I don’t understand why they designed it that way, why does it last so little and have such a long cooldown
Is just to avoid a similarity to sigma?
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Hero hasn’t come out yet.
Let’s wait one more day yeah?
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It only lasts like 4 seconds dude, I don’t know how it’s supposed to compete with a Sigma or Reinhardt shield, or even a Winston bubble!
We’ll see, amm have to try him out for myself first.
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4 seconds compared to the rest of tank shields?
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If was idk… 6 seconds with a cooldown of 12? that would be good but 4 seconds with 15 second cooldown? even Cassidy can just wait for High Noon without have to be afraid of it, also can’t be placed in air so useless vs Pharah 
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It’s not supposed to compete in the same way, and compared to those characters Ramattra has a reliable and relatively high damage ranged attack.
Sigma would be the barrier tank he’s competing most with, and his weapon still has more effective range and higher potential damage. We’ll just have to see how he actually fares tomorrow
Edit, the emphasis on tomorrow was thrown too liberally as you weren’t complaining outright
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They probably just want it to be a tool which allows him to close the distance and then go nemesis mode for the brawl. They dont want his barriers being around all the time like Sigma.
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I’d probably look at it as a more offensive version of Mei’s wall ability.
Clearly it isn’t meant to be the cornerstone of his kit. After he uses it to approach, he’s expected to go Nemesis while it’s on cooldown.
I don’t get why it has to be manually placed like a Mei Wall/Sym Ult when it can’t be rotated. It’s going to be much harder to block shatters and similar abilities with this than it should be.
Why not just have it spawn where he’s looking when he right clicks, or the nearest available point in that direction if he’s not looking at the ground.
It was 4 and 12 on the video I saw. That seems a bit weak to me but I dunno. We’ll see how he plays out.
In OW1 you were lucky if Orisa shield lasted 4 seconds so I’m not sure it’s that weak.
because its not supposed too.
this is like complaining that sigma’s succ ability doesnt extend as far forward as dva’s DM. yes ramattra has a shield but that shield serves a specific purpose and its so that every hero doesnt have a perma shield to apply.
most shields in ow were used too block angles or to rotate which is exactly what his shield should allow him to do to some degree.
It’s so a Ram can counter an opposing Ram ult, duh! 
I feel like rams shield concept should be applied to everyone else if that’s the case and rein should be the exception
it is applied that way, in ow2 sigma’s shield is basically a personal barrier, just like rein’s.
infact all shields in ow are personal barriers 99/100 times.
Personally barrier or not it should last way longer or have a reduced cooldown
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well it has a duration to fit the time u are supposed to be using it.
like rein isnt really supposed to be using his shield that often. but in lower ranks ppl rely on it in unintended ways.