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davkin09
New Adventurer
4 years ago

Ramparts new suggested buff might be too powerful

Hi all I am a Rampart main.

I wanted to talk about the new buff that Rampart is rumoured to be getting in season 13.

So in a nut shell, Ramparts walls have been rumoured to have an increase in health; whilst building; from 40 to 120 and walls will build quicker also.

What's are peoples views on this?

Personally playing Rampart, her walls are her life and although I don't have a problem with the quicker building I think the extra health up to 120 might be a bit too much but what do you think?

Especially if you stack 2 one behind the other your opponent will have 240hp to chew through before they get to you. Circumstanial of course if the person is not right in front of you and can't walk around the sides.

I wouldn't want people to start hating Rampart players because they are OP. I already feel bad when I kill people with Sheila.

All comments appreciated.

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  • ndcu679's avatar
    ndcu679
    4 years ago
    @davkin09 I agree (though I never feel bad about killing people with sheila). A common 1v1 strat is to place shield, slide jump away from it, and put damage on opponent, forcing them to choose between shooting a couple rounds into the shield or focusing rampart. Now they literally can't break it without wasting too many rounds and its build speed increase means that rampart will have the cover much sooner in that fight.
  • ndcu679's avatar
    ndcu679
    4 years ago
    @ndcu679 Just to clarify, I love the build speed buffs, it just seems too frustrating when combined with that build health.
  • davkin09's avatar
    davkin09
    New Adventurer
    4 years ago

    Agree with the both of you and this is coming from a Rampart main.

    Build speed good. Extra health OP and I haven't tested it yet.

    The extra health will help enormously in the final ring but in all honesty the extra speed will be more than enough alone.

    I hear they will be increasing the spin up time of Sheila also. If they do they would have to increase cool down time and get rid of the automatic reload when Sheila is placed.

    But let's see how it plays, can't wait for Season 13 10th May.

    I will enjoy Rampart before she gets nerfed again.

    Hope not too many people play her as I enjoy never having to worry about people picking her 🤭

  • soccerking122's avatar
    soccerking122
    3 years ago
    @davkin09 i don't really think they plan on buffing sheila again since they did revert a shadow buff where they accidentally made mobile sheila's windup as fast as the emplacement version. If they do decide to nerf the wall's hp deployment, lowering it to 80 or 90 sounds fair. Other than that, It might be a repeat of her heirloom season where people bandwagon on to her just for sheila only to neglect her walls and get embarrassed
    whenever they used rampart recklessly. I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out.
  • davkin09's avatar
    davkin09
    New Adventurer
    3 years ago

    So it turns out they are looking to increase spin up time on Sheila. Uh oh! What's people's opinions on this?

    I Think she'll be meta.

  • anubis9572's avatar
    anubis9572
    3 years ago
    @davkin09 I can understand boosting the cover, those things haven’t been the most sturdy. But I think buffing shiela is overkill. It’s already insane escaping that if you’re getting shot at with it
  • anubis9572's avatar
    anubis9572
    3 years ago
    @anubis9572 Just played against a rampart and holy hell her cover is down fast now. I went through a door and boom it was almost instantly up
  • davkin09's avatar
    davkin09
    New Adventurer
    3 years ago

    How is everyone feeling about Rampart at the moment?

    I haven't played her yet this season, can't wait till I get the opportunity.

    Have you come across many playing her. What have your experiences been like Vs her?

    Are more people playing her?

  • davkin09's avatar
    davkin09
    New Adventurer
    3 years ago

    Ok I've played her for a a little bit yesterday night.

    I had one occurrence where I was caught out playing against a Rampart who was camping. I was sliding down a hill and I barely heard sheila spin up before being beamed. My fault for sliding down the hill without looking first but the point is it was such a fast spin up I had no time to react jump or dodge, although I was sliding towards cover.

    The walls I have not come across a problem yet. Although there is an element of just accepting that they will inevitably come up when fighting against a Rampart, unless you focus fire them quickly as a team they won't be coming down quickly. Would be a waste of ammo for anything other than an LMG.

    Perhaps for experienced players these are not problems as you wouldn't leave yourself vulnerable as I did. But if more people play Rampart only time will tell.

    But overall Rampart is probably at her best right now. With the only niggle IMO is the smoothness when placing walls, which is a quality of life issue. I would still like it to be hold and release like caustic traps.

    Also I'd still like to see Rampart be able to place Sheila and pick her back up again for 50% charge like her old ultimate if undamaged or not fired.

    Placing Sheila is still useful for team play purposes.

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