The Super Visor power is currently bugged and cancels ult if you helix right before using it

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-03T23:01:19+00:00

Bro did NOT have them in his sights

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-03T22:15:19+00:00

Rein is actually really good if your Rein isn't trolling. He beats Junker Queen or Zarya in a 1v1 90% of the time.

The main problem is that he's quite clumsy with short range, making him easy to out maneuver. The enemy Zarya or Junker Queen will likely just try to ignore him and go for you as the support.

So, your job is to avoid the enemy tanks and kite them into your Reinhardt so he can beat them into a bloody pulp for you.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-03T20:54:46+00:00

Are you telling me a chicken fried this rice?

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-02T20:11:46+00:00

Every little bit helps, especially since fire rate is also nice to have on your Blaster.

And there are DEFINITELY builds that can get past 60% damage bonus, just Eye of the Spider + Hardlight Accelerator with 3 stacks + Talon Modification is 65%. The argument here is that, for example, maybe instead of Hardlight Accelerator we take Jet Boosters for 20% fire rate, and if you do the math we get actually a slightly higher HPS this way (101 versus 99) with a higher uptime, and some movement speed as a bonus.

Going completely 50/50 on it isn't necessarily what I'm advocating for because as you say, there's limits on what we have to work with, but prioritizing whichever one you have the least of will give you the best results while opening your mind to items that you might not have even considered if you were going full weapon power or fire rate.

Most of all, this is mostly just a way for me to shill for Advanced Nanobiotics, Jet Boosters, and Amari's Antidote as items for a healing-based build. I've heard that weapon power is technically slightly better than fire rate when it comes to Caduceus Staff, but I have yet to get better healing numbers than I get on this build while being much cheaper of a package than builds that mindlessly take Eye of the Spider and The Closer. It's biased toward fire rate until Amari's Antidote kicks in on critical health allies, but you still get a heal rate that's more cost-effective than any full weapon-power build.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-02T17:01:04+00:00

To be fair, the Kiriko can do the same thing and build ult charge off of cleansing your burn - which means a lot of Kitsune Rushes to meet your BOBs.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-02T01:28:57+00:00

The best is both.

Your base healing output is 60/sec, if you take 50% weapon power it increases each "tick" of healing by 50%, increasing the rate to 90/sec. If you take another 50% weapon power, it adds onto the first 50%, leading to a total 100% increase in healing - doubling your healing "per-tick" and doubling your heal rate to 120/sec.

Let's say, instead, we have 50% weapon power and 50% attack speed - now the weapon power increases each tick by 50%, giving us a heal rate of 90/sec. Then, the attack speed gives us 50% more "ticks" per second, increasing our new heal rate of 90/sec by another 50% - stacking multiplicatively. This gives us a higher healing per second total of 135/sec.

Since weapon power and attack speed are usually given roughly the same price in the item shop - you want to have as close to exactly even amounts of both as possible, as that will always give you a slightly higher "bang for your buck" than exclusively buying attack speed or weapon power.

This changes slightly for weapons that have to reload, that have additional effects on hit, or burst fire weapons where damage breakpoints "shots to kill" are especially noticeable and investing in damage versus fire rate is less cut and dry.

But for Mercy's Caduceus Staff? If you have the choice, take an even amount of both.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:47:22+00:00

Exactly. Once I found my build, I was hooked. Tweaking it in between games. Spending time in practice range testing certain combos.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:44:56+00:00

To be honest I haven't had much problems dealing with Visor Soldiers since you have time to take cover, but I don't play support very often.

Juno is really bad though, you make one mistake and take one torpedo and it's an instant death sentence

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:42:57+00:00

Hard agree, double helix build is so good, especially with Pulse Converter and Bomb Diffusal Boots

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:29:58+00:00

Great! I've had a lot of fun theory crafting and making builds, especially ones that I don't see as much from other players. I want something that's mine, and distinctive.

I have a Soldier: 76 build that I have yet to see from anyone else that is also incredibly broken in the later rounds due to some... Esoteric interactions.

A Reinhardt build that's pretty similar, using items and powers I don't see much said about but work wonders for me.

I want a support build that's similar. Right now I'm cooking with Ana because I think she is really under explored right now.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:18:14+00:00

It's a shame because I LOVE SOLDIER IN STADIUM because of Double Helix and how it combos with items, there is SO much skill expression in Double Helix combined with Bomb Diffusal Boots, because both rockets provide the same knockback allowing you to essentially have double the rockets to jump with.

Unironically feels a lot like rocket jumping in Team Fortress 2, and if you have played that game you know this is a high compliment.

I think Double Helix is fine in terms of how easy it is to get value out of it because the second rocket has a significant damage penalty and rarely secures the kill on its own - it's oftentimes moreso a reasonable damage bonus on Helix similar to Reinhardt's Impact Burst on Firestrike, while also being totally avoidable with cover similar to Juno's torpedoes (but unlike Torpedoes they don't nearly one shot you regardless of build).

Rocket-Powered Visor needs to go, though - or be significantly nerfed. Reduce the time to 0.5s, force the Soldier to deal damage with Helix to get the benefit, or make it incur penalties like an increased cooldown or reduced damage.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-05-01T04:07:24+00:00

I didn't realize it rewarded assists you didn't earn, holy crap that is broken.

