Hero - Sting

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Gun - medium range burst fire

1 - Sting

Glide upward briefly while aiming then shoot a stinger forward that deals Spirit Damage. Passes through NPCs and gains bonus damage per hit. Latches onto the first enemy hero and causes them to be Slowed while leaving a DPS trail as they move.

Upgrades

1 - +1 Charge and Uses Charge System.

2 - Reduced Cooldown.

5 - +5 Multi Shot.

2 - Carrion Swarm

Passively a Swarm Cloud follows you.

Every time damage is dealt to enemies inside the Swarm Cloud a Fly damages them then flies back to you to Heal you an equal amount.

Activate to summon it to a target point where it chases after the most recently damaged enemy in range.

Upgrades

1 - Reduced Cooldown.

2 - Area Increases over Duration and Damage Enemies Takes Builds Up to Increase it Further.

5 - +2 Flies per Damage Instance.

3 - Bug Buzz

Hold button to fly towards crosshairs while dealing constant Spirit Damage pulses around you that stack Turn Rate Slow on enemies hit.

Upgrades

1 - +4m/s Flying Speed.

2 - Reduces Bullet Resistance per Stack.

5 - Gives 100% Bullet Evasion for up to 7s based on Channel Time and Buff Decays over Duration.


4 - Toxic Blast

Deal Spirit Damage and apply a debuff to enemies in front of you. The debuff deals a total amount of damage over its duration that ignores any resistance. Damage taken from other sources builds up to end the debuff early but deal 60% of the total damage dealt in a wave around them as Spirit Damage.

Upgrades

1 - Increased Damage

2 - Increased DPS

5 - Projectile travels across Entire City and Heroes Release an Additional Wave when Killed.

 

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A Fate's Tale:

The scientist was simply outraged as he defended his research to the military officers inexplicably cowering before him.

"The experiment was a complete success, who cares if a Soul Wasp had flown in from the Astral Entomology Department into the other end of the machine? I wound right up on the other side and the thing was zapped! A scientific replacement to the mystical teleporter could be made without the use of Fairfax Industries' monopoly!"

They opened fire, and a newfound instinct within the scientist caused new arms to grow with flesh replicas of their weapons to fire poison stingers. New wings sprouted from the scientist's back. propelled him into the air and straight at their throats. Who were they to get in the way of a new age of science?

 

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Select Lines

“The experiment WAS successful, I can prove it! If they won’t fund it anymore, the Patrons will give me endless money for it!”

“I’m ready to fly at someone’s throat! They cut my funding over one WASP getting in the teleporter!”

“I didn’t bring a gun… I’ll just grow some new arms to copy theirs, I’m adaptable.”

“Whatever happened in that experiment simply proves you keep the other end clear at all times. They should have made a sticker to put on the machine, not send in the military!”

“I’m not a monster! But I would be lying if I didn’t say it’s weird I can grow huge wasp wings and stingers now. That’s life.”

“Teleportation without mysticism has some interesting side effects. For my enemies.”

“Fairfax Industries’ conspiracy won’t stop me from sharing my breakthrough in free teleportation with the world!”

“I bet one of them will tell me to ‘buzz off’ right before I fly straight through their body and cut them to shreds.”

 

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Deselect Lines

"You're on the wrong side of history."

"How am I supposed to do my research now?!"

"You think I'll just lie down and do my research for free? Select me again right now!"

"I'll fight you/."

"I'll, uh, find a way."

"Don't step on me like I'm some kind of bug!"

Ability Lines:

Upgrading Ability 1

"Fascinating, it seems the mutations are setting on faster."

"The stinger seems to have grown by 3.3 centimeters. I'm learning to control it."

"My enemies are getting some toxicity thrown their way."

"If my research has taught me anything, it's easier to turn your arm into a stinger after you've grown a pair of wings."

"Most people have died from the impalement, it will be important for my research to see the full effects of the toxins."

Using Ability 1 (only allies hear these lines)

"Going up!"

"Aiming the stinger!"

Using Ability 1 (only enemies hear these lines)

"Toxic sting!"

"Feel the sing!"

Ability 1 Enemy Hit

"Get Stung!"

"Stung you!"

"Stinger!"

"Toxins are kicking in!"

"The sting is only the start of your pain!"

Upgrading Ability 2

"Having wings is overrated, this is exhausting!"

"Turns out when you beat 2 meter wings 60 times per second you turn into a flying blender!"

"They're gonna tell me to buzz off, and I'll fly through them."

"Let's see them try to shoot a wasp."

"They sent the army to stop me once, so I cut all the soldiers to bits with my wings, now they just launch missiles at me."

Using Ability 2

"Death comes on swift wings!"

"Bug Buzz!"

"Buzz off!"

"Out of my way!"

"Don't get in the way of my research!"

"Fly at your throat!"

 

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Upgrading Ability 3

"I'm adaptable."

"They aren't prepared to have their own weapons turned against them."

"I think this situation calls for a few more arms."

"Once I'm trained on a enemy there's no stopping me."

"When I come at you, the fight never ends."

"The longer I stay in the fight, the harder I hit."

"Their advantage will be ripped out from under them."

Ability 3 Proc

"Copied Weapons!"

"Check out these guns!"

"Let's try something new!!"

"Rip them apart!"

"Break their ranks!"

"Too predictable!"

"Let's try this my way!"

Ability 4 Upgrade

"I'm doing a good job of ignoring all those little voices telling me to join the swarm, let's see how they handle it."

"The weirdest part about being mutated is all the strange creatures you start spawning."

"Are these the wasp's parasites, or its eggs? Time to find out!"

