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MetroOdin's avatar
3 years ago

Rampart fix - one fix to make her great

Basically the big weakness of Rampart is enemy teams ability to use your wall against you. 
So why not just remove the amp feature for enemy teams. 

Meaning: your teams Rampart walls ONLY have Amp for you and not for the enemy. 

You could also buff her additionally by making it so whichever side you are on the walls, you get amp damage

while for the enemy, BOTH sides of the wall are just the defense wall no amp. 

This way you might even make Rampart meta. 
Because you could play both sides of your walls to your advantage.
I think this would be really good for Rampart. 
And it probably should have been done several seasons ago instead of the minigun changes. 
This change would make her viable and fun to play. 

I think this change also makes sense because what other legends tactical messes themselves up like that? 
Ramparts tactical is the only one that can self sabotage you and your team. 
Besides bad Bangalore ults or Caustic accidentally sabotaging your team by blocking doors your team needs to use. 
But those things can be avoided with skill and game sense, Ramparts walls usage by enemy teams against you is much more difficult to mitigate. 
You can pack them yes, but in a fight thats not what you're going to have time to even do. 

I think the wall changes I suggest here make a lot of sense for her for basically every version of the game, Pubs, Ranked and Comp. 

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  • Mad Maggie takes damage from her drill, Fuse takes damage from his Knuckle Clusters, Valk takes damage from her missiles....
    While Octane can heal his damage, he also takes damage from his tactical. Seer can miss his tactical making it useless and hugely telegraphs where he is. Lifeline's drone can heal enemies, Catalyst's goop can block you own or team mates bullets if too close. Loba's bracelet is god awful a lot of times screwing you over completely...

    Oh, and have you played with Gibby? Throwing a bubble to block absolutely everything...hey while I'm at it BANGALORE!?!?! Smoke and POOF noone in your team sees *beep*.

    No Rampart's wall are as you can see not even close to being alone in screwing you over with poor usage.

    While you could argue for the top part of the walls simple being inactive for other teams, pretty much all of the other legends have skills that can be used by the enemy if you're not careful.

  • I'd have to agree with the above. Plus let's be real peaceable tactical legends with multiple charges? I'd love a second phase charge. If a rampart who has a literal third gun can't handle a fight(where she literally has the highest dps weapon in the game on recharge all game long) then that's ramparts fault. You get cover that you can use literally everywhere and it respawns so fast!.

    Now I'll be real I'm trash at Rampart so anything I have to say about her is meh, but there are people who can slam with Rampart.(theGamingamerchant is the one that comes to mind)

    I mean you have a portable superglide platform that you can use for amazing outplays. And her placed Sheila has infinite ammo if you ignore the fact it has to reload occationally just grab a trident mount Sheila and go chase teams with a mobile fortress placing some walls down as needed. Trident Sheila is wild.