The fox disappears at the end, so I don’t think this is a transformation ability, but just a utility one where you send your pet to do the job - speedboosting allies that follow the trace
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Yeah, but maybe you disappear, fox goes out, and then you reappear where the fox ended.
Works either way though.
But yeah I could see it being weird to get ahead of your Tanks and DPS.
it looks too natural, I wouldn’t say YET that its confirmed, as it looks more of a map effect than anything as of right now
I sure hope it’s just a map feature, but it would be too coincidental since there is only a team consisting of 1 healer in the video (which implies that the fox is the missing’s support ability) and we had foxgirl support leaks before
true but
remember the LAST time we had a community requested character get made?..
I am surprised they went with the junker queen, but then again it did take this long so I am less worried
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if its just like a single lane sym portal its kinda lame tbh.
Funny thing is, I was just thinking the other day about if Symm had a speed boost ground effect by following behind a Symm throwable barrier or flying sentry.
Trailer only showed one new hero,
No it did not. Stop hyping yourselves up, and then yelling at Blizzard because they didn’t confirm or hint at any new hero beyond Junker Queen.
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Cool I might have a new support main.
I’m having mixed thoughts if it really is a speed boost ability. On one hand, Lucio loses his niche (screw Lucio players tho lol, no offence). On the other hand, yet another hero getting replaced by a better version of him. And then all this talk about “reducing CCs across the board”, and they introduce even more mobility. WHY.
It’s looking like that speedboost is a cooldown ability
Seems problematic in that form.
A support getting out in front of the team seems like a good way to get them killed.
Assuming this a new ability for a new character we saw in the trailer: I’d assume they aim the ability, use it, the “fox spirit” thing goes x distance or until it hits a solid surface (like old Sym barrier), and the path it takes grants whatever buff it applies (most likely speed boost, but dunno for sure).
I think that would explain why the fox thing simply disappears and why we don’t actually see the character themself in the trailer: they’re behind everyone else in that shot.
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Ngl, I’m going to be pretty bummed if that spirit fox is the normal look and/or if it’s a transformation ability. My dreams of a floofy canine pet are not going to be satisfied that.
I want the fox hero to be a guy, instead of this UwU cutesy girl hero everyone is hoping it will be.
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Unless it was a low cooldown, that would suck. It’s usability would be vary on the map. Lucio would be much better since it still works when you turn a corner >.>
Someone suggested that the arches could be what provide the buff for an indeterminate amount of time which could also be the case, it’s a bit hard to make a definitive assumption from 1 visual shot that lasts all of 2 seconds (maybe less).
Whatever it is, I’d be interested to see the actual gear works behind it.
Please. I’d love this. The salt produced would be amazing.
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You could be right. I definitely agree with the path providing the buff, but I imagined in my scenario that the hero would be invulnerable in fox form and it only lasts a brief duration, keeping that invulnerability balanced. The way you described it might be more fun though, since you can use other abilities while the fox does its thing.
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I’m also not keen on having another potential speed boost character as it removes what made Lucio unique and it would be really, really lazy to recycle a mechanic when you can easily make a multitude of different abilities for a support hero.
He wasn’t, there’s a Zarya Hanzo Genji Ana which means the only spot left on the team is for one support, which is the Fox Girl hero
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It’s very clearly not considering this is a PvP stream and they aren’t showing PvE stuff for a while they said…
We don’t have to, its entirely obvious that it’s the Kanezaka Fox Girl hero we’ve known about forever.
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