Zarya should not have two bubbles to use for both herself and her teammates. She should only have one for each as in overwatch 1. This makes her too powerful
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She is very strong. But I think a lot of that comes from people trying to focus down tanks first… Which isn’t a good idea.
If you essentially ignore her, go for squishies, and try not to feed her charge, she is pretty harmless.
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that’s the thing though, any decent zarya will make herself the priority.
to not kill zarya enables her to bubble her teammates that will clean up for her.
and if you go for zarya she will bubble herself and be really hard to kill and keep the attention away from her teammates that will in turn clean up meanwhile she gets stronger.
the best way isn’t to ignore the zarya, the best way is to poke away the zarya or her teammates to make zarya waste her bubbles and break her that way.
it’s similar to how you bait out a defense matrix and punish it right after.
but yeah zarya i don’t think is overpowered, just hard to counter with no teamplay.
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Very true. And in that case you need to outplay them.
And you can make her waste bubblea on team mates by ignoring her. Once she’s done that you’ll probably be a man or 2 up anyways and the fight is yours.
Zarya is very strong now, but mostly again players/teams that fail basic target prioritising.
it’s more so that you get punished for hard engaging onto anyone the zarya sees, which is why i prefer the poke away strat, it really doesn’t matter who if the zarya is good enough, it’s mostly just a mental game.
will i or will i not hard engage onto the enemy and if i don’t she basically just wasted her bubble and she can’t take the risk of the engage not being a hard engage because if it is and she doesn’t bubble her teammate they die, so a wasted bubble is better than a dead teammate but it also makes her a lot weaker in the process.
it’s just that you have to force those bubbles and not let her force those bubbles onto you.
I’m finding tanks that got for the poke option, tend to get shat on repeatedly.
It’s always best to just have a target and all hit fast. Healing is too strong to take your time.
it’s a resource game, to poke doesn’t mean you kill fast, to poke means you bleed the enemy team dry of resources so they can’t protect themselves from dying healing or not.
that’s what stand offs are about and why people don’t simply rush into a fight not knowing where the enemy players positions are.
but yes in an unorganized scramble it really doesn’t matter because if you overrun somebody with problems the likelyhood they will make a mistake is pretty high.
and no you can keep people alive from instantly dying so healing isn’t the issue why they are or aren’t dying.
it’s about the cooldowns.
I know what poke is. And in my experience, it’s an inefficient way of winning games.
The most efficient way is hard target focus, at pace, from multiple off angles. An overload if you will. You don’t give them a chance to use their resources.
Healing and sustain is too great, if a fight goes on too long you’re just wasting resources smashing your head into a wall. You might break through, but you could of already won that an be set up to ambush them again in that time.
healing and sustain has nothing to do with poke.
and no the most efficient way isn’t always to hard focus a target and go as fast as possible.
if they know and are skilled enough they will counter you super hard if you try.
If people would not shoot the bubble, but given the way OW2 is more speed I think she needs a slight re-work, pace is too quick now so its easy to feed the shield when you don’t intended too.
That’s why she’s S tier in Grandmaster as well, because Grandmasters fail basic target prioritising?
zarya is good for 2 reasons, she can cleanse herself or other people with her bubbles, and the top tier is actually d.va, but zarya is pretty good against d.va because laserbeam doesn’t get eaten by defense matrix and bubbles are really good when d.va & co tries to dive someone.
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The game is currently a chess match between D.Va, Zarya and Winston.
1 will be strong against 1 but not the other… swap smartly.
Zarya’s base damage is probably a little high right now, making her even more deadly when fully charged.
It’s really not helped by the fact that most people in the ranks I’ve played so far (bronze, silver and now gold), would rather duel the enemy tanks until the sun explodes (thus giving Zarya constant charge), while largely ignoring the healers and dps.
Even when I’ve explicitly told them to focus the enemy healers or flankers they just tunnel the damned tanks for some reason. I’ve had games were the whole team has like 0-3 kills for the entire game because they were all aiming at an Orisa with a Zarya, Ana and Zen crammed up her behind.
Yeah. 95% of the time, that is the dumbest thing you can do.
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