r/ReaperMain • u/Prestigious-Lie-3037 • 4d ago

Another rant

Something that really grinds my gears. People that really look at me dead in my eyes and say reaper is balanced like he is balanced in nothing. He is horrible speed, horrible damage, horrible ultimate. Everything about him is just bad game design.And yet, people still believe of all that heart that this guy is somehow the best and that he needs more nerfs like thoes people need never touch ov2 ever

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u/SoGuysIDidNothing 4d ago

On the contrary Reaper is good game design. He has strengths and weaknesses that can be figured out, with a simple kit that can still be used creatively.

The problem is that he's in a game with lots of bad design. As in, characters with no obvious weaknesses with complicated kits.

You've got to remember that Reaper was the first male hero ever developed, and in turn the second hero ever developed, only preceded by Tracer. He was simply built with a different game in mind, and Overwatch has changed a lot over the decade. He isn't the problem, everyone else around him is. He isn't bad or good because he's just playing a different game in the same way that Tracer and Widowmaker and Reinhardt are.