing it all back now that the switch port is gone. We'll have previous game modes and maps that are 3 times the size with all of the map details that it used to have. It'll be so much fun!
Wait paladins is still on switch I just checked
@@Yorkshire42069 I heard it's either being removed or separated from every other platform. But for sure, everything else is being brought back. AndrewChicken on TH-cam has a recent video on it
@@Yorkshire42069 Paladins is getting discontinued on Switch at the end of this month.
@@deafinki I have it on ps4 anyway but whatever
Wait is that why “play of the game” was removed?
Paladins came out as alpha in 2015, Fernando one of first paladins champions, he older than Reinhardt
Exactly overwatch copied some of paladins champs as well
@@jerryspringer4791 yes watch mauga he is Raum No diference
oh its even older that that, there is fotage of paladin develepment dating back to 2012
@@necroarcan well in 2012 was too early development, 2015 is the most normal look compare to current paladins
Man, it's so sad to see that this paladins never had much of a playerbase..its so much better than overwatch...
It only will be better if they just revamp the game, the game is made on such a bad system that it becomes unplayable
Bruh paladins never had the polish, the characters and the hero designs overwatch had. Overwatch is more popular for a reason
I'm sorry but i disagree lol. Overwatch is better, but paladin's has it's charm that makes it its own good game.
@@fuscello All OW has over paladins is visual/budget. It wouldn't matter even if paladins met the same standard since blizzard fans call every game in a genre a "blizzard clone"
Ob64 killed the player base and never really recover after that
I've been playing paladins almost since it came out and I quit it for a while (2 years) and started playing ow2 but this made me remember this masterpiece.
I bet you quite cause ob64
same, i took a break too from paladins and played ow2 religiously when it came out but it got so stale with all the issues in the game. Back to paladins now and i realize how amazing the gameplay is.
@@judasromo9407 this may be a dumb question but what is ob64?
@@tdsebes4712 an old paadins update back in 2018 that pretty much made the game a nigtmare to play, they quickly reverted it tho
@@xntrk4282 it not the same which is good you don't have makoas hooks or shields builds that dominant but it nice to see the meta change from makoas to every tank is viable now
I like that he is somewhat angry when explaining, because Overwatch players really need to hear it. Preach my guy! Preach!
I played this game at released the game is shit now I come back to the game just to have to unlock all the new characters with the slow progression and borning gameplay
@@thebaguettegod9769 I mean, that is your opinion, and I respect that. At release, it got no talents, no Seven, no Vatu, no Koga and Tiberius. Now that we have all these mobile champions, I can't relate to what you're saying that is boring, because it is not boring for me. Hope you find your game that is not boring. Kudos
What is boring about the gameplay?
@@BonyArt6personally it’s just too unrewarding to hit every single shot without aiming. I want to be talented not a Moira main type of player
@@thebaguettegod9769rotation exist so you get to try new hero’s
Personally I have never seen shalin as a hanzo clone back in like 2017, because he had different abilities, could turn invisible while dashing away, stun enemy, then there was the planted ability, but then hanzo was reworked to have a dash, removed scatter shot, and an ability that is planted ability but you could move instead, and surprisingly paladins just decided to rework shalin too and now both characters are far closer in similarity than they were back in 2017 lmao.
I know right ita hilarious that they ended up similar after a few years
Yea but to be fair cassie had that bow and im pretty sure it had alot of diff abilibties (if im not wrong)
@@skar6432 cassie was the original "hanzo clone", even if the only thing that is somewhat alike between the 2 of them is using arrows
@@skar6432 Well the cassie bow did not work the same as sha lin or hanzo, and i believe the abilities is still the same as before, so the only difference between cassie now and before bow removal is cosmetic change, replacing bow with crossbow.
