I mean he two shots any dps…
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But he only does 80 damage per second, making him bad at killing anything he can’t 2 shot and even those elims allude him if his targets get any healing. Moira’s m1 by itself can completely nullify Sigma’s damage.
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He’s a tank. Therefore granting him protective status. He’ll be nerfed soon dw.
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His damage isn’t the issue honestly. I just hate once you break his shield it’s only on a four second cooldown. He can just use kinetic grasp to get his shield back
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it charges slower
break = 5 sec cooldown
recharge happens at 175 per sec after 2 sec
reinhardt is 200 per sec after 3 sec down
pretty much the same as rein
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It’s inconsistent by nature with limited range. He’s countered by most of the tanks. He’s just the only tank that can duel heroes like reaper and mei.
If I’m a tank player… why should I have no hero that can fight reaper mei? Even Ana and zen can 1 v 1 tracer genji of equal skill
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If DPS (200HP) got 4 times direct hits, yeah. But the shooting is not very reliable, most of the time they got damage by splash which has just 10.5 - 35 dmg.
Plus, he shoots slow.
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If Sigma is hitting you easily without somehow pulling some kind of trick shot off a wall or something, then you were out of position or exposed without barrier or cover. Which means you need to instead be aware and dodge or re-position.
Honestly, if Sigma kills you, you need to figure out why he killed you. He is a slow moving tank that can’t dive you at all.
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He does 120 damage per burst but his firerate is so low that its only 80 damage per second.
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I don’t care for sigma’s normal damage. What I hate is his ult. Absurdly broken. Should NOT do that much damage.
He does not two shots at all. he needs perfect aim to do that.
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Still this ultimate isnt a guarantee to kill someone and can be countered. Baptiste Drone makes the ultimate worthless.
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That applies to every ultimate and then some.
Are you serious? Unless you use an ability which is always get out of jail free (Fade, ice block, etc), you can’t escape it even if you leave the radius.
This is the only true thing you said. But even if it doesn’t kill someone, it will do a ton of damage and most likely will be followed by a kill.
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I think he needs to lose the splash damage
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Sigma’s damage isn’t an issue since its not that OP:
- Sigma has terrible range, anything outside of 20m and Sigma can’t hit it.
- Unless you are 20m he can’t get that splash damage which is where a good chunk of his damage comes from.
- His shots are projectiles not hit-scan, in order to make up for the travel time they made the shots strong. Look at all the heroes in the game besides head-shots the big burst damage comes from projectile heroes (Junkrat, Pharah, Mei, Hanzo etc…).
- Sigma is really slow and has no mobility at all, think of Sigma like the Zen of tanks, high damage but easy to dive on.
- Most heroes with 200hp or less (LOL Tracer) are killed pretty quickly by most characters in the game (hence they’re nickname squishy’s).
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I played him for +12 hours on comp.
It’s not easy to chase after someone who lost 50% HP + 50HP, they regroup superfast and get healed fast as possible. Unlike Earthshatter where everyone is stunned and arent able to do anything.
Lucio’s Ultimate counters it and if they lands, have still blue shields on.
So Zen’s Ultimate and Nano makes only 25% HP instead of 50% HP (If I observed correct, never saw a Nano-Rein lost the half of the life after the landing).
Once you activate ultimate, you have a cast-time and a short time not be able to do any other abilities or shoot.
Hook can cancel it before the lift starts, same for Widow or Ana’s sleep these snipers are often far behind.
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i mean i do, but apparently all these new “Tests, Betas” are going very well according to the community and the 50 to 100k commited viewerbase who watch static screens with no action on the replay stream
He has a considerable downtime between volleys. His kit isn’t very fast either, except for his shield. If anything, the guy needs some speed buffs (for abilities/weapon). With damage balancing only to keep his MB1 DPS roughly the same as it is now.
Earthshatter can be blocked, has much smaller range, and doesn’t halve HP. Also rein is pretty trash right now, Sigma is not.
Yet another thing that can counter virtually any ult that has big damage
A decent sigma will have his shield up when he uses it. A decent zarya can bubble the sigma.
I have a problem with every game having a Sigma in it and feeling like there is literally no shielding happening.
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