So this Hero would have an ultimate that spawns a ball like the one we have in the lobby. The ball can be kicked/shot (like the lobby ball) to teammates to heal or enemies to deal damage, each consecutive bounce hitting teammates increases the heal and each consecutive bounce between enemies increases the damage dealt. The multiplier persists until it hits someone on the opposite team, so if the ball hits multiple teammates and then is sent into the enemy team, it will first heal each teammate hit gaining a multiplier and doing increased healing and then deal bonus damage on the enemy (s) hit by the ball. This can also work in reverse, such as hitting multiple enemies first and then ending on a teammate for a big heal. I think this would be a fun interesting hero that would feel very game changing without being super overpowered and also hold a strong archetype that would suit juggler players and sport fans. I think this hero should also have an ability to recall the ball once set out, maybe their ultimate could be a buff that let's them spawn the ball and have the ability to kick/throw it out or recall it for maybe 15 seconds.
Other abilities in their kit, I would definitely suggest a short range dash, maybe something similar to Shiv's dash that let's the hero phase through enemies but also let's them collide with the ball. It could be just an evasion ability, invincibilty frames and an evasion buff. This would be their juke ability, ankle breaker maybe a good name.
They could also have a short aoe stun or taunt, similar to victor's aoe 3/black hole. I'd call it Awe, a one second stun that forces all the enemies around to look towards him in awe stunned by their aura or it could be a taunt where anyone around the Hero is forced to attack them similar to Axe's taunt in Dota, but this would force any enemies caught in the taunt to walk within the taunt and shoot the Hero, following them around so it could be used to drag enemies into bad positions like Axe's taunt.
Then a classic damage/pokey ability, okay this might be a little nuts, but I'll just throw it out there as I had a slight moment of inspiration. Maybe the name of the Hero could even be Rebound. So for the last ability, the hero fires back at any that fires at them. That's without limitation, so if 5 people are shooting at the Hero, they will fire back with their own weapon at each hero that landed a hit on them exchanging every bullet shot at them 1 for 1.
If that's too crazy it could just be a damage ability.
Other abilities in their kit, I would definitely suggest a short range dash, maybe something similar to Shiv's dash that let's the hero phase through enemies but also let's them collide with the ball. It could be just an evasion ability, invincibilty frames and an evasion buff. This would be their juke ability, ankle breaker maybe a good name.
They could also have a short aoe stun or taunt, similar to victor's aoe 3/black hole. I'd call it Awe, a one second stun that forces all the enemies around to look towards him in awe stunned by their aura or it could be a taunt where anyone around the Hero is forced to attack them similar to Axe's taunt in Dota, but this would force any enemies caught in the taunt to walk within the taunt and shoot the Hero, following them around so it could be used to drag enemies into bad positions like Axe's taunt.
Then a classic damage/pokey ability, okay this might be a little nuts, but I'll just throw it out there as I had a slight moment of inspiration. Maybe the name of the Hero could even be Rebound. So for the last ability, the hero fires back at any that fires at them. That's without limitation, so if 5 people are shooting at the Hero, they will fire back with their own weapon at each hero that landed a hit on them exchanging every bullet shot at them 1 for 1.
If that's too crazy it could just be a damage ability.
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