Wraith Form
- Maximum duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
Shadow Step
- Cooldown decreased from 10 to 8 seconds.
Non-dev comments: With multiple DPS getting buffs, i think Reaper is kind of falling behind, the somewhat power creep idea is that, since Shadow Step can cover up to 35m, Wraith Form at 8.25m/s movement speed needs around 4 seconds of duration to cover the same distance, that way, Reaper would be able to actually flank deeper and have an actual escape more often, Shadow Step is also not good enough for 10 seconds cooldown so decreasing it a bit makes sense.
At this point reworks for old heroes would be more about modernizing their outdated kits than just buffing them
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Either way to make them more viable one would hope (or whatever other reason), buffs can get a similiar result, until they get the so called rework.
they should combine wraith form and teleport and just let you climb walls while in wraith, then add a grenade launcher that shoots smoke bombs
lets get reaper back to that first reveal
You’re most likely not off the target much, considering their idea of modern OW characters is to give them some sort of grenade…
I feel like they need to just make his abilities process way faster, it is so slow and clunky at the moment, make wraith form work like moria fade. and make his TP work like kirikos TP, there’s no reason why Reaper has to be this slow anymore in the current state of OW.
Abilities gotta have some sort of counter-play though, imagine a Reaper guy just immediately popping from their backline to yours in the blink of an eye and just going to town before you can really do anything to stop him, point being that, yeah i believe his abilities (mostly Shadow Step) need to be less clunky but not in the veins of Kiriko.
Why though if kiriko can instantly TP to someone and suzu both of them in a team fight?
thats like the epitome of hypocrisy
They won’t buff Reaper right now. He’s seeing play in the current FlashOps tournament. Which probably means he’ll be getting a nerf.
250 HP, deadlier shotguns and 35% lifesteal is kind of the gist of it.
instant vulnerability with a almost full heal and then able to two tap isn’t the gist of it?
Support players just don’t want DPS to be good lol this community is crazy.
As usual though i think its more the meta becoming more in favor of his playstyle than his kit being strong for him to get picked but yeah, maybe you’re right.
You cant possibly think Kiriko’s Kunai’s are better than Reaper’s shotguns when he can get in range, Reaper also poccess instant invulnerability, 50 extra HP and 35% lifesteal, its not the same.
Though theres definetly the argument to be made about how Supports just have the better cooldowns because of the fact they are supports, wich is kind of true.
you are underestimating kiris small hitbox and her kunais in the hands of a top500 player. yea kiri has instant vulnerability for herself and everyone it hits and they can still attack when they are in it and they are almost full healed now.
there really is no reason reaper shouldn’t be able to do that but OW devs and community just don’t want DPS to be as capable as supports so eh oh well I guess it is what it is I’m not surprised anymore.
also the crazy part is, I don’t even play reaper, haven’t touched him once in 6 years, I just feel for reaper mains and would like for their hero to not be so outdated
Even right now Reaper gets over 3x Kiriko’s elim stats usually, its more the fact Kiriko can also heal and strong utility by cleansing her teammates that she is as strong as she is (not even that strong in lower elos).
Is there an argument to be made that Kiriko’s cooldowns leave little to no counterplay as well? Maybe, then again her weapons are not nearly as good as Reaper’s, nor is her base stats, meaning for her to get any value her cooldowns need to be strong (that is literally the base of every support in the game) you cannot compare 1 to 1 there, obviously the character with worse weapons would have the better cooldowns.
Meaning Reaper would be broken with the lvl of Kiriko’s TP, just look at Tracer’s stats and why that is that she is allowed to have that much mobility, Reaper can deal 2-3x her dps, for longer, all the while healing and has almost double her HP, theres a reason for that.
I’m a “Reaper main” for as long as the games out too, though i flex more than most mains, hes still at the top 3 of my played characters, i know how broken he can be if hes buffed out of proportion.
Not every Hero has to be so Complicated. It’s ok to have some Guy with just Shotguns, or some Guy with a Revolver.
What they NEED to do is Stop Releasing New Heroes with Bloated Kits just because they want to Fill every Ability Slot. They even made Lifeweaver with TOO Many Abilities even for an Overwatch 2 Character.
I don’t think smoke bombs are a good idea for an FPS but neither was Baptiste/Kiriko broken abilities and they added that into the game. A lot of people don’t like their view being obstructed.
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What about just Grenades, like from the Cinematic Trailer.
At the End of the Cinematic, Reaper and Widowmaker Grapple away and Reapers Shoots some Grenades at Winston.
Bro what are you even talking about.
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Kiriko has a 7.5% pick rate and a 4.63 KD
reaper has 1.76% pick rate and 2.80 KD
again, not surprised people don’t want reaper to actually be viable because the devs and community only want supports to be strong, so again, I get it, fine leave reaper bad as it is, just think its messed up though for the reaper players out there, guess people don’t care when its not their character that is bad.
just because they dont like it, doesnt mean its bad for the game
Look at the amount of kills and damage though, obviously the supports would have better KDS than most of the cast since they are the role that trades the less by far while DPS being the most.
Reaper has 20 kills per 10 while Kiriko has 9, while Reaper has 8k dmg dealt while Kiriko has 3k, obviously one is alot better equipped to have the better cooldowns/mobility.