Great video, 1 complaint. I understand this is targeted to (mostly) Overwatch players but I don't think its fair to call some of the characters Overwatch clones. Paladins released a bit later but both games were in development around the same time, supposedly Paladins even started first and both games are inspired by the same things so it makes since for similarities to pop up. I fully understand the process of people calling them clones but characters with basic outlines like 'Guy with bow' or 'Knight with large shield' are in a lot of games.
this ^ very well said
Yes but some are also very similar in design not even to overwatch characters three tanks have a different version of earthshatter
@@poopyheadspoop3758 funnily enough, many of the characters that look like "OW Clones" came before Overwatch lol
@@OhSo_Bear just look at skye(added on 2015), in the game since the alpha, a purple girl with a submachine gun that can turn invisible and with an axplosive ult, and then look at sombra(added 2016), the second hero released post-OW launch, a purple girl with a submachine gun that can turn invisible and with an explosive ult. Wait a minute...
Well he never said that he did extensive research before making the video. Clearly he's just going off his impressions and overall feelings, opinions of both games, nothing wrong with that. Paladins never copied Overwatch character's. They were in production the same year, but because overwatch came out before that is always a repeatedly regurgitated misconception even though some of overwatch later characters coincidentally resembles older Paladins champions, but hey. So I'm pretty sure that ideas and concepts were probably borrowed from each other but they worked uniquely so clone is a strong, offensive term. I personally enjoy Paladins way more than Overwatch because of the freedom to play a ton of different play styles.and approaches. The card system is truly a brilliant game changer. Paladins is a masterpiece.
Id love to get into paladins and i hope this video gets more traction. It sounds great!
It’s fun it has a few crossover’s but not as much as fortnite
Another game I think should get into is pvz gw1. Even though it’s 20$ (same as the price of an overwatch skin) it’s worth the price tag. It has the same kinda loadout system as paladins but it’s even better. I also think a lot of people sleep on both paladins and this game
I started with paladins and played it a lot but then switched to overwatch years later I went back to paladins and the engine felt so bad and lag made it unplayable
I’m playing Paladins for about 4 years, practically daily. No matter what other games I try, they all get forgotten but Paladins remains. There are so many characters, so many different ways I/others can play a champion that every match is a fun learning and unique experience. I consider it a masterpiece, no other game was ever able to keep me hooked like this
This is probably one of the best made videos comparing the two games, coz of how the mechanics such as loadouts and items are explained
Most OW content creators I've seen do videos on Paladins (and even OW players in general) lately label them as unnecessary or too complex without actually taking the time to understand why they exist
Yeah the last video i watched comparing the two from an ow player was just a guy sh****ng on the game for twenty minutes while complaining that talents, load outs and the shop are too complicated when ow players are also complaining about not getting a similar feature (tech trees) in their own game
pretty much the entire existence of OW2 can be labeled as "uneccessary"
Oh man. All the memories. I played in like Beta of Paladins (even though it still feels like it's in beta) maybe like twice, then really got into it around 2019. I ended up maining Pip and had loads of fun playing him in whatever way I felt like because of the unique systems put in place. When OW2 was released, I practically dropped Paladins cold-turkey, and went into it maining Ball and becoming basically a Ball otp. Funny because Pip and Ball are, for their respective games, the "either your team hates you, or the enemy team hates you, or both." characters.
honestly, if they invest in making a sequel like how overwatch did (or just reworked it) i feel like they could genuinely explode given the amount of vulnerable ow2 players that quit. My only problem with Paladins so far is that it just has an unpolished feeling, just feels off.
maybe i should try Pip then (ow ball main)
@@BobOrKlaus if you like Ball bc of his mobility and aggro potential you're gonna love Pip. Sure he's a support, but he can hybrid like no other, and hop around the map while doing it stylish asf.
@@Randomness662a damage pip is scary
very well put together video, you made very good points about the pros and cons and did a very good job explaining niche mechanics that arent seen from the outside until you really get into the game.
as someone who has over 7k hours in paladins i can proudly say this game is worth the try and if you like overwatch, surely you will like paladins if you dont mind the polish and a few bugs here and there (they have cleaned up a lot of bugs over the years and i rarely encounter any now)
yoo vyktoryah!
