How is a flamethrower not a perfect tank weapon? Disorienting, short-ranged, menacing vibe, and super not-subtle!
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Mauga kinda has a flame thrower but not really 
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There were ideas for a character with a flamethrower before the game released.
Their name was apparently Phoenix.
Edit: Funnily enough, the character worked like Pharah. I can’t imagine how a flamethrower for a flying character would be feasible, unless it was like this long-ranged flamethrower.
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well pyro has always been a favorite of mine from tf2 so perhaps a flamethrower hero could be fun
although depending on who you ask pyro is vehemently hated on as a noob character, very similar to moira’s controversy now that i think about it
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Wasn’t this one of the prototypes for Wrecking ball where he would wield flame throwers?
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The people yearn for heroes of the storm
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another character with burn damage? zzzz
maybe he could stack a damage debuff each time he deals damage to make it more of interesting weapon, but still, this would be the most boring part of the character. But maybe we could have a flying tank, that creates puddles of fire or some kind of temporal aoe persistent damage to create space, that is better than ramattra pool. Is easy enough but I didn’f find any character doing it
We want Blaze, and we want him now!
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Only if his name is Hank Scorpio.
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Honestly, a flying character with short range attacks would be pretty awesome. It would definitely help to offset the “flying characters are uncontestable” issue.
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Basically air tracer, that can easily pop in and out around high ground to get the jump on people. less vertically mobility more horizontal.
From a purely gameplay perspective, a flamethrower would probably just be “Winston’s Tesla Cannon, again”
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A “flamethrower-type” weapon already exists in Overwatch already. It’s Mei.
I’ve been for this for awhile now, I feel like if they did though the game would need better aoe healing depending on how strong it is. For a flamethrower tank to be effective it would probably need piercing and a secondary effect of damage overtime.
So it’s decided: it’ll be a tank! 
Without only a fraction of the damage output and psychosis from its wielder.
They need to release more heroes with deflect. I never quite got it consistently but it was awesome how you use the enemies rockets to rocket jump yourself
And he buys hammocks for his henchmen so they can be well-rested.
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That looks like a prototype for Echo’s sticky bombs