When Mauga came on to the scene (after he got his buffs), everyone agrees he was extremely oppressive. The issue when it comes to reaper is that mauga’s overdrive was pretty much necessary for his viability in season 8 in most games. This doesn’t mean he isn’t viable without a mauga, just that he felt more reliable with his shots’ damage and he could survive encounters where most of his pellets miss small squishies that were just over 3m away ( Tankbuster, am I right ).
I get that they are probably going to continue to make changes that soft/indirectly nerf reaper (like they did with his wraith form) before they throw him a bone of any kind.
Its kinda sad that you can feel the sudden change in him being a moderately decent pick for the first time since OW2 season 2 to there are much better choices for his niches in the same season without the hero being touched.
Well I would say this argument could be applied to any hero unless I’m missing some key piece of info about cardiac overdrive. It just life steals and gives it to players near him right? So why would this only help reaper? Maybe you could help me understand why this needs reaper and not every hero technically.
Sure. Mauga’s cardiac overdrive added health on top of Reaper’s health steal. So you would be getting something like 200 hp per shot even if it were to the body. Why that would only help reaper, it helped sym as well, but reaper would be able to go after squishies and have enough sustain to surivive getting in optimal range during the fight (small hitbox enemies but big weapon spread) and he could sustain against tanks for much longer while having the overdrive.
Ah I understand now. To me sounds like reaper was busted then.
Good, he doesn’t need it.
He didn’t have any range options nor mobility options, so he could still get killed extremely easily outside of 10m regardless of overdrive or not. So he become a glass cannon in a literal sense. As to not needing it (im not able to quote reply).
You’re right. He needs better mobility options and probably some kind of ranged right click to help him be dynamic in ow2.
Well from what I’ve played of reaper typically you flank or tank bust and wraith out to healers or health packs so the cardiac overdrive just seems little to busted considering his kit.
He can only really “tank bust” winston now since ow2 season 1/2 and he isn’t a good flanker (too loud in his steps and shadow step is extremely slow and risky). His potential niches have been compeltely taken over by other heroes currently. He is alright in some cases, but very fragile in most others.