New character ideas
We had one a long time ago and had several suggestions. We know more are coming and as the game will rely more on brand new characters over variants, it's time to suggest more! (Also, I was pondering a new plant support class last night).
Lemon: the lemon is a plant support with 100 or 125 health.
Main Weapon: Lemon juicer. This is beam weapon that overheats, it does a bit more damage than Sunflower at close range, but it dissipates rapidly, so at long range it causes very little damage. It's similar to the Citron beams after the sniper nerf in GW2.
Abilities:
Lemon Drops: has 2 charges. When you activate it, it drops a lemon drop near you. When a plant runs over it, it reloads 50% of their ammo capacity instantly, or if they have an overheat weapon, it dissipates up to 50% of their total heat meter instead. This uses the drop up. Can be destroyed, maybe 25 health or so.
Lemon-aid: has 1 charge. When you activate it, it drops a pitcher of lemon-aid nearby. When a plant runs through it, it refreshes all their cooldowns by 50% of their total meters. No effect on cool downs that are already reset. It too can be shot, I'm thinking 35 health or so.
Fresh Scent: This is an aura that you activate that follows you around for 5 seconds or so. It's a translucent effect so it doesn't block LoS or hide anyone but zombies in the aura take minor damage every tick, plants have a small heal for every tick. I'm thinking 2 damage/healing per tick but it could be adjusted.
No idea if this is too weak or what but I wanted a support character that felt like a support!
Some of the upgrades could be (some of the names may already be used by Citron):
Freshly Squeezed: Lemon-aid also heals the plant that picks it up by 10 and gives a brief HoT that heals 2 per tick for a few seconds as well.
Improved Recipe: You can lay 3 instead of 2 lemon drops being needing to recharge.
Lemon Scented: Faster revives for anyone inside your fresh scent aura.
They would have the basic plant support upgrades and would need a few more to fill them out.