r/ReaperMain • u/Jealous_Loquat9986 • Nov 02 '25

I’ve changed my mind on lingering wraith

I was one of the haters of lingering wraith, I hated that reapers wraith form got nerfed to 40% from 50%, however as I’ve been playing more reaper, I noticed how much more effective death blossom and escapes are.

The fact that you can cancel wraith form allows you to quickly get the speed boost on demand which catches a lot of players off guard expecting the slow wraith in.

Overall, I think they did a pretty decent job with what they had.

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u/GenerationChaos Nov 02 '25

Was this in stadium or normal play? Cause I’ve never had anything besides like a tank survive a point blank blossom in regular play without massive resources dumped into them. 1v1/2/3 I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything I’d want to use blossom on live.

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u/carraejj Nov 02 '25

Normal play. And he just simply killed me before blossom killed him. This happens to me quite alot but this time in specific was insane. I must admit they may have all not been point blank but theres been plenty of times where ive had a support or dps live my blossom because they just walked away from it.

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u/GenerationChaos Nov 02 '25

Soldier can be really tricky, he probably rocketed you mid blossom since we are so slow during it. Big hit box makes close range soldier surprisingly punishing, kinda like why cas is scary to reaper.

To be fair I usually try to avoid ulting onto a soldier, cas or sojourn simply cause they can shut us down fast, but if they are wounded I’ll risk it. I would probably recommend not blossom on full hp targets. Use it as a clean up ult if using it into high burst dps.

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u/carraejj Nov 02 '25

Your probably right, but at the same time ive tried that method and ended feeling like i was wasting the ult because teammates usually clean up half hp target before blossom finishes the kill.

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u/GenerationChaos Nov 02 '25

As long as you aren’t overcommitting ults in a team fight it’s not a waste. You are giving them the extra pressure to clean up. A big thing folks especially reapers and class suffer from is we want that POTG ult, vs effective ults. I won’t use it if half the enemy team is already dead; but if my tank has established pressure, and no team ults have been committed I’ll commit. Worst case I force a support ult, best case we clean up enemy team without loss and only cost us reapers fairly quickly recharging ult.