Re: Octane needs a buff or a rework

@Pretzelnutcake He's kind of garbage and his kit doesn't really do what it should. His jumppad is death if used in a fight(like the way it was shown in the trailer with him pking a caustic in the face). Any legend that uses it to close distance towards an enemy is lazered and dead before they hit the ground. The pad needs different arcs and speeds depending on how you jump and the speed you are running at, and his stim should truly be slowed by nothing including having a gun out, that way it is actually tempting to pop it continually while in a firefight. This would make him the close combat high/risk reward beast he was always meant to be.

@Pretzelnutcake 1) He is supposed to be the fastest legend, and yet wraith and bloodhound can potentially keep up with him, bloodhound more specifically while hunting which is absurd considering the context and lore.
2) His jump pad makes you a sitting duck in midair, whereas pathfinder zip-line has control over when you drop ontop of being two way.

He could potentially be balanced, but its not balanced in a way that makes him more useful or highly picked.

Now if legends could use their drop jets to steer while midair, and even if that were the ONLY change, he would be better and more fun to use.

@Monhulio I don't remember seeing anything about him being the "fastest legend", correct me if I'm wrong. I do like the jetpack idea as long as it doesn't slow you even more, it should just let us steer left or right while keeping the current speed

@Pretzelnutcake The only real difference that would occur with the jetpacks being active is it would add some animations of them being on, and enable aerial control of the player. Same forward momentum but with actual midair direction control. You could even do flyby's while shooting at enemies.

@Monhulio Yeah would've made sense to have that ability already considering the jetpacks are active whenever we use a tower or geyser meaning they aren't just for show after the first drop

@Monhulio The only way for Wraith and Bloodhound to keep up with him is if they use their ults. Wraith can’t even shoot in her ult and Bloodhound has a long, long cooldown compared to the 1 second cooldown for Octane.