We need more shield stealers against double shield

General Discussion
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Double shield is powerful and can be countered with three different kinds of characters:

-shield ignorers. Like ball, winston or doomfist. They don’t care if there is no shield, one should or two shields.
-shield breakers, like junkrat, bastion. These characters melt shields. One shield is very weak to stop them, but two shields can do something to stop them. So, in some way, shield breakers are encouraging double shield…
-shield stealers, like symmetra. These characters become stronger with the presence of enemy shields, and are very good against double shield, but not that good against one shield. These characters encourage switching from double shield to monoshield. The only character we have in this category is symmetra.

We could use more shield stealers. Right now, sigma and orisa were nerfed because double shield is oppressive, and they have paper shields now that can only be played if combined in double shield. Orisa can not protect alone against bastion. Orisa and sigma can.

More shield stealers would give more counters against double shield without deleting a mono shield, as bastion does against orisa. I think that orisa could be buffed if the game had more shield stealers.

There could be many ways to design more shield stealers. Symmetra gains ammo and charge, other characters could provide personal overhead to allies after stealing the shields, ir extra ammo to allies. Idk. But the enemy team should think “perhaps we can work with just one shield against that comp”

Opinions?

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Honestly I kind of like this idea. I always thought it was neat that in damaging barriers, Symmetra gained and maintained charge, as well as replenished ammo for her weapon.

Maybe a hero can do damage to barriers, and in doing so, speeds up their cooldown on their abilities?

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A hybrid of Zarya and Moira:

Any damage the hero does to Barriers, Shields, or IF targets they store and can distribute to their own team. Think like Moira’s succ but with the inspire mix that steals whatever the target has as the user is damaging the target.

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Sounds interesting but i have the feeling well see less shields in OW2 so this idea would end up being really niche

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Instead of doing shields made of paper, the should have tried this.
Ow2 is going to have brawler tanks. Can you have a comp with a brawler rein and a brawler sigma? Let’s see

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Not only that, but it also looks like they are going for 5vs5, meaning only 1 tank which sucks imo

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Seems like something S76 could use. If he didn’t spend ammo when shooting shields maybe he wouldn’t be terrible against every single team comp.