i did not pay for the season pass so my only experience with Ramattra is playing with or against him in quick play. anyway my very well considered takeaway from 2 hours of this is that he sucks when he's on my team but...also sucks when he's on the other team! ofc being a brand new tank with a complicated kit means everyone's going to make mistakes all the time just learning what all the buttons do, but here are some things i noticed:
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did not see a single good shield deploy lmao, doesn't seem like it can be recalled once placed which severely limits effectiveness. probably adequate at blocking some forms of lethal damage and denying snipers a choice perch, tho.
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ult feels like uh...death blossom tier. like it's great if the enemy team has committed to a push or brawl but i didn't find it all that hard to gtfo of its AoE so 🤷♀️
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vortex thing is p good, again didn't see a ton of great deploys but when you do get trapped in it RIP in pieces.
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omnic mode primary fire seems very hard to aim 🥴 i mean more in the sense that i rarely got hit by it, and also hard pocketing a Ramattra for a few minutes as Mercy didn't net me much boosted damage, oof. new hero struggles ig
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characters with high mobility seem to be his weakness tbh. Doomfist got buffed in this patch and honestly every Ramattra v Doomfist game had the Doomfist team winning.
other stuff:
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TRACER IS INSANELY GOOD AGAIN which is great for me, the occasional DPS Tracer one-trick player, but also terrible for me, the mostly flex queue/support player. the duality of overwatch.
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Doomfist being very good and thus everywhere made any game i played as Ana very miserable
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Moving Ramattra to 45 on the battle pass is an improvement over S1 i suppose, but everything else about the battle pass & shop feels miserable and grindy and impossible to reach. having to grind 11 weekly challenges to get 50 freemium currency (when everything in the shop is at least 300) is just...i don't even know why i'd bother. i'm not too familiar with other battle passes in OW's competitors, but i'm under the impression that obtaining new characters and skins is easier in those games than it is in OW2.
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i'm one of those scrubs who only plays competitive to get ranked and then never touches it again for the season so i don't really have much of an opinion on the ranking/SR changes. it IS pretty funny that every time they try to make ranked more palatable it just comes across as more confusing and enrages everyone who takes it seriously, though.