Minor buff to bob?

This is all I want: Whoever you shoot with your primary fire, bob also focuses.

How many times has bob just shot a god damn shield for the whole fight and then left? A good amount of the time for me, and the other majority his him being hacked or slept and then waking up only to leave. Feels bad.

If bob could focus who Ashe focuses, then she could probably get more kills. Bob in my experience is really good finishing under 50% health enemies. I think for all the counterplay there is against bob, this would be a awesome buff, almost QOL honestly.

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thanks but no thanks

Torbjorn’s turret does this.

I think the fact that you can nano, damage boost, heal, etc. him is a good enough trade off for him having the priority targeting of… a bot.

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No, this isn’t what bob needs. Just before bob launches off back into Orbit, he needs to rip his mustache off, and chuck it at someone. If it connects, they’re pinned like rein’s charge, and stuck to whatever surface they hit until fully healed.

Bob is best used to get enemies caught in a crossfire. You want Bob to be behind the enemy, contrary to his CC attack. That way, the enemy either has to shield from you, meaning Bob gets to pester and target their backline, or they have to shield from Bob, meaning you get the opportunity for picks.

Ashe and Bob are at the sad state of being balanced, but their two biggest counters for Bob (Ana sleep and Sombra hack) are both highly meta, especially in higher ranks.

That being said, getting to pick what Bob targets wouldn’t be bad either.

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Torbjorn is not hitscan tho.

But if you change this, you’re removing the tanks’ ability to provide counterplay and protect their teams.

Bob isn’t on a 5-10 second cooldown tho.

Bob actually, in my excperience, is a more expensive and longer to get Ultimate, he should feel like it.

Theres still counterplay. Just like EMP you need to spread out or your screwed, with Bob just everyone get behind the shield or behind a wall.

Bob would still be able to be countered exactly the same way. Shield would still be powerful, just not as bad, and hack and sleep would still make a ultimate null.

As I said, I honestly feel like this would be quality of life. I don’t think it would make Bob that much more powerful against organized teams.

Just make sure to track cooldowns and wait to send out Bob after Orisa sends out a new shield.

The only buff BOB needs is to say hello to people who say hello to him, just like the bots in the training room.

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this will be also a nerf, because B.O.B is another player that means that each player has got his own target, if i’m trying to kill someone, B.O.B (to avoid to waste time) should foucs another target, B.O.B should put pression on the enemy team.

And dance when Ashe uses dance emote

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The good thing is that forcing hack or sleep dart onto bob is better than an ally and its only 6 seconds and not 4. People still need to clear the area or try to kill him immediately which means people are forcing resources into trying to deal with the last 4 seconds.

Indeed. Bob’s greatest contributions are not the raw damage people make them out to be.