Jeff, why are we buffing Reaper's passive again?

His passive is fine. His self-heals already allow him to cheese fights if he’s landing all his pebbles on a fat target. What he needs is an E that isn’t complete trash. It’s a joke of an ability. Why not focus on that instead of giving him more free power in his passive?

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Well, here’s what I think would be better:

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I think the goal is to make Reaper a “DPS or lose” hero that can absolutely not be fought by any combination of tanks, but requires a bursty DPS hero to kill.

I can’t believe they buffed his passive lifesteal while nerfing armor, but still left ShadowStep in the state its in.

Crazy weird choice imo.

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Personally, as far as The Reaping goes, I’d just give an additional 20% as a heal-over-time after the initial 30% burst.

Yeah, I would have much rather seen buffs to Shadow Step or a new reworked ability for his E then make him more of an unkillable monster without focus fire.