CDC #7 General Davis

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CAROLINA DAVIS

DOMINION GENERAL

Ranged bruiser
Starcraft

Contest theme: Davis combines both new and not very often used mechanics. Those include: Independent talent tree(unlike Chromie her talent tree depends heavily upon players performance), switching talents (and her E ability) to really adapt on the fly, ability to improve her stats by playing well, 3 ultimates, special mount (but no Medivh´s get out of jail free card), companion/pet in the Viking and reducing her death timer.

General Carolina Davis was a Terran Dominion military officer and later leader of the Defenders of Man. She was not known for her patience or affection. She was strong supporter of Arcturus Mengsk and member of the Sons of Korhal.

Now she is piloting her powerfull mech the Balius and she is ready to serve the Terran Dominion in the Nexus.

Davis is a ranged bruiser who can both deal and take punishment. Her trait allows her to get her talents sooner or later than rest of her team depending on her performace or sacrifice the Spare parts to heal herself or even reduce her death timer. She is also able to adapt to various threats she may encounter.

COMBAT TRAIT
SPARE PARTS
Davis can collect Spare parts from killed/destroyed enemies to upgrade her mech Balius. For every 40 Spare parts gathered she gains acces to new talent tier and +2% to all her stats, otherwise she gains normal +4% per level as rest of her team.

Enemy minions- 1 Spare part
Enemy heroes- 5 Spare parts
Destroyed forts/towers- 10 Spare parts
Enemy mercenaries- 3 Spare parts

At tier 2 (40 Spare parts) Davis gets to pick her E ability.

Every 2 minutes Davis can repick one of her talents (excpet her ultimates and tier 7 talents) if the talent grants an ability it starts on full cooldown.

EMERGENCY REPAIR (D)
No cooldown
Cost: 10 Spare parts

Activate to restore 20% of Davis´s maximum health over 5 seconds.

When Davis is death she can activate her trait to respawn sooner. If she has enough Spare parts to fully reduce her death timer she respawns after 1 second or her respawn timer gets reduced according to the Spare parts spent.
1 second costs 2 Spare parts.

PRIMARY ABILITIES
COVER FIRE (Q)
Cooldown: 9 seconds
Mana: 55

Cone AoE
Davis fires Balius´s gatling cannons in a 60 degree cone in front of her. Deals 40 dmg every 0.25 seconds and slow enemies by 5% stacking up to 20% for 2 seconds. Davis can channel this ability for up to 2 seconds and she can move and the Balius continues to fire in the direction of cursor. Davis has reduced turn rate during the ability, it takes her 1.5 second to make 360 turn.

Crossfire (Passive): COVER FIRE (Q) applies one stack of Crossfire (lasts 2 seconds) to enemies hit. Dealing damage to marked enemies removes the mark, deals additional 8 damage and prolongs the slow for 1 second.

NEMESIS MISSILE (W)
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Mana: 50

Small AoE
Deals 195 damage to enemies in a small area and stuns them for 0.5 second. Missile has short travel time depending on how far it was used.
Stores two charges.

ANTI-ARMOR RAILGUN (E1)
Cooldown: 9 seconds
Mana: 45

Skillshot
Fires a narrow skillshot in the targeted direction. The shell deals 220 damage to all enemies hit and reduce the physical armor of enemy heroes by 10.

Passive: Every 5th autoattack deals additional 40% damage to the target and ingores positive physical armor.

FIRESTORM FLAMETHROWER (E2)
Cooldown: 10 seconds
Mana: 50

AoE
Fires a napalm rocket to a targeted area. Deals 90 damage on impact and 224 damage over 4 seconds. Enemies in the area have their movement speed slowed by 15%.

Passive: Every 6th autoattack sets the target and enemies in the small area around it on fire dealing additional 100% damage over 3 seconds.

INTERFERENCE MISSILE (E3)
Cooldown: 12 seconds
Mana: 60

Skillshot
Fires a skillshot in the targeted direction. Deals 85 damage to first enemy hero hit, reduce their movement speed by 40% and their spellpower by 30%.

