Tips for increasing impact as Nova?

[Vitriuz-1880]

I’ve been getting into Nova a lot in the past couple months, so here’s my favorite build:

• (1) Covert Ops
  • Mana cost reduction and extra movement speed slow is so godly I’m surprised how rare other Nova players take this talent
  • The only con about this talent is that it forces you to stay in stealth for an unreasonably long time just to gain the talent benefits, which is why I proposed in this thread, to lower the time delay before W is upgraded from 4 seconds to 3 seconds
• (4) Rapid Projection OR Covert Mission
  • Former gives Holy Decoy (E) more versatility
  • Latter is great if you can snag kills and if you can build up the stacks
    • Bribe also AMAZING in ARAM on the Diablo and StarCraft maps
• (7) Anti-Armor Shells
  • Nova is a single target range assassin and this talent further improves her performance in that field and offers underrated utility to your allies that can benefit from physical armor reduction
• (10) Precision Strike
  • Way more versatile and more useful
• (13) Ionic Force Field
  • Grants Nova more resilience so she can be more aggressive in her positioning and synergizes really well with Apollo Suit at 20
• (16) Crippling Shot
  • Nova is all about single target burst damage, why not improve that? Even more potent with the Level 1 talent in my build
• (20) Precision Barrage OR Rewind
  • Former if my team needs more macro in late game
    • Generally like taking this talent on BoE if enemy shaman camp is pushing onto our keep and needs to be cleared asap. No problem, lemme just press R and profit while my team continues to win the objective because that camp just got NULLIFIED.
  • Latter if former’s reason is not needed in the game

@UncleGanon-1877

Consider using Anti-armor shells more often. Ever since One in the Chamber was nerfed and AA shells were buffed, I’ve found myself using the latter more. Being able to do guaranteed burst damage with strong AA’s and debuff enemy physical armor can REALLY help in the early-mid game and it lowers the possibility of missing out on damage because of missed snipes. One of my favorites is using AA shell Nova to stomp characters like Garrosh or Tracer in QM.

I love that talent. It just provides so much more utility for your team and makes you’re AA damage on par with untalented Snipe. It’s that good.

@Offline65-2279

3rd for some extra defense if your team isn’t supportive (Nova isn’t a popular hero and ppl aren’t too helpfull

I take that talent in almost all of my Nova games because it gives you more independence from your team, which suits Nova’s gameplay and general playstyle.