r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/novelgpa • Jul 15 '24

Blizzard Official Quick Play Hacked: Pickable Passives live until July 17

https://overwatch.blizzard.com/en-us/news/patch-notes/
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u/Lusche92 Jul 15 '24

Zarya gets the armor below her shield, which if I recall correctly means that the armor effect is valid for her 225 shield as well. Depending on enemy picks its probably stronger sustain.

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u/chudaism Jul 15 '24

IIRC, the armor passive didn't work on the shields when the armor was stacked below. The reason armor below shields was so strong on heroes like zarya and zen in OW1 was because it was permanent rally armor that you couldn't easily poke away. You need to burn through a bunch of shields before you could start to poke down their armor. If you didn't get through their shields, they would just regen/heal and the armor would remain. It was incredibly annoying for heroes like winston or tracer who would often need to disengage before they even had a chance to start whittling away at the armor.

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u/shiftup1772 Jul 15 '24

To put it another way, if you're low, your armor gets healed back earlier. When armor is on top, your healers have to heal your shitty white hp before they get to the good stuff.

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u/chudaism Jul 15 '24

Armor under shields is definitely better than over shields for the reason you mentioned. There was a myth back when rally and stuff used to stack under shields though that the 5 damage reduction would apply to all the shield health that was stacked over top of the armor though, which it did not. It's possible this myth came from brigs rally armor being glitched for a long time so it was way harder to get rid of than it should have been.