welcome to the club of “if my ult sucks then maybe i should play around that”. sit here, right next to pharah, cass and maybe bastion.
don’t go for team kills. if you get one single free kill without using cooldowns or trading it for another or more ults or support cooldowns, it’s worth and you should win the fight. use cover to only be in the LoS of 2 players. use it in 1v1s against smurfs. bait out cooldowns or attention by running it down mid in wraith. it also has a pretty big range tbh which is not bad at all.
but if you expect to get 5 kills after telegraphing what you wanna do, well, that should never happen with anything.
Its one of the worst around, specially the more awareness and reaction your enemies have. Sure it works against people below gold like wonders but that means nothing really.
Range is still trash, movement speed is still bad and with so many immortalities around, it just doesn’t have much time to do damage either.
It’s both. The argument you should be making is the proportionate value out of the ult compared to others. Death blossom is still pretty solid IMO especially compared to something like a pulse bomb. I don’t see hanzos dragon being anymore threatening than death blossom. Good one’s KNOW when they’re being predictable and find the opportunity to strike. That philosophy is deep rooted in the game, doing the right thing at the right time. Not saying your concern isn’t valid but Reaper isn’t the only hero having to keep track of cooldowns and ults to mitigate something happening to them. I remember a reaper got caught in a junkrat trap, got all of our attention and they used death blossom in the trap and got 2 of us.
DB is definitely weak but come on now. Barrage and high noon are right there, drastically worse, essentially a reload option/suicide attempt to net a trade.
With proper team play DB has a decent amount of potential. Alone it’s very easy to counter, but KILLING type ults definitely ought to require team work to kill if they are mechanically simple to execute.
Not really, you pop any of them in an obvious way and they aren’t gonna do a lot. You’ve never seen Soldier ults fizzle because Rein held up his rectangle? Or Junkrat ults pop because he used it in the open? Or Sombra ults fail to leave a mark because her team wasn’t there?
Everybody has to use ults well, Reaper is no exception.
Even if it’s used as a surprise just use suzu, lamp or lifegrip. No one who plays well dies to reaper. The people who think reaper is good are the same low elo players who think pharmercy is busted and that moira is op
Other ultimates in the dps category don’t bind you in place so that when they do suzu your ult they can spam you and you’re a free kill. I’m sorry but the ult is a meme above gold and it being good in gold doesn’t mean anything