hey, PRX analyst here. after beta testing him with my boy ilya I can confirm his ult isn't as bad as the community thinks rn.
couple of uses i gathered from watching my boy ilya farm:
if u kill someone with the flow state ability and you take the orb and ult, the orb stays and you are protected for one shot. which is really good in iso ult.
if you know enemy has shit aim (fns, russ💀💀💀), its a free pick.
if you hear a raze rocket/neon ult running at you, you can cancel it with ur ult.
if you are low hp, you get to take a fair 50/50 instead of 20/80 or whatever it would be. which all things considered is pretty good.
if enemy has bad guns (stinger/shotguns and so on...) its a free fight)
if location of enemy is known, you can ult and your teammate can guarantee the trade with util/camping the body. (which never happened btw, cuz ilya never lost his 1s.)
on top of that its pretty good in a 2v1 and so on, when u can just take the duel and your teammate can 100% guarantee the trade, and of course low time situations with spike.
and on top of that, for my boy ilya, every 50/50 fight is already a 70/30 for him. he is just that good.
so yeah, not the worst ult in the game.