EREBUS BOOSTERS (E4)
Cooldown: 10
Mana: 50

Davis activates her boosters and launches herself to the targeted location. Deals 150 damage to the enemies in the impact area and pushes them away.

Passive: Davis´s movement speed in Assault mode is increased by 10% and Fighter mode bonus movement speed is doubled.

SECONDARY ABILITIES :
CALLDOWN: MULE
Cooldown: 60 seconds

Activate to calldown a Mule that repairs Structures, one at a time, near target point for 40 seconds, healing for 100 Health every 1 second. MULE can repair Davis.

CALLDOWN: SUPPLY
Cooldown: 60 seconds

Activate to drop Supply depot to the targeted area. Supply depot restores 10% of maximum health and 5% of maximum mana to allied heroes over 5 seconds. Calling down Supply depot gives Davis 10 Spare parts.

DEFENSIVE MATRIX
Cooldown: 80 seconds

Activate to give Davis and nearby allied heroes shiel equal to 30% of their maximum health.

HEROIC ABILITIES
MULTI-LOCK WEAPONS SYSTEM (R1)
Cooldown: 35 seconds
Mana: 65 mana

Point and click
After 0.5 second fires a volley of 6 missiles on the target each dealing 76 damage. The target is marked visually. Stuns the target for 1.25 second.

Passive: Every 4th autoattack fires a missile on the target dealing 40% damage and stunning the target for 0.25 second.

LASER WEAPONRY (R2)
Cooldown: 25 seconds
Mana: 60

Skillshot
Charge up for 1 second the fire powerfull laser blast in the targeted direction dealing 336 damage to the first enemy hero it hits.

Passive: Cover fire (Q) deals 15% more damage. Subsequent autoattacks against an enemy deals 5% more damage stacking up to 40%.

GENERAL´S ESCORT (R3)
Cooldown: 15 seconds
Mana:55

Vector targeted AoE
Viking takes up to the air and strafe tergeted area after 1 second. Deals 272 damage to all enemies in the area.

Passive: Viking escort follows Davis doing 30% of her damage and copying casts of COVER FIRE (Q). If the viking dies it will respawn next to her after 25 seconds.

SPECIAL MOUNT
FIGHTER MODE
Cooldown: 20 seconds

Balius transforms to fighter configuration over 2 seconds. Doesn´t get interrupted by taking damage but can be interrupted by stuns, roots and silences.
When in Fighter mode Davis has increased movement speed by 30% and can flight over terrain and heroes. She is unstoppable and has 20 armor but she remains targetable (unlike Medivh). She transforms back to Assault mode to use her abilities.

TALENTS

Tier 1:

Reactive plating: Every 20 seconds Davis gains 1 charge of Reactive plating reducing damage of next hero autoattack and subsequent autoattacks for 1 second. Stores up to 4 charges. Dealing damage to enemy heroes decrease the cooldown by 0.5 second.
Supply mision: Regeneration globes have their health and mana increased by 50%.
Quest: Gather 15 regeneration globes. Reward: Gain the CALLDOWN: SUPPLY active ability and regeneration globes grant 1 Spare part.
Experienced commander: Davis deals 20% more damage to non-heroic targets and nearby allies deal 10% more damage, halved against heroes.
Missile barage: Hitting heroes with NEMESIS MISSILE (W) increase the damage of the next one by 5% stacks up to five times. Getting five stacks restores 10 mana.

