I’m just thinking why did they even remove damage boost from Hanzo?
Like IK it was so transendence could outheal it. But realistically why should Transendence out heal.
Grav + Dragonstrike + Nano/Mercy boost???
Thats potentially 2 or 3 ults vs 1
Trans has too many counters already. Beat is just flat out better now. Burst is precisely what’s counters trans.
Is it?
I prefer trans unless I get anti’ed because beat wears off quickly if you play it well you can still get 1-2 kills with nanoblade through beat.
Against grav dragon its also worse I think I don’t think beat saves you unless you time it towards the end but then you can take damage from the team and die anyway
Because at the time people ran nothing but Zarya/Hanzo/Mercy and there wasn’t a lot of counterplay to grav/boosted dragonstrike so they took the path of least resistance and just removed damage boost interactions from it.
It’s still a strong ult combo, just not 100% lethal.
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I think it’s cuz the dragons count as a different entity. Like how Torb Turret and BOB are different entities from their characters. Like BOB doesn’t get damage boosted if you Nano Ashe for example.
And a few years ago the Devs. Hanged how projectiles were damage boosted anyway
This.
Trans isn’t even really good for countering ults OTHER than grav/dragonstrike, BOB, or tac visor anyway. Everyone dies so fast now that trans can’t keep up because it’s all burst damage like Sojourn or RIPtire etc. Reinhardt shatter and hammer swing and trans can’t save you from that.
It’s actually better used about 75 percent of the time to save multiple low-health heroes during the regular course of a teamfight unless the enemy team has one of the few ults you can counter with trans. Otherwise everyone is just going to get anti’d and killed anyway. Ana can’t mess up your trans if she doesn’t see it coming.
Zen mostly supports through killing now, he’s an excellent shieldbreaker and corner checking with volley can turn a teamfight into a 4v5 before it even starts.
grav-dragon was going through tranc…
It was too strong
Because they deleted Mass Res which was the main way to counter wombo combos like that… but they needed something that could. So they nerfed the interaction so Trans could.
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You could also be booped off with trans, hooked, charged away, graved to a bridge’s corner and fall, get walled-off.