Reapers shadow step is so useless

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How did Reaper not get a shadow step buff in the reaper rework?

Reapers shadow step is one of the most useless abilities on overwatch. The thing is the overwatch developers buffed reapers wraith form where he travels quicker and can now cancel it, making it unpredictable.

The problem with shadow step

The problem with Reapers kit is that people only tend to use his wraith form, and not his shadow step (only when getting out of spawn or getting high ground. His shadow step is very slow and can easily be predicted by a sniping widow. Basically making it useless offensively, making it useless

How you can improve "shadow step"

My idea was to make the travel time a lot quicker and increase the distance, Reaper is a close-range hero and might require to travel a further distance to make him more useful. His quick teleport would help him be not being detected and his voice lines- “Death comes” “From the shadows” and “Repositioning” should be silenced down a bit making him more sneaky.

Id like to know what you guys think if you have any ideas you could comment them

Thanks for reaping (not a reaper main btw)

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It would be nice if the ability got a 2 second cooldown or it was faster

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  • There’s like two seconds of immobility on both ends of the teleport.
  • Positioning the end point where you want to is very kludgy.
  • The enemy gets to see a bright red flare where he’s going.
  • The fact that it’s audible at all while having all the visual tells is ridiculous.
  • Can’t be used during Wraith but sure you can Translocate when Stealthed.
  • Range at 35m is actually fairly limited all other things considered.
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