Remove Freya from Stadium

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I hate this filthy hero, her stupid flying sniping explosive spamming idiocy is ruining this perfectly good mode.

Played JQ, got RAILED by an Orisa and Ana with a Freya and Mercy colonoscopy duo (Reaper was there but he wasn’t doing anything).

Our own Ashe was basically throwing with just her badly she SUCKED AT THE GAME!

But Freya flies permanently and carpet bombs the entire EVERYTHING constantly and has a free life and damage boost at all times.

I don’t think even Sojourn has THAT level of BS tucked away in her stupid gun.

Freya is such asanine hero design, I don’t know what rock eater designed THAT filthy thing, but she CANNOT be allowed to exist in this game in that state. She is literally uncounterable, ESPECIALLY to Tanks with who all have the range of a Freya player’s PP size (very very small).

Either absolutely gut this game design abortion, or remove her entirely, send her to the farm and shoot her in the back of the head, I can’t be bothered with dealing with all of the airborne terrorism she can spew.

I’m sick of all these filthy hit-scan one-tricks too, I just want a game mode where it’s projectile heroes trying to out-stupid each other, it’s fun. FREYA ISN’T FUN TO PLAY AGAINST! SOJOURN WON’T BE FUN TO PLAY AGAINST!

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I actually have a Lucio build called “Screw You, Freja” just to deal with her burst.

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Is there a Tank equivalent?

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Build into armor with the blue survival items that turn 100hp into armor, then take the thing that gives you 10% reduced weapon damage taken when you have armor. Take the purple item that makes you take 15% less damage and instead take that damage over a few seconds. There’s also the one that does something when you take over 100dmg at once? I forget what it does, but it’s helpful.

Basically you just have to build all-in on tankiness.

What hero specifically are you looking at building against her? I could try to make some scuffed anti-burst build rq.

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Thinking of tankiness, wouldn’t the Orisa fortify build be good against Freja? Orisa with tons of armor and overhealth and the ability to avoid being rooted should be a great option.

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Yeah, she’s pretty solid. Between gold form and spinny, she’s got a lot of resistance to that burst.

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So is there any counter build for JQ, or was I just utterly screwed from the start? I went with a team buffing shout build with damage resistance.

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I don’t know enough about Queen, but your items for surviving high burst weapon damage are as follows:

Out of the gate I’d just take Armored Vest and whatever else you like.

You’ll want to combo these in the mid-game as soon as you’re able:

Crusader Hydraulics
Vital-E-Tee

For epic items, these three pair fairly well together:
Nebula Conduit
Ogundimu Reduction Field
Divine Intervention

Optional is:
Martian Mender

I don’t know much about Queen in particular, but I think Thick Skull will also help.

You’ll be giving up a lot of offense, but if you take some of those, you can really cut back on how much you get dumpstered by Freja.

So your absolute bread and butter for surviving her late game are:

Crusader Hydraulics: You’ll be taking 10% less weapon damage as long as you have armor.

Divine Intervention:
If you take more than 100 dmg at once, you restore 20% of it (all of her right clicks hit that threshold)

Nebula Conduit: You then take 15% less of all damage up front, instead taking that extra 15% over 3s.

Ogundimu Reduction Field: When you take damage, you gain .5% damage reduction, stacking up to 20 times (10% damage reduction at max). Thanks to Nebula Conduit, you’ll always be taking ticking damage to keep the stacks maxed.

In total that’s a 55% passive reduction on her burst once you’re fully up and running. I don’t know what Queen-specific powers or items you’d use outside of that, but that combo of items applies to every single hero. It sucks to give up so much just to survive her burst, but it is possible.

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Freja is a menace. She needs nerfs.

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I don’t post in these forums often, so I came here to say that I need her killswitched from Stadium yesterday. The balance pass done on her is the worst thing I’ve experienced in this game in my entire time playing OW(2). Dare I say worse than every Sombra design I’ve encountered as a Support main combined.

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