Wattson, rework (at least) her tactical

I both agree and disagree.

Wattson is quite a weird character to play, although it's quite fun as well. But most of her abilities are very reliant on her ultimate, which of course gives synergy, but also causes her to be mostly redundant by the time you're on the move again. A defensive style isn't at all bad though, which is why I would prefer to keep it. But I would also suggest to rework it a bit. Here is what it's supposed to do, and what it's missing in my opinion:

• Electrical fences are supposed to act area denying.
• Holding ground.
• Detect and hinder incoming enemies.

What it lacks to do:

• Area denial effect is mediocre. Walking through the fence hardly damages you, and being near the pylon does nothing for your enemies.
• Holding your ground is hard if you're limited to small room with little benefits.
• hindering is quite varying, depending on the situation. In most cases the short duration makes it impossible to get an attack in line with the initial crippling effect.

Improvement 1: Fences should strongly damage shields as a counterpart to Caustic. Whenever I get affected by caustic, I usually tend to get at least 1/4th of my health removed. Fences hardly take 1 bar away. 2 bars should be at least taken away.

Improvement 2: The Pylon should arc lightnings at enemies if they're in a line of sight. Or the shield regeneration should be stronger. In combat, 2 shield per second are... low.

Improvement 3: Wattson should - if she actually revives a downed ally - restore half of their armor/shield

My two pennies.

@Peri_Longbow_plzI like your 3rd improvement.
An objection I have is that Wattson isn’t really area denial, she is perimeter security. Caustic is area denial, but Wattson is not. I think the main purpose of her traps is to tell you if someone has entered your building, and if they cross a nearby trap they are a sitting duck for you to laser.
I’m not sure the Pylon should shoot lightning at enemies, that sounds a bit strong and Respawn probably wants to keep it so enemies can also benefit from your Pylon.
Damage-wise, you could just add another post to every fence you place down. For example, you put down a fence across a door. You can put a third one in front of the door and link it to the other two, forming a triangle. This probably won’t do insane amounts of damage, but it might help a little.

"Like while you're downed under Gibraltar's Doom shield(reduced revive speed), but pylon with a different effect? Sounds good."

No, as in when you as Wattson revive another player, you will restore half of their shields immediately additionally to the little health restored. I came up with that because Wattson actually revives with electricity, so why not? Although that also sounds good. But I thought this one might be better post-revival to be ready a bit faster rather than having to shield and health up again first.

Her ultimate may be great utility wise, but in a lot of scenarios proves useless. Whenever I know the enemy team has a Wattson, I shoot down their pylon and then throw a grenade. Ultimate wasted and additionally taking damage due to grenade. A defense based hero should also excel at that. And currently none of the abilities of Wattson truly do that. We lack area denial, we lack support, we even lack CC. Meanwhile, Caustic feels like you could build a fortress and * enemies heavily enough in order to turn every tide of the battle.

The fences are however my main focus. I wish their area denying factor would be a bit more... denying, you know?

@DraknasChanI watched the tournament yesterday and was so silly to watch. All the teams are abusing watson. All the same comps in the entire competition. No caustic, no Krypto, no Bloodhound, nothing. 20 teams playing the same broken thing.  Hes ult need to be reworked for sure. I dont see problems about the fences, but the grenade imunity is so bad for the game, need to be removed for sure, only way to fix the problem.

So essentially you want to turn a defensive legend into an offensive one? Sure, why not. But we have enough offensive heroes. We lack proper defensive ones. Sure, a defensive style isn't for everyone, and a single squad member who prefers mobility will ruin any defensive play style. But let me tell you that a proper defensive squad brings you further than any offensive attempt to rack up kills.

However, having an equally coordinated offensive squad essentially decimates us due to the limitations given in terms of defensive playing. Because having fences, gas bombs and shields isn't all that great if no foothold is given. You basically fight on thin ice, even if all abilities are used. That's the sad part. Sitting on a distance with snipers or using an L-Star and rush into houses already firing is a way to go, sadly the best one, too.

@Peri_Longbow_plzGibraltar is mainly a defensive legend, he still got an offensive ability and it isn't made him mainly offensive. So just because wattson may got an offensive ability or mobility, this wouldn't make her offensive, her pylon will remain until it's destroyed/replaced. So she would remain mainly defensive, but could help her to switch playstyle to another, in situations.

It may reduce this slow play style. I think so.

The genuine question that arises however: Why is a slow/defensive play style wrong?

A slower and more cautious style of approaching this game has both a benefit and a downside. The benefit is that the probability of being in crossfires is much lower. Another benefit is also that you have more time to loot. The downside of course is that holding a ground somewhere is difficult if you get actually assaulted. Why? As I said, lack of defensive capabilities that give proper defense.

People may disagree, and I get that. But most defensive heroes are unfortunately lacking. And this frustrates players such as my squad and me. We have no counter play going on. Sure, we may def up a place well and nice, but it's nothing compared to an assault group who simply knows how to disable traps and fences. And before you know it, you get shot in the back, especially because some people have an aim that rivals Lucky Luke.

A good example of us being on the assault side was two days ago. A squad of 3 people hid inside a house. Everything trapped up. They didn't stand a chance. Lack of cover on the interior, lack of damage from the traps, we had an easy time just spraying bullets inside and ultimately eliminating the squad.