Simple answer: think in which is the buff, gaining life. The nerf to armor is for everyone and that’s it. But for reaper the answer is veeery easy: discord him. Zen can do it and Ana too. This two heroes make Reaper loose his buff for a few seconds (Ana) and for much longer time (Zen). If being discorded Reaper keep doing damage it’s just perfect, because it’s certain death.
This is clearly another example of how impressionable can the community be over one small number tweek.
Reaper is still the same character, with the same weaknesses. What is changed is that he is better at surviving to characters that he was DESIGNED to counter.
His overall survivability against smaller targets is basically unaffected, unless u let him shoot u in pointblank, i which case it’s entirely your fault.
So whats ur problem with it again? U cant win against him as Roadhog / rein / dva? Too bad, try playing as a team against him next time.
Just click him in the head, or are snipers suddenly no longer an issue on these forums? 
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Even in low ranks he’s easy to counter.
You play healer? Go Ana (debuff and sleep are so strong against him) or you can also go Zen to deny his ult
You play DPS? Any long range hero deny him (Widow, Hanzo, Ashe, even Soldier) and, right now, his best counter his McCree with FB+FTH
You play Tank? Orisa, D.va or Zarya are still strong against him.
The Life steal amount is obnoxious. They feel near immortal… Also if you try to flee, they just mist drift towards you .
They dont die and hit hard and suck back any damage u dealt… tough. I can only think of a widow, hanzo or ashe sniping them to death at this point
Want to kill reaper? Don’t feed him.
Or a brig, or an Ana, or a Mccree, or Ashe knocking him away, dva matrixing, hog hooking, Orisa halt or shield blocking, brig whipshot, bruh have you tried anything other than complaining?
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Why would anybody get death blossomed unless you have no Rein or DVA or Brigitte.
But lets say we do make him more kill able, will he be good against any tanks? Any except Roadhog?
Not sure cause I dont watch streamers, but arent majority of them are OWL players? Like Seagull, Effect, Jjonak or Saebyolbae
Well, they say they do internal testing, and it really, really makes me wonder who are they talking about ? I find it hard to believe all their “internal testers” who also strangely approved Brigitte in her introduction are to be trusted in the least. It’s clear there is no vetting process, the primary dev responsible for balance is an autocrat, what he says goes, so we end up with things like a a 50% instead of something more moderated like say 40% to start.
I had suspicions that Mercy was a overnerfed on healing for some reason with some upcoming change or character, and I think it was the planned Reaper changes. With his change plus her pushing 60 hps, he truly would be unstoppable. It seems beyond giving Ana room to be meta, the change was done in part with an eye towards the Reaper change.