Now he feels so random it’s sucks.
It’s feels not reliable anymore, his lifesteal was basically the best thing about him and now it’s jumping so much.
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He has a niche. In a brawl/rush comp with lucio he’s fine. He works well with lucio period, and since lucio is so good right now, reaper isn’t too bad.
He didn’t get dunked on quite as harshly as say junkrat or sym. I do feel like the extra health does him a favor too.
I’m trying to find a silver lining, admittedly 
I’m huge a Reebah fan, his was the first golden gun I acquired. Aren’t they tweaking him soonish anyway?
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When Blizzard says „soon“ it’s always dangerous, can be next season or in three years.
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Really? For me it seems like he just completely shreads tanks instantly with little to no counter. He seems to be meta
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i rlly wish they’d just replace shadow step w/a grenade launcher ability ala concussive on pharah- gives him way more dynamic/skillful movement alongside a means to poke, would make him far better in metas like this and less reliant on characters like lucio, zarya, etc.
I just cannot wait for his rework. No offense to anyone getting eviscerated by Reaper, but he is dreadful. That’s just a personal issue on your part and he will not be allowed to be usable until they design him in such a way that he does not destroy those types of players…
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The hitbox size changes were actually a pretty big buff for him though.
Reaper really isn’t bad
his bullet hitbox buff helps, but others gota bigger buff because they can consistently poke from longer ranges and can get out of his effective range. Hes not as terrible as before but hes not that much better now
problem with that it, now he cant flank
since shadow steep is flanking tools
also dont need to replace it, he has RMB free slot
What makes you say Lucio is so good right now? Actually curious. I’m not seeing him much in my games.
bigger projectiles is a big plus, bigger boop that does more damage. Since you usually use lucio for speed boost and healing is alot harder, its more valuable to have a dive comp to kill things since they cant just survive a sustained damage input now.
TLDR dive is a lot better and lucio has lots of buffs
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Lets be real, its time the changes he got between OW1 and OW2 got reverted. There was no reason in the first place he should have been getting NERFS with 5v5 when characters like widow who actually BENEFIT from there being 1 less tank went unchanged. Absolutely absurd. Giving him a little more help with his damage/range would really benefit the character, esp after his passive being less useful in s9 like you mentioned
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For real, I can’t wait for the rework. I have frequent issues of his teleport going to horrible spots which the enemy team can get a free pick from me. I’m tired of his ultimate treading at a snail’s pace and dying because I have to commit to his long duration. At least before Pharah dies when she ults, she can burst the tank and have the team fight advantage from trading lives.
In fact, I’m not sure what’s worse: dealing with Reaper’s clunkiness and overall risks or getting harassed by players as a scapegoat almost every game because I’m playing as what’s perceived as in higher ranks “the worst hero in the game”. All of these problems just add up overtime; it’s a very frustrating experience when all I wanted was to have fun with the hero and his playstyle.
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Its his speed. with the new buffs, his speed up ws changed from borderline op to just OP now.
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Who woulda thought, anything that affects healing received would kill heroes like this. I mean, it’s plainly obvious that a dev looked at Reaper’s 35% lifesteal and thought “Actually 15% lifesteal every now and then would be just what Reaper needed”
We have literal ADHD devs who don’t pay attention to the consequences of certain changes and hyperfixate on what they’re trying to accomplish and what they’re trying to accomplish is foolish anyway. What we had was fine
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It is time for the return of 50% lifesteal. I want their tears to not fall, but to crash around me.
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Of course it is obvious.
Don’t get me wrong.
I did hope that they would have made a difference between healing received and passive healing, since heroes like Queen or Hog suffer from the same problem.
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The few times I played him in QP, he was working surprisingly well. The only match I had trouble in was when the enemy LW was basically babysitting their Widow and Ana. Still, whatever the rework will bring, it can’t come out soon enough.
This patch has made reaper not completely awful.
Granted, he is nowhere near hanzo and the hitscans, but that is not exactly a fair comparison as they are unimaginably broken.