Any informations on that ?
Well they basically said something to the effect of making Reaper stronger against DPS/Supports, instead of making him stronger against Tanks.
So my guess is he just gets to teleport more.
For example, bring back those “Death Souls” that drop when a player dies, and make is so that those give a cooldown refresh on Shadow Step.
The specifics they delved into on the Reddit AMA’s were first that they were looking into changing all of his mobility. So Wraith and Shadowstep were going to be “modernized.”
Then after deprioritizing his rework, they came back 5+ months later saying that they were going to rework his Shadowstep after going from a wide array of changes to an uber niche one.
Regardless, it will be useless and solve none of his issues. Don’t get your hopes up
https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/1cybav0/comment/l5d8skc/
For Reaper, we went fairly wide as well in the beginning and then started to focus closely on updating Shadow Step. At the moment, we have something we quite like but it’s actually a large technical challenge and we are in the process of planning out the work/seeing what’s possible. In the meantime, we may buff Reaper in some non-Tank Buster ways as he lost a lot in the most recent update.
I hope they at least halve Shadow Steps cooldown, then up his dmg per pellet to 6 from 5.4, while the complicated change doesnt come.
I’m sure it will be trash at the very least.
They will change him in a way that doesn’t help him much. They’ve already destroyed his hero fantasy
I’ve always wanted to see wraith form on a resource meter.
Say a few seconds of total up time. 1 second minimum use. Few second cooldown so he can’t just blink in and out like a light switch, as starting concept values - but I’d love to see reaper smoke in and out of combat and dance around the battle field dynamically like we see in the cinematics
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i can only hope he becomes a high rank only hero. kinda sick of seeing this hero ngl. just wanna play monkee. Lifesteal removed would make me incredibly happy, make him fast as hell but not braindead as hell thanks.
aka don’t make it you need a hitscan able to hit heads. He feels like a ground phara. can beat him? free win. can’t? free lose. binary.
I am not sure Reaper even counters Winston anymore after the armor changes…
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depends how little he is trying and how long bubble lasts ofc.
but that was a very nice change in that match up indeed.
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They’re changing shadow step and they also want to make him more capable of taking fights against DPS and support heroes instead of being a tank buster.
The approach is good, that is basically what he needs.
But knowing Blizzard and their reworks…
Cool if he more good against dps and supports and less good vs tanks !
When he tps he should appear in 5 different spots in proximity to enemies but only one is real and only reaper knows.