In your honest opinion, what do you think is the most powerful ultimate in the game? Not in terms of just sheer damage by itself, but the ultimate alone creating space, the dangers from it, the potential it has to win team fights, etc etc.
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Nano Boost.
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cant say anything but emp.
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EMP for sure, can literally change who has the lead in a matter of seconds
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Depends on how you use each ult. They are all powerful but some have more impact in certain situations or playstyles.
Blade and Grav
Duplicate since Echo can do other ults multiple times. Otherwise EMP since the only real counterplay is being away from your team.
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EMP and Rally
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EMP is definitely at the top
you can zone out and sabotage an enemy team even before you even use it yet
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ALT F4
Instant win.
Just not for you.
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Trans and beat are really good ults
Coordinated team engage: EMP
General ladder play: Blade
EMP can shut down a team and open up for a quick and easy win. But, it requires follow up. And the more coordination the better. Even people spreading out the targets a little drastically cuts down its power. It also loses a lot of power against spread out teams.
Blade should reliably kill 2+ people (and that is largely regardless of enemy comp). That alone should win the team fight. And it doesn’t require any team coordination or follow up.
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EMP, it’s an automatic fight win if your team moves forward
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EMP. Can bait out ultimates, abilities and shutdown the enemy team is timed right and clumped together.
Nano Boost. Burst heal, Damage reduction, Damage modifier and on certain characters can cleave a team.
Infrasight. Knowledge is power and knowing where everyone is on the entire map can lead to stagger kills and snowballing that into a win.
Duplicate. *See Speedwagon’s post.
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Grav because you have to respect and predict of enemy Zarya has it.
There’s so many uses for it.
My fav is to jail the enemy off the payload for a loss in Total Mayhem
By “most powerful”, I assume most players would emphasize an Ultimate Ability’s damage output, potential, zoning capabilities, etc. There’s just a lot of factors that can come into play when deciding this sort of stuff. So to me, I don’t think any Ultimate Ability can be the most “powerful” in the game.
Each one was designed and tailored to accompany not only a Hero’s playstyle, but also the scenario at hand. Need to clear out a clumped-group of enemies, like, badly? There’s RIP-Tire and Gravitic Flux. Got an enemy team with not many barriers? Tactical Visor, Earthshatter, or Whole Hog are your friends. Whoever can use an Ultimate Ability’s full potential has already won the battle.
There can only be the most “powerful” - the most influential Ultimate Ability that can shift the tide of the battle to your favor - during a match. What makes an Ultimate Ability even more powerful is the team’s ability to combo with them. A popular example of this would be Graviton Surge + Dragonblade - a lethal combo with a tradeoff of proper teamwork and baiting out the enemy’s counters beforehand.
This is all just what I think, anyways.
TL;DR: The “most powerful” Ultimate Ability really depends on what you need to get done the most during a fight.
Probably EMP. Pretty impossible to fight back when you have no abilities & all shields & shield HP is gone
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EMP, Nano and Nano Blade. Graviton Surge is really good too, since it combos with nearly everything.
EMP, no contest.
For a while I didn’t think much of Rally but it really feels like people are immortal in it sometimes.