Revert Freja's dash buff

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@N2B-21262

Freja’s primary fire does 30 damage, which is honestly pretty bad for a DPS hero—so the hero is clearly designed to combine primary and alt-fire, rather than using them in different situations like other heroes do.

Her primary fire isn’t bad, at all.

@N2B-21262

Freja’s dash is really just a movement ability without damage immunity or reduction, unlike, for example, Cassidy’s. The reload of the alt-fire allows Freja to deal really high burst damage for a brief moment, but even that doesn’t guarantee a kill since the damage is still spread over 1 second. Both healing and defensive abilities can easily prevent the kill!

Cassidy’s Roll isn’t as frequent, or as multi-directional.

@QuartzElk-3218

Her primary dps is 144, not high, but also not low for dps hero.

That’s actually pretty competitive with most automatic-fire heroes. It’s actually higher than Sojourn’s damage per second, along with Genji’s.

@QuartzElk-3218

Also, her current optimal loop isn’t to combine primary and secondary, but to use her dash to quickly fire secondary.

Both are actually quite viable.

@Calcifer-11399

Reality is that it doesnt matter, she needs to lose the 2 shot body shot. Its cringe and its disgusting.

The two-shot body shot requires a cooldown. That cooldown pairs well with all other damage over time scaling. It’s actually a bit on the low side, but her primary fire seems to make up for that.

@Calcifer-11399

I despise Freja already because Blizzard has shown they havent learned at all from their failures with Sojourn. The failures of putting all of a characters eggs in the basket of a single ability, and how when its aimed especially at high burst aim “heavy” abilities,

Sojourn doesn’t work like this, Freja doesn’t work like this. The only characters that rely heavily on singular abilities, is Widowmaker, Winston and Doomfist.

@Calcifer-11399

Theres nothing to buff on the hero for terrible players that wont drastically make high elo Freja a bigger issue, and her explosive bolts being a “skill shot” doesnt really matter in high elo because just about any high elo DPS player can hit 2 bodyshots. It isnt difficult to do, its not special up here, and positioning in high elo straight up means you straight up cant always expect your healer to be there for you, a lot of high elo is about having the self sufficiency to not constantly soak up your healers resources.

This is false.

@N2B-21262

When you compare the two, Hanzo is clearly stronger — he can land one-shots and has Freja’s alt fire damage built in as instant burst by default!

The two really can’t be compared; as they don’t really operate on the same approach. At best, you can take her Take Aim against his Storm Arrows and figure the canceling of Quick Dashes and total up the damage to cooldown ratios (and they’ll be pretty even). But Hanzo is going to stick to mid-to-long range while Freja works best at mid-to-short range.

@Calcifer-11399

Wouldnt it be just crazy if we maybe expected this hero to do something to earn her kills?

Point and shoot consecutive shots is not enough to earn a kill?

@Calcifer-11399

The character would be a lot more balanced for high elo if they had to land a 1H1B to exceed 250 damage,

Take Aim
Hit
1 second passes
130 damage

Take Aim
Hit
1 second passes
130 damage.

That’s about four seconds; which is the typical TTK that Blizzard likes to sit at.

Or we can do it this way… the Soldier/Sojourn loop

Primary fire,
5 shots (1 second)
Take Aim
Hit
1 second later
130 damage.

Averages about 2 to 3 seconds.

Wanna to go even faster? Use a cooldown.

@Calcifer-11399

dare I say it would even be better for tanks if her body shots had less damage so we dont just have a explosive bolt tank spammer!

Tanks that can’t learn how to use their defensive abilities against burst damage, aren’t good Tanks. Obviously, there should be tutorials to teach this stuff, but it is fairly easy for a lot of Tanks to minimize the damage they take from Freja.

@Calcifer-11399

since her only two abilities serve to empower her explosive bolts and her

No, they improve her mobility to take angles and fire shots at unexpected (or expected, depending on your experience) angles.

@Silent-16912

Not considering the fact that her cooldowns are extraordinarily low, and that her cooldowns (esprcially with perks) are intimately tied to her damage output.

Only one of them affects her cooldowns, and it doesn’t hold a candle to her refill her primary fire ammo.

@SilentSword-1192940

No he isnt. He’s still the worst dps in the game

He’s not, but he’s not in a great position, either way.

@N2B-21262

and her primary fire is so weak that people often forget it even exists.

No, it is not. Her primary fire is really good.

@Silent-16912

And Tracer, while annoying, does not have the samr burst potential that Freja does

This is false.

@Stär-11406

As a Freja main, I agree entirely that they should revert the dash cooldown. It was perfectly fine the way it was. Making her more appealing to spammers is gross. I knew they would end up doing something unnecessary like this

I’m actually fine with the 4 to 5 second cooldown on her Quick Dashes, as well.

Updraft, I’m not too sure yet. Maybe keep it, maybe not.