To a different role, which would you choose, why would you do it, and what would you change to make it work? This doesn’t have to be perfect or balanced, just give it your best shot!
I’ll start. I’m a Tracer main, and I’d actually make Tracer a Tank. I’d do this because Tracer plays the most like a Tank out of everyone in the non-Tank roles, being one of the few non-Tanks to directly affect space and not just play in it. With a few slight adjustments, Tracer would be a unique take on the Tank role, having less health than even some members of the DPS and Support roles.
So what would I change to make this work? Let’s start by saying that you can’t have a Tank with 175 HP. That just doesn’t work. So the first balance change I’d make is increasing her HP to 275. Increase her hitbox by 30% as well to make that fair. Tracer would no longer have the DPS passive, but the Tank passive doesn’t work for her either. Reducing the effect of CC on Tracer would make the game actual hell, so we won’t be doing that. Instead, she will have a passive called “Out of Sight,” which will reduce the cooldown of her Blinks by 50% and Recall by 25% when seen by no one on the enemy team for 1 second. This will allow her to constantly go in and out of the battle with good cover usage, harassing the enemy team non-stop in a Ball-like fashion. It will also allow her to rapidly reposition to fight from multiple angles in one fight, but leave her vulnerable to being caught out while traversing the map.
I know a Rein main who will not like this statement… L.O.L.
the only reason I don’t play tank or supp is coz i don’t like to be dependent on another player for heals in the middle of battle. That said, I would say move Bap and Kiri to DPS. Remove Bap’s AoE healing and maybe give dmg reduction or something… remove kiri’s healing and give her “target marking” that once she hit a target with her Ofuda, her kunai hit easier.
Lifeweaver is probably put on tank since he is already the size of one…
Change petal and give it a fire rate/dmg mitigation buff for allies standing on it, increase its cooldown and increase its health pool.
Thorns I would have with no spread, increased damage. Blossom would be slower rate bomb type of deal or actually maybe a type of sticky that has delayed explosions or does more damage if I shoot the blossom that’s attached to the enemy with my thorns.
Grip would be a skill shot that can be used either on teammates or enemies to pull them to me. Essentially hook lol.
Tree would be an object still, but I would make it slow enemies and add leaves that fly around like a tornado that damage as well.
Illari as DPS seems insane. Converting her heal beam to damage one as that Echo has, increasing damage per shot to 80 or changing crit multiplier to 2x. Making pylon as temporal object (remains on map only for 3 seconds, total heal that Illari receives is 120hp) which heals only Illari and increasing its healt to allowing using it as barrier. Most dangerous DPS is done!
Lifeweaver as a tank let him work like Groot give him thorn armor he can grow around him almost like a Treant and walls he can spout change his attacks to poison dmg so his burst is low but hes still doing average tick dmg. If he can sprout thorn walls they could have a slow effect when enemies are near them. Id change his ult to forcing a bunch of poison flower pods to sprout out of the ground constantly firing dmg at anyone they can see but its all tick dmg that can be cleansed. It would just be so much that kiri couldnt keep up.
Its old ult literally was the tank, that speaks for itself)) Returning self repair and old ult, and done. Onetricked Bastion on Community crafted mode, I’ve been off tank on my team half of times. Self-repair gave big flexibility for Bastion in this mode
