Balanced if your team isn't retarded

Balanced if your team isn't retarded.

roadhog is fine.
symethra on the other hand is the definition of op

She needs a major overhaul of how her weapon disengages.

It can stick on you through walls when she isn't even looking at you.

Its disengage length is so long that some characters can't even get away from it with their evasive moves.

> character has ability that can 1 shot major of the cast
> its on 6 second cooldown
> Meanwhile offensive characters have 12 second cooldown on their abilities

a soldier can't fucking run away from her death beam. It's stupid. If she attacks first in close range, you're dead 90% of the time.

junkrat can't mine jump away from it, genji might still be within range after dashing, and the slowdown plus damage ramp means anyone she sucks into it that isn't a tank has to IMMEDIATELY start landing direct shots, if not headshots, to get her off them in time.

It's all around crap and there's no wonder why people feel it's not fair when it's used on them.

i don't follow the competitive ow scene, but is she ever picked on pro lvl?
I guess a well organised team can deal with her no problem, but playing against her in public competitive is frustrating as fuck.
Right now I think she's the only hero that out of sync in the game.

Symmetra is a pleb character for people who can't aim.

Mercy Too

D.Va's shield should block the hook, right now she's the only tank that can't defend a teammate from it
And no, Roadhog doesn't count as a tank

Reaper needs to be changed.
He's a Tank Buster that can't kill any fucking tanks.

People are starting to use her more on defense, and with a good setup she can be a problem.

She gets to shield the whole team, watch all the flanks simultaneously, provide temporary shielding like tanks that can stuff ults, be more durable than most of the cast, while also having a devestating close range weapon that requires far less work to use well than any other character that ALSO can punch through shields other weapons can't at long range.

They took her from not useful enough to being way too versatile.

They need to either alter her weapon and nerf it or they need to make her softer.

>He's a Tank Buster that can't kill any fucking tanks.
any decent reaper can kill any tank in this game.

He has to flank though and get the drop on people.

not him but it's just that soldier or tracer are better offensive picks imo.

He gets demolished as soon as people see or hear him within 10 feet of themselves, and he only does decent damage at 2ft.
He's pretty much the new bastion in terms of usefulness.
I fucking hate it, he's my favorite character goddamnit.

I picked him for shits the other night and completely destroyed because the other team wouldn't change off their 3 snipers to counter me. At the end they cried because muh roadhog has no counterzzz D:

Reaper's basically the definition of trash. There's basically no reason to be Reaper instead of a Soldier or something.

Part of it though is that apparently Blizzard thinks that no character deserves to sneak to the back line so Genji and Tracer are basically the only flankers worth a shit because they actually have the mobility to do something useful without screaming their position to the enemy team.

>Roadhog hooks and one-shots
>D.Va shields and flies away
>Winston jumps away
>Zarya shields and nukes you
>Reinhardt shields and the 3-5 people around him all gang up on you
Reaper is useless against tanks - even if you do manage to kill one, you're now in the middle of 5 people about to fuck you up and wraith form doesn't last long enough to get far enough away

they should make the teleport usable in wraith form IMO

yeah it's a shame that reaper sucks atm, he's a very fun character to play. don't know why he doesn't get buffed properly.

>Part of it though is that apparently Blizzard thinks that no character deserves to sneak to the back line

This is very true. Just look at Sombra - the character that can go invisible and is meant to be able to sneak past the enemy team.

She fucking screams "HERE I AM" after unstealthing, and can't fight back for a full second when she does

>oh just unstealth away from the main fighting
Yeah no shit, the thing is everyone still fucking hears her so they know to watch their back more than usual
She's absolutely useless

Imo wraith form should add a speed boost to make escaping easier. Right now unless you are going back to your team most people will just follow you while you wraith and kill you after

They should just make his stepsounds softer, that would make him so much more fun to play.

If you get within ten feet of a tank as reaper before they see you and you don't kill them, you are a terrible reaper.

>>Zarya shields and nukes you
Wraith form and wait for her shield to drop rather than shooting her like a dummy.

>Reinhardt shields and the 3-5 people around him all gang up on you

If you get the drop on a rein with a group and don't start off by shooting the supports you are bad.

I know right, Reaper is a fucking amazing pick, that's why he's used so ofte- oh, wait...

>Reaper can't kill tanks!
>Yes he can
>OH I GUESS YOU THINK REAPER IS A MUST HAVE ON TEAMS THEN!

Grow up.

>he doesn't have positive k/d ratio with Mercy

Git Gud

There is a speed boost, but it's like 15% or something

Not him but if Reaper is so good at killing tanks, why then does nobody (who wants to win above gold) pick him in the tank-heavy meta?

tank-heavy meta is a meme, i'm 3500+ and most of ranked matches are 2-2-2.

>playing d.va
>poo in the loo engages
>jumping around cant headshot her malnourished hitbox
>sap out all her shields but dont finish the health
>get ejected from mech
>her shields have returned
>poo meme beam attaches to my spine
>dead

>teleport usable in wraith form
I would agree only if you had to recover and were unable to move for half a second. Such an intense ability needs down sides.

That would pretty much fix reapers only downside.

What classes can combat the hook?
I know there seems to be an infinitely tiny window that if you use your skill in time you can escape

>lucio sound blast
>d.va defense matrix
>zarya shield
>genji reflect or sword swipe
>mccree stun

am I missing any?

defense matrix doesn't stop hook

I meant after you get hooked and have to stop the incoming shot

Oh whoosp, I read that as before the hook

I feel like genji and lucio would die anyway due to the stun after the hook if the hog has decent aim

He's broken as fuck on ptr, shrinking the cone on his gun makes him so much more of a threat

The hook change will only hurt people who can't aim

Yeah out of those only dva and zarya have a chance of surviving, but dva's mech is probably gone for sure

don't know about genji since I hardly play him but I have survived a lot of hooks by sound blasting the hog away before he can get the finishing shot on me right after the hook. I am not sure what the cause is but it seems sometimes the hog cannot instantly shoot me which leaves a tiny window to use an ability to live.

Well he can, but Lucio's hitbox is small enough so that the roadhog might miss enough of the pellets. Classes like soldier and mcree are fucked though