I look at zarya’s powerups and my first instinct is to build around projected (teammate) barrier with the leap, double barrier, reduced cooldown, etc. and also get the giant bubbles so I can just flood the objective with bubble. Nice in theory, but then I try to pull it off in like 3 games and they all ended 0-4 and you realize freaking everyone is just constantly trying to flank in this mode regardless of their hero choice and your teammates are never grouped up for it to work. I’m sure it’s similar for something like building around juno’s ring
I think the leap bubble combo was intended to work with dive with the aoe damage bubble ability too. Idk, it seems a little underwhelming compared to some other items and powers, outside of just escaping and helping, there isn’t much other synergies that I see. Certain items are lacking or don’t have as much oomph to it as I would like to make the more niche/weird builds. Maybe I’m missing something or maybe I need something from a team mate to combo with.
Yeah, it also seems like it can be used as an escape too, but that’s only useful in cases where the bubble will get shredded instantly if you use it on yourself in which case you probably won’t be able to find a teammate to jump to in time
If your team consists of nothing but Ashe and Mei, don’t really expect to be pulling off those bubbles. Instead, you’ll have to wait and see if your team picks up Genji and/or Soldier/Cassidy or Reaper, as these are better choices.
If you can’t trust your Supports to do their job, don’t expect to get away with anything other than picking up Powers and Items that will keep your team alive.
Some team abilities aren’t as strong as others. I’m pretty sure ana’s power of ulting everyone meshes together with the ability to nano teammates through walls (at least i’ve seen ulted teammates appearing from behind walls)
Once more she seems to be one of the dev favourites when it comes to abilities.
only thing i take is double bubble. the rest just damage for myself and maybe lifesteal