Omen was the real OP pick, Viper got a better pickrate but it's only because of the mapool, Icebox and Breeze are unbalanced and wont stay long in the mapool, plus she isn't pick a lot in soloQ, Omen is OP in almost every map that require a dome map, and is viable in every map beside Breeze and is the most picked smoker with Clove even in soloQ.
So we have 2 solution, either nerf him to the ground make him undewhelming to play as we did with so many agents making the game more underwhelming, or we up every other smoker even Viper.
I kinda reach a point where I think despite few agent (Jett, Raze, Sova, KJ, Omen) every agent in the game deserve a big up or a rework
Lets be honnest : in soloQ, Clove is 50% pickrate, Omen is 32%... While the 4 other, are Vip and Brim with 8%, Astra and Harbor with 3%
Every year the state of agent balance worsen, because we balance it around proplay without thinking about soloQ, and it's not even efficient because is balance team isnt able to think about the consequence of their decision, and their inspiration for new agent is bad, they release weak agent that are less fun to play and less fun to play against, it's a full loose loose situation. Every one hate Faria, I love him, but the one that really deserve to have their bad job denounced is the balance team, thoose guy have no idea what are they doing (Give them some love still, it's bad for mental state to be incompetent in your own job)