I think it’s time for Reaper changes now, no? Nerfed his damage in the begining of OW2 because of DPS Speed passive, removed said passive but left the damage nerfed. He is still one of the few heroes that doesn’t have a right click, and all his skills feel unrewarding compared to other flankers.
Sombra already got plenty of reworks and a new one comming tomorrow.
Roadhog already faced alot of changes too, and gonna have even more changes in the middle of the season.
When are you devs going to give Reaper a rework, or atleast a new ability to his right click?
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Don’t worry after they rework Pharah then they’ll keep ignoring Reaper for another 2 years : )
god forbid he use smoke grenades like he did in his first cinematic he was in
or go smoky zoom???
idk man
team 4 clearly doesn’t want reaper to have anything more complex than juking dva bombs by tping at the right time
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I think a Smoke Grenade would be awesome. Something that, MAYBE, let him see inside of it but not enemies, and also increase his movement speed while passing through it.
just have it hinder anyone in it
I learned while playing Overwatch 2, that any debuff is unfun to people, but buff in skills are OK for those same people. So a simple “blind” debuff to not see outside the smoke or through the smoke and buff Reaper speed while on it would be already really good for close quarters.
He just needs a buff to his Wraith and an alt fire or even a slug shot on cooldown. Those alone would do wonders.
That is definitely not something I want to happen to Reaper. Please no. Let’s not go that route. Just buff him…
shadowstep over wraith form needs the change. Its pretty bad with more contemporary movement options doing almost the same action but with less risk (Moira fade, Kiriko teleport, now sombra’s translocator). The distance might be different for all but Sombra’s translocator but they are alot more useable than what he has.
I will return to OW if they make my boy feel like he’s in OW2 and not half baked OW1 character
The other problem is how all over the place he is. The only other game similar to OW that I’ve played was Paladins, but I’ve never heard of a loud flanker with low mobility, a large hit box, and enough damage to be a threat to tanks at their preferred ranges. I mean, in a 1v1, the only tanks that can beat him are also dependent on either a lucky hit like Rein or him making a mistake like Zarya and Sigma.
Every tank but winston can kill him before he kills them though? Like he is not killing an orisa, zarya, sigma (unless his misses his rock, his vortex, and his shots and lets reaper get under 5m to him), roadhog (hog does more concentrated damage), junkerqueen (her lifesteal is better and her damage is more concentrated than his), ball (too fast), etc. Rein, ramattra, dva and doomfist have advantage over him in fights but he could kill them just with great difficulty compared to torb, bastion, junkrat, etc.
I’m talking from a console Plat standpoint, so Winston aside, several can go both ways, but they all usually require a lucky shot or for Reaper to mess up. Same way he usually needs one of them to mess up before he can win. If Fortify is down for example, he should have no trouble against Orisa. If Zarya’s bubbles are down and she hasn’t gotten too much damage, he’ll have no trouble. So long as he can dodge Nemesis or has Wraith, he should have no problem with Ramattra.
In Overwatch 1 Reaper could solo literally any tank in existance. He had the damage to do it and Tanks weren’t so strong as of now. I mainly play Doomfist and Zarya (not because of meta), and i can solo any Reaper i see bullying my team around. I can even follow them when they wraith form away because they noticed they won’t win the fight, and still kill them.
I always thought about his right click. Concentrated shot? Like a hitscan with like 20m range that deals almost his full damage but from far but it’s terrible to hit while near people? Wouldn’t work aswell. People would pick him to counter Pharah and he would lose the close quarters flanker style. Give him a smoke grenade with blind radius and let him see through it? It’s unique, we don’t have anything like it in the game, and would fit his lore and his style to dominate close quarters and disrupt in that range.
Rework his Wraith Form to be more agile? Would also fit. He can literally fly in cinematics with the wraith form, and would let devs rework his shadow step to something more useful, like a Kiriko tp, but to enemies in sight, or inside the smoke grenade. So many possibilities to make him work again.