I'm at a tilting point questioning why Blizzard keeps changing Reaper. This 1 singular change has completely fucked Reaper into another poke-ish hero to balance around. What happened to the self-sustaining, close ranged, tank shredding flanker I've come to known and love?

Blizzard is too stubborn to revert changes even though they keep moving and removing perks that helped flex his play style. Reaper has always struggled with sustain post season 9, he's still missing 15 hp, now with the health nerfs, it's 40.

They now buffed life-steal and soul orbs to compensate, but that just leads to another problem of Reaper simply being a flanker. If tank shredding was too strong, then nerf his spread. If Dire Triggers is too good, then turn it into a buck shot. It's also insane how an old hero like him still can't cancel his ult.

Ever since I started the game a few months ago I've been using Soul Reaving and Trigger Finger, but now I've been thinking about his perks more and wondering what'd be better. I rarely use Shadow Step due to how slow it is which makes me consider using Shadow Blink instead. I've considered using Lingering Wraith instead of Soul Reaving too, however Soul Reaving is pretty handy with his ult (imo) also because I feel like having more healing is always better overall.

I use anubis for reaper, level 1 colour, just curious if gold or crimson wolf would look better on the gun?

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Is there anyway I could improve on Reaper? I’m a level 57 Reaper who’s been playing since Season 17 of Overwatch 2.

Yo, just thought I'd note that death blossom has a radius of 8 meters. The reaping passive is now 8 meters.

This is important because prior to the buff, you'd sometimes kill people with death blossom while they're in that 6-8 meter range and so sure, you'd get the kill, but you wouldn't receive the healing.

This is an important breakpoint in the meters adjustment because the passive coupled with ulting goes from "sometimes you get healed, sometimes you don't" to "you will ALWAYS receive the soul orbs when killing someone with blossom".

While very niche, I'd like to add that this lets you ult more for positioning and less for soul orbs. What I mean is, you can hug that corner to LoS damage while ulting instead of feeling the need to go toward a soul globe that is 6-8 meters away just to live another second while ulting. The globes can be eye candy while ulting and this streamlines your decision making while ulting, because any soul orbs that drop while using death blossom will be immediately absorbed.

The new buff to the reaping is actually quite strong, and coupled with the 5% life steal buff (remember, that's a 20% increase in healing received from dealing dmg), we might be fine. Will we miss being 300 HP? For sure. Was the nerf to his HP sensible? No. But I think we'll be okay.

Edit: death blossom also heals for 20% more now. That's another way to look at the 5% increase to lifesteal.

I've been getting a lot of mixed answers when asking the question "what type of reaper build should I be going for in stadium"

Some people told me to go for weapon power and attack speed and lifesteal and just become a machine gun, while others have told me to go for ability power and cooldown reduction to spam the shit out of his double shotgun shot.

So which is it? And if you have any suggestions or link to build from stadium bills.io, by all means, link me

With stadium being put on the back burner maybe indefinitely, this is the one buff I want to see brought over to the regular game. This 5% buff alone makes playing Reaper in stadium an actual joy to play. Going back to regular comp after stadium feels like he is shooting in slow motion. Even just just taking one of this type of item improves his gameplay tremendously.

This buff directly benefits him in many aspects of his kit. Faster fire rate improves his damage and reactions times against his counters and allows him to actually benefit more from his lifesteal passive.

I'm just blowing these matches out of the water. I know it probably has something to do with my hidden mmr being much lower since it is a new mode but still. I'm able to do so much. I don't take so much aggro because enemies are always preoccupied doing something. Staging before fights feel easier. I feel like I don't have to use so much cover. I mean it's probably the low mmr of the mode but still?

Just played some games this morning. 2 cases of a support not healing Reaper during his wraith.

First one, Kiriko was following him during his wraith with low health, critical even, she reserves her healing abilities while closely following behind and immediately after he gets out of wraith she heals him.

Just bc you cant damage him during wraith does not mean you can't heal him.

Second instance is an Illari player, her pylon was destroyed and on cooldown, so Reaper wraithed to negate any further damage. Meanwhile, same situation, she is chasing after him awaiting to use her healing beam!!! It kinda baffles me that subconsciously, unknowingly or not, they think they can't heal Reaper during his abilities.

Hell, even Zen, Mercy, Mizuki, Lucio everyone pretty much can even Heal him while he shadow steps. Obviously if he moves out of their range not. But I dunno I felt like I should say something. Because there are more instances of this happening.

Im new to maining Reaper and trying to learn some tips.

Hi everyone just thought I’d share the clip of getting the death blossom achievement. Still quite new to Reaper and keen on any advice especially picking good times to flank or brawl with tank

I’m not sure if he counts necessarily as part of the Divine God slop mythics since he was released before they became rampant, but I’m thankful they didn’t fuck him up and it actually makes sense thematically for him.

I saw spilo complain about reaper in regards to his recent buffs, why is that? Reaper seems to be in a good spot right now or am i too diamond to understand?

i'll take any crumbs i can get bro

Waited 10 years for this mannnn