STRIX
Rifle - 1000 Damage
In a power fantasy sense... you may have a fancy gun... but a longbow should hit just as hard.

LIAN
Attack abilities consume ammo.
Grace does not fire if out of ammo, can reaload during grace.
If it is a weapon ability it should use ammo and be used to dictate how long you can maintain fire.
Valour deals 150 damage and Burns for 100 dam/sec for 2.5s (250).
To interrupt the speed of Lians Burst Damage while granting Lian a brief DoT reveal move to pressure peaking and track targets .

Above all I beleive Flanks are a class made to brawl for enemy positions and push alongside allies, working off their efforts.
They must have moves that allow them to assault, extend, retreat and recover in a fair and balenced way...

Instead of major damage amp talanets on abilities, Flanks ought to get abilities that allow them to provide light CC options, such as; cripples, silences, disarms, and so on... allowing them hinder, pick, weaken an enemy in both a 1v1 & team game sense from a mid range distance the same way that supports can.

The assault utility provided by light cc is a different kind of zoning pressure against aggressive tanks and flanks, or for diving a damage and support when they are out of position, instead of using damage amped abilities.

This cc in a defence sense will also aid to deny areas being taken against flankers, biding more time for their other abilities.

For an example of abilties that could gain potential burning with a little bit of thought.

LIAN
Valour deals 100 Direct Damage and Burns for 3s.

CASSIE
Blast shot deals 250 Damage and Burns Targets for 2s.

VIKTOR
Grenade Deals, 500 Damage Burns for 3s.

BOMB KING
Grumpy Bomb Deals 600 Damage and Burns for 2s.

DROGOZ
Fire Spit 800 Damage and Burns for 1.5s
Combustible: Targets are knocked back and Burn for 3s.

IMANI
Adapting Buring into fire abilities in general.

RUKUS
Missiles deal 150 each and Burn for 2s,
Missiles in Hexifire also burn.

Rukus is a wierd one for his state of play atm.

My stance on rukus, he has high offence utility with little defence utility and team synergy in the current state of play.

His overall offencive power ensures he is a good heavy supressor when investing into red items, this works rather well atm.

However... his defencive power outside of that is lacking so much that you need consistant healing, as well as the defence and pick moves of another tank to really shine.

They need to find alternate mechanics to buff what defence he can provide, without making him too much.

All DIMITRI wants for rukus is...

Allowing protection to shield buff nearby allys as a Torv/Khan/Grover dynamic of provding area support & staying power.

Then for a Shield Talent Rukus to gains a small door wide, dome shield that is stronger then his personal shield, that follows his player model, no longer providing the personal shield ally buff mentioned above.

• Brief protection from some forms of CC that would interrupt minigun fire or alter your suppression position until shild is broken or dived.
• A de-cauterise window for some recovery healing synergy with supports.
• The shield makes for a good damage barrier in tight angles and corners for allies to safely shoot through.
• Protect deployables at his feet.

The shield that gives you staying power to attack unless it gets busted, making rukus power at getting in anothers face as a body block for allies.

Rukus has always has some jank design choices.... staying near playload to DR team....

Reason why he was disliked at the JUGGERNAUGHT state was he apparently took too much to bring down and could sustainably keep it that way with chrous 3.

His DR values made is egh for a tank to fight a 3 round missile launcher & DR and Sustain from allies.
Sub mobility characters and even high end mobility characters had issues doing much to bruise it before he got wounded in a 1v1, and this was present throughout whole the game with a 3 round ML.

If the King of the Hill will be anything like the last roaming point game modes, I will be pretty dissapointed.

KotH is a very casual game, the randomness that comes from the point moving one place to another is cause for a huge power imbalence and can spoil the progress of a well earnt game.

How long have I been asking for Onslaught in Ranked... I feel let down here...

Don't get me wrong, I want a multi capture point map, or a capture both A-B to score and then it resets, something that toys with the area defence dynamics of the game. But making me haul ass across a map to a point that is always in flux is not going to make a rewarding game.

I guess we will see how it goes...

@Zeebuoy

I just want imani to throw fireballs that explode on contact, deal damage and AoE size dependant on charge time, with apt area burning potential on fully charged shots, as base kit feature to alternate between damage types with utility instead of giving her a sha lin arrow...

Her talents are gronk.. her mana is gronk...

@Fortis01x

Rukus & Khan also have fairly good caut application and can sweep caut from afar, but have the dps to take wrecker and brake shields as a utility.

Whereas Nando is limited to a roaming cauterise hose, burning gives caut greater threat potential due to the afterburn damage through defence and normal sustain moves.

Grohk's lightning chainsaw is also VERY SCARY.

Fern just gets a cheeky overburn utility which gives him the foresight to oppress, chase and defend as a hostile control debuff function through the use of his weapon.

Burning is good at forcing people to retreat further away for self defence as anyone with a burning attack should have an agressive reveal window which they can briefly track their foes.

But I personally have my issues with that reveal superpower...
The reveal range of burning is limitless...
Thus it can track the use of movement and some teleports abilities with no hinderance...

This is something that could be mitigated to true line of sight after a certain distance from player or even using Illuminate as a form of burning wall hacks range threshold...?

Would be interesting to see illuminate being used as a burning reveal assist item for tracking reasons though.