They confirmed a buff for Crypto

his drone would be too strong if he were to get unaffected by his own emp, it already is one of the best ults in the game despite what people think, its a GUARANTEE'd 50 damage on possibly all 3 enemies on a team, damage ults are situational if they get damage off, such as bangalore, caustic or gibby's ult since you can see it coming and easily run out of it before it hits you, emp is impossible to avoid if the enemy crypto knows what they're doing and place their drone behind cover and out of sight and the organized team is unaffected and can capitalize on you when you're stunned. there are already some workarounds to avoid getting hit by your own emp in the game already, such as having a teammate wraith portal you to an enemy team, and activate the emp just before entering the portal, so while it goes off, you're still in range to capitalize on your emp without getting hit by it if you time it right, and there's also being under the effects of a revenant ult, getting hit by an emp when you're in a revenant ult doesn't damage you, but it does still stun you

Im a masters crypto main with the 20k badge and 4k damage, and i can agree that he still needs a slight buff to help him be viable when players wanna decide on picking him or another character with more versatile utility

a cool idea i think would help him is if his drone could act as a decoy would act like a mirage, crypto can place his drone, get out of his gameboy controlling it, and have an 'interact' key to press while crypto is on the move to make the drone mimic his movements, so the drone can fly/scan/emp while the crypto himself doesnt have to be in it, this would unlock a lot of a skill ceiling for crypto players cause now players could work on doing secret moves that only with character knowledge you know you can do, such as  place it exactly 51 meters away and have it fly as you move and the emp wouldnt hit you if you activate it

crypto's main drawback is needing to be in his gameboy to have an effective ability most of the time, this would eliminate all of that 

I mean enemies can still easily shoot the drone while it’s out, the health can be lowered back to 1 if it would be too strong

Really like your ideas except maybe "Identity Thief", imo the biggest issue with Crypto is that he doesn't have any passive that can help him during a fight.

Wraith can hear ennemies aiming at her, Bangalore runs faster etc... they need to give him a passive that can help him when he's not using his drone, make him a little bit more self-reliant.

Recently I've been playing a couple of games with Octane and it felt like I was playing with my hands tied behind my back for weeks lol, the ability to reposition myself engage/disengage take high ground etc... bro I was on a rampage. Not saying that Octane doesn't ned a buff btw, but the difference with Crypto who can never turn the tides of a fight when he's not afk in his drone was mindblowing.

That's why I dig your Cryptic data idea. Imo his buff needs to be something that buffs him, instead of an other "support" ability that his team benefits from.

I was thinking maybe drone can slowly heal teammates under it, or at least heal crypto slowly when it's on his back.

Also I was thinking maybe they can add more abilities to drone... like other than taking a dead teammates banner, it would be nice if it could also respawn them at a respawn beacon. Or at least if it could loot enemy death boxes a little.