Tier 2:

ANTI-ARMOR RAILGUN (E1): Basic ability (Description in abilities section)
FIRESTORM FLAMETHROWER (E2): Basic ability (Description in abilities section)
INTERFERENCE MISSILE (E3): Basic ability (Description in abilities section)
EREBUS BOOSTERS (E4): Basic ability (Description in abilities section)

Tier 3:

Ripwave warheads: NEMESIS MISSILE (W) has its area increased by 20% and slow enemies hit by 15% for 2 second.
Shatter rounds: Hitting heroes with the full duration of COVER FIRE (Q) deals 20 additional damage and generates 1 Spare part
Conscription: Use 10 Spare parts to capture neutral non-boss merecenary.
Moebius armor: Davis gains 10 spell armor, increased to 20 when slowed, silenced, rooted or stunned.
Smart servos: Reduce Fighter mode cooldown by 10 seconds and it´s cast time by 0.5 second.

Tier 4:

MULTI-LOCK WEAPONS SYSTEM (R1): Heroic ability (Description in abilities section)
LASER WEAPONRY (R2): Heroic ability (Description in abilities section)
GENERAL´S ESCORT (R3): Heroic ability (Description in abilities section)

Tier 5:

CALLDOWN: MULE: Active ability (Description in abilities section)
Allied soldiers: Crossfire deals double damage and can be trigered by damage from allied heroes. Trigering Crossfire on enemy heroes grants 1 Spare part.
Outmaneuver: Hitting multiple heroes with one ability heals Davis for 2% of her maximum health, restores 1% of her maximum mana for each hero hit and grants 1 Spare part.
Air raid: Davis deals 15% for 5 seconds after switching to Assault mode.

Tier 6:

Painting the target: Crossfire mark lasts 3 seconds and one enemy can have 3 marks at the same time. Each mark gets removed separately.
Air superiority: NEMESIS MISSILE (W) can be used in Fighter mode.
Fire-suppression drones: EMERGENCY REPAIR (D) costs 2 Spare parts less and restores 5% more health. Davis gains 50% more health regeneration when below half health.
Impatient assault: Dealing damage to enemy heroes reduce cooldown of Davis´s abilities by 0.25 second and increase her movement speed by 1% up to 15%.

Tier 7:

Ares-class targeting system (R1): Increase the range of Davis´s autoattacks and MULTI-LOCK WEAPONS SYSTEM (R1) by 1.5.
Phobos-class weapons system (R2): Attacking heroes increase attacks speed by 2% up to 20%.
GENERAL´S ESCORT (R3): Davis gains second Viking escort. Each Viking has separate respawn cooldown increased to 35 second.
Enhanced systems (E): Upgrades Davis´s E ability:
-ANTI-ARMOR RAILGUN (E1)- The active part of the ability now reduces armor by 15 and passive reduces armor by 5 in addition to ignoring possitve armor.
-FIRESTORM FLAMETHROWER (E2)- Increase the AoE of both parts of the ability by 20%.
-INTERFERENCE MISSILE (E3)- Now pierces the first target and roots both enemies.
-EREBUS BOOSTERS (E4)- Reduce the cooldown by 2 seconds and increase the passive movement speed bonus to 15%
Defensive matrix: Active ability (Description in abilities section)
Defender of the Dominion: At 300 Spare parts Davis gains 10 armor and shares this bonus with nearby allied heroes. Allied heroes dead increases this by 5.

SKINS:
Base skin: Dominion General (Grey with red markings and Dominion symbol),
Raider General (Grey with blue markings and Raiders symbol)
Defender General (Grey with yellow markings and Defenders symbol)
UED General (Black with golden markings and UED symbol)
Umojan general (White with light blue markings and Umojan symbol)

MEKA General Davis: Balius is changed to resemble D.Va´s mech and Davis herself is younger.

Balius Prime: Both on the ground and in the air Balius protects the people of New Stormwind against any threat. (Davis portrait and voice is replace by robotic. Balius in the Fighter mode looks like a jet fighter.

Link to the heroesfire: https://www.heroesfire.com/hots/concept/carolina-davis-10306

Edit: Adjusted her damage numbers.
Added the Crossfire effect to allow better synergy.
Added the talents.
Updated the talents and added skins
Updated some of the description and abilities

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Total Score - 18/20

Creativity - 5/5
Spare Parts is a very interesting and unique mechanic compared to what’s in the game already. Though it does share some similarities to Chromie’s trait, the fact that Spare Parts are somewhat performance based and can be spent in many different ways differentiates it. Davis’ basic abilties and heroics are all fairly interesting.

