Iāll preface this by saying Iām under no illusion that Reyna can be anything like a genuine frontline fighter; sheās way too squishy, has no special movement options, and canāt shield/heal herself unless she has a fellow hero around. This being said: she has the potential to push some impressive DPS with the gear and Helix Iāll describe, and can contribute a surprising amount of damage to a fight if used carefully. Call her a team-based buffer/debuffer Skirmisher, I guess.
Anyway, hereās the kit:
Gamblerās āGreyhoundā: (-7.00% CDR, -4.20% CDR while all skills on cooldown)
Aristocratās Ostentatious Saber: (+9.80% AS, +5.60% AS for 5 sec after taking shield damage
~OR~
Killerās Retracting Wristblade: (+9.80% AS, +5.60% AS for 60 sec after kill/assist on player/major NPC)
Tricksterās āSidecarā: (+21.00% RS, +9.80% RS for 10 sec after using a Skill)
And here are the Helix choices:
1 - Electrostatic Induction (left): An unfortunately easy choice. Waste reduction needs a buff or rework IMO. Instantly pumping your teammateās shield is a no-brainer.
2 - (either): Not actually a cop-out. If youāre not great at hitting with the Plasma Pulse, Priority Plasma turns your bolts into homing torpedoes for the duration of your Priority Target skill. If you are confident with plasma marksmanship, choose Lockdown. Three seconds is a LONG slow, and a benefit you should definitely take advantage of if you know you can hit with it.
3 - Slazer Thermokinetics (center): Another no-brainer. The AS gear makes this a necessity.
4 - Vital Protocol (left): Easy choice, but with a caveat. If your team has a competent healer, you may actually want to consider The Best Defense (center) instead. Itāll make sense later.
5 - Improvised Tactics (left): Weāre using Slazer, so Thermal Equilibrium is off the table; and weāre stacking CDR, so Improvised Tactics ups the ante on our core gameplan.
6 - Vigilance (left): Adding damage to Priority Target is tempting, but itās not a huge damage-add, and our best utility is keeping our teammate(s) alive. Tougher overshield is just a better choice.
7 - Pulse Pounder (right): Another unfortunately easy choice (Shield Sapper would be much better if it gave its 20% shield steal to all local allies as well as Reyna). Besides which, weāre pushing damage with this kit, so harder-hitting pulse shots are the best fit.
8 - Most Wanted (left): This is as much a tactical choice as a numerical one. Priority Target gives its victim a very noticeable on-screen and audio warning; the longer it lasts, the longer a careful opponent will want to stay out of danger. Even if you canāt kill, you can weaken the other teamās offense if one of its key pushers is worried about getting burned down. Dogpilerās a valid alternate choice, but I prefer Most Wanted.
9 - Long Watch (left): An absolute necessity, as the gear makes clear. Longer, thicker overshields = win.
10 - Huddle Up (center): Weāve already chosen three potent buffs for our Shield Booster which help any teammate it affectsā¦ and now we can potentially buff the entire team at once? YES PLEASE.
Hereās how it works:
Run with a teammate (Reyna canāt survive alone.) You should be buffing your teammateās shields as often as reasonably possible (donāt do it just to do it, wait until theyāre under fire). Fire your Priority Target debuff as soon as you see anything major enough to warrant it. Try to shoot as many minions as possible in modes where minions appear - you donāt have to kill them, just damage them (so you get XP when they die). Also, build buildables before you activate gear, unless running with a teammate who has a zero-cost shard generator (in which case they should focus on buildables).
As soon as you have 924 shards that arenāt needed for turrets or heal stations, activate your Greyhound (CDR mod) first - donāt even think about either of the others. This will probably happen around the same time you hit Helix 5, so Improvised Tactics kicks in around the same timeā¦ and suddenly youāre rocking a 26.20% CDR basically all the time.
Your next activation is playerās preference - I usually go for AS before RS, but either is a good benefit. With the CDR you should be cycling skills almost constantly, so the second tier of Sidecarās benefit should almost always be active, meaning you essentially have +30.80% RS all the time. It helps more than you might think.
Once all your gear is up and running, Reynaās capable of astonishingly quick takedown setups. She still canāt go 1v1 (unless itās a badly weakened enemy), but can be a murderous assistant in most 2v2s. She can also set up a minion wave to have potentially uninterrupted access to a Sentry once sheās at Helix 5 or better; and if her own burst potential has begun to shine by then, one well-timed Photonic Ward can yield a considerable chunk of health off a Sentry.
I mentioned a possible caveat for the use of The Best Defense. If your team already has a strong healer, TBD allows you to give the entire team a 16% damage buff for fourteen seconds at Helix 10. Couple that with a 10-second defense debuff from Priority Target and youāre looking at serious Sentry damage - even if only 2 or 3 team members can hit the Sentry while the others defend your position.
TL;DR: Pick these gear and Helix choices, play carefully, and you have a solid buff/debuff skirmisher who can push decent DPS or potentiate Sentry smackdowns.
