Part of the reason Orisa is so ânicheâ on ladder is that if she tosses out a new shield.
She is nearly helpless to do anything about an EarthShatter and DvaBombs.
So hereâs two ideas to fix that:
Damage dealt to Orisa does not pierce through during Fortify. (Like Mei Iceblock and Zarya Bubble). Allowing Orisa to bodyblock ultimates for her team.
Halt grabs DvaBomb and stops itâs movement. Giving Orisa a way to move the Meka behind a wall or Halt it from moving forward. (Note, this currently the way it works against a charging B.O.B.).
By making Orisa capable of reliably dealing with this game-determining ultimates, it would make her a lot more viable on ladder and possibility in the tournament scene.
Simple, mostly imperceptible, balance features like this would greatly improve her viability.
Just some slight changes to how she interacts.
Iâm really a big fan of balance changes you wouldnât even know were there, if you didnât read the patch notes.
As if the character didnât change, but the problems just magically went away.
The thing is, hook and charge is a direct physical CC, they can knocked bastion in sentry or bubbled Zarya.
Yet both of those comepletley immune to any non physical âboopsâ like ones from lucio or Pharah, halt falls into the same category and does not affect them.
So itâs logical it wonât move meka ether, otherwise they have to change it so it can be moved by all CC and that basicly how to make that hell of a nuke useless against CC heroes.
Also if you really need to follow that technicality, the Halt âphysicallyâ connects a beam to the Meka, and it pulls. It does not push/boop/knockback.
Those⌠actually make a lot of sense why canât she halt d.va bomb if roadhog can hook it, rien can charge it, and crap mcree can literally stun it, there is no reason for it to be unable to do that.
Iâd like to see them remove increase Orisaâs movement speed during Fortify to allow her to disengage a little as well, and Iâd chage her ult from a damage increase to a damage reduction and CC resistance for her team. Bango has always felt a bit out of place on her kit.