So obviously she is everywhere right now but she’s seems kinda weak. I’m not a dps at all. It seems, however, like her ults kinda underwhelming. Her auto fire feels about the same as LW’s in terms of power. Explosive bolt takes about half my HP as a lucio but a WM shot or Hanzo arrow to the dome takes all my HP and I slide down whatever wall I was tryn a ride.
Her movement seems great but i dont know, is that enough to edge out an ashe or WM?
Is she just a half measure between a sniper and a brawler? Mid range seems to be her range but, i mean, sojourn.
She can 2-tap pretty much every non-tank with her right click if she’s headshotting. She can 2-tap all of the squishies with her right click body shots.
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I see her abilities but I mean why take her over the dps we already got? Why her instead of a hanzo or WM that can 1 shot. Why take her over an ashe that can just 2 tap all day. Why take her over a soj that can aoe, move like a whippit, score beastly headshots and spam fire?
Like I see her strengths, I just dont see them being stronger than what we already have.
She’s projectile, so she has no fall-off. That is super helpful on longer-range match-ups. She’s also a really good duelist.
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Alt fire reloads automatically and has no real charge up time like Widow//Hanzo. You get 145 dps primary fire that has moments to hit like a Hanzo/Widow/Sojourn railgun shot every <1sec.
If you pick up the +4 ammo per alt fire hit, you can keep up a very steady stream of constant primary fire damage and burst damage without much reload time. You can do it without much of any of the downsides.
Ashe/Widow/Hanzo are very divable due to their poor close range on either charging mechanics, long reloads, etc. Freja gets all of it close and far. She has a faster projectile speed on alt fire than even Hanzo form what I recall. Its literally tied with fastest projectile in the game.
Freja suffers no fall off damage either making her very useful spammer at range and close. Since her minimum damages are all >30dmg, she’s not stopped by armor on many tanks very well leading to again rather consistent damage output.
Combine this with her mobility to go high ground, fight off threats, and evade being dove easily with mobility she’s rather formidable compared to the other weaknesses of the other characters.
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Don’t get too hung up on power levels. The reason to take Freja over other DPS shouldn’t be “because she’s indisputably the best”, it should be “because I find her kit to be fun”.
Also, I’m sure that launch Freya will be buffed to the moon and run riot for the first half of the season, at the very least. The interesting thing is that bans also launch at the same time so I won’t be surprised if Freja and Sojourn end up being bans number one and two.
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She’s a better Hanzo, without the lucky headshot cheese.
She is gangsta till Cass two tap her while she is in the air
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Her kit is stupid and finished to the point of mind. In order to deal normal damage, she must spend dashes that ensure her survivability, provided that she has 225 hp. As a result, you make the only combo that helps you deal at least some damage, while remaining without mobility and most likely you will be immediately eliminated, because Freja is a very easy target.
She is anything but weak, lol.
The only thing not making her meta for these two days is that her kit takes more than a few days to master.
Else she is easily a very strong flying widow Hanzo hero.
That I agree, probably cause her kit gives her boosted ult charge, so she can ult much faster than other heroes - which comes at the cost of a weaker ult.
Cause it is supposed to be followed up with a normal shot
Also note, she can land those explosive ones faster than hanzo can land his shots.
People complain about “oh no i am getting one shot, wheeeee”
So blizzard made a hero that can two shot with strong damage.
On a projectile hero with delayed damage that is not strong. I suspect that, as is, she’ll become a niche hero played by enthusiasts for fun and not her strength.
I think she is very strong, you have to play her like a mix of ashe and sojourn. I don’t think she is very original or unique and probably is going to be taken before those heroes or just be a worse pick.
She can take squishies very fast, can have air angles like pharah with covers, and have an automatic fire to attack tanks and shields that doesn’t take the ammo of the important ammo that is the secondary fire+ dashes that you have to keep to kill fast the other dps/healers.
She has decent dmg and great movement but 2 main things that will make her strong compared to other dps.
1st is her passive. Gaining 20-25% ult charge every 3rd final blow will let her have ult faster than any hero in game. So while her ult isnt the strongest, she will have it every 2 fights on average.
2nd his her major perk. If you are able to consistently hit shots with secondary fire, then you will never have to reload keeping dps passive on enemy team at all times.
My main role is not DPS, but as someone who has played a lot of stealth-bomber-Pharah in the past, I understand Freja. She’s able to play a lot like that, but better. I may have finally found my true main when it comes to DPS
Basically, her advantage is being able to take positions and routes that other similar heroes either can’t or it would be impractical for them. Her perks are also neat, especially IMO the one that lets you see low-HP enemies through walls like Sombra can. I ADORE that one. The one that gives you a primary ammo refund when you land secondary shots is awesome too
And remember, her dash reloads secondary. She can fire more than one exploding shot in rapid succession and the damage potential there is massive
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Pick her over Hanzo because he is utter trash-tier with all of his stacked up nerfs. Widowmaker is not flexible, and is pretty map dependent. Freja doesn’t have this problem — she is quite viable on pretty much every map.
It’s ridiculous that people are already calling her weak when they don’t even know how to play her yet.
The exact same thing happened with Juno, remember?
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Try playing other dps characters. The role is just weak so freyja, seemingly mediocre from other roles prespectives, seems good
Any ult the clusters the enemies together is massive. In coordinated play (AKA having at least one person follow up on your ult), that’s basically a free multi-kill that gives your team the numbers advantage.
She spams out more shots, so the trade-off is that she doesn’t do as much damage as Hanzo/Widow. She may not be the greatest against hyper-mobile heroes, but she will obliterate everything else, especially with her ammo reload perk that allows her to infinitely spam shots without reloading as long as she lands her ADS.
Also, unlike Hanzo/Widow, her ADS is an AoE attack so it can hit multiple people at once. She’s a pretty good backline assassin as long as you don’t go too deep with her.
She’s not competing as a long-ranged character. She’s more in line with Genji and Echo than she is Widow/Ashe/Hanzo.
Comparing any character to Sojourn is just a bad frame of refrence. Sojourn will always be busted.
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Safe side of strong ™
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She has incredible mobility with a high skill expression and good burst damage. What is not to like.
LW’s gun is underrated
The difference is 1. explosive bolt gets a lot more value on bodyshot 2. she can shoot out a hundred or so extra damage worth of auto bolts between each explosive bolt shot
I’d say her niche is somewhere between sojourn and ashe. I think a 100% accuracy aimbot player would get more value on one of those two but an average aim player who is really good at positioning and cycling abilities and whatnot would probably get more value on Freja
that’s completely reasonable given the windup huge delay between the two shots and the extra delay for the second one to explode