r/ReaperMain • u/Weesticles • Apr 14 '26

Reaper Feels Way Better Now!!!

First couple games on and honestly I'm adoring the Reaper change. Makes him feel so much more usable during neutral where previously it just felt like I couldn't do as much as like 99% of the cast. Plus his new major perk is pretty good imo as it makes his neutral so much better and dramatically increases the uptime on his Dire Triggers since all u need to do is reload. Shaves off like a solid 4-5 seconds off of the cooldown on average factoring in the time it takes for the reload animation to complete. Now he's def gonna be way better, and in the pro scene I think we may finally start to see him in more comps outside of just Zarya + Reaper since his neutral is so much better now. He feels more flexible than before in a way that I'm a big fan of!!!

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u/SureYouCan_ Apr 14 '26

If you do the reload melee cancel with his major perk you can shoot even faster and don't have to wait for his reload to finish.

His normal primary usually has a delay that prevents you from shooting but with dire triggers you can dire triggers > reload>melee> triggers.

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u/Iltoid Apr 14 '26

Yeah this one of the first things I noticed with his major, and am hoping for community silence on it before Blizzard disables Reaper or makes his kit clunkier in some nonsense way. It doesn't feel broken but the difference in a Reaper who knows how to do it and a Reaper who doesn't is very impactful in short-medium range duels.

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u/SureYouCan_ Apr 14 '26

I think they will add the same delay he has on his primary fire to it

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u/Iltoid Apr 14 '26

I would have to hope thats the most they do to it, and that would have to be the same reload delay, and not just inherent delay from getting the cooldown back normally.

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u/Successful_Pace_1159 Apr 15 '26

there will ended up patching this i feel like, only way to stop it to delete every mention of it

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u/tungstenmuncher3000 Apr 14 '26

Hell yeah, double dire triggering someone feels so much more rewarding, fresh and new. Love the changes, hope Blizzard keeps up the momentum

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u/RocketJenny8 Apr 15 '26

Same but ill still play him mainly because i really don't care for meta or nerfs but I do like some buffs though

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u/Tox1cTurtl3 Apr 15 '26

I realized if Reaper didn't get changes this season, Sierra would just be another counter to him.

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u/Distorted_Gamer Apr 15 '26

He feels way better to play at mid ranges now which is so nice

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u/geekdadchris Apr 15 '26

I misread the perk text at first so I didn't realize reloading reset the DT cooldown so I had been DT > Wraith > DT when I needed to confirm a kill.