What's The Point of Sound Barrier?

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For those who don’t want to watch the video, A junkrat uses Rip-Tire, I use Sound Barrier, and we all die anyway.

So much for

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Dragon blade, dragon strike, tact. Visor…

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Sound Barrier is supposed to survive a large burst of damage.

Also since you were trapped in a Graviton prior to Rip-Tire hitting you, they chipped away at Sound Barrier combined with the decay of the shields before Rip-Tire’s full impact (600 dmg) hit you anyway.

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As said above the barriers got chipped away a bit before the Rip Tire hit so of course you die. Trans or Rally wouldn’t change that outcome either.

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Graviton activated almost the second I used Sound Barrier. There was no time for it to chip away.

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You’ve got max charge Zarya doing 190 DPS from behind and Moira eating away at your team in the kill cam what.

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Dragonblade will eat through Sound Barrier
So will Dragonstrike
Tact Visor can kill Lucio before he hits the ground

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Well, if you look at the video right before you die, your health is less than 600
so
it did chip away, as did some other things.

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Also the decay from Sound Barrier itself is detrimental to surviving in most situations. I’ve personally thought Lucio’s ult could use a buff for a while seeing as it’s quite unreliable at times at doing it’s job at countering burst damage when needed instantly.

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More importantly, what is that crosshair in the video?

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Because it IS a reaction to big incoming damage. It can be absolutely insane if you use it properly. Excepting it to shield you from everything is just silly.

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It’s… a crosshair. You can customize it in the controls menu.

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It’s my lucio crosshair. I picked it up back in August, for Lucioball It helps me aim and see what I’m shoooting at, at the same time.

I have similar ones for Orisa and Widowmaker.

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You’re not going to like this but you used it like 1s too soon.

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Does it matter? if I used it in such a way that it activated an instant before the Rip-Tire hit, Soundbarrier would have been eaten through and everyone would have died anyway. So I ask again, what’s the point?

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I went and watched it again, and the sheilds went down because they were decaying.

Maybe Sound Barrier’s shields should decay slower…

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I still get kind of mad when I drop the beat , and 3 teammates die to a dva bomb. Even if perfectly timed, it can still kill teammates who fail to escape. I use up my ult to cover their fumble (as it is supposed to do), but they die anyways and we’re down an ult.

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The fact that riptire can kill tanks alone is a bit questionable in my opinion.
Especially considering he has that thing twice every team fight.

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Rip-tire is a large burst of damage??

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But Trans blocks those ults as well, and MUCH more reliably due to the lack of a casting time. Sound barrier has one of the longest ult cast times in the game, is cancellable with stuns and decays VERY quikly.

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