@@SHinierthennyourforehead hi hi :D
As a person who played a 1000 hour of both, Paladins just has so much more variety. Not only are there more heroes, but every single one has at least 3 different ways to play, if not more
One thing I love about paladins is that you can mix and match character skins and weapon skins, which gives you even MORE ways to customize your character.
It used to be even more customizable. You used to be able to completely customize your skin by mixing and matching parts of different skins. Sadly they got rid of it cause it introduced many bugs.
Honestly if it wasn't for paladins code being a buggy mess this game could've been glorious. If they were to ever make Paladins 2 with decent optimized code and they were able to get rid of bugs and introduce all the features they took out of the game due to spaghetti code this game would be the best hero shooter ever by far.
Paladins was quite underrated. On the other hand the problem with the game is that it comes from Hi Rez.
Everybody who played Tribes, Realm Royale or other shit that was developed by this company knows what I am talking about. Still much better than Blizzard which is the worst thing that happened to gamers of XXI century.
I just starting playing paladins 2 days ago and I can say that it's been one of the most fun games I've played in a while
There are bugs but I really don't mind it's basically ow2 but with the variety of pve but in pvp
It's fucking awsome
Just came from Overwatch2 yesterday. I've been a consistent Gm player in overwatch for a few years now and that game is going so downhill with the stale team comps and the boring dripfed content. I started playing this game with 5 of my friends and we genuinely are having the most fun time in a game in years. We steamrolled kids for the first day until the matchmaking put us against better players and its so much fun seeing how different builds and team comps wioth over 50+ champs play out on each map. I hope that more OW2 refugees will make their way over to this game and that the traction will inspire HighRes to add to their workforce and realize that this could comeback to be one of the best hero shooters on the market.
For me Paladin will always have a place in my heart. I remember my younger self playing plaldin with my brother bcs we didn't have the money for overwatch.
I started playing overwatch 2, even if the game are rly similar paladin has some rly interesting features and i kind of miss it.
I've been playing paladins since around 2017. I'm glad the game still gets updates despite going through so many drastic changes that almost killed it but the devs managed to keep the game alive even with limited resources.
Paladins will not die, not yet amigos!
No, they are not called Healers in paladins and they do so much more than supports did in OW, so they are even more of a support than there
Diehard paladins player. Paladins has its issues and bugs and balance issues but paladins has a very small team and it's out job to support the developers working their ass off to give us what we want and balance things. Paladins is a hidden gem that deserves better because it wasn't a AAA title.
Saw the title, came here to recommend Paladins, was not disappointed
Also I played for years without touching ranked, but after I started ranked I much prefer it, I play casual more to learn different characters or goof around with friends who are just starting, but other than that ranked is more fun imo, at least with friends
Ranked is a ton of fun with friends. I've never done it alone.
@@125conman Exactly, I've played maybe 3 matches alone once, every other match (of hundreds) has been with friends and I wouldn't play ranked otherwise.
u enlightened me omg! i’ve been trying so hard to get my friends to switch to paladins bc i enjoyed playing a match of siege lol even though i had no idea what i was doing…they still refuse to get into it and are obsessed with apex now *sigh*
Why would you play such a buggy unpolished mess over games like apex
I have been playing so much more paladins than overwatch 2 now. The amount of characters and abilities just feels better than ow2 now
Short answer no it's not but they are both great games and systems. Sad that their developers and leading companies failed in their management
3:44 bros basically saying paladins delivered what everwatch promised
I rly like Paladins but damn its so abandoned by Hirez, its like they dont want the game to success. Idk why there are no new Hero shooters, we just have the 3 prehistoric ones.
Kid named Gundam Evolution:
@@spideysquestionablyusedcha5069 I mean alive games (700 players in Steam aprox)
@@facupov Honestly I dont have issues finding matches, its mindsets like that that keep games dead lmao
Yeah you'd think that with this much demand the market would be filled with great hero shooters. Yet we only have 3 (TF2, OW, Paladins) and they're each disappointing in their own way.
