I’m slow but I just realized why cyphers struggle to make an impact in-game. He turns from a busy bee at the start of the round, throwing abilities all over site, into an agent completely reliant on aim when enemies don’t come his way. His kit is strong when the enemy comes to him but so weak when he needs to quickly rotate site and help his team.

His cage: So powerful to enter/retake site. Give him the ability to redeploy unused cages from a certain radius without LOS. Much like Killjoy. This helps with quicker rotates to support his team.

His camera: Make cypher a universal sentinel. Give him an extra camera. Make it so he can’t use two cameras inside a large radius. It really shakes things up on the defending side with eyes on both sites. This gives him an edge over killjoy. And will allow for more opportunistic rotates. He will be efficient at gathering info on fakes and reliant on catching enemies flanking through spawn.

I really enjoyed playing him. But I always died with no ability left to support my game.