Revenant is still viable, right?
I’m hearing a lot of “Revenant is kind of useless” in the Feedback channels, but Revenant is still pretty viable if I’m not mistaken.
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@Sir_Named I have to agree with others he can be fun in pubs. But his skill set is really limited and very situational at best.
His bombs can come in handy especially against a caustic, Gib and other legends. But it's entirely dependent on actually hitting the enemy with the bombs. The other issue with them, is you have to fire them off quickly so accuracy goes out the window. If you're fumbling with throwing them, you're probably going to get lit up while doing so.
His ult can be useful, but the biggest weakness is its range. Anytime I play with a Rev we throw down the ult and often run into a situation in which we often end up outside its effective area. Throwing it down closer is an option but it makes a ton of noise and you lose all surprise ability.
His passives are not terrible. How ever it's again situational. How often are you in a position in which you can crouch walk up behind someone? Your teammates also have to be patient and allow you to maximize that ability. More often than not, your teammates are going to making a TON of noise so it makes his crouch walk kind of useless.
The wall climb is almost useful, but again it runs into the issue of how frequently do you really get to use it?
I think solid buffs would be either eliminating the range on his ult and making it timer based. players will still be range limited by the timer. They can only go so far in X amount of seconds.
Making his bombs more like impact nades. Similar amount of damage but have a wide area splash damage.
His bombs can come in handy especially against a caustic, Gib and other legends. But it's entirely dependent on actually hitting the enemy with the bombs. The other issue with them, is you have to fire them off quickly so accuracy goes out the window. If you're fumbling with throwing them, you're probably going to get lit up while doing so.
His ult can be useful, but the biggest weakness is its range. Anytime I play with a Rev we throw down the ult and often run into a situation in which we often end up outside its effective area. Throwing it down closer is an option but it makes a ton of noise and you lose all surprise ability.
His passives are not terrible. How ever it's again situational. How often are you in a position in which you can crouch walk up behind someone? Your teammates also have to be patient and allow you to maximize that ability. More often than not, your teammates are going to making a TON of noise so it makes his crouch walk kind of useless.
The wall climb is almost useful, but again it runs into the issue of how frequently do you really get to use it?
I think solid buffs would be either eliminating the range on his ult and making it timer based. players will still be range limited by the timer. They can only go so far in X amount of seconds.
Making his bombs more like impact nades. Similar amount of damage but have a wide area splash damage.
We were witnessed how less popular champions like Gibby and Caustic with a proper buff changed the meta. Unfortunately in case of Octane, Crypto, Bloodhound and Revenant, none of the previous buffs had the similar effects. I still believe Revenant especially needs a better escape/hold/defensive ability than just climbing higher, to be able to compete better with others.
- @Alphabets Maybe his silence could obscure vision more. Would add some versatility to his tactical as well.
- @Alphabets Bloodhound is quite good now. That huge scan and hold it has really does the job. He will never be upper levels of ranked good tho.
If Crypto and/or Bloodhound receive the ability to use beacons, 100% they will be competitively viable. Crypto probably will be picked instead of pathfinder
- @TommiSpageti very good point, beacons should be accessible to all "trackers", they can replace Pathfinder passive with somthing more specific then.
