Nerf double shield before the game dies even more

Yikes… how does this keep happening without anything being done. Insanity.

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Every attempt to nerf double shield only makes double shield more necessary to survive overtuned heroes like Echo, Hanzo, and hitscans.

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I think they just don’t know how to nerf double shield

So don’t worry, we’ve got 5v5

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The true answer is make Sigma’s kit less stuffed with defensive abilities. Either focus on the shield aspect or the kinetic grasp aspect, don’t keep him as this offtank with a shield.

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Dude, just shoot them…

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Yeah just shoot them then the Orisa Fortifies, the Sigma uses Grasp, Bap outheals your damage and uses Lamp, Brig bashes any divers. But yeah just shoot the shields looooooooool.

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Exactly. They should reduce sigmas grasp duration by half and revert shield CD nerf

Reduce his uptime but make him less clunky

Ah yes let me just shoot the sigma shield. Oh now he has grasp for 2 seconds. Oh now there’s an orisa shield. Oh now she has fortify and she’s body blocking the team. Oh now there’s a lamp that’s being body blocked. Now sigma has shield back up again. Not to mention everyone is getting aoe healed and tanks have ranged damage so they get more uptime than winston/rein

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You say that as if you can’t burst the shield down like it’s nothing. You’re not the only damage-dealer; focus targets.

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Did you just ignore everything that I said? Yeah you can break the shields but now you have to deal with several other defensive abilities.

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Which you can cut through or wait-out. It’s not like Lamp, Fortify or Grasp are troublesome here

And when you break the shield, they have abilities that almost act like a second shield

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Which have long cooldowns

You can cut through them with difficulty and if you wait them out that just gives time for the shields to come back online. Every defensive ability used just gives more time for the shields to recharge.

God stop joking already. You do not need anything to survive at all. You ARE MEANT TO DIE. Get this through your head. It is a FPS GAME! YOU DIE. That is how it works. You are not meant to surivive and live through everything. The difference between vanilla OW and this pathetic shell of a game is just insane. DLC heroes has ruined almost everything that was arguably the original vision for the game. Echo is not even close to overtuned, hanzo is fairly balanced at this point and list goes on. No dps except tracer has any significant impact on balance at all. And tracer has more or less remained unchanged forever, she is just allowed to be OP for whatever reasoning.

Very true, but not so long as to regen the shield. You have a window to attack that’s larger the quicker you destroy the initial shield.

Hard-focus the initial shields and you have a lot of room to burn enemy abilities.

You have 12 seconds between Sig’s Grasps, and 5 seconds of shield cooldown.
10 seconds between Orisa’s barrier and Fortify.

As long as you, as an individual, are doing 110+ DPS, you really oughtn’t have an issue here.

Wow thanks for telling me this ground-breaking information. With this I surely will be able to climb to GM now, maybe OWL even!

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Yet you are yapping and complaining as if you are supposed to be immortal. It is always “unfair” when you die and you “need this and that” so you can live forever. The more people dying the better as long as its about skill and not pressing “E” “shift” or whatever.

On mirror double shield yes. But otherwise you have to use teamplay to take double barrier down depending on the map and point. A lot of the times the best way to counter double shield is to take angles on their comp and attack them on different fronts and divide their resources. If you are not mirroring double shield brig bap, you will LOSE if you try to stack down main because of how much time their comps buys

The main issue with double barrier is it’s punishable as a team, but lacks individual punishability and takes more coordination to counter than it takes to run

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“You’re not allowed to do what I am.”

Get over yourself dude, you’re probably a Widow main upset you can’t instagib the enemy team.

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I’m not saying that we’re meant to be immortal, I’m just saying that double shield has become necessary against the waves of overtuned hitscan heroes.

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