Cohesiveness - 4/5
Though Davis’ abilities are all nice, none of them feel like they have particularly impactful interactions with each other. For example, Nemesis Missile can stun enemies into Cover Fire, but Cover Fire is already easy to land with a wide area and the ability to move Davis and the direction of Cover Fire while casting.

Thematic - 5/5
Davis’ kit does feel like it matches a specialized Viking very well, and the spare part mechanics feel true to her co-op mission in Starcraft 2. On top of that, the way Spare Parts introduce a brand new way to interact with talent trees, as well as providing tradeoffs when used for healing or respawn timer reduction, feels game changing in a way that matches the contest’s theme.

Interaction - 4/5
Looking at Davis’ kit, it feels like she just does WAY too much damage. There’s damage on every ability, and a lot of them are quite high. Especially considering that she is a ranged bruiser, not a squishy melee assassin, these numbers do feel overtuned. Besides specific numbers, though, Davis’ kit does look fine, with nothing negatively impacting her team and most abilities being skillshots with counterplay.

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Ok, thank you for the review.

Blockquote Cohesiveness - 4/5
Though Davis’ abilities are all nice, none of them feel like they have particularly impactful interactions with each other. For example, Nemesis Missile can stun enemies into Cover Fire, but Cover Fire is already easy to land with a wide area and the ability to move Davis and the direction of Cover Fire while casting.

To be fair I havn´t really tought about comboing her abilities because I want them (and all of her kit to be fair) to be more reactive to both allies and enemies than about setting up and stuff, so Davis would work great as a follow up or counter hero.

Blockquote Interaction - 4/5
Looking at Davis’ kit, it feels like she just does WAY too much damage. There’s damage on every ability, and a lot of them are quite high. Especially considering that she is a ranged bruiser, not a squishy melee assassin, these numbers do feel overtuned. Besides specific numbers, though, Davis’ kit does look fine, with nothing negatively impacting her team and most abilities being skillshots with counterplay.

Well, I can´t really disagree here having no real life data. I definitely didn´t intended her to be top level damage delaer. She should be better at prolonged fights rather then burst. I will make adjustments to that.

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Overall Score

Creativity - 5/5

Cohesiveness - 4/5

Thematic - 5/5

Interaction - 4/5

Total - 18/20

Creativity - 5/5

It’s quite an interesting character to choose, and the kit you pulled off really does come together quite well. While I think the Spare Parts mechanic must be a bit too snowball-y, I think the concept introduces some cool new abilities and takes on abilities. It was a bold move to make the third ability locked behind tier 2, but I think it works out here to great effect. The multiple heroics is also quite interesting, though each individual heroic is a little bit less interesting than I would hope for. Overall, the talents are also more than just boosts to certain aspects, making the character more engaging. Some talents that could use some work are Resources of War, Regenerative Biosteel, and Efficient Repair.

Cohesiveness - 4/5

The kit flows together actually very well overall, with the bonuses from the heroics to the base abilities being interesting, and it’s cool to see how each of the E abilities interacts with the base kit. I do think the kit could use a bit more than being carried for the rough interactions, and spare parts, and the talents don’t really offer too much in that regard. While some talents are pretty cool, like Air Raid and Air Superiority, I think more can be done to encourage ability combos. Finally, I think that most of Tier 5’s supportive push feels a bit odd within the design.

Thematic - 5/5

I would have never considered General Davis in the Balius for a character, but this design really does fit that idea quite well. The build-your-character design, with an alternate take on talent trees and the ability to switch talents, all falls within the contest theme quite nicely.

