STOP NERF HORIZON
I immediately apologize for my English, as it is not my native language, i hope some inaccuracies in this post will not affect the general view of the situation.
Thank you for understanding.
The Horizon changes introduced in the Season 9 patch note will result in a complete drop in the legend's pickrate. At the moment, her tactical ability is unique, it completely changes the gameplay for this legend compared to the others, but after a couple of days, it will become a complete alternative to abilities octane and pathfinder. After the patch, this "tactical" ability will become practically useless both in battle and when taking a HG.
The use of this ability will become possible to a maximum of 1 time per battle, due to the increased cool down time. And with the new movement speed, it WILL NOT HELP ANYTHING IN BATTLE AT ALL.
This will make this legend not only quite secondary in relation to others with a similar ability, but also make it completely useless due to a very weak ultimate.
This is the only one of the new legends that came out really strong, and even earned a fairly high pickrate from professional players. And YOU will turn her into an absolutely useless character with zero pickrate. As a player who has played 450 hours of your game, of which 440 were played for Horizon, this step completely discourages me from entering the game after the start of season 9.
There are 3 types of game balance that developers adhere to:
1. Balance based on feedback from professional players.
2. Balance based on feedback from average players.
3. Balance based on feedback from low-level players.
1 and 3 are very bad and I'm sorry that you are sticking to type 3.
This situation is completely similar to the situation with Wraith and Caustic.
So that Horizon does not become completely secondary, I offer 3 solutions, I hope you listen to the opinion of the average player.
-Leave it as it is in Season 8. (the best way)
-Strong improvement in ultimate ability.
-Cooldown the Gravity Lift as it is from Season 9 for 10 seconds.
(The gravity lift in the form of season 9 is not only useless, but also has such a huge recharge time that it is not possible to use it in battle at all. But if such a stripped-down lift had at least a small Cool down, then it would already be more or less playable.)
I hope that you will reconsider your position on Horizon. I think you will agree with me that if the player cannot kill the legend, this is not a problem with the legend. (hello nerf Wraith and Octane).
Hope for the developer's answer from Respawn.
Thanks for your time.
GLHF legends.
UPD 06.05.21
My opinion has not changed, with this cd and slow speed the lift is much less useful. But I would not say that such a debuff greatly interferes with making frags. The decrease in speed is felt strongly, but the fact that you can be on the top for only 2 seconds did not hurt me, because I very rarely used it.