Lifeline re-rework from a lifeline main
I have two primary fixes to lifeline in her updated kit as the update to her has made her both boring to play and overpowered with revives. First things first. Respawn, You've removed the best thing...
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@elevationFPS I hate the change as well. They changed her from having a good but situational fast rez and a very powerful fast heal (that helped shore up her mobility issues), to a strong but situational auto revive. The farther away your teammates are the weaker she is as a legend (for instance a teammate gets pinned behind a rock or a mobility legend takes high ground for advantage but gets knocked), having a caustic teammate makes her unusable, her ultimate is still rng garbage, and her drone is now even worse than it was before. I assume the devs' wanted to drop her win rate while raising her competitive viability, but gibby now is the exclusive fast rez and fast healer for the team with a 360 bubble, while also being far tankier and having a useful offensive ult...so I doubt once the hype dies down she will be played competitively more than before.
@SadLifeline6991 I agree with you about Gibraltar but for different reasons. During a revive Gibraltar's role should be harassing the enemy team. That 50 hp gun shield and havoc is a lot more useful in denying a push than Wraith dancing around with a R-99.
Everything you say about Lifeline SEEMS wrong. She's a support legend that's often played as an assault legend. Being dependent on having your team nearby to make full use of her abilities seems typical for a support character so I see no problems there. Players that have used her for so long will naturally hate the changes and you should. However she was 90% combat and 10% medic in the eyes of her team before so these changes fit her description better.
@LordloshBang I don't think the developers wanted this to be an ability heavy game either but if that's the case then they never should have given the characters different hit boxes.
More importantly I believe the real issue will be the same thing that made Gibraltar's dome revive OP. The Golden Backpack. You can easily push a dome and drop Gibby plus his team mate so long as Gibraltar doesn't have a golden backpack. With the back pack and you're jumping into a close range 1 v 2 against nearly full health opponents.
Lifeline would be able to revive a team mate and leave her drone behind to heal meaning he's up and nearly full health in a matter of seconds. All that and Lifeline barely has to disengage from combat to pull it off. That's pretty scary to fight against in Ranked.
- @heme725 I think you are painting the optimal situation for her passive where she disengages from combat for free, is able to make it to wherever the knocked player is without getting absolutely clapped, the enemy team doesn't have a single grenade or a silence, they don't focus the teammate you left, then focus lifeline, or pincer the revive shield if it's a 2v1 and focus the lifeline and knock the rez. So far it seems to help in 1v1 situations, when my team is already in a position of strength but a teammate got knocked, or when we are at a distance(The old revive helped in all these situations as well). Also I don't understand why support legends aren't supposed to have abilities that help themselves. No other character in the game is limited like this. Lifeline's passive doesn't even effect the game until she is already at a disadvantage, and now requires you to be up your teammates' * the entire match to ensure you can get it off. If her tactical and ult were better it wouldn't be an issue, but having it be a great but situational ability combined with a subpar tactical and the worst ult in the game absolutely sucks for me so far...Also cant gibby drop ult on top of his dome to stop a push while rezzing and wraith just portals gibby and the rez out by the time the bombardment is over? It's not ironclad safe, but neither is lifeline trying to get her autorez off when a team is now pushing a knock.
- @SadLifeline6991 Well, she can use it for cover, and since it isn’t 360 there are parts she can fire through without having to go halfway through the barrier.
Plus, she can do it anytime, whereas Gibby can only do it every (45?) seconds.
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