"You do not want to be on these guy's bad side."

"Having a parasite grow inside my flesh and rip its way out is... Something I feel a couple hundred times when I do this."

"JOIN. THE. Damnit! Those voices are growing too loud."

"Maybe my research has gone too far... Is what 99% of genius scientists say right before they would have made their greatest discovery!"

"I'm laying my body on the line for my research."

"There's too many of them crawling in my skin, I'm going to send them at my enemies."

"I'll leave them bursting at the seams with parasites."

Using Ability 4

"Toxic Swam!"

"Swarm Cloud!"

"Unleash the Swarm!"

"Unleashing parasites!"

Ability 4 Big Heal / Big Damage

"Life, uh, finds a way."

"Fascinating."

"The possible medical applications.... Where's my notebook!"

"Astounding."

"Nature is wonderful."

"For parasites they sure are helpful."

"Ripped right through them!"

"I need to take notes!"

"Nobody will stand in the way of my research!"

Hero Kill

"Stings, doesn't it?"

"The ignorant won't hold me back."

"Another pawn in Fairfax's conspiracy."

"Fairfax Industries can't monopolize teleportation forever!"

"I don't care how far I have to go, I will prove the experiment was successful!"

"Am I losing it?"

"I feel the swarm gnawing at my mind again."

"I feel them writhing in my skin, demanding more blood."

"The voices are growing too loud."

"Don't feel guilty, don't feel guilty, they shot first."

"I won't let the swarm consume my mind!"

"The military couldn't stop me with an entire platoon, I don't know what you were thinking!"

"Squashed!"

"Impaled!"

"Tore you a new one!"

"Squished like a bug!"

"Maybe you should dedicate some research into dying less!"

"You ought to study this fight."

"Survival of the fittest."

"I was just more adaptable."

"Maybe it's karma for that one time you crushed a bug for no good reason."

"Back to the stone age, caveman!"

"Who are you to stand against the future?"

"My research is the future!"

"Magic won't last forever!"

"I left my handheld teleporter at the lab, just to make this more humiliating for you."

"When my research goes mainstream and there's a teleporter in every home and on every street corner, I'm going to make damn sure you're the only one who gets charged for it!"

 

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Ability Rivalry

Ability 3

Copying Case Closed

“Now this is a gun!”

“Shotgun revolver!”

Copying The Vonnegun

“I’ll go beyond where you turned away, professor!”

“I remember you telling me my research was impossible, professor, look how wrong you were!”

“I could make you that new body, professor, but you’d probably spit on it like all my other theories!”

“The student has surpassed the instructor.”

“Semi automatic pistol!”

Copying Biquette

“I’ll show you how it’s done, punk!”

“Sub machine pistol!”

Copying Service With A Smile

“I hold the keys now, Doorman!”

“You might want to change the locks at The Baroness!”

“Single action revolver!”

Copying Tales Of The Tape

“I’m gonna beat your own name into your own face, Lash!”

“Punch gun!”

Copying Cold Calculus

“Electricity, meet resistance!”

“Semi automatic assault rifle!”

Copying Wallflower’s Revenge

“Fly over me now and see what happens!”

“Bolt action rifle!”

Copying The Rake

“Fascinating, I can even feel the psychic bond she possesses with her mechanical arms.”

“It’s like our brainwaves are on the same wavelength, and… And I thought my thoughts were dark.”

“I think I see a few of Wraith’s memories… And I’ll never unsee them.”

“Bet I can’t shoot you down faster with your own guns!”

“Akimbo sub machine guns!”

Hero Kill from Ability 4

vs Bebop, Dynamo, and Seven:

“Fascinating.”

“The swarm is tenacious.”

“They burrowed straight through metal… Perhaps there’s industrial applications.”

“How could I not realize sooner, the swarm feeds directly on souls!”

“I need to replicate this finding.”

vs Drifter and Mina:

“How fitting.”

“About time someone drained your blood.”

“Even parasites have parasites.”

vs Vindicta and Victor:

“The one thing the undead must fear most is when the worms finally come for them like everyone else.”

“From undeath, new life.”

 

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Rival Kill

Dynamo

“Look at everything you failed to achieve!”

“It will be I who makes the Astral Gate a household item, professor!”

“It was YOU who denied me a grant from the university and made me have to suck up to the government for funding!”

“Take a long sabbatical, professor.”

“Professor, I must thank you for making me realize anyone who told me I was wrong was ignorant. You are a great teacher.”

“To be bested by your pupil, I hope to one day have the honor.”

“You wouldn’t even look me in the eyes at graduation.”

Seven

“I had thought you could teach me something, but clearly it was you who were woefully behind.”

“I need to know how he cracked the Astral Gates.”

“Swarm beats storm.”

“You can’t zap all of my bugs!”

“Damnit Seven, tell me where you hid your research notes!”

“Be humbled, you fraud, I’m the real genius who will change the world! Me me me me!

McGinnis

“Forgive me, Margaret.”

“I won’t forget the sting of your rejection.”

“I still love you. Maybe I should have said that earlier. Oh well.”

“You stole my heart and ripped it up for a job at Fairfax Industries!”

“Fairfax will pay for forcing you into this death tra- who am I kidding you’re just doing it for dental benefits or WHATEVER people with ‘uh reel jawb’ get.”

“Remember me from college?”

“The Fairfax monopoly ends here!”

“You broke my heart, Margaret.”

“What happened to us sticking together and funding our own research?”

“Fairfax should fight his own battles.”

Victor

“Go back to whatever kind of hack made you!”

“Your creator should be out here, not his botched experiment.”

“Maybe some stings will get that pain you moan about off your mind.”