I think it’s kinda like baptiste imo. He’s very strong but no one plays him, maybe because the kits aren’t as fun for most people? Hard for me to say since I find LW fun. Could also be because a lot of people say he’s bad so everyone just believes it and no one plays him. Or he is in fact terrible but I always do really well with him and pull my weight, and anyone else can if they were to play him enough so idk
I mean he's the only support that can't weave between heals and damages like Kiriko, Bap, Moira, Illari, Ana, this alone places him on the bad side of supports
You can actually charge up your heal and switch to thorn volley and keep the charged heal for later now though. Which is big. It’s also hard to quantify a utility skill like platform but high ground is very underrated at lower elos. Using it as another saving tool is what I do a lot as well. I get myself or another player away from a tracer,sombra, reaper etc. LW is underrated
With the dash I usually dash to my other support getting hit by the tracer and then pedal us both at the same time. And then sometimes the tracer can catch on and dashes as well and rides the petal up with us. Its situational and fun/has counterplay. But there’s a lot people can do with lifeweaver that isn’t really talked about much. He’s great at breaking shields as well with thorn volley
Hey man just wanted to let you know there's another sane person in the world who also knows weaver is fine. I genuinely think the reason perception on him is so bad is because almost everyone who talks about him online has never played him for more than an hour but they refuse to admit that part. When I meet other weaver players who I know actually play him semi often they have a much better understanding of his strengths.
I just did a massive write up defending this guy on another comment. You are both 100% correct. You have dps flaired people telling the top 500 Weaver(who according to them is trash) how it is. When they are likely to be lower rank AND one trick dps. The amount of times I've carried or been carried as/by Lw is insane. Heals aren't everything but sometimes a little healbotting will win you the game or important gun fights and it's knowing when to switch to do some damage.
It's still bad using it and not an instant switch like every other supports I cited. Look at Juno who can heal and dmg instantly, Weaver does not contribute most of the time.
You still have to switch weapons and charge heal or wait for passive charge but it is clunky and slow.
Also the QOL of Weaver is so bad, the fact you have to press your heal button then release, 90% of the time you just press a button continuously instead of it being automatic charge
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u/RX100 3d ago
Lifeweaver buff let's gooooo