Just an idea i had,
instead of going back to 6v6 were tanks become our overlords.
Hero’s like bastion, mei, maybe even reaper somewhat play like an off tank.
give bastion a small personal shield (he needs it, i swear hes always the first to get picked) and reaper a bit more life steal, mei already is in the front line most the time.
I don’t really understand the 6v6 debate, i went back and watched some old videos and everyone is just death balling around doing wombo combos. Cool!
Far better than the deathmatch games we get now.
They really werent now were they. Supports were and still are the route cause of problems.
The only similarity between bastion and a tank is that bastion looks like a tank. Bastion’s design is exact opposite of tanks, extremely high damage and very squish in normal form.
Reaper and mei’s niche are that they are more frontline dps and can be played similar to a tank. So you can have them work together with your tank, having a strong frontline. Once you make them into tank, they lose this niche. Also, based on mauga’s feedback, a reaper tank with lifesteal on primary is likely going to be a balance disaster.
Yeeeah, the forums and the community in general absolutely despise giving Reaper even a drop more of lifesteal. Nobody is going to agree with this.
I do think Reaper should be played as a more presence heavy character though, since that’s what his personality and lore is like.
Or we just add another player and the tanks there were already designed to be off tanks can be that way…