Go take a look on the competitive overwatch subreddit, most of them are throwing a fit that you can cancel wraith form. Because he can dodge abilities like hook, flashbang, and sleep dart, when Tracer already does the samething. This community confuses me sometimes.
i use a lot of roadhog and reaper scares me but the buffs are only good for the game and dont make him suddenly OP
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Maybe it’s because I main Sombra and my main got nerfed stupid fast…
People have stupid double-standards. Reaper is gonna be fine.
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He’s fine tbh (though i’d like for them to make his e less janky somehow.)
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I played with a winston main crying about reapers buffs today lul. I hope Winston is off meta for a while I want to play Ana again
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Only thing I’m concerned about is how quickly he can enter Wraith form and exit it for a free reload now. It’s like McCree’s roll, only he’s invulnerable during it.
Otherwise…shoot, it’s fine. Cancelling Wraith form is great, and the speed is great. And I went against him a lot. Never felt broken or OP. It’s just that he’s been irrelevant for so damn long that now that he has some slight relevance, everyone’s flipping out lol
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Anyone that uses Reddit is about 200% more biased towards their main.
Ik the forums are toxic and biased but Reddit is a cesspool
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I read both on similar topics tbh.
Cause sometimes the forums are narrowminded, and other times Reddit is narrowminded. Kinda good to see and compare the two to form a better opinion
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That’s my only concern too. Maybe if he had to be in wraith form for a minimum duration for the reload, like Bastion switching modes needs a duration to reload. If you had to wraith for a second to reload it might remove that concern.
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It’s funny how they trash on the forums but they have just as bad if not even worse opinions than the forums.
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I totally thought he’d have it given Geoff’s comment the other day!
I guess they didn’t do it? Or at least implement it yet.
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Maybe they realized “Hey Reaper has 2 all-in abilities, maybe we can give him a break”
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in my matches reaper easily walked through teams, i dont know how it correlates to the buffs but it was certainly alarming given that previously reaper with a bit of effort could be snatched right up
100% agreed, though. Like, it sucked. 90% of his kit was “all-in”. I’m glad it got pulled back. I’m just surprised at how there’s no delay. You can enter and exit pretty quickly (definitely under .5 seconds)
I’m going to have to make it a point to learn not to get near him after his ult, too.
But god damn did he need these buffs!
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lol people think this is OP?.. genji’s deflect can make mccree stun himself and he can cancel out of it with swift strike.
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I’m not mad at the changes but it’s weird how reaper still has teleport, which is still one of the stupidest abilities in the game:
Step 1: camera goes to third person for next to no reason
Step 2: reaper strikes a cool pose for next to no reason
Step 3: reaper holds pose
Step 4: reaper keeps holding pose
Step 5: reaper keeps…wait no now he’s teleporting
Step 6: reaper holds pose for one more second just in case you didn’t see how cool it was
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This was my thought too, a CC and damage immune reload in a team fight is very powerful, I see Lumin had the same idea i did, make the time in wraith longer than his … 1.5 second reload to get the reload.
Did they forget to add the delay on exiting wraith? I thought that’s how they would balance this change. At least that’s what Geoff said.
Shadow Step still needs changes IMO, wraith form is faster and can be cancelled, this is something I exactly wanted.
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Honestly, I’d like them to do something cool with wraith. Like almost like another incentive besides survivability. What if when he wraiths on top of you, it almost serves as a discord orb or something?