It’s a rather complicated situation. You are, in fact, allowed to one trick according to the rules. In practice it’s harder to say. Blizzard has an report auto-ban system (they say it’s not autoban but at this point, all evidence has shown that it’s probably automated), and after a set number of reports, you will get banned.
Awhile ago, a number of off meta players and onetricks (namely Sym and Torb players) were getting banned and no one knew why. Eventually, two streamers that were reasonably well known, Stevo and Fuey500, got banned on stream. After that it became clear that people were reporting off meta onetricks to get them banned, and there was a huge debate on whether or not it was bannable.
Blizzard was giving mixed messages, saying at one point one tricks and off meta was not bannable, but then said that if you don’t switch when your teammates asked you to, that was bannable, which confused everyone and kind of kicked off a “report torb and sym mains” mentality in the community.
Making it more confusing was that Fuey500 would continue to get autobanned, but then get his banned immediately revoked, but Stevo wouldn’t (and at that point both streamers began to stream every moment on those characters for transparency).
Blizzard finally made a statement that one tricking was not bannable much later, although some parts of the community like Competitve Overwatch Reddit were pissed. At this point, if you remember, blizzard made an announcement that you would get a “warning notification” if you got too close to a ban, most people assume it was because of how many one tricks were getting banned.
Both Stevo and Fuey are on some sort of whitelist, or at least, they get their accounts reviewed manually before getting autobanned and have never been banned since. This is, however, the only cases that seem to be like this because there are a few torb and sym mains I have seen state they are still getting banned, but they have little to no exposure, and for the most part, the anti one trick hysteria seems to have quieted.
That said, Jeff Kaplan seemed to have stir something up by calling some character niche, and saying one tricking is not playing fair or something, and Effect’s letter seems to be stirring up the pot again.
It’s, uh, a pretty heated debate
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