What if Reaper’s Wraith Form

… allowed him to escape from stuns?:thinking:

Watching Reaper move in the animated shorts gives me the impression that he’s a living fog, a murderer that’s almost impossible to trap off or pin down. I don’t get that feeling from his in-game mechanics.
How could allowing Wraith form to activate during stuns change his role in Overwatch, and by extension the present meta, if at all?

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His cells simultaneously decay and regenerate at an extreme rate. I guess, artistically, this disemobodied mass of cells is portrayed as a mist.

Might actually make him usable.

I always thought that Reaper should be allowed to use Shadow Step while in Wraith Form. I don’t see why he can’t. :man_shrugging:

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Just another person upset about CC.

Spirit (#1 Reaper player in the world) will say to make reaper viable (and mainly to get good), is to sidestep large attacks and wraith to bait out stuns.

He’s fine (in a relative sense), you have to wraith before the stun, and that just requires better game sense.

Also kinda defeats the purpose of trying to stun a reaper, doesn’t it? I still have to play around his wraith as brig, and it’s not always easy.

well the problem with that is how hard it will become to stop reaper, reaper has 2 main counters, ranged heroes and stuns. Other than that he goes ham on the whole team. If he could escape stuns with wraith that leaves his only counter being the two sniper heroes, since he could easily approach and dispatch a hero like mccree/soldier

What if a shorter wraith form passively activated when he got stunned?

I’m not upset.

Well, yes it does; that would be the point.

The point of this thread was to ponder over how Reaper’s role would change in the meta if he could reliably escape stuns…