Sniper Tank Idea with great team utility

General Discussion
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Sniper Tank

Health: 400

Primary Weapon: Laser Rifle

  • an unscoped, slow firing laser rifle that does high damage. Must be charged up for 0.8 seconds before firing and is hitscan.

Secondary Fire: Charge Shot

  • Charges up laser rifle for 4 seconds. Does 150 damage to body and 220 headshot

Shift Ability: Jet Boots

  • movement ability that slowly jet-propels them from their feet. Goes up to 15 meters high while dealing damage to enemies directly below them. 8 second cooldown.

E Ability: Force Field

  • can place a medium sized force field shaped like a cube. The force field negates all outgoing and incoming damage. Enemies cannot enter it. Friendly healing can enter it though. Lasts for 6 seconds. 12 second cooldown.
    The intention: to provide an extremely safe location for injured allies to retreat to for healing.

Ultimate: Firestorm

  • Propel yourself quickly into the air and rain down jet flames from your boots while gliding freely for 6 seconds.

Passive Idea that I’m not sure about:

  • Landing shots with your laser rifle reduces incoming damage to your teammates by 25% in a radius around you. Similar to Brigitte’s healing.
    Alternatively maybe it could give a damage reduction to teammates in your line of sight.

Just thought of all this and I think it could actually play pretty well. The trickiest thing would be getting the damage from their primary and secondary fire just right. Let me know what you think!

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Uhh… sniper tank. So it’s hard to counter by widow, torb, or winston.

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You commented 5 seconds after I posted this so Im assuming you only read the title :frowning:

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I think this concept heroe could work, I imagine the laser cannon like destiny arachnid tanks, the force shield is a good idea. 9/10.

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Thanks! Thats a neat comparison, I actually kind of imagine the rifle similar to a Vex Hobgoblin lol. And yeah I think the force-field would be the highlight of the kit.

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In terms of design, would look better as the arachnid tanks. Now you have to think how this heroe would look? Human? Cyborg? Animal?

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Yeah I was thinking about this and I feel like it could be fitting as a big talon omnic or person inside of a humanoid mech. An actual vehicle like you suggested driven by a person would be very unique though.

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Cool idea! Love the jet boots concept! But isn’t the job of the tank to be in the frontline blocking/redirecting damage? How might one do that as a backline character? At least Orisa can launch her shields and cc into the frontline, but the only tanking abilities that this hero has are seemingly directly on-top of them.

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Well, yeah your’e right, but i was thinking they could be an off tank. I didn’t want to give them a shield so I thought of the force field. I’ll try to think of something else like a passive to give them to make them more tanky though. Thanks for the feedback

Edit: I just added a passive idea although I’m not sold on it cause its too similar to Brigitte’s.

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