Reaper is back again at being a useless troll-pick

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He is just bad again on the PTR.
Many dps buffs again and Reaper can’t keep up again…
Sigh

For the love of god, buff his Shadow-Step already…

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but reaper was never good lol
yes beyblade dont remind me

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Better than terrorizing the lower ranks

They have said on multiple occasions they want shadow step to be used before the fight so you can get behind them, not during the fight.

What is your proposed buff to shadow step?

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He needs a shadow step rework.
His lifesteal is still higher than it was before, it just wasn’t a healthy change to keep.

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How do you propose doing this without nerfing Death Blossom, or, are you cool with having a nerfed Death Blossom for a buffed shadow-step?

Well… aside from the clipping issue… that does need to be fixed.

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The problem with Reaper is his inability to get in fights quickly

They really need to rework him

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I understand why hes being nerfed- but I don’t agree with it. I strongly feel the complaints were largely learn to play issues.

I wish he’d been given a compensation buff of sorts to go with the nerf.

Reaper is still bad overall in coordinated environments.

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Any complains under pro league can be considered learn to play issues.
Does not mean things shouldn’t be balanced if they’re too strong in lower ranks.

Life steal wasn’t the buff he needed.

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Just make shadowstep a 1.5m insta tp.
Shoud be good.

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That wasn’t Reaper tho. And Rein was a better Nano target anyway :man_shrugging:

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There is no other ability in the game, where are you trapped in a slow animation and can still get a headshot.
Without being able to react…

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It’s not a slow animation. Mercy gets a slow animation when using Rez. Reaper just outright stops moving all together.

Just helping you since I know the Rez argument will come up sometime. :wink:

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I don’t recall him being good except in lower ranks after the prior buffs though.

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Totally agree- and more or less the point I was making. Which is why I stated I understand why it was being done.

Life’s steal only served to make reaper frustrating at low ranks without addressing his issues at higher levels.

It needed nerfed for that reason alone.

But he definitely needs attentional elsewhere to address his genuine shortcomings at coordinated play.

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This is why just randomly upping his life steal from 30 to 50% doesn’t work Blizzard. These types of “balance” changes don’t work. We all know that a few weeks/months down the line you will just revert it, and here we are today.

I honestly can’t believe this is how balance works in this game. On a whim. Changing every few weeks/months.

All I want is a little stability.

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So he need ONESHOT to be viable or what?. We need HANZO/WIDOW nerfs to prevent oneshoting outside of ults and reaper was doing the same with less efforts

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Amen, I hope this is actually a thing! Watching Reaper run through a tank and 3 dps to kill me on mercy is very stupid! Oh and he is still full health BTW

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Laughs (cries) in Mercy, Symmetra and McCree :joy: :rofl: :cry: :sob:

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SMOKE BOMB!

Let’s him get in against ranged heroes (lucky shots notwithstanding), helps deal with snipers and lets him save wraith for an out

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Oh Reaper got nerfed again?
Oh he lost half of his lifesteal buff?

Thanks Blizzard; only wished you’d just put it back to 30% unless you’re actually going somewhere with this 10% lifesteal buff.