@House-of-crimson What do you mean by totem placement alert? I've never been alerted to an enemy totem being placed and I've watched them do it. This from season 14 on. I wasn't in for earlier seasons.
Sure his tactical could use more damage, but 30 seconds without abilities hurts bad. Especially vs combat and escape characters. Silence the Ash, they can't snare you or escape you. Silence the Wraith, they can't woop you with phase tactics.
I did that in Team Deathmatch actually. Wraith comes and creams us hard. I hit it with silence the next time I see it and we crushed that wraith easily. From that point silence was my opening attack and that wraith couldn't hurt us, because it couldn't phase and reposition to execute us because it was silenced.
I don't know what the Totem Ultimate used to be, but the current is decent. While totem is active, your shields are ignored. When you die you instead teleport to the totem and 50 HP restored, shields no longer ignored. If you took damage but didn't die then the damage sustained is kept. Terrible if you only had 5 hitpoints when it ended, though your shields do turn back on again.
As for climbing, it's got great height, but I have felt those spots where his climbing fails because of a little bump in the wall. I've also had a few spots where'd I'd like to strafe a little to get to the position right then instead of having to fall down and try again.