Boat needs buffed, its music is incredible, but that is it, no other upsides, its just you die with a bop going on in the background and some crazy cool animations, I suggested earlier buffing up the hitbox and not requiring 3 vikings in the same spot, however we could take a more creative solution then that, because thats literally just the odin but weird, so lets instead…MAKE IT THE BANSHEE BUT WEIRD! So I propose as a rework that the boat doesn’t time out, it stays there, when it dies it has to do the whole respawning thing, the boat always respawns at the hall of the storm, you can load vikings into the boat to turn it on and make it controllable, every viking in the boat makes up 1/3 of the boat’s attack loading into the boat is the exact same thing as going into a bunker, pressing D on the selected viking will make them leave the boat after a short channel, and because of the loud music of the boat the enemy will probably know its general location (as for some reason the noise goes through the fog of war like dehaka’s deep tunnel.
Another option for the boat is to have an initial impact damage as it falls and picks up the vikings, could be like 300 or so and you can probably pick off a liming or jaina before they escape, especially with a spin right before hand.
More abilities on the boat would be nice, some mobility options to dodge the standard nuking that tends to wipe out the boat, doesn’t need to be a big dodge just a 4 or so unit standard walking speed movement, or it could include a mini invul where the boat gets spouted up by a geyser or something, I don’t know I’m no boat expert IDK how boats do boat things.
Another option is to copy blaze bunker, and just let allies get into the lower decks of the boat to dodge abilities or to do a miniature cleanse. Might even be the old school bunker when it was op, double the cooldown and stun upon dying might make it balanced in this circumstance.
IDK how exactly you’d make boat good but keep it balanced but uh thats also not my problem. I now have a profound hate for the sounds of a mechanical keyboard.