@@spideysquestionablyusedcha5069 How'd you compare that game to the aforementioned 3 and is it as easy to run as them?
i started playing paladins likr 3 days ago or something and i find it really fun as someone who mostly plays ow. i definitely can see why ow is more popular, but paladins is definitely super cool too. i think if paladins was like more polished it would be more popular idk lol
Something random that probably only happens to me is that paladins makes it easier to see stuff for me, probably because of the outlines on every character, lower graphics and the colors on the map, OW makes it harder to see stuff so it took alot of time to adapt but I still cant see sometimes idk
The funny thing about healer skye is that with her speed card on her smokebomb she fills a role similar to Lucio, where is not important to heal a lot but to give her entire team a consisten 40% speedboost, which can make certain chacters, like terminus a menace.
Or you just play Damba and give constant 20% speed buffs and proper heals rather than ones limited to smoke bomb
@@Honerkamp unlike damba, whose heals are stuck to thd floor, skye's can go trough floors, in certain maps she can heal up and down, so there are some niche uses.
@@gayfishticks2839 Damba has a speed buff on his right click, the main heal
@@Honerkamp y'know, now i want to combine healer skye and damba to create a shitpost area of heal with 60% speedboost, liferip and ammo regeneration just to see the results.
Tried Paladins back when both game released and somehow didn't get into it back then, but I also didn't look into all the systems available. Thanks for this brief explanation - looks absolutely worth trying again. As a OW support player with somewhat shitty aim and reaction time I would like to learn more about my options here for the best transition.
I see some unsurprising similarities with Smite, especially regarding skins and monetization. Mythic skins in OW are special, because they are (slightly) customizable - so unless this is possible in Paladins, that statement about Paladins skins being better might be inaccurate. But as I am familiar with SMITE, I have no doubt they can be great.
Hahaha, same. Support main with bad aim. When I hopped to Paladins, I mained Seris because her healing is very easy and her primary fire is so big you possibly cant miss, and even if you miss, no one would shame you.
Try Io, Furia, Jenos and Seris. They are really good and easy to learn for a new player
For support in paladins you might want to try Seris, her weapon has big projectiles, gives leeway for aiming, and her healing is strong by itself.
Later I would recomend Furia, Io and Pip and Jenos, they are more beginner-friendly in my opinion.
@@notoriuscaitsithvii9608 Already tried Furia and kind of like her kit and the options I have seen so far.
Good video Dude!! Glad to see a good review video about paladins!
Also
4:39
paladins was in 2015 already before OW xD [yeah you wont belive it but it is]
Also they have their original characters that you will not see in OW
And some champions come first before the other heroes of OW
Skye 2015
Sombra 2016
Barik 2013
Torbjorn 2016
And ow its not even original they also copy paladins too with
Ash -> brigitte
Lian -> Ashe
io-> Kiriko
Inara->Ramattra
I just want to say it and thats it
I have been playing Paladins since the beta version and there wasn't a time I didn't love the game. It's sad Paladins don't get the recognition they deserve
As a genuine paladins player the game is pretty fun, especially with friends
Lol I like how he calls them healers when they are still called supports 🤣
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I use Skye with a cracked out healing smoke bomb build. It’s actually really good for sub-support
Edit: you just talked about this in the video lmao 😂
Paladins is so much more fun and engaging, hirez puts much more care into it than blizzard into overwatch too
With events and daily challenges you can get so many chests it’s insane. I just started playing during the anniversary event going on right now and ive gotten 2 character unlocks, 6 chests, and a bunch of other little stuffs in 15 games.
it looked bad compared to "you get every char free instantly" from OW og, but compared to OW2? Boy oh boy it is great
Been a Paladins player cuz I didnt have a strong enough PC back then and ngl I just wished HiRez EM would take some notes on Activision Blizzard's errors and do stuff but no cuz they also are killing their own game and its been like that for a long time, just the fact that they are closing one of their console platform says it all.
To me the game is still held on life support thanks to the community and the visible horniness of some devs (Chara designs, some cosmetics).
I'd just love to have both games have a huge rise to the top again because it is such a dying genre that is way more fun than people think.
