I dont know what the dev team plans to do with Mauga, but i had an idea for his abilities. Let me know what you think.
First, he can have a flame thrower that gets used up at a similar speed to defense matrix. It can leave a short DoT effect. This flame comes out of one of his guns.
Next ability, he can have a smoke grenade that clouds the view for a few seconds. This could pop out of the other gun.
His main guns would be twin heavy machine guns.
His passive could reveal enemies within a radius based on gun fire. The outline would appear and die down quickly as they stop shooting.
For his ultimate, he could have an air strike going in one direction. These abilities makes him more like a soldier in the thick of action.
Like it, dont like it, let me know.
Mauga appears to be a Talon Heavy Assault unit. These units in the Archives units have:
- Twin Miniguns (Mauga has these)
- A charge ability (Might not make the cut, since its Reinâs charge)
- A short range knockback swipe (Would be a unique âGet Offâ ability for a shield tank)
In the short story, a couple more things he does are:
- Has a shield
- Picks up and crushes a guard with his bare hands (Might not make the cut)
Based on what we know about him, and what could be a unique ability, Iâd say the only three parts of his kit that are safe to expect are his twin cannons, his swipe, and his shield. It is worth mentioning that there are parts of the Archive unit kits that are not part of the actual heroes (Baptiste doesnât roll like other Talon Troopers, Widowmaker doesnât have a pistol like other Talon Sniper) as well as other abilities the heroes have in the stories that they donât have in game (Soldier 76 has passive regeneration, Baptiste has flashbangs.)
Overall though, I would expect those 3 things based on what we have seen in the story. Flamethrowers⌠I wouldnât expect to see those come out of his miniguns. An air strike? Hiding behind smoke? That doesnât seem like his style. Mauga is the kinda guy that loves killing people personally. He isnt the type to hide behind smoke or call out someone else to do it for him.
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Iâm thinking rocket shotgun or minigun with small explosion⌠Smoke nade and deflector shield âŚ
As he seem like the guy that like to dive in the middle and dish out punishment being surrounded âŚ
And frenzy ability that increases movement spd,reload and rpsâŚ
At the very bare minimum, the only thing we know is that he is armed with twin miniguns. Weâve seen his bullet hail in What You Left Behind, we have seen him garbed in Heavy Assault armor, and we have personally fought the very same bullet hail in Retribution and Storm Rising. Rocket Shotguns would be cool, but probably for a different hero.
I appreciate the feedback. I admit my ideas were out there. The charge is not necessarily of the table yet. For his charge he could take 2 big steps forward in a sort of tackle to displace enemies with each step. Also for a shield, what he had 2 shields on a cooldown similar to symetras turrets. These could be no bigger than the size of baptists ultimate area and could be maybe as strong as winstons shield.
I dont know much about the archives so i apologize if my ideas are too âout thereâ.
In the event it was literally just Reinhardtâs charge. But you are right, there are interesting ways to try and reinvent Reinhardtâs charge. Would also fit with his big burly and personal method of sadism.
Would be an interesting mechanic. Having two shields that you can deploy yourself. I always envisioned he would have something a little more aggressive such as barrier that is projected in front of him for a cooldown duration. Push the button, youâve got a big barrier projected in front of you for X seconds (like, 5-10) and then it goes on cooldown once it is dispelled (5-10 seconds more after it times out.) But really, anything that allows him to shield up and also unleash a bulletstorm seems like it would fit with him.
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I see the swipe and charge maybe being combined into a short range melee knockback, a character as vicious as Mauga needs some physical ability when he canât use his primary weapons.
Since the shield was repurposed as Sigmaâs barrier, he might get some personal shields (like Hammond) if he gets the time and protection to ramp up his machine gun damage?
Also, a rage ability or part of his Ultimate kit, going full on demon and immune to CC for a short time, heâs focused on killing the enemy until heâs cooled off. (Bap should have a unique voice line to calm Mauga if heâs on the team)
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