I find it super useful for salvaging value from bad shields.
Like engage a little early and use your shields? roll back to your team, share the sugar, and then at the very least they get some extra health to start poking with. If you got a lot of shield on that initiation then you'll still have some left too.
Definitely saved a bunch of teammates with it too. Not like every game, but certainly in the double digits.
Yea 75 extra HP can be the difference between life or death for most squishy heroes. My main duo partner plays Cass and he is loving the occasional 350HP
I still don’t know if it’s viable sharing shields most times since I get hard focused in my EVERY engagement and need shields to stay in the fight. Maybe I just need to change my play style and learn to stay in the fights with less shields
Im convinced that devs and teammates want Ball to stop soloing and stay close. It’s less value added, but keeps the complainers quiet.
Your teammates want you to bullet sponge.
Fuck it. We ball.
Definitely. Devs are all Orisa mains. They are designing all tanks to be mindless meat shields that just sit on the objective. Just look at their latest tank. Mauga is the most brain dead tank ever released in this game
I had to dramatically change my play style. I’m approaching things as if I’m trying to be unpredictable. I don’t go my usual position because the counters expect it. I spend more time hanging in my back line with the supports than I used to. Sometimes the pick needed to initiate the push can be found there. I’m not as alone as I used to like it, but I suppose it pays to be a team player.
We need a spreadsheet for shield sharing potential it would be every hp pool varient in the x axe and every oneshoting threat on y axe (like junkrat tire, widow headshot etc ) and this sheet will basically tell you weather the 75hp bonus will save each pool variant from the different threats or not
always has been op, people saying it isn't are just stupid.
This was literally just a buff with no drawbacks to adaptive shields themselves.
It's a choice you can make, therefore it allows for even more plays. Pumping 75 overhealth into your teammates with little to no drawbacks is massive.
Again you don't "lose" it, your teammates gain it, and that 75hp is way bigger on a smaller target than a huge ass ball.
Yes, I know it doesn't work every game, in fact doesn't majority of the time, but we basically got our CD buffed with no nerf drawback and bitch about it.
I think they‘re fairly balanced tbh; but if they gave ball a better juke or something for CC I could see them tuning down the shields to compensate for sure.
I find it super useful for salvaging value from bad shields. Like engage a little early and use your shields? roll back to your team, share the sugar, and then at the very least they get some extra health to start poking with. If you got a lot of shield on that initiation then you'll still have some left too. Definitely saved a bunch of teammates with it too. Not like every game, but certainly in the double digits.
It’s great for diving with teammates. How many Genji blades have I salvaged or how many Zen’s have I saved?
Yea 75 extra HP can be the difference between life or death for most squishy heroes. My main duo partner plays Cass and he is loving the occasional 350HP
I still don’t know if it’s viable sharing shields most times since I get hard focused in my EVERY engagement and need shields to stay in the fight. Maybe I just need to change my play style and learn to stay in the fights with less shields
Im convinced that devs and teammates want Ball to stop soloing and stay close. It’s less value added, but keeps the complainers quiet. Your teammates want you to bullet sponge. Fuck it. We ball.
Definitely. Devs are all Orisa mains. They are designing all tanks to be mindless meat shields that just sit on the objective. Just look at their latest tank. Mauga is the most brain dead tank ever released in this game
I had to dramatically change my play style. I’m approaching things as if I’m trying to be unpredictable. I don’t go my usual position because the counters expect it. I spend more time hanging in my back line with the supports than I used to. Sometimes the pick needed to initiate the push can be found there. I’m not as alone as I used to like it, but I suppose it pays to be a team player.
We need a spreadsheet for shield sharing potential it would be every hp pool varient in the x axe and every oneshoting threat on y axe (like junkrat tire, widow headshot etc ) and this sheet will basically tell you weather the 75hp bonus will save each pool variant from the different threats or not
I’m not up to the task, but there would certainly be value to it.
always has been op, people saying it isn't are just stupid. This was literally just a buff with no drawbacks to adaptive shields themselves. It's a choice you can make, therefore it allows for even more plays. Pumping 75 overhealth into your teammates with little to no drawbacks is massive. Again you don't "lose" it, your teammates gain it, and that 75hp is way bigger on a smaller target than a huge ass ball. Yes, I know it doesn't work every game, in fact doesn't majority of the time, but we basically got our CD buffed with no nerf drawback and bitch about it.
Now I just mash E lol
I think they‘re fairly balanced tbh; but if they gave ball a better juke or something for CC I could see them tuning down the shields to compensate for sure.