To me OW2 wouldve easily been in the game of year competition if Activision Blizzard didnt make the OW devs cancel PvE cuz it wouldnt give them "enough" money
Double salt time, we sorry we cancelled PvE, we are bringing it back with $15 paywall because we noticed so many are leaving ow2 lol
Yes, Paladins offers a lot of customizable options for your champion, not just skins but how you play, with character decks and their individual talents and how it all comes together
I’m playing Paladins for about 4 years, practically daily. No matter what other games I try, they all get forgotten but Paladins remains. There are so many characters, so many different ways I/others can play a champion that every match is a fun learning and unique experience. I consider it a masterpiece, no other game was ever able to keep me hooked like this
Me and my friends got hardcore into paladins during lockdown, none of us had ever play OW but still had a great time with paladins even with its decent learning curve.
As someone who had played dins are my primary or secondary game for three + years, I agree with this guy regarding the item shop talked about at 6:36. Every time I've try the OW demo I crave the item shop to counter the champion that most recently killed me. The items shop is by far the most standout cool feature not seen in other FPS games.
Although we don't have nearly the time we did during covid, to this day when all the boys get on.... chances are we're playing paladins.
I remember playing this back when both it and overwatch started out and I was surprised at how much more fun I had with a f2p game vs blizzard's overwatch. Haven't played in years but paladins will forever be the better game
TF2 and Paladins have a crossover with the Engineer.
Paladins is so good right now
My favorite loadout is my custom Viktor, who I set up to be able to more or less spam grenade
Seriously, it makes me a MASSIVE threat in team fights and I get ult quickly
My man, I literally did this loadout too. They never expect to lose like 1.4k health from a Viktor grenade
Hohoho i have that blue (normal) and red (recolored) Abyssal skin for Fernando, called Sanguine. Also, one charm about Paladins is it has limited skins, and that one is, so you cant get it. That skin has so many great voice lines and a massive personality switch up. My personal fav voice line is when u spam an ability on cd he'll say "remain calm." in a firm and calm voice. To snap you out of panic mode and calm you down.
And paladins is having its anniversary right now so now is the most perfect time to give it a try in the event battlepass(completely free) you can get 1 limited skin from the anniversary chest and a completely random skin later down the line
I recently started playing Paladins. Its quite better than I imagined.
When I first tried Paladins it was so enjoyable, I actually played it before I started overwatch
Yea many did, because it was kind of the free version of ow :D
The only thing that keeps me from coming back to Paladins is long the wait time for me to get into a match.
i played paladins since 2019 and i think its hilarious how a game that got called a ow ripoff is slowly becoming a game that kinda replaces ow in some ways
As a 1800+h Paladins-Player I love to see this video. Paladin may be a buggy mess sometimes-but it has a lot of heart in it. Maybe Hi-Rez stops to neglect it someday and giving it more than 25 devs
Smite is hi-rez's biggest earner. if OW2 was too die totally then paybe 10-15% of the playerbase from it would pick up Paladins and then make Paladins have a bigger playerbase than Smite
I used to absolutely love paladins, it was all until they removed play of the game…I just feel like I wasn’t playing for success anymore because after winning a match, you weren’t really granted anything special. I see the dragon character as a mix of wrecking ball & Bastion (I haven’t played the game in ages). I think I stopped playing a few weeks after Furia was released, I loved the character but the whole concept of play of the game felt too important to me
this man is a legend listen to his advice
You forgot to mention the mounts. They might seem dumb to an Overwatch player, but who is get back into battle quickly and who is having to pick a Champion with movement abilities so they don't spend 5 minutes running across the map?
