I like playing illary but her gun feels like a pea shooter despite being a laser rifle. Here is what devs can do to improve her design:
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Primary fire has really small recoil on fully charged shots. This inherently feels uncool. If you can make it have a higher visible recoil when using fully charged shot it would look a lot cooler (similar to Cassidy’s peacemaker). Also keyword ‘visible recoil’ so don’t go changing her actual accuracy values please.
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The primary fire laser sound sucks. Her secondary fire has better sound design, switch her primary and secondary fire sound so the left click sounds more like a laser.
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Use sound queues to indicate when her weapon is at max charge. Like a buzz from the weapon’s reactor or something.
Basic game design: go for the rule of cool. All of these changes would not affect her balance but make her feel a lot better and a lot more rewarding to play as a hero.
PS: I also like calling her il-larry the lobster and would appreciate a lobster skin for her weapon
She shoots sun light out of a ( i think its called a) Macuahuitl but it’s like a native wooden sword… it technically shouldn’t have recoil at all or make any sound… it’s sun light 
IMO if anything she should do like 4x more melee damage swinging that giant sword at people… Also she’s like literally a mystical being or something IDK how she literally can just fly for her ult… like with mercy she has like tech wings on her back… you know science right? same for pharah / echo etc… but no illari just has glowing eyes and sucks sunlight in through her hand then throws a powerball of sunlight into her Macuahuitl and can just fly.
What other hero in all of the OW roster can just literally fly (unaided by technology) and fire a miniature sun at their enemies? I’d say the closest is like kiriko but her ‘power’ is just summoning a fox that makes everyone stronger.
IDK she seems ‘cool’ enough to me. and literally she is a support hero that can occasionally score solo elims and potentionally 5K’s with a perfect ult opportunity…
Are you saying the devs should not improve her design cuz you think she is cool enough? I guess this is why people call overwatch devs lazy
Illari is the Escanor of Nanatsu no Taizai.
“Cruel…sun”
No I’m just saying I think illari is already a cool hero.
what you are asking for is for like a mythic skin reward. Like go look at mercy skins then test hero mythic in the practice range (the shop lets you do that)
her blaster makes a much beefier sound and looks much more cool etc same with her beams.
the stuff you are asking for in illari (who i still think is already one of the coolest heros by design default) would be mythic skin worthy.
Fine then put it in a mythic skin but don’t just completely brush off suggestions to improve hero design cuz it is “enough” and cuz you think devs aren’t willing to work on anything.
Also, Mercy’s mythic doesn’t affect recoil or give her more visible recoil when there was non or give her sound queues on abilities. These should be implemented for the general hero design.
i think you are just assuming a bit much
Some people like her the way she is and don’t like change… don’t tell people not to have their own opinions lol… your idea is fine in a new skin or something but i don’t think she needs a rework from the ground up to be cooler… she’s already cool and satisfying to play lol.
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I wish they had done more with the whole flying schtick. Crack suggestion:
- Outburst now has a resource meter and two activations.
- Tapping the ability will launch you and go on cooldown the same way it does now, and consumes the whole meter.
- Holding the ability will consume the meter and let you fly freely.
- 1.5s cooldown between uses, meter is consumed and regenerates at a 1:3 ratio. So, 1s would be 33% of the meter, and it would take 3 seconds to regenerate that same 33%.
- Using your ult refills the outburst meter.
Current Outburst feels very lacklustre tbh, you usually have to have your face to the wall you want to jump on top of and even then you barely, barely make it (or don’t). Pretty lame for a character that only has damage and healing. Anyway, take this with a grain of salt.
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Wimpy gun made out of plank of wood seems fitting for a wimpy support with literally worst K/D ratio.