The Reed changes are NOT fantastic at all.

I am a gm Reed main and I love this character, I played him from bronze to gm and loved every second of it. When I realised a patch was coming soon I was super exited as Reed to most was a middle to low tier pick so I felt like some much appreciated buffs were in order. I saw the rumors and originally once I got to reeds section I hoped it was fake but sadly it wasn't and the changes were real.

The positives are that he now has cc in his dash, this is ok. It allows him to displace flyers (even though he already could do that) and a nice added bonus to an ability is always welcome. He also had a damage buff to his ultimate (I didn't feel like this was necessary as his ultimate is best used as a combo or clean up ult) these are OK changes that don't help him where he needed it but are fine.

The downsides however...

The cooldown for his dash is now 10 seconds. Meaning he does less damage and has less survivability and has less mobility. It hits him in every area so hard. He used to be able to constantly regain big mode in a cycle. This is now dead. He used to be a fairly mobile hero able to double up his dashes then engage and disengage with his dash. This is dead. It has completely destroyed his playstyle and made him worse in every aspect. It is a FLAT NERF.

His ultimate also went from a common but fairly unimpactful ability to a rare and kinda unimpactful ability.

I dont understand why they did this. The charts said that he had a high win rate so maybe that's why he was nerfed so heavily but it genuinely makes me sad that once the rest of the fantastic four make it to rivals Reed gets a giga nerf and is even worse than he used to be.

I am still enjoying the season update and since thing shares some abilities with Reed I think I will try to play him more so that my old main. Idk if I'm overreacting but I'd be lying if I wasn't a little sad they did my boy like this.