I'd take the mounts any day.
ranked is different than casuals in Paladins. I never played it cause I thought it was the same but once I started playing it felt like a new game. The skill difference makes the game feel fresh
This is the video that ive been thinking to make, but im just too lazy. Thanks for doing good for the community.
hello, i just stumbled upon this video, i am right now downloading palandins and i will play for 20 hours before playing ANY overwatch whatsoever to get a fair grasp on the game also decide with whcih game do i stick with, maybe play overwatch on big content updates but not like this, i hate this game now thank you for offering a new perspective
Me and my buddy is just into paladins maybe 4 or 5 days ago. I’ve been playing overwatch for a long time (since torb had level 3 turrents😉) and man I actually really enjoying paladins a lot. But it’s a shame that the player base is so small. It’s taken anywhere from 5-25 minutes just to find a ranked game. I would play it so much more if the player base was bigger. Wish I would have gotten into the game back when it came out
Im so happy to see paladins getting more love that it deserves by more youtubers, letting those be aware of it. Id hope overwatch’s downfall only uplifts paldins and makes its rather small community larger. Rarely is their content of it on TH-cam or at least GOOD content for the matter let alone a large player base. Ive been on and off the game often. Its unique, exciting, a fun choice of champions and a shop system to counter certain annoying characters. The only bad thing about the game is its low quality and form of organization along with balancing. Maybe if things go smooth and more people join a fresh improvement will be added to better the experience.
I tried paladins and almost broke my monitor. I dont know why its making me rage so much compared to overwatch
You forgot the best part about the paladins cosmetic system, you can mix and match skins and weapons! Including the gold skins
After 7 years (ish) in overwatch, I am trying paladins out for first time. I gravitated to frost witch Evie for similarities to mei's survivability; however, I love the extra diversity with a trace blink and mercy/echo fly/glide.
To other Ana mains out there, without an anti heal, Pip's slow is very similar. This took a while to find and with not much internet information out there.
Unfortunately, there is NO TUTORIAL about loadouts or items. It took about 7 levels to figure out on my own.
Also, bugs, smurfs, cheaters have been experienced in both games, evenly. TIP: the audio of footsteps in overwatch is a bit off.
As a Support main, first thing I miss starting paladins is ROLE QUEUE! I remember overwatch 1 before this, grumbles...
damn, this game sounds like it has a ton of depth!!! ill try it
THIS! i recently swapped from overwatch 2 to paladins. paladins is way more fun, and you dont feel like you die to bs as much. even with less maps, modes and worse graphics, imo the gameplay is MUCH more fun and rewarding.
Huge paladins player here. After playing both overwatch is more polished but paladins has so many different customization options yaknow? Hard to beat
As a person who's played Paladins since 2015 and even did a lot of esports casting in the amateur scene, it gives me cold shivers down my spine whenever I hear people mentioning Paladins as being a "new" game... It was playable before the first closed beta of Overwatch so it is definitely not new.
With that said, I am happy more Overwatch fans are giving Paladins a shot, just a shame you came in too late after Evil Mojo/Hi-Rez completely axed the esports scene. Maybe this playerbase boom might give them some motivation to get back in the saddle.
Right now?
Yes. No contest
Just as a quick note. They are called healer but you actualy need to be doing more than healing in that game. Becaus eit would be stupid not to use you healing off times to take advantage of paladin's suports'pretty good damage and utility (stuns mainly).
Some healers are just healbots though, like Seris, but you’re right certain healers’ values come from their off heal time. Like Mal Damba, who has high damage input and can just flick to an ally to heal or put an AOE on point then use primary to clean up the rest
@@randomplaceinruralamerica9618 I mean the game call them healer. But they really are supports.
And you would be surprised how séris can be complex to get max heal potential. Basicly surviving.
@@randomplaceinruralamerica9618 Healers in Paladins aren't meant to be the same. Some are healbots like Seris and Solar Blessing Furia, others are a good hybrid of healing and damage like Jenos, Grover, and Grohk. Just like in overwatch.
the funny thing is that hanzo got reworked into sha lin when they changed scatter arrow
while paladins is by itself a decent game, hirez is just about the worst studio ever to be handling a game, this video is a huge trap and I highly recommend NOT playing any of their games. you WILL regret it.
