Possible Stormtrooper Rework Ideas
I think most people can agree that the Stormtrooper is... no reason to sugar-coat my words here, he's absolute garbage. His basic literally only does damage, and not even that much. His taunt is basically a suicide button, and his special gives him about enough defence to get at/slightly below par for tanks, thanks to his awful base defence.
All in all, there's just about no reason you'd ever pick Stormtrooper if you had literally any other option. Considering the fact that Stormtroopers are probably the most famous bad-guy army ever made, it seems a bit of a disservice to make them so utterly worthless in-game.
However, I have two possible changes that could make him a decent character, maybe even a downright good one.
1 - Switch out his passive for a new one that goes something like the following:
"Stormtrooper gains the following bonuses for each additional Empire character on his team.
1 Empire character - X% additional defence
2 Empire characrers - X% additional health
3 Empire characters - Taunt bonus effect has 100% proc-chance
4 Empire characters - Stormtrooper's basic attack and taunt bonus effect cannot miss or be dodged"
Or
2 - Give every Empire character a 'Stormtrooper Effect'. These are basically buffs that those characters give to a Stormtrooper if they are both on a team. For example, EP's could make the Stormtrooper automatically taunt (even if it's on CD) if EP falls below a certain amount of health, kinda like Grievous. Or Vader's could make it so Stormtrooper can't be ability-blocked. You get the idea.
There's a good chance that these changes could make Stormtrooper insanely annoying and strong if they go over the top, but does that really matter so much in the game where Chaze was allowed to happen?
All in all, there's just about no reason you'd ever pick Stormtrooper if you had literally any other option. Considering the fact that Stormtroopers are probably the most famous bad-guy army ever made, it seems a bit of a disservice to make them so utterly worthless in-game.
However, I have two possible changes that could make him a decent character, maybe even a downright good one.
1 - Switch out his passive for a new one that goes something like the following:
"Stormtrooper gains the following bonuses for each additional Empire character on his team.
1 Empire character - X% additional defence
2 Empire characrers - X% additional health
3 Empire characters - Taunt bonus effect has 100% proc-chance
4 Empire characters - Stormtrooper's basic attack and taunt bonus effect cannot miss or be dodged"
Or
2 - Give every Empire character a 'Stormtrooper Effect'. These are basically buffs that those characters give to a Stormtrooper if they are both on a team. For example, EP's could make the Stormtrooper automatically taunt (even if it's on CD) if EP falls below a certain amount of health, kinda like Grievous. Or Vader's could make it so Stormtrooper can't be ability-blocked. You get the idea.
There's a good chance that these changes could make Stormtrooper insanely annoying and strong if they go over the top, but does that really matter so much in the game where Chaze was allowed to happen?
