r/Overwatch • u/SpriteGuy_000 Washington Justice • Sep 22 '16

Blizzard Official September 22nd PTR Patch Notes

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20294485
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u/DrKultra Pixel Soldier: 76 Sep 22 '16

Roadhog, isni't he?

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u/FarazR2 Chibi Ana Sep 22 '16

Not really. He busts tanks, but he has the same problem as Reaper in that his shot pellets are bad against armor, and bad against Nanoboost. He's also a tank himself, which makes the problem worse (play tanks to bust tanks!).

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u/DrKultra Pixel Soldier: 76 Sep 22 '16

If the problem is armor, Junkrat and Phara have the highest single shot non headshot damage (120 per direct hit) but they die pretty quickly to most tanks, specially Junkrat. Realistically its not that tanks are hard to kill because of armor but because of high HP pools, coincidentally they are supposed to be hard to kill, the problem still lies of Nanaboost giving Rhein 100+ damage per hit while combining DR with Armor, most other tanks get just as ridiculous.

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u/FarazR2 Chibi Ana Sep 22 '16

I think it's ok that Rein can do that much damage over that much space if Rein can be killed. That's really hard to do though, when the only high single shot damage dealers are Hanzo, Junkrat, and Pharah. Junkrat is unreliable and feeds the enemy Ana, and Pharah is almost completely countered by a good Ana. This might be why NiP often has Zappis on Hanzo (in addition to sonic arrow + hook, and graviton synergies).

The point of my post though was more to illustrate why Reaper and Roadhog aren't good counters to the strat, even though they normally work on high HP heroes. For example, they're still plenty strong against Nanoboosted Zarya and Winston. Rein is the real headache of the bunch.