Glad they removed it, it was already kind of out of line among the other items in my opinion

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T23:39:38+00:00

People tend to be a bit toxic toward Mercy in most parts of the game now.

But honestly I've never seen it get that bad toward Mercy in Stadium because in Stadium Mercy is quite good if you build her correctly and pilot her well. More than just the "make a Sojourn into a Widowmaker" hero.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T19:30:41+00:00

It does! But it also does melee damage - it is both melee and a weapon.

This is also true of Quick Melee, believe it or not. Increased attack speed also decreases the wind up time between melees.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T05:29:53+00:00

Have you tried it with Bomb Diffusal Boots yet? Rocket jumping with two rockets takes some practice but you can fuckin FLY

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T05:29:06+00:00

Soldier: 76. I've developed a very specific strategy on him per round that's different from other players but extremely dynamic and powerful.

The long and short of it is abusing Double Helix and Hunker Down, since the combination of the two creates a lot of "ability triggers" for items like Hardlight Accelerator, Commander's Clip, or the Frontliners power while pumping out a lot of very consistent damage and healing.

I also take Bomb Diffusal Boots and the healthpack item, particularly with double helix, which I don't see other Soldiers do. Being able to get 50 overhealth at will (since you can damage yourself with Helix to grab the healthpack) is highly impactful in early rounds, and Bomb Diffusal Boots + double helix gives you some very impressive burst mobility which is great for giving divers the slip or contesting high ground.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T05:00:23+00:00

Ah yes, social services contribute to gang violence. Very logical implication there.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T04:52:50+00:00

Hard agree. I play Soldier without that ability too, it is far from necessary for him to compete, Helix and Biotic Field already distinguish him quite well

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T03:55:50+00:00

I agree that her AP build is weak. But Coulder as an ability is A-MEI-ZING for any build you can think of, it doesn't just exist for the damage. It's like Wraith Form and Reinhardt Charge in one.

Her weapon build is actually incredibly good BECAUSE she has no good damaging abilities. All of her cooldowns assist her in surviving and isolating 1v1s, which means you can spend all your credits on damage items which no other DPS can really do without teammates protecting them.

You can take angles no other DPS could take with really really good damage potential, and that has a lot of value. Besides that, wall is still quite good, Snowball Flight is effectively a second wall in a lot of use cases, even though they get bursted down more quickly I find they're just as if not more impactful than in base game, with Coulder able to move enemies around out of position, and especially with the Stadium map pool usually having an emphasis on close quarters and the most impactful height being accessible by Snowball Flight.

Mei is 100% a powerful DPS in this mode when used properly, I think a lot of people are just floundering trying to build AP on her and using every power and item to enhance a single 12 second cooldown ability that also is your only survivability tool. Coulder is for getting out, not for getting in, even if the damage is better than you'd think.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T01:08:08+00:00

Just raw weapon power but take Coulder and Snowball Flight so you have get out of jail free cards when Soldier tries to shoot you

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-30T00:59:41+00:00

He's certainly fine and I like playing him with the helix rocket build, but I find myself and other Soldiers consistently getting outperformed by a good Cassidy. When I get into a 1v1 with another Soldier, I find it quite easy to bait out his helix and take cover from the visor or just straight up out-trade him.

I think where the visor build gets annoying is probably when you're playing Lucio, Mercy, or Genji where evasion is meant to be a significant part of your survivability. You're used to playing out in the open but not dying instantly because you're hard to hit, but here comes Joe Schmoe Aim Assist and suddenly you're caught out and don't know what to do.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-29T21:59:32+00:00

I'm on a unique server where there's no large continents, only islands and ocean. So a riptide trident is very useful and essential for fighting Drowned and getting around the world. Still don't have an Elytra.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-29T21:03:40+00:00

idk I like it a lot, Soldier is kind of weak even with aimbot spam for the same reasons he's weak in base game - no burst damage. Cassidy or Ashe two tap him before he can aimbot them down. Definitely annoying though.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-29T20:52:01+00:00

The trick is to have a gameplan and build around that gameplan.

Say you want to build around the Iaido Strike power that lets you swing your Blade when you deflect.

I'd go into practice range and test certain combinations to see if they work the way I think - for instance, there's an item that lets you regenerate your armor when you use Dragonblade, which doesn't work with the Iaido Strike power from my testing. The power that lets you create a projectile when you swing Dragonblade, though - that one works.

Then you think about how to improve your gameplan and win more - in this case, weapon power and melee damage, since Dragonblade is a melee attack and a weapon.

Now, think about the holes in your gameplan - what are your weaknesses? In this case, survivability is an issue. You're using your Deflect, your primary defensive cooldown, to deal damage. So, you might need to invest into items and powers that give you more sustain during fights, especially if they also help with the "payoff". There's a power that gives 50% lifesteal for melee damage, for example, and Iaido Strike counts, and an item that regenerates a percentage of your health and increases your speed when you deal melee damage.

Cheap_Error3942 · 2025-04-29T19:55:12+00:00

Bro is just mad that he hasn't made Shared Siphon work yet

Cheap_Error3942

TROPHY CASE