Interaction - 4/5

While it is true that most of the abilities and effects have counterplay to them, with several skillshots and the spare parts mechanic being counterable, I do think that some of the abilities can be a bit oppressive. Namely, the giant area effect of Cover Fire and most specifically the targeted 1.25 second stun on Multi-Lock Weapons System, can get obnoxious fairly quickly. I also think that the unique mount might be annoying if Davis can soak allied projectiles, and it still might serve as too powerful an escape. The Unstoppable is a key component that might make it too powerful.

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Thanks for the feedback :grinning:

Some talents that could use some work are Resources of War, Regenerative Biosteel, and Efficient Repair.

I´m still considering updates to the talent tree.

Finally, I think that most of Tier 5’s supportive push feels a bit odd within the design.

I intended it as part of her adaptability. MULE is there mainly to repair Davis herself (to conserve Spare parts) and to represent the trait of terran mech armies from SC. SUPPLY is meant as a sustain tool in situations where your team is lacking those.

Namely, the giant area effect of Cover Fire and most specifically the targeted 1.25 second stun on Multi-Lock Weapons System

I added turn rate to Cover fire to help in that regard.
While stuns in general are kinda oppressive the 1.25 second is not that strong compared to Uther´s E or Varian´s Taunt especially with much longer cooldown.

if Davis can soak allied projectiles

I was probably bit misleading here. She will only get hit by projectiles intended to hit allies like Ana´s Q. I wanted to say that she is still hittable but ignores collisions.

and it still might serve as too powerful an escape. The Unstoppable is a key component that might make it too powerful.

I increased the cast time and added cooldown. And to be honest I find it weird to get rooted in the air. The fact that she can be hit without ability to return fire (unless talented) is enough to prevent abusing IMO.

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Creativity - 5/5

This is a very creative take on Davis within the Balius. The abilities, trait, and talents all feel mostly creative and interesting. The trait especially is a very creative implementation of the idea present within Davis’ coop mission within SCII.

Cohesiveness - 4/5

While the character’s base kit all feels like it meshes together fairly well, though could still use some work, the talent tree falls a little too flat, in my opinion. I think there could be some work done across talents to promote a bit more cohesion, as well as some amount within Davis’ base kit.

Thematic - 5/5

This kit feels very thematic to not only the Balius and Terrans, but also works quite well inside of the Contest’s bounds, with the skill-based talent tree, alterable talents, etc.

Interaction - 4/5

A couple of Davis’ effects could still use some updating, as there are a couple of things here that could be frustrating. First, Covering Fire’s Crossfire effect, as it stands, has 0 limit, and could potentially last indefinitely, which is some ridiculous potential for slows. On top of that, a 35CD point and click 1.25 second stun still feels a little long, and could use some work. I may be overlooking a specific talent or two, but otherwise, the kit seems to be in a good place.

Overall Score

Creativity - 5/5
Cohesiveness - 4/5
Thematic - 5/5
Interaction - 4/5

Total - 18/20

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Thanks for the feedback and have a nice day.

A couple of Davis’ effects could still use some updating, as there are a couple of things here that could be frustrating. First, Covering Fire’s Crossfire effect, as it stands, has 0 limit, and could potentially last indefinitely, which is some ridiculous potential for slows.

Well, the description was probably bit missleading here. The Crossfire effect marks the enemy for the duration of original slow then if they are hit by Davis (but not the same cast of Cover fire) or her allies (with talent) they will take 8 damage and be slowed by the same amount as they were by the Cover fire. So even when the enemy has multiple Crossfire marks (with talent) they will take damage and get slowed multiple times but only until the marks are gone.
I hope this explains that and I will improve the description there.

On top of that, a 35CD point and click 1.25 second stun still feels a little long, and could use some work.

It is a short stun on long cooldown. Yes it is a point and click but it can still be countered by unstoppable and cleanse.

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Marrossi - 91/100

Creativity: 8/10
Cohesiveness: 8/10
Thematic: 10/10
Interaction: 8/10
(+2 Thoughtfulness, +1 Game Fluidity)