Zarya needs to get removed already, I’m done having to play Zarya to diff another Zarya when my team sucks. Even then, people will go Zarya if you diff them and it gives them a huge chance of winning. It’s boring playing this way.
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Just go Rein and charge her off the map EZ
Season one called. They want their thread back.
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What makes her braindead?
I feel like she actually requires a good use of cooldown management and tracking…it feels like that’s sort of the opposite of braindead?
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I have a feeling you’re Plat
In low ranks she exploits bad players alot more than in high ranks. That what leads to Zarya needing to suck in high elo most of the time so she doesn’t run low elo.
RN she’s pretty balanced and i’m happy with her spot.
And low ranked players don’t get how to walk up to her as Ram or Rein and Beat her A*s
Don’t get me wrong zaryas good right now, definitely probably slept on cause I do see Zaryas every now and then my last game a tank even came out on zarya. She’s strong but deefffenintly not to the degree this guy is saying where she needs to be removed or nerfed or anything…
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lifeweaver counters zarya, he can lift the entire team out of her ult.
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I’m not talking about her ult. I just notice people use Zarya and no matter how good your team the tables are turned as long as they barely know how to play her. She is the easiest tank in my opinion to play.
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What rank are you playing in where Zarya runs the game?
She’s not even a top tier Tank now. As Potatoad said, your stuck back at S01 mate!
She’s not bad but not the best. Middle tier or slightly higher I’d say. Abolutely you could counter her with other Tanks. It’s definetly not a situation where everyone suddenly goes Zarya to counter each other and your stuck at playing this Mise-en-scène.
That would be Orisa currently. Even if the player sucks she basically plays herself while he spams Javelins.
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She is the easiest tank to learn and play. Tables are turned once she enters with a god team to back her autism. Also, I would be higher than plat, but I barely play.
Ram, Rein, Hog, Ori, Sig, and ball all get more value for less effort than Zarya (some of those heroes listed are because they are easier and some because they are better)
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She isnt played much, or regarded as being strong. But the only nerf she has from s1 now is barriers lasting 2s, not 2.5. While having a buff that helps her with energy decaying slower than b4. Plus most of the other tanks are weaker now than they were in s1.
This is so annoying haha, also, if he doesn’t have his petal… he can life grip people out a grav.
As if Zarya didn’t have enough heroes/abilities to look out for in order to make her ult actually worth while… and people call it a “press q to win” ult 
Onto the topic at hand:
All you need is just one person paying attention to the Zarya’s bubbles. Most Zaryas I go up against (I’m a Zarya one-trick) save both of their bubbles for themselves… so if you can count to two, then that’s all the strategy you need in order to tell your team “yo, zarya has no bubbles, someone help me focus her”
I’ve a tough time against a Ram that has back up, Rein can sort of be problematic (but really only if no one is shooting his shield). A bastion that focuses me can burn through both my bubbles in the blink of an eye, though the bastion will need some back up. Those are just a few examples.
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Reinhardt is a pretty solid counter to Zarya, but only if your aggresive and pushing her - just standing with a shield up is not enough (for Rein it never is).
Pounding her with the hammer makes her loose life fast. She’s gonna go for a bubble to sustain herself. That’s when you switch to shield and wait it out and start attacking once more. If you have solid back-up from your DPS you don;t even need the shield - keep hammering down.
The trick to being a good Zarya is that you keep bubbles for when you need them and mostly use them on squishy allies, i.e. saving your Support from a flank or putting a barrier around a diving flanker. Whenever I play Zarya I tend to keep at most 1 shield for myself and 2nd for an ally. But really I prefer to peel for the team than being greedy.
Keeping that in mind a Zarya attacked by Rein is gonna need all her bubbles to simply survive the onslaught, and that might not be enough. In any case forcing her to use the Barriers on herself means she has 0 for allies, which in turn means she’s not Tanking for her team, just sweating to simply stay alive!
It’s not a hard counter by any means but it’s a huge pressure and you deny her function. Also Rein’s shield provides a decent protection for your guys during her Graviton Surge unless they combo it with a Genji.
what is the counter for zarya? besides melting her bubble and all with bastion and whole team fire?
Brawler tanks can all be decent. You don’t need bastion at all. Still a good counter for a dps pick. Brawler tanks can beat her up if the team, primarily supports, are keeping you alive so you can smash away. It’s the way your supposed to play a brawler in your face, nothing but forward pressure.
Also Winston, drop a bubble, play ring-around-the-rosie with the bubble. His gun(I believe) does more damage to shield-health and it does little enough damage that she gets no value for bubbles, but his gun does enough to force her to use a bubble and get almost no charge for it.
thanks, by gun you mean charging it up?
For Winston stick to primary fire. Just use that alt fire to poke when too far away and you got cover. That charge poke won’t give her much charge at all. Use all day if you want. It might bait out a bubble for a “not good” Zarya.
to back her autism.
thought we were talking about Zarya, not Sym or Kiriko.