Watch what fun I have trying to burn a Mei down from within her Blaster range (both are short range heroes!) SPOILER ALERT! It was 8 shots.
reaper perma died the day brigitte was introduced.
she will always delete him solely by existing, since his dmg will always be reduced.
unless the brigitte stays still and tells the reaper to kill her, lol
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I put this idea out there earlier: Odd idea for Reaper
Which would give him a way to strip off those blocks of armor and make him a true tankbuster. Please, feel free to iterate on it and say what you love or what you hate about said idea or what it could do different if anything.
Even if Reaper isn’t the one to get it, why isn’t there percent based damage in this game? Can never kill, do less damage the less health they have but would be great at tearing down shields and tanks.
I almost find it funny that
A) Blizzard has buffed EVERY single part of his kit EXCEPT the part that needs actual buffing, and
B) EVERY single buff (other than the recent 30% heal) is inadequate
Like for Christ’s sake, you throw 4 nerfs on Doomfist and superbuff Mercy into an apache helicopter. Can we get something more than “Oh we gave Reaper an extra pellet lol”?
Why is it that the heroes that need the most and most radical changes are left with nothing while the heroes that need tuning get huge sledgehammer changes?
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This needs to be heard in more places
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He does way too much damage for low skill, so I don’t think he’ll ever be great outside of bronze/silver.
Wow, ranged heroes don’t exist in your game apparently.
There is literally nothing scarier in Overwatch than a Reaper in your face. No matter what is going on in the game, if Reaper is in your face he becomes your top priority.
This is the reason he doesn’t get buffs. If they give Reaper any meaningful buffs, they will absolutely have to come with corresponding nerfs to his damage. There is no way around it.
Maybe that is what they should do. Maybe a Reaper rework would be best, I dunno. What I do know is that there is a definite reason he has not gotten straight up buffed.
See, for that reaper that’s about to be in your face I use voice coms and say hey, Reaper is dropping in. He has very loud and obvious footsteps. Then he melts. Boy he sure did a lot of damage to us, huh.
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That certainly is the worst case scenario for Reaper, and likely the reason he doesn’t get picked much. That doesn’t contradict a single word of my post though.
Let’s compare Reaper to Genji.
Reaper has no alternate fire. Genji does.
Reaper has no passives. Genji has 3.
Faster base speed.
Double jump.
Wall climb.
Reapers teleport ability is literally worse than Genji’s passives. Now look at the comparison of their ultimates.
It’s no wonder Reaper is a horrible DPS. At a minimum, they need to seriously hardcore buff or rework his teleport.
His teleport is definitely a mess and needs to be reworked. Definitely stop broadcasting that he is “reapersitioning”.
I think they could do a lot by adding smoke as a thematic element to his lot (like Forsburn if you are familiar with Rivals of Aether).
Give him smoke grenades on his secondary that do a little burst of damage that helps break armor a bit. His team can see through the smoke clouds while the enemy can’t, giving him some stealth utility to add to the team. It would also help him teleport using smoke in creative ways.
Every single time Reaper gets a buff in patch notes, there’re so many people being all omg Reaper gonna be OP! That lifesteal! that spread boof!
Meanwhile any Reaper player knows that it’ll barely help him at all time and time again.
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Reaper only works when he is in your face though, shields and dm also counter him, he doesn’t have much protection against cc either. I’d say a Mei and Hanzo in your face is almost just as dangerous in slightly different ways, but they also work at range.
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Reaper only works, in your face. Outside of that very narrow range he sucks. If he is seen even for a second more than in your face away, he loses half his health before he can even get to you. If he is in your face range he can be blocked easily. Let’s do the numbers.
Ana can sleep him. Moira can Fade away and drain his HP. Lucio can boop him. Brig can stun him, shield and if she hits him once probably outheal his damage. Mei can cryo-freeze, icewall and freeze him. Soldier can sprint away and heal. DF can knockback, jump away or knock him up. McCree can flashbang and roll out of distance. Sombra can hack and teleport away. Ashe can boop him. Tracer can blink away. Rein can shield and charge. Winston can leap away. Zarya can shield. Dva can boost away.
I didn’t do everyone but you can see. Reaper’s range is so small and he is so slow that 90% of the cast can get away and/or kill him. He isn’t a threat to any smart player.
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Dude… totally off topic… I was just freaking out because I I had no memory of writing what you posted and it said it was 13 minutes ago and I was having panic attacks thinking my account had been compromised when I suddenly realized that we both just use the same avatar and I’m basically an idiot.
Okay, this Fan the Hammer buff was literally not asked for and it puts Reaper in an even lower spot.
Remember back in season 5 when stylosa and your overwatch said Reaper would be the king of brawlers and will now have a good place on the ladder?
Yeah, 8 seasons later Reaper’s still in the same spot.
Probably because people who only fight Reaper, not play him, don’t understand why Reaper is atrocious, and never will until they hit actual coordinated play.