I’ve ranked the best “Powers” (or whatever the character specific ability changes with icons are called) for Reaper based on which ones are useless, decent, and good (enough) for the upcoming stadium game-mode. I’ve also created a small list of “guaranteed to be used” abilities that I plan on using every game.
This made me wonder what other people are planning to use on their preferred heroes (totally not because I want to know the best kits without having to manually read through them on the wiki). If you’d like to share your theory-crafted go-to’s, I would be most eager to read them.
Skip down to the last section to see my go-to-picks.
Here’s how I’ve ranked mine for Reaper:
Good (enough):
Reaping Resets: Probably his best perk because of how powerful it will make his flanks (if it’s even possible to do that in this game mode with all the additional stats people will be getting).
Wraith Regeneration: There are no downsides to this perk. It just makes Wraith form better. It’s probably the least creative thing they could come up with, but at least it’s useful.
Okay:
Accelerated Reaping: While spamming more shots out is nice, it comes at the cost of being wildly difficult to control. You are guaranteed to miss shots with it. It’s also been severely gutted since it was initially shown off (cut in half).
Blossom of Life: While it does seem to try and fix Shadow Step by providing you an opportunity to heal the HP you’ve lost from using the most telegraphed ability in the world, it’s only for 3 seconds. It’s also less than what the life-steal perk provides (70% → 60%) and it’s tethered to life-steal in general, which is just a horribly designed mechanic on Reaper specifically.
Silent Steps: This one acknowledges the issue with flanking that Reaper’s kit is burdened by and wastes an entire ability just to fix it, so we’re already off to a bad start. As a stadium ability, this should remove 100% of the audio that Reaper makes and it should only occur after using an ability for a breif period of time (say, 3 seconds or so).
Soul Harvest: I’m tired of soul orbs. Please come up with something new. It’s good, but it has all the issues that soul orbs has always had, plus it’s annoyingly unoriginal.
No Escaping Death*: Without proper statistics and percentages, I can’t say this one is good without a doubt, but as a concept, I could see this being useful for a front-lining build (even though front-lining as Reaper is a dead playstyle). Probably the best out of the “Okay” tier. Bonus points for creativity (in which they stole from a content creator event).
Trash:
Backstabber: I’d genuinely like to see someone make an argument for how this is a good ability in any way. All this does is make people focus you for a breif moment, which is useful in about 0.2% of scenarios.
Moira’s Transference: Aside from being nerfed, I’d like to remind everyone that Reaper is a DPS because it seems the developers have forgotten. Even if this ability was good, I would never pick it out of spite. What part of Reaper’s hero fantasy does healing teammates fit into?
Spreading Shotguns: This one literally just makes your spread wider in 90% of scenarios. In the scenarios where spread doesn’t matter, it only marginally increases your damage output. Not worth.
Vampiric Touch: Do you know how hard it is to get within range? Let alone melee distance??? And for all that, the only thing you get is a temporary life-steal boost for your teammates??? Again, Reaper is a DPS, not a Support.
Death Step: Just go watch the SuperTF video. Whoever thought putting the most predictable ability with the next most predictable + slowest moving ability in the game together was a good idea needs to be perma-banned from balancing Reaper.
Bonus points for Creative ideas:
- No Escaping Death
- Wraith Regeneration
Yes, these two are the most creative Powers that they made for Reaper. No where near as cool as being able to transform into a giant ice-ball. I don’t think they even made any new assets for Reaper at all. Step it up.
My Personal Go-To’s:
- Reaping Reset (must pick)
- Wraith Regeneration (must pick)
- Soul Harvest (must pick)
- Accelerated Reaping (swappable)
- No escaping death (swappable)
These are my picks, what are yours? (Also, if you don’t mind, a breif description of what they do)