What on earth were you thinking with the upcoming patch. I understand that tanks are not fun to play right now, but what about reaper. In any rank over plat his is not playable. His identity is lost, his kit is trash, no useful buffs since 2019 for gods sake. ever since ow2 release his been getting worse and worse with EVERY UPDATE. the only buff his got since ow1 is 185 dmg on one of the worst ults in the game. FIX HIM
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Play someone else then?
He’s very strong tbh, when played right.
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I shouldnt really be saying this as a tank main, but reaper is super effective against larger heroes, it also helps that most tanks moblity is limited in comparison to other heroes. So reaper is a great counter to tank alongside bastion
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they only have been buffing the damage heroes they endorse the most in overwatch contender.
they dont really have the real skills to play with other heroes and thats why we are not improving in the game.
just like this community that only plays very specific heroes and would refrain from the idea of playing with counters.
PS: avoid responding to rodimus, he just wouldnt understand it.
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The midseason patch on the 14th is going to change how armor works, by reducing a specific amount of damage per projectile.
So reaper’s tank busting days might be behind him for now.
“reverting the Armor damage reduction back to reducing five damage per projectile with up to a 50% maximum. This means heroes like Reaper or Tracer will have more work to do to take down heroes like Reinhardt”
From how i understand this, it will mean that reaper will lose around 2.52 damage from every pellet at max damage range.
Meaning that firing a single gun into a tank at the max damage range (without missing a single pellet which is basically impossible) will be dealing 54 damage. (Instead of the 108 that it is now)
Meanwhile someone shooting a single larger damage projectile (like mei, junkrat, pharah, venture) will only get 5 damage reduced from every shot they fire.
Honestly whilst I play tank, I think there needs to be counters to everything. And I think reaper could possibly be good at combating tank. Aswell as bastion and sombra. However these changes make him less anti-tank, i think reaper should still keep some qualities that mean being a tank is still challenging and engaging. But right now being a tank is maybe too engaging due to tanks in general being bullied
That is true. I feel like the armor change will be tweaked before it settles down.
50% damage mitigation might be too much, but there needs to be some.
I feel like 30% would be closer to a better value, especially with headshotsh being nerfed for an additional 25% on top of it.
So if a reaper somehow got a headshot on a tank with a full gunblast (still impossible)
It will deal 81 dps after the midseason patch, when right now it deals over 200.
If the armor change would be 30% instead of 50%. A full headshot blast from reaper would deal 113 damage with the -25% headshot change included.
Yeah the armour change makes sense, will definitely need tweaks.
This just isn’t true.
The most played hero in OWCS was Orissa… That hero got nerfed into the ground.
Ahh yes, orisa… my favorite damage hero
Aside from that, maybe orisa got nerfed to the ground because shes dominated the game now for way to long, like ive been maining orisa for seasons now, like months and months. she was gonna be nerfed anyway.
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