Clenching Fists - Ability Steal Active Item

[ringmasterG123]

In my head, it would work similarly to Restorative Locket, but the portrait of the item changes to the ability icon of the ability you have stored. It would also not be stored permanently and would need to be used before it runs out, like Sinclair's ultimate after the copy.

It would also use the Sinclair ultimate mechanic, where they copy an ultimate and turn into a purple ghost version of the character they are copying. Perhaps the color depends on what team they are on (blue/yellow).

It could also silence the ability that they stole after landing the heavy melee for a duration.

There could be very funny but unbalanced ability combinations you could do with this item, so perhaps it would be better in Street Brawl as a legendary, or perhaps not in the game at all haha.

 

[adeptusforgeceo]

I think the ability to steal abilities being available to any hero on the roster is:
A) INCREDIBLY hard to balance
B) INCREDIBLY hard to code/make assets for
C) makes counterplay for any specific hero drastically harder
D) makes heroes have less of a distinct identity

I think you're probably right in thinking it shouldn't be in the base gamemode. It's not that its impossible to balance, but I feel like there's better ways to go if you wanted to make a 6400 variant of Spirit Snatch(which I think is a great idea, imo)