Spreading the Longer Fade perk propaganda

The first time perks came out and I tried her long fade perk I genuinely thought it was the most God awful thing to ever happen ever. It felt SO clunky and horrible and SO EGREGIOUSLY SLOW and awful to play. Naturally, I resorted to using the perk that did the least damage to my muscle memory for maybe the first few weeks. It was fine. I was pissed because who thought it was a good idea to make BOTH of her minor perks fade related? I hated how I was an easy shot for hitscan—but God forbid my fade is longer than 0.7 seconds. And then on this one game (and this was the pivot that changed everything for me so I remember for a fact it was a flashpoint match on New Junk City) I accidentally picked the longer fade perk and to say I was DISTRAUGHT. But oh my God? I was really shocked at how easily I was able to reposition, and how nice it felt to go from cover from cover on this huge map, how fast I could get back to the team fight and regroup with my team. And how I seemingly was able to contest point for longer and get in more % for the team before I died. Which, staggering didn’t matter much when I could get back to the fight so fast. I still hated the downtime though and how much of my ult goes away when I fade but I told myself: Okay, for Flashpoint I’ll start using the longer fade perk purely because of map design and more contest time.

And eventually this started bleeding into the payload matches, and then push matches, and then etc. etc. because well, it’s kind of nice actually… And now, months later I CANNOT let it go :’) It fixes so many issues I had with Moira’s survivability. I was a huge advocate for BUFFING MOIRA’S HEALTH but I really don’t need it anymore. I win more duels because my orb cool down has more time to come back in the time I’m out of the fight. My aggressive playmaking potential and off-angling is so much higher once I have my long fade perk and sometimes I even catch myself overestimating how far my fade actually goes without this perk and feel like a naked chick out in the open no where near cover in the middle of the crossfire. I really can’t imagine playing Moira without this perk and it’s a huge part of why I don’t really touch Stadium.

Point is, I urge Moira mains to try this perk out a few times in Flashpoint (if u even can with this new map voting) if you hate how it feels. Because once you get used to the duration, it’s really a blast. Maybe you’ll see the light like I did :-)