Imagine if Rein had a 1 second cool-down on deploying shield, that would feel like a QoL downgrade and extremely irritating. He already received a massive hit to his survivability, at least revert the cooldown on block
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Sigma has a cooldown on his barrier, and so does D.Va for defense matrix. The whole punch block spam was silly, I’m personally glad they’ve addressed it.
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Except they can both attack while blocking/shielding. Ram cant in nemesis form so yeah i agree it should be reverted.
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It’s a big deal, but Hazard has it already so it’s probably fine
I’m happy they reverted Sigma’s shield cooldown back to 1 second though, way back when they bumped that up to 2 seconds I thought it made Sigma dramatically less fun to play
While Ramattra is the only blocker that doesn’t have some sort of offensive pressure while blocking(Doomfist gets charged punches to retaliate damaging him), Ramattra is the one with the best block.
He can’t use it whenever like Hazard and I think it has less reduction than Doomfist, but he can hold it for 8 seconds if needed which is a heck of a lot longer than the other two. Even better during his ult of course.
He is locked to melee range though, so perhaps 1 second is too long. They could consider a less than a second cooldown if this iteration is too detrimental.
I just played a game where a doomfist charges a punch across the map, hits me somehow and deletes me without anything I can do about it.
Ramattra was the only character I liked playing and now they dumpstered him while buffing Winston and Doomfist for absolutely no reason. I’m genuinely fed up and considering uninstalling this game. From the insane amount of bugs to the balance decisions, I’ve had enough
Sure, if they dramatically cut down the amount of damage reduction it grants.
Or make him unhealable while doing it, perhaps.
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Well, it’s also a finite resource that can be quickly taking down.
Ram can hold block for the entire duration
I think 1 second is a fine compromise. Unlimited and extreme damage reduction is obnoxious.
That new perk Ramattra got seems pretty fun though. It may be difficult to fully take advatage of, but half a second extra time in Nemesis can actually go a long way with the slow time drain when in range of people.
Ram has a different kit than Rein, and that’s only one part of Ram’s kit. It makes sense for Ram when it wouldn’t for Rein, because Rein’s shield also has a limit.
IMO it’s a good change. They should revert the reduction in Sigma’s shield cooldown.
If he’s doing poorly, they can buff him somewhere else.
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Ram is a braindead ez mode hero. Adding actual countermeasures to his block was a very good thing
Don’t tell us that you’re going to uninstall. We can’t do anything to change your mind
Either do it or don’t