Reaper should consistently oneshot people in close range

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Just like Hanzo doing it at any range. Reaper spread is TOO GIGANTIC even in 2m range, it may kill target, it may deal zero damage. It’s really damn humiliating to lose 1v1 to Hanzo in melee range.

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This is absolutely true.

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Honestly his flaking ability isn’t good enough to justify his drop off. If a reaper wants to venture off by himself that his choice to die.

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Reaper needs 2 outa 3 of these changes imo to be any good :
(maybe a spread change as well, but if he has a good Shadow Step he might not need it)

  1. Shadow Step : at least .5 seconds faster, some sort of rework on the functionality, maybe make it invisible on destination, maybe make it so it adapts to the distance he travels and recharges and completes faster and gives him a buff that increases his movement speed sligtly and muffles his movement for a brief period, 5 seconds or so… odly specifc, i know, but something of these proportions is what this terrible thing needs, i feel.
  2. Hellfire Shotguns: Make them better into armor, by halving the pellet count and doubling their damage , would end up like this : 10x14 = 140 , same damage as current (20x7) , but into armor : 10 x (14-5) = 90 , on headshots = 10 x (28-5) = 230 , against the current 20 x (7-3.5) = 70 and FULL on headshots = 20 x (14-5) = 180 , a whopping 30% dmg increase against armor.
  3. Death Blossom : Up its range to 11 meters from 8 meters, same as his falloff, the damage to 600 (200x3) from 510 (170x3) and decrease its charge required to 1500 from 1825 but add fall off to itself so its not so broken, something like 70 dps at the very end or something.
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Reaper has always been a huge counter against tanks. He’s never been the best choice against snipers or dps heroes because of his hitbox, range, and issues with mobility. I don’t see the problem with his kit other than being a niche pick and simply not effective in a dive meta.

If you want to buff him, I don’t see much need as any change away from the dive meta is going to make Reaper more viable by default. A buff for damage against armor might be okay, but not strictly necessary.

As for Hanzo, there’s really no way to prevent the headshot from killing you unless you increase reaper’s hp to 300, add armor, or change reaper’s hitbox. The same can be said for stormbow, which is essentially like running reaper into a mccree with a fan the hammer.

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Hanzo now is also great against tanks. And everyone else.

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Better/Something other than Shadow Step, better Ultimate, better guns would make him useable against pretty much anything, but still not the best option against snipers or long range, kinda like Tracer but even slower but with more dmg.

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your being unfair you do so much consistent damage just by clicking in the direction of a person now you want to remove the only safe place to fight reaper… naw man im going to keep punching you in that stupid owl mask

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“so much” consistent damage, wow, didnt know dealing 21-114 damage in close range was consistent, nor much.

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They definitely need to tighten his spread just a little bit. Definitely not as much as they tightened Sombra’s, but a small tweak would do wonders.

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He should have a tighter spread, at a decent range you can’t even kill that toothpick called Mercy. Instead of buffing reaper just make Mercy T H I C C, it’s the year 2076 JEFF, women don’t have to be tiny!

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10% is already too much? really? i d k bout that… his spread is huge.

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I’m saying they do need to tweak his spread and shrink it down a bit.

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But less than 10% (Sombra’s) ?

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Seems like your problem is aim.

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i thought people hated tracer because “you can oneclip people super fast” lol

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Nope, no such thing as “having bad aim” (not nearly as much as other accurate heroes) when playing Reaper, always aiming center mass, his spread RNG is that bad.

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They don’t have to be huge either :smiley: I think Mercy’s model is already pretty realistic for a woman in an active field of duty. She is a combat medic after all!

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you dont aim as reaper, you pray. Its very inconsistent.

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Tracer has way more mobility than him and is usually way more annoying but ya, i can see how if Reaper could actually flank people would h8 getting one-tapped by him, but imo thats fine, Reaper is supposed to be the d***head of this game, let him cheese people.