Then maybe you should stop shooting at her when she bubbles. It’s not rocket science, it’s called self discipline.
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I look at it from the other perspective.
Devs need to be working hard to get more DPS players converted into Tank players. Since that is really the only way they are gonna make a dent in queue times.
And this Zarya nerf does the opposite of that.
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I think it would’ve been fine if they actually compensated for it
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Except the status quo isn’t good enough, when it comes to the amount of Tank players.
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They do though. She is squishy for a tank and has low mobility. Rein just does a good job at making up for this weakness.
You can’t bring projectiles back. I like playing Zarya but this don’t shoot the bubble argument makes zero sense.
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Man. How did you figure this out? This whole time I thought shooting Zarya’s bubbles was a good thing!
Hey guys, OP figured out something nobody knew! Simply don’t shoot the bubbles and Zarya is horrible!
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Yeah bro just let her bubble target have a full second of invulneraiblity, its only a second its not like this will enable them to insta-melt you.
oh wait.
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Not to worry. As indecisive as the dev team has been by summer or end of summer Zarya should get a ridiculous buff.
You can’t just not shoot the bubbles. Zarya will use the bubble when there’s a burst of damage, so unless you don’t shoot the enemy team at all, Zarya will get charge.
To beat Zarya, you simply exploit her lack of mobility and range. Play ranged hitscans, or be on high ground she can’t easily get to. That’s how you deal with the damage.
I’m a D.Va main by the way.
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The “problem” is that non-DPS roles are capable of anything.
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Even if you are a projectile hero, I speak from experience, not shooting the bubble still does help. While it gives Zarya some charge, seizing fire to Zarya’s bubble will make her gain substantially less charge.
Besides, most of the charge that Zarya gets is from DPS players brainlessly firing into the bubble. It’s not a game of catch.
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Thanks. I will tell the players in OWL right away as it seems they are still missing this information.
What other fine discoveries have you made?
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I mean it’s not always braindead to shoot a Zarya. If she’s already high charge it’s best to just get through the bubble to deal dmg to her. Also stuff like fire strike, junkrat nades, Zarya shots, hanzo arrows, etc can’t really avoid giving her charge because again…you can’t bring back projectiles.
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You can also get away with shooting the shield if you are using damage boosted abilities.
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I mean, you don’t bubble things hoping they will get shot, you bubble to save live or when you know the can’t stop it from getting full value.
it’s not rocket science.
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You literally can’t avoid charging zarya when played properly.
If it was as simple as “don’t shoot the bubbles”, zarya in GM would never have charge.
Zarya is putting bubbles on people who need to be damaged, or on people about to take guaranteed sources of damage. Abilities that have wind ups, travel times.
Heroes who are diving in and harassing a teams back lines- you can’t “just ignore them for 2 seconds, THEN kill them!”, because chances are your support or whoever else will already be dead by that time.
Charging zarya is literally unavoidable when both sides are playing properly.
Which is fine- she’s built around this concept from the get go, don’t get me wrong.
But insisting it’s a learn to play issue because players just need to stop shooting the bubbles?
No.
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I just freaking hate zarya
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A good Zarya usually don’t just go into the open and say ‘‘hellow shoot me’’, usually good ones are the ones who ‘‘predict’’ damages when projectiles are already on the road for someone else and they go with their bubbles to protect herself and an ally.
so sometime is just impossible to don’t shoot at her, and for sure I cannot stay all the match with ‘‘zarya got personal and ally bubble, better don’t shoot and watch enemy team from afar while I do nothing’’ -.-
please , nerf deserved. Also isn’t a big deal.
dont be dumb, your “argument” (if you can even call it that - what it is is just repeated buzzwords you probably heard somewhere else. monkey hear monkey repeat) is negated by the existence of projectile heroes