You tell that to Activision Blizzard fanboys? lololol
I mean I played paladins recently and I have almost 800 hours in it and it's pretty great
"most unique character in paladins"
*shows wrecking ball with extra steps*
Paladins is just way more balanced has more variety and gives you so much more
I'm honestly been looking to get back into Paladins, it's been so long
Good video and quite well mentioning what makes paladins stand out, like TF2 and the weapons, paladins with the cards and talents get their own personality and give a very good and entertaining gameplay and I feel that overwatch players fail to see that
Paladins has such a vibe that overwatch will never have it.
This game sounds really really good, played a few rounds yesterday and I quite enjoyed them. Up to more today probably :)
thanks for the explanation of some of the systems :)
I honestly like paladins art style more for some reason and I haven’t even played yet lol downloading it as I type this.
And while I didn’t play overwatch since the beta, it seems to me like overwatch two is exactly the same game as overwatch with different monitization Mark grass of anti-consumer monetization
i love paladins. its a shame that hi rez dosent support as it deserves
You know, as someone who's been around the open beta days of paladins, i enjoy having the last laugh to the overwatch fans who kept calling paladins a knock-off overwatch. The only thing that shared similarities with overwatch was some characters having somewhat similar kit and aesthetic, but once you actually play paladins, you'll find out is a wildly different game from overwatch with talent and cards mechanic to allow you different play styles with each character, so you won't likely face the same player with the same style twice
Just checked and I am pretty sure the category for support says support not healer in Paladins. So don't gaslight people and say they are called healers.
All the heroes' voicelines say "Healer", both are acceptable
@@Azuraerae Guess they can also be called Medics or Pets (only one champion says that but still) then also as there are voice lines calling support that.
Also it is technically a lie to say all voice lines say "Healer" as that is incorrect. Less then half say "Healer" when asking for or thanking support.
I forgot how awesome this game was, thx for reminded me of this gem
I miss BattleBorn
imo as a player who's been playing both for a few years now, I don't understand why ow is the more popular one, the only thing i think makes overwatch the more popular ones is prob bcz they're under a more well known publisher and, hits feel nicer on overwatch, ranking system is better, aside from that I have no idea, Paladins has the better skins as well.
It is more popular because it is 10 times more polished than paladins.
Ive got nearly 1k hours in overwatch and so far ive racked up 100h in palidens and its actually way more fun and less toxic.
i just want to point out (about skins) that one of the skins in the game ( i think IO) one of the voice lines says "your waifu is trash" even if you win a game, if you hear that quote... did you really win
Just a heads up about the ranked in paladins if someone chooses a character the other team cannot pick that character
Paladins is superior in every single way, as SMITE is the greatest MOBA ever made.
i'd love to try paladins again but i feel like it's way too overwhelming cause there's way too many abilities
it's free to download
“They were both in development at the same time for years before either game came out. There are some things Paladins did first. some things OW did first”
Yep i agree yagorath is great design
Might not be super great but she is really unique
as long as paladins doesnt die
Been playing since Beta, I legitimately think the main issue that bogs the game down is the INSANE amount of bugs and the block like hitboxes.
Paladins is a good game deserves more attention. ofc is not perfect but you can have a lot of fun tho.
Seeing which is less shit between overwatch and paladins is like trying to see which massively decreasing function is greatest as x -> infinity
"Pladins comes a month after overwatch." If I remember pladins is much more older than overwatch. But that 5v5 champion based gameplay was actually in development in the game when overwatch comes out. Pladins was not the game it used to be right now.
I came to Paladins from OW2 and it was the best choice I ever made.
I used to love playing Paladins and Overwatch back in 2017, I would play them almost on a daily basis. I still played quite a lot of it in 2018 and 2019, I even played ranked those days, after that I kinda grew tired of them. But even today I sometimes download them again for some quick matches and I find myself returning more to Paladins than Overwatch because of the things you said. While OW is a more polished game, Paladins has a lot more variety, which makes it take longer to get stale.
I just disagree with what you said about ranked in Paladins, the ban system is great and could have saved OW. In my opinion, OW got much worse with the role queue (2 dps, 2 tanks, 2 supports all the time) and they only did it to end the goats meta, but all they needed to do was to add the ban system to ranked matches. I think it would have been way better