I’m sorry but what am I even playing right now? Is this Zaryawatch from Season 1-2 again? Every single time a tank loses their pick they switch to Zarya. I also don’t understand the mentality some players have, “she’s not strong” but that’s why she’s picked so many matches in a row. I understand there is some level of skill to her, but not when the duration of the bubble is THIS long with two of them. She feels oppressive right until someone switches to Reinhardt, and then it’s counterwatch again. I think devs need to look into her, because clearly the general playerbase still hasn’t learnt how to prevent her from reaching the backline or stop feeding her energy
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lol seems the perks tipped Zarya towards OP, like you’re saying, I haven’t seen this many complaints since the first season.
Not only that, it was almost immediate… the same day the perks were introduced there were one or two posts regarding Zarya which is more than she usually sees in maybe a year lol
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Now that you mention it, I think this truly is the reason, I didn’t have this big of a problem before she received perks… crazily enough though, besides the knockback one, they aren’t even that crazy
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I only ever use the one that adds damage to her grav, and the one that speeds up/initiates health regen for team mates.
A lot of Zaryas don’t focus too much on bubbling their team mates so I dont know how much of an impact that has. The grav one, though, definitely lets Zarya overextend and ‘face tank’ much easier.
As for the increased self knock back, I can see how that would provide an easier time getting Zarya to high ground, but she can only do so much from up there. And the one that lets her beam penetrate through people? Sounds cool on paper, but it’s not like the enemy team is lining up like bowling pins for you to take down multiple at once.
They definitely need to add some additional cool downs to her bubbles for the a big impact, or increase charge decay for a more minor impact.
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At least she has a high skill expression AMIRITE???
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I mean, I think so, but I have an obvious bias.
For people who have been playing FPS shooters on PC for years, tracking is easy. It took me a long time (as in, upwards of 2 years) to learn how to track effectively, so I’m proud of the progress and like being able to support team mates with bubbles. To each their own, I guess.
EDIT: also, compared to which tank? 
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uuh i will shamelessly ban her every game. Shes been a problem for longer than the perks have existed. She has zero downsides to engages. Frankly makes her a pretty skill less hero with the short CD on her bubbles.
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What? Zarya getting a perk that almost entirely removed one of her weaknesses has made her really strong? I can’t believe it 
Managing a low cd on 1 ability really brings out the big gamer brains…
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I feel that by the time u break her second buble she has her third but maybe im just a salty junk main
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tbh, i have NO idea how to counterpick zarya 
ok maybe rein, but i suck playing his style. so i just mirror them and hope they’re not the better zarya (but then again, been a long time since i’ve actualy played tank as i hate being the only tank)
but as a support it’s easy to not shoot her and instead focus on healing my team when she has a bubble. (play her for a bit so you get a feel for the bubble cooldown) so for example, with moira i ALWAYS bait her bubble (even if i damage her, it’s probably so low it doesn’t affect her damage all to much)
i also played zarya when the bubbles where split and imho it was awfull (the option to give both bubbles to your team is much better then having to wait for the single one to get off cooldown)
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if the double bubble is too strong in the dev’s opinion i hope they just put a cooldown on her personal bubble (still let us use both on our team at all times if there’s one left)
so when she uses her bubble she can’t use one on herself for a few seconds but she can still give it to her team. or give both bubbles to her team and start the cooldown.
that might fix her getting so much charge so easy.
how many time i just plowed through a team ignoring the frontline popping both bubbles and just steamrolled their supports because i had 100% charge and then turn around and finish the job. and every time i thought to myself “i can’t believe that worked so well” (though that was in QP, i hardly play tank in comp.)
and on top of that, people just don’t seem to understand how the bubble works
if she’s low on health and pops a bubble, you throw everything in the fight and she’s dead. stop shooting her because you’re afraid she’ll get more damage? she’ll survive and she WILL turn the tables on you. otherwise just bait her bubble and shoot behind (baiting the other bubble on her team and making her an easy kill)
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The duration of the bubble hasn’t changed lately. She just got buffed with the perks, which can make her a bit overturned.
I wish perks were alternative playstyles instead of net buffs.
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Is Zarya the Tank we hate now? Not Hazard again? I can still hear the people’s cries about him being “dominating all over T500, so he is busted”.
Who do we ban in Comp? 
I’m still banning Doomfist, his counter is Hog and I hate playing with a Hog on my team LOL
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The funny thing is some heroes do get this, but the meta heroes just get massive buffs lol
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Yeah if I had to choose a Tank to ban … DF would be my top pick.
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The main thing I hate about her (esp. with the parkour perk) is that her beam stretches to the moon and back 
so on very chokepoint-y maps she can feel rather suffocating. or if you’re playing a character with more gradual movement/short fall-off range and not camping high ground
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Yeah her beam’s range is actually ridiculous ngl
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She counters dva so yeah, ::::: FUN DETECTED ::::: I get TILTED when Im trrying to have fun on dva and they switch to zary.
A lot shorter than Moiras lowskillbeams
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Yes I forgot the part where Moira could bubble herself and W+M1 at you with 